Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-09-19
THE CHISEsE QUESTION.
sEAr-LZ- Sept. II, IsS5.
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A4-Arr sept IL, 1880.
EDr7eE PosT-IYrEL.IaEScER;
MI you kindly permit \ mech anic tc
make fev observations in your yAIzz.
Die publication concerning a question
OF VIAL Interest 20 all-tnal Of tue II "a
eollAn.
Ihe ErItsE hereof IS a citizen AID a
small ta1psyer. Ali that be h.s l. in.
Seattle aud hlnR county. His Is an
accumulation which il the finished rssnl,
Of series Of years Of hard. bones. toll,
fairly and eqnItably earned when labor
was IN much better demand than nov.
de IL a consumer. ii. every wear di-
rect!y and indirectly contributes to the
support OF the publisher, bookseller.
lawyer, physician, o.othier, grocer, bar
Der, dr19Rist, bGteheF. restaurateur, TO
tue church. to objects of charity, and
TO many other sources which draw mo-
ney from the pockets of a Cosmopolitan.
SO much for the negro, the foreigner
and tne American.
bat caE be said Of ths Mousoliany
be Is heather hoarder. Whatever the
Gilman IN earns benefits nobody, If We
except the SIX Companies, the China
merchant and himself He never has
been nor can be now be Christianized,
civilized or Americanized. He will de
scend low into the filthy depths of
ioathsomeness and depraved inhuman
iniquityi he Will svade ogr laws by more
devices ana commit greater
cri mes than the vIlest savage; he buys
NO lands; he pays no taxes; he consumes
no American productions. Himself and
nifty othsrs of his porcelain race will
huddle together like litter of pups in
a dark and foul room scarcely twenty
feet square, and will live on five cents
worth OF rice and tea per day. or a total
OF one and half dollars per month.
There are one Thousand Cinnamon CON
stantly employed IN Seattle and King
county, whose average wages, at al per
day each, aggregate 81, 900 per month,
or x3l2,OO per annum. Seattle ana
Ming county alone are Annually paving
TO Mongolians Dsa arly one third of a
million OF dollars, The hard money
yearly paid to Cinnamon in this city and
county would in ten years amount 10
more than enough TO build and eouip
4 standard gage railroad from here 10
The fertile plains OF the Columbia,
Three hundred and twelve thousand
iellars of American coin are annually |
being taken frsm the circulating specie |
)f Seattle and vicinity, shipped to China |
md there reooined. None OF this money |
,ver again finds its way back to either |
he United States or the Pacific coast.
This Is not all. Let us work this Ce- |
estial problem a little further. remem-
1ering, OF course, that figures don't |
ie.n On the Pacific coast are more than
10000 of these hesthsns; but, for the |
AXE of exactness in all things, the |
writer Will place their number at an even |
10000. These earn in the aoQrerate |
per month $2,60O.O0G, or, TO nIake il |
more oomprehensiye, $3I ,2o0, 900 are an
lually Withdrawn from the circulating |
Of the Pacific coast. carried |
en thousand miles across the seas to |
he Asiatic empire, and there foreyef |
ost to the civilized world. Is this ps- |
itloai economy Is Il craftsmanship? |
Is 1t protection? No, ID is not. What |
$ u! 1t ls oppression. 1t is slavery
slavery subsidized by the Federal Gov.
'rnmsnt at Washington. The Govsrr
nent subsidies q INDUSTRIOUS monopoly |
zhown as the Six Companies. 1t Is the |
business of the Six Companies TO import |
Asiatlc coolies. and to degrade the Amer |
oan laborer until be Is On an equality |
With the 4OU,OOO,OOO slmondeyed pig
'ails across the Pacific ocean.
Wall the bone and sinew of sovereign
AMERICA much longer submit to such |
MIC IL is certain they will not. |
They again and again warned the ma
ion, and finally il gave them a restric- |
ION treaty, which 1t never did and does |
,ot now enforce. They have exhorted !
he rich TO desist from employing these |
ba,. .al. a Al. -. l. l. 1,
lot their prayer.
The workinRmen are largely in the
MAJ ,rity all ever the country. They |
IRE tue rank and fiis of our b5. .000, 900 |
,sopie. Ii Was they that conquered the
a. Shiloh-that captured |
Richmond-that freed the ne 70. They !
sre the grand army of labor, and are |
thoroughly prepared for the coming |
conflict with the heathen Chinee."
They bear the employers of Cinnamon |
no malice. They do not want or intend |
70 destroy either property or life. if il |
,an be avoided. They are determined |
ihst the Chinese must CO." peaeeabiy
4 they will, but, II they will not, then
,y force.
viii the wealth of the Union coalesce
With its poverty and peaoesbly settle |
his Chinese question: or will they re
main deaf 10 tue marmurs of the mass |
V, and, by 80 doing, give birth to an
VA Of strife aud rebellion? This 10 a |
rast. erievous and vital question. but |
70 magnitude " not yet too great 30 be |
imiosbly settled, il the well-to-do will |
,estir themselves. Now is the time to |
move; there is danger in delay.
G. j. X.