Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-05-02
THE BOYCOTT.
Enthusiastic Meeting Held
Last Night.
THOUSANDS IN THE STREETS.
Eloquent Addresses by Rev. N. f.
Rayelin, Hon. s. NJ. White,
Major Horace Bell and
j. G. DAILY, Esq.

The great boycott meeting held last
night IN front Of Temple Block called
cut two or three Thousand people. Ma
jor Kinley called the meeting to
order and introduced the chairman who
introduced the several speakers.
Major Isaac Kinley said; They have
organized government within our gov
ernment. They drag those charged
before their tribunals where they try
them with such torlures M one may i'm
agine.
lie introduced g. l.. Stearns as chair
man, no in turn introduced the Rev.
Mr.. Rayelin, as the chief speaker Of the
evening. That we are opposed by an
evil /, a proposition that needs no dem
oustratlon, How to rid ourselves Of the
evil is the question. 1t is said there is
no way to do II but through Congress.
II that Is true our cause is hopeless.
Congress can do nothing because they
will do nothing. They cannot do more
even If they were willing beyond the
passing of a law prohibiting their furth-
Or importation. They will not do this I'M
til after we are most of us in another
would; we must do II ourselves; we have
right to boycott John Chinaman. Judge
Sawyer says that we have not, that we
are conspirators and liable to be sent to
San Quentin. II this is so, then let me
20 to San Quentin. Give me death be.
fore you compel me to employ these
men. Applause. They can boycott
us. They need not associate with us.
But Judge Mcguire says we may boycott
them. We think he is right Wethink
the money of the Chinese Six Companies
has not had any thing TO do with the
opinion of Judge Mcguire. We think
it is an honest opinion and that it is the
law. So we are going 10 boycott the
Chinaman. We are going to drive them
back. The Irish and the Germans and
the Scandinavians may come, they are
welcome. We are all from Europe
sooner or later. am a European my.
self. My mother was n German, my
father Scotch. Think there are three
parts of me. / do not know
where the other came from, but