Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-02-28

OF the constitution all such evils are I,
be abated by constitutional methods
Violence will not be permitted on on
free soil. II has been declared at tn
ballot box by an overwhelming vote tha
there must be relief from this evil W.
have got partial relief, but there L
4 something more needed. The State ha
suffered, fa suffering, and is willing u
suffer further, IL there is a hope for tn
future. There Is an appeal to the gen
| eral government. Senator Mitchell hal
introduced bill which, II II passes, vii
solve forever this difficult question. II
abrogates the treaty between TINS ooun
try and China. Now the railroad wal
has reduced fares very low. II the rail
road corporations will put the fares low
enough there will be b000 people here IN
q week. Let the railroad take the Chi
namen at SIS head with tags on theiI
queues consigning them to George +.
Hoar Of Boston. We want peaceful
solution of this question.
After. Mr.. Del Vale had finished 0
collection was taken up.
MR. H. z. OSBORNE
Was the next speaker. He said:
| MI Lio5iututy lAttod unu OCutAo-
men: l believe the presence of the Chi.
nese on the Pacific Coast to be an un-
mixed and unmitigated evil. These PEG.
pie are and ever will remain strangers to
our institutions, our religion and our
laws. They come among us not to be.
come citizens and enrich our country
with the results of their industry, bu.
| they render their industry a constant
| and serious drain on our resources, by
taking their Accommodations back to China
and to that extent enriching the Orient
| at our expense.
There are one hundrediand fifty thou
| sand Chinese in this country. and they
send across the Pacific Ocean not less
| than ten millions Of dollars annually. In
aecumulating that large sum they dis
| palce from employment one hundred and
fifty thousand OF our own people. prinei-
| pally young men and women, and their
| earnings aggregate not less than fifty
millions Of dollars annually, sum capa-
BILE Of supporting fifty thousand Ameri-
| can families OF five persons each, or q
| total Of quarter of million persons, at
an average annual expenditure Of one
thousand dollars per family.
The enforced idieness OF the youth Of
| the Pacific Coast, consequent upon the
monopoly Of the lighter employments by
| the Chinese, has resulted in the creation
of what is known as the "hoodlum'
class. Let the youth Of the country be
employed and the hoodlum will become
| thing of the past.
The Chinese have established no claim
upon our consideration, except that they
shall be protected from bodily violence.
l do not believe there is person present
in this hall that would not volunteer his
services to preserve the peace, and even
protect ..Chinamen, II they were in any
danger, which, happily, they are not.
They are not here ut our invitation, as
has been stated, but thousands Of them
are among us in defiance of just laws that
have been passed to prevent their immi-
grafton. While there are one hundred
and fifty thousand Chinese in this coun-
try there are less than one thousand
Americans in China, including mission
aries. There are thousands Of Chinese
there were but twenty-four American
firms trausscting business in the Chinese
treaty ports. There are less number
to-day.
While the Chinese engage largely in
manufacturing in the United States,
under the protection OF our laws. should
an American start mandatory in
China his plant would be confscsted
under the laws Of the Chinese Empire,
which permit no foreigners to manufac-
ture in that country.
As there Is no desire upon the part Of
American laborers to go to China and
work for the pitiful wages that prevail
in that country-something like ten
cents per day-there is absolutely no
feature Of our intercourse with that
country that Is not to the advantage of
China and the Chinese.
Mr.. President, we are often tainted
with the inquiry, on the part of che
Eastern sentimentalist, why. If these
things are true, do you people of the
Pacific coast employ the Chinese!" 1t is
. pertinent question, yet it is easily an
swered. To succeed in business, q man
must have equal advantages with his
neighbors. II one manufacturer en-
ploys Cinnamon at ten or twenty per
cent. less wages than is paid by his OPP
ponents to their employees, the margin Of
difference at which he can sell may
be so great as to compel the Others to
pursue similar course, even though it
be repugnant to them, or go to the wall.
Unanimity in the policy Of non-enploy-
ment. therefore, is essential to success.
It is to secure such unanimity, 90 /
understand it, that this movement Is in
augurated. The plan proposed is legal
and peaceful. / am heart and soul in
sympathy with its objects. and so far as
my humble efforts oan further the cause
Of Kidding the country of the Chinese
curse, they shall be exercised in that be-
half. l do not attach the slightest
blame to those who now have Chinese
In their employ. They comprise part,
and very Important part, Of the indus
| trial system Of the coast, as at present
organized, and it is entirely natural that
they should be employed until the sys-
tenn is rsorganized.
Great patience and moderation should
be exercised, and ample time given en-
ployers to effect change from Chinese
to white labor. To many it will be most
iuconvenient and expensive. Indeed,
the burden of the movement will fall,
not upon those who, like myself, are so
| fortunate as to have no Chinese in their
employ, but upon those who have.
| Therefore the greatest consideration and
wiseat discretion shoald be exercised in
dealing with private interests in the
matter. ] hope and expect to see this
movement made complete success.
II there are great ranches in this Sta .
which cannot be profitably worked ex-
cept by coolie labor, such ranches should
| be cut up into small farms and made the
happy homes OF thousands OF American
| citizens. The prosperity of a state or
nation does not consist in the financial
success of few, willis the many are i'm
pov erished. 1t consists In the general
prosperity Of q homogeneous people,
where the least poverty and idleness
are known. Such prosperity cannot ex.
lat in country open to the invasion OF
the countless hordes of Asia. 1 hope
the day is near at hand when the last
Of the race shall have left our shores,
never to return.
HON. s. N. WHITE
Came forward amid deafening roar Of
applause. He said; am not here to
deliver q speech. A number Of people
are here 10 express the sentiments Of
| the people. shall be brief. This meet
ing puts it beyond doubt that this city
Is not divided on this question. There
ia no man who has lived here long who
is prepared to dispute the proposition
that we would be better off without the
Chinese. The question is how to get
rid Of them. Heretofore the people of
the east have been against us. This is
changed. / hope Mitchelps bill will
pass But II Morrow's bill is passed it
will help us to some extent. You have
right to select with whom You shall
deal; who shall enter your house; whose
hand you shall grasp; with whom you
shall associate. Four things are obvi.
GUS: Vegetable raising is monopoliged
by the Chinese. You cannot censure
those who buy Of them, but let us all
help our own people who enter
on this business. Household en-
ployment is largely in their
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