Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-06
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
The Anti-Chinese Crusade-A Judges
Charge to the Grand Jury.

SEATTLE, October 5th.-The anti -Chinese
crusade here has been given couple of
painful black eyes during the past few days
The first was in the meeting of leading
citizens on Saturday night last, and the
appointment of 300 Deputy Sheriffs, re-
ported at the time, and the second was in the
charge of Chief Justice Greene to the Grand
Jury on its impaneling to-day. After call
ing their attention to the sections of the
law relating to riots, arson, murder, ETC.,
the Judge said:
You doubtless share as | do the prevalent
conviction of the people of the Pacific States
and Territories, that under the present condi-
tions, and viewed from an economic standpoint
the Chinese are out of place in America and
that their presence on this coast is an obstacle
to its highest business prosperity; but resort
10 lawless violence to promote their removal is
utterly inexcusable. Business prosperity may
be hindered by the presence of the Chinese, but
business prosperity will be scattered to the four
winds if this country is to be published to the
world as place to which social agitators can
safely resort to try their experiments of mob
law. You sit here to-day as opponents of the
good sense, the fearlessness, the love of law and
the determined will of this community. Let
it be seen; by your promptitude
and frmness that it is the law-loving and
peaceful citizens who WELD here both the scep-
ter and the sword. The presence of the Chinese
is an evil, but the project of driving them out
by lawless violence is suicidal. There are
Well-meanlnS individuals VINO favor that pro-
ject, but they are not wise. If their minds
grasped the natural and inevitable consequences
OF exciting it, they would not favor it. Again,
there are others, not well-meaning who favor
1t; persons who are among us but not of us, who
have nothing at stake in this city or county:
transient loafers in the lowest slums of the
town, labor; imposters, too lazy to work, TOO
cowardly to face the battle of life Besides this
basest element, there are ether men and com
binations tormented by jealousy of this com.
munlty, who. would not be displeased to see
Seattle a ruin and King county bankrupt.
Many there are who would even rejoice to have
fastened upon this county, before the world
the reputation OF being the nursery and volcanic
center of lawlessness and riot, and upon our
people the reproach of lacking that lofty moral
ity, that sobriety of judgment, that reverence
for law, that stability of purpose, that unanim-
ity and ssolidity in action, which betokens a
community truly great, and prophecy for it n
great future. l put these considerations before
you, partly that in view of them you may pre-
sent to this Court, if you see fit, such
memorial touching the Chinese evil
as shall express the public convictions and
be useful in procuring satisfactory legislation
but also have in mind that the eyes of the
country are upon you. The time is critical. The
temper OF this city and county will be read in
your attitude and presentment. Recently in
this city, threats have been publicly and uotori-
ously made, to the effect that if the Chinese.
some of them located under the very shadow of
this Courthouse, are not gone by the 9Th
of next November, they will during the eur-
rent session of this Court and before yorr
term OF service Snail nave expired, be driven
out by violence and bloocshed. Never was
a law-abiding community more audaciously
bearded or more impudently insulted. The
fact shows that some men of extraordinary
effrontery and depravity have found a tempo
rary harbor among us, but God is God of
compensations, and doubt not that this city
and county is the present home of a still more
extraordinary civic virtue. We need no out
side help, no military force summoned from
abroad to keep our peace. We ourselves will
amply guard the reputation of our citizenship.
the value OF our investments, the fair prospects
of our town, the security of our homes. we
ourselves with the help of God, will yindicate
our personal courage, our capacity for selfgoy-
eminent, our loyalty to the law, our hatred of
cowardice, brutality and crime, our willingness
TO do, even in behalf of the Cinnamon, as we
would that others should do unto us.