Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-19
ORGANIZATION COMPLETED.
STRONG ANTI-CHINESE RES0LU'
TIONS ADOPTED.
Fifteen Hundred Citizens Ratify
Them Without DIS
senting Voice.

The largest gathering OF CITIZENS that
has assembled in this city for years was
that at Armory Hall last evening. The
main floor was occupied by about 200
men. and the galleries were crowded.
George B. Katzenstein called the meeting
to order at 7:30 o'clock. He said twas an adj
journed meeting, for thepurpose of forming
a permanent organization of some kind TO
rid ourselves of the Chinese evil. 1t was
now time for action, and not for speech
making. They had been talking for some
time, and now it was time to do something.
He hoped some common ground could be
found, upon which all could stand and
work for the common good. The speeches
made at the former meeting were of the
right character, and the resolutions at that
time passed had been commended by the
press throughout the State, all OF which
was a good omen. We should be patient,
and the mechanic, laborer and artisan
should act in perfect harmony. He said
the former meeting appointed committee
on permanent organization, OF which IL.
Weinstock was Chairman. Hecalled npon
that gentleman for their report.
THE COMMITTEES REPORT.
The Committee on Permanent Organiza-
ton reported as follows:
Mr. Chairman and Feolc-cltl=eras. 1t is true that
in the past our Government, and even the early
settlers of California, believing the Chinese
would prove a permanent benefit, encouraged
them to come here; and though we can now
clearly see that such a policy was grave mis-
take il does not alter the fact that the Chinese
now in this country are entitled TO the fullest
protection of the law. The man who would ad-
Vocate Withdrawing such protection asour Con-
stitution fully guarantees, or who would encour-
age the violation of any of our laws. is dema-
gogue and an enemy to the peace and welfare
of our country, and should be treated as such.
lApplluse.
BY force Of circums ances Ca ifornia has had
to bear the burden of this Chinese evil, and has
been made TO suffer on this question more than
all other States in the Union combined, Again
and again the question has arisen, How can this
evil be overcome or even modified?
1t has at last been determined that there is no
immediate reliet The most that can be done is
to take immediate action toward future relief.
First, by making such amendments to present
laws as will forever keep the Chinese from
lawfully landing on our shores lapplauseI; sec
ondly, by concerted action on the part OF the
entire people of the Pacific coast to withdraw
support from the Chinese, in order that they
may of their own free accord ind II to their III
terest either to return TO China or to distribute
themselves broadcast over the land, so that
their evil influences may not be felt too heavily
in any one State or locality.
III is fOr THESE OBJECTS, anu lOT llD ptltl, J4lht
this organization is formed; and if these two
aims can be obtained that of forever keeping
more Chinese from coming here and OF scatter
ing those who are clustered in and around Cali
fornia among the many other States in our
Union, we viii have accomplished more than
has ever before been done on this question.
/ am instructed by the Committee on Organi-
cation to call attention to the fact that the COM
mittees provided for in the constitution here
with submitted, are only local in their charac-
ter, and thai their direct influence cannot well
be made TO extend beyond the limits OF Sacra-
mentO county.
1t is recommended that a committee be ap-
pointed TO consult with the local authorities.
and see what can be done toward the removal
of Chinatown from its present location where |
time and again, it has been declared u public
nuisance and constant menace to the health |
of the city. Prolonged applause
Your committee further realize that in order |
TO make q success of this auti-Chinese move |
ment, it is imperative that body of able and |
energetic men, embracing our most influential |
citizens be appointed as Committee on Branch |
Organizations whose duty ii shall be TO person |
ally visit the chief cities and towns i'll the State
and there organize branch associations. Unless |
this stepi promptly taken, and earnestly pushed
by men of zeal and SPIRIT this local movement |
will prove of little avail. Sacramento, and Sac /
ramento alone is almost helpless in this matter. |
Without the earnest and enthusiastic CO. |
operation OF the people from all parts of the |
coast, We can hope 10 bring about no perma- |
nent relief. To insist upon Sacramento farmers, |
and merchants abandoning Chi |
NEST Hcip, NnlG lptlltOIS III OlLSr parts OI |
the State, with whom there is daily compsti- |
ton, retain such Servile labor. is simply work |
ing, hardship upon the men living in our
midst, without benetting the cause.
