Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-19
"THE CHINESE MUST Co.,
The Ogden knights of Labor Issue
Manifesto, and Give Some
Reasons Why ssJOhn,, Must
Retire.

a mass meeting OF several hundred
citizens of Ogden was held last evening
and the right OF the Chinese to stay in
that town discussed A manifesto from
the committee of the Knights of Labo,
definitely settles what course that organ
ization will pursue, and below we present
some extracts.
care our own people to be thrown out
OF employment in order to support a race
OF people that we know are non-pro-
dueers, taking everything from the eoun-
try and returning nothing Do we ever
hear of them buying anything except it
be from matter of policy, in order to
get hundred fold back again? Is their
labor productive Of any good? Do they
improve or associate with any one that
would tend to elevate them in the social
community? Have they ever been known
to invent anything? To this day in
China no one ever heard of their having
built an engine, printing press, or getting
patent for anything else that would tend
to develop the resources of their country.
They can copy but not invent Is this
the class OF people that we desire to have
come here and override and drive out our
hard working laboring class, who, by the
sweat OF their brow have labored hard for
many years in the endeavor to build I'D
this great Republic, many of whom to-
day are out OF employment through the
employment OF cheap Chinese labor.
Shall we stand this any longer? mol
Where would the Central Pacific Railroad
fn-nQU I ho1 Al L
borers of the country? The road would
have been thronged with the homes of
the industrious laborer, mechanic and
artisan; and we would have seen beauti-
ful villages and towns teeming with life
and giving vigor to the whole country,
whereas we now find the homes of the
poor Ignorant Chinese, content to work
Tor mere pittance, obtaining their sup
plies from the mother country, and the
extent of whose ambition is to run a
wasl-house or an opium den-a most
noble ambition"
\
Are We to sacrifice our wives, sons and
daughters and ourselves that a few per
sons may prosper at our expense? Shall
we, the laboring class. succumb to this
imposition and see our families destitute
No! most emphatically no. Let the
voice OF the people proclaim it from the
West to the East in laundering tones that
shall re-echo and reverberate through the
and stir up the hearts of the
people, until with one accord the Chinese
are compelled to once again seek the
country from whence they came. never
more to cast blight upon the fair shield
OF our country and upon its hopes and
aspirations. Let us again see what the |
Chnese have done to benefteur financial |
resources. Do they bring any money |
with them? Do they support our bank |
ers. invest their,money Unreal estate. buy |
cattle, raise grain, build mills, make |
Hour, or do they do anything that is con- |
duclve to or tending toimprove the wealth |
Of nation?''
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This state OF affairs must come to a
close, because Chinese labor, with all its
eheapness, cannot compete with native
american pluck and energy. They are
slaves in their own country and slaves in
his; slaves to the opium pipe and slaves
o themselves; a race that for centuries
las never allowed white man to pene-
rate into their country to examine its
esources. But with the characteristics
of the true American people
We opened our gates without thinking of
he ultimate result and invited them to
ome here, not at the time thinking of the
WI effect which would come with them
title dreaming that in after wears
hey would have such an effect upon
he moral tone of any community
n which they should locate. The time
las now come, the fruit is ripe. and
Mould be gathered together and sent
ack to the country from whence it came.
i've, die and rot on the soil that gave :
birth. Therefore, let us awake to a
ense OF our duty, let us expel the vile {
eper, the thorn in our side, the tumor I
Inch is preying upon our country and ;
applng the life blood from our indus
les, lnluring our families, running our
outh, casting blemishes on our fair Z
and making us feel as though !
3iot was being cast upon this great Re- ,
aollc: Arise, brother Iaborersl Put your ! !
louiders to the wheel. and with united :