Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-21
Iasr NIGHTS aEETIse.
Csmmitsee Appsisfed 90 ksise
Tssds 10 Defend the =" ts@-
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Pursuan; 10 = call published by ios
COMMITTEES 10 the PosT iSTELLioEscEk
a large crowd assembled =; the STANDARD
Tnsstsr last evening to listen 70 the dis
q lsiou Of the Chinese question.
B.F. Dsy vas ebss~u chairman ana
Lyman Wood secretary.
III MoCleIlan vas called for and
stated thst the obiec; Of the meeting
"a. to raise funds 20 defrsy the e1
pen.es Of defending the suits brought
aQsi those who bad been most active
ia the amt. Chinese movement, for con.
spirzcy. daring the present term OF
Court.
Said think the best thing 70 do IL 20
appsint a good committss TO canvass ior
funds. TIE best way 70 get no OF the
Chinese 10 20 buy nothing from them,
and refuse to pstronizs them 10 any
vay. Thsn they will go. Bot what Ee
want now IL money, and | appsint q. j..
CLARK. @. II. MetcAlfe, Mrs. koswell
Scott. Mrs-W. II. Blick, Mrs. Ward Mrs.
W. q. Curtis and Mrs Lyman Wood q
committee 10 solicit subscriptions
ca. CLARK.
have been UNEXPECTEDLY called, and
feel hardly able 20 entertain 80 large
and Intelligent an audience. My heart
is in the cause and my soul IN the vork
Of Kidding the country of this Chinese
curse. and all other curses ve are cursed
with. / dent think there is an individ-
ual in this hall who is not loyal to the
Government, and who Is not ready and
willing 70 pledge his support TO the civil
authorities to support the laws, and
protect life and property. My experience
With the laboring classes, aud am
laborer myself, IL that the producers or
laborers OF this land are the Law abiding
and iaw upholdIng element, and are the
ones vho are called upon to protect the
Government. when such protection IS
needed. In the dark days OF the he
bellion they come forth like patriots,
and many q poor fellows body was left
on Southern battle fields. The result
was that the shackies were stricken
from the colored man, and this vas
made the land Of the free and the home
of the brave. A change has since come
over the scese, and this land can
no longer claim this distinction
for rieht here 10 Seattle free speech has
been throttled and objected to. Our
fellow citizens who labJred to rid the
oouutry OF Chinese have been indicted
under la~ gotten mp to punish the 40
Klux Khan. and which has repeatedly
been declared unconstitutional, as it
tsrottles free speech. IL is nov made
weapon to punish men and women who
labor for the common good Of the white
race. | understand General Gibbon
said that 1t seemed ridiculous for a
Grand Jury to indiot set OF men and
women, not for anything they had
done, bat for something :hey might do.
believe in keeping up this anti Chinese
agitation, or any other agitation which
has for its object the removal from our
midst of a curse. II the iaboriBg classes
will stop patronizing Chinese, or the
men who employ them, We will sson get
rid OF the M0nRolians. The man who
gives his washing TO Cnlnaman be-
cause he can get it done ID or 20 cents
less than white man will do tbs doing
the same as the capitalist of which he
complains for employing the Chinese.
when You do this you undermine and
degrade labor. When you employ Chi
nese to do your work yen bring working
women and men down TO level with
the Cinnamon. The business man who
buys from Cinnamon because it is
cheaper Ia doing the same thing against
himself, as It is only question of time
when the Chinaman will undermine
him. Ia San Francisco the Cinnamon
almost menopolze shoe manufacturing,
tailoring and light sewing, thereby
driving from employment IN that city
the white shoemakers, tailors and sew
ing women. Most of the ready made
undervear sold in our stores Is made
by Cinnamon. This Chinese oompeti-
tion il sending your Sons 10 fill up our
iails, and your daughters TO perdition.
In no city of its size in the United
States 10 there so much crime among the
youth ~ in san Francisco, aud this is
accounted for by the curse of Chinese
cheap labor, the heathens occupy
ing places and situations that
should be filled by Hour own
young men and women. The price of
Chinese labor IN California ia one dollar
per day. They pay little or no rent,
and live on rice and other cheap diet. A
white man with family cannot sup
port those dependent upon him on any
saoh wages. We degrade our own race
by not Encouraging the Chinese among
us. We should net ipjure a hair of
their heads, but there is an honorable
way to get rid Of them. and that il by
not oountenancing them. Judge Greene,
IN his charge to the Grand Jury, stated
some things TO the effect that IL We
withdraw our patronage from tho Chi
nese, we would be laying ourselves
liable. don't think the Judge intend
ed that construction. or the Law and
Order Party would be liable for boycott
ting certain licensed businesses. We
should ask all not to employ Oainese in
any shape. IL you don't employ the
white laundries. in preference TO Chi
usse, you are not as fair as the millmsn.
Who have discharged their Cinnamon to
employ YOU.
oEoRaE vKSABLR SMITH.
We started oat to exclude frsm our
land the servile slaves, and OF excluding
those Who interfere with white men. /
have been indicted because dared TO
tell the people Of the profound feeling
abroad in the land. and admonished
them that there would be q revslution
II the voice was not needed; for aavis.
ing the people 10 organize. and telling
the lsboring men TO discuss the suhjeca
and come TO an understanding how to
bring about the desired result in a
respectable way. aud holding back the
hasty ones Who might have gone too
far. We have been the real conserva-
tors Of the peace, while the Deputy
sberiffs. military troops, and dude
troops have dissrsced this community.
We have been falsely represented and
misconstrued. Remarks have been
made on the other side which, IL made
by us, would have been hosted at. Oul
worthy Deputy United States Prescott
rag Attorney Hartford said, land oar