1t remains TO be seen whether this spontane- |
GUS movement on the part of the people of Sac
ramento is TO prove Il mushroom effort that, so |
to speak, will live for day. or whether it is to
barr,. ne movement that VIII sweep the coast,
and peac,ob bly, and lawfully solve u problem |
that has vexea and baffied our greatest states
men for years.
Anti-ChineSe agitations IN the past have,
largely been controlled by demdgogues n'-d
political tricksters, whose purposes were the at
of political power or private gain
who aimed rather at toe persecution of a race
than the preservation of principle; who by
words and acts dntagonizcd all Wellmeanlng
people and gained for the Cinnamon sympathy
throughout the land. At last, however itwould
seem as if the question is TO be lifted from the
mire and placed in the hands of conservative
and well-meaning citizens, who are actuated
by no spirit OF revenge, who have no feelings of
resentment, no gru6ge, no il-wil, 40 hatred
against the race, religion or color of the Chinese
who have no political ak to grind who aim
1t no reward beyond satisfaction Of aiding
general good, and who have taken hold
Of this movement because they clearly forsee
he danger of longer encouraging and support
ing race of aliens who have nothing III com
mon with US, who are never TO become intelG-
gent voters, who in time of need will never
lake up musket in defense of our common
country, and who, being slaves have retarded
the progress OF our state by degrading 10 tllelr
own level those whites who attempt to compete
with them, and by keeping away many thou
sands Of desirable wage-earners, who will not
come here to compete with slaves. IApplause:
From this, il may be seen that the present Chi
nese agitation as started in Sacramento Is no
illegal or blood thirsty movement i'll the inter
est of a class or sn individual, but an earnest
and sincere effort by earnest, sincere and law
abiding citizens.
The Chinese evil has been growing on US for |
thirty years, and 1t has become 50 deeply
rooted in all our industries that to wrench II
out suddenly would involve an industrial and
revolution throughout the State,
would completely paralyze many enterprises,
ruin many individuals, shrink many large /
numbers of white persons engaged in pursuits I
partially dependent on Chinese labor
4 case 10 point is the manufacture of cigars.
The manufacture OF this article has become one
of the chief industries of the State: millions of |
cigars being annually exported to the East and |
other countries. There are said to be several |
Chinese cigar-makers employed in San |
Francisco, while there are not that many hun
dred white cigGr-makers in the State. Were all |
the Chinese to be discharged before white men |
could be brought here from the East to take |
their places, il can readily be seen that the en-
tire industry would be seriously crippled, If not
entirely ruined. To assume that several thou |
sand white cigar-makers and their families |
can be brought out here In a few days or a lew !
weeks is assuming something that is hardly pos |
sible In fact ii is now nearly two months since !
the strike of the Chinese cigarmakers in san !
tTdutlStD. WIGu tlielT Wlllte employers uGlcE-
mined to replace them by eigarmakers to be |
brought here from the East Two agents were !
dispatched across the continent to bring at least
9 500 white cigarmakers here. After a lapse of
several weeks the first 400 have yet 10 start from
New York and it may be several months before
the first complement Of 2.500 viii arrive here.
These facts and conditions will apply with
equal force to very many other industries, some
o, which are entirely controlled by Chinese OPP /
eratives, who can be replaced only by white
persons who must first be taught their trade or
by skilled workmen who must be brought here
from the far East.
Your Committee on Organization which was
a fairly representative body, including as it did
members of the Board of Trade, the Citizens
Association, the Changers and the Knights of
Labor after a weeks careful deliberation, dis
covered that the movement here undertaken is
OF much greater magnitude than at first sup
posed, and that he who declares the whole Chi
nese question can be settled without thorough
organization among the entire people of the
coast, and that all the Chinese employed in
shops and factories throughout the State can be
ran nv nrlnraaiyas no hrGupht here from