Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-16
THE ANTI.cHrNEsE CONVENTION.
Expressions of the Press of the State
Concerning the Platform Adopted.


Concerning the Platform Adopted.
lsan Francisco Postl
The action of the Sacramento Anti. Chi
nese Convention in declaring in favor of the
boycott as means OF Kidding the State OF
the Chlnese, was necessity of the situa-
ton. Had the Convention contented itself
with merely memorializing Congress il
would have made itself ridiculous. Con-
gress has been memoIialized quite enough
already. 1t knows pretty well what the
state OF public feeling on the Pacific coast
is as to the Chinese question. 1t would be
impossible to tell it anything new about
the evils OF Chinese immigration. The
great majority OF the men who composed
the Convention felt that something practi-
cal was expected from them-some scheme
of home action. Therefore the Convention
approved the boycott. 1t is difficult to see
how it could have done anything else
Even the minority who stood out against
| the resolutions had nothing to offer in
| their stead. except the general advice to
| trust to Congress- 5
Already San Francisco has been the ref
| uge OF thousands of Chinese who have been
boycotted out of the interior The increased
severity OF the embargo which is sure to
follow the adjournment of the Convention
VIII Drlng TO us many thousands more
chinatown, already crowded, Will overflow
Inability to earn living here will make
the unhappy coolies very willing to 20
| home or to move to some part of the coun-
| try where they Will be made welcome.
Then will come an opportunity for Califor-
MA TO give supreme proof of her willing
ness to make sacrifices for her present and
| future good. A popular fund to defrav the
| expenses of the superhuous Cinnamon.
| either TO China or the East. will be in order
| A few dozen train loads distributed judi
ciously among certain points in the East
| would be powerful in their enlightening
effect Massachusetts, and especially Mr.
Rices Congressional district should not be
| overlooked when these shipments begin.
| The Post, in common with many OF our
best citizens, deplores the necessity for the
| boycott, and it remains with the Congress
| OF the United States to remove that neces-
sity.
Los Angeles Timesl
The Sacramento joint Convention was
unfortunate in its composition. Two dis
tinct bodies coalesced in it, and the result
was to give preponderance to the sandlot
element Of San Francisco. and the ward
| strikers collected from other parts of the
State. The platform was
| adopted, despite the protestations of such
| delegates as General Bidwell and ex-Sena.
tor Sargent. 1t was promulgated, boy
cottlng clause and all the worse for it and
for the anti-Chinese cause. This un-Amer.
lean declaration of interference with per.
sonal liberty, this open defiance of law and
invitation TO strife and anarchy, will &C
forth, not as the outgiving of the best sent
| iment of the Pacific coast, but as the utter
ance of the rabble. The voice of reason
was drowned by the shout of prejudice and
bigotrY. The boycott is not plant OF
| American growth; neither can it flourish
| in American soil.
[Santa Barbara independently
| We do not imagine that any person in
! his senses desires 10 see our sunlit country
overrun by the dead-and-alive hordes of the
| Orient where humanity is weed Neither
can they desire to see innocent immigrants
slaughtered by those who have invited
| them to come. Had the member:
of the Convention been chosen by the PEG.
| pie Of California in open election, it might
possibly have reflected the real feeling OF
| the State. But they were not. They were
| appointed through various agencies-bui
not one by honest election. The majority
of them do not in any degree represent
the people. They only represent them
selves. As part of the population. they
| have, OF course, an undoubted right tC
| speak for themselves. But inasmuch as
they may happen to speak for the people, il
| IS only by dint of intuition and not by any
recognized right. If the intuition happen,
! 10 be Of heaven, heaven speed them
San Jose Mercury
The anti-Chinese movement in This Stat,
it is only too evident is in danger of disas
ter from the men who want to achieve too
much in moment. There hay,
never been more important issues at SAX,
than are now closing III around US, AMI
there never has been grander or NOR,
appropriate motives for political activit,
offered to the Republican party than ar,
| afforded by the attitude of organized labol
and the prohibition of further Chinese i'm
migration. The same methods, the same
zeal, the same persistency and the same
| wisdom in dealing with these new aues
tons that were bestowed upon slavery ms II
as htiy and usefully employ another gen
eratlon OF Republicans, and crown then
| with the same success as was earned b1
those who carried the standard of the parE
through an unbroken series of victories fol
| twenty four eventful years.
Woodland Daily Democrat
| III the Chinese are driven from this couu
| try 1t will be by united efforts of the Ma
| tonal Government and the people WIN
now employ them. To-day the argument
| is not SO much one of wages as of necessity
The plant OF those who employ Chinese i:
that white labor cannot be procured. lie
the State Executive Committee proceed n
| once to make arrangements to test the sin
cerity OF this argument by providing labol
pureaux, and see if these men who emplo,
Chinese are honest in their efforts to secur,
white help.
Woodland Evening Mail
Now that the boycott as means of ex
| DpllInU the Chinese hoe
the State Convention called to consider tn,
Chinese question, we may expect to see
every where tested TO the utmost. Those O
our fellow-citizens.who profess not to be
lleve in II should remember that the ma
Jority rule, and that the majority have sait
that the boycott is the best weapon at han,
in the present emergency
Oakland Tribune
The Sacramento Convention has met
acted and departed Whatever difference
of opinion may exist as to the extrem,
remedy OF boycotting, there can be n,
doubt that the overwhelming sentiment O
the people is in favor of it.
1t may be admitted that the remedy of nm
dertaking to deprive 10000 people of tn,
right to labor is severe, harsh and in a Ger
tain sense revolutionary but it is the onI
protest short of physical violence left us
against cruel sentiment that would han,
us over powerless to the influence of servil,
labor worse than that which cost the natio,
so dearly to uproot from the South.
| (Red Bluff Sentinel
The Anti-Chinese State Convention ha
completed the principal business for which
il assembled. = 1t was
rare body of men, peculiar in many re
| spects, brave, courageous, ambitious
| earnest. The result has disappointed man,
| and pleased thousands, and will make tn,
heather rage and tear his hair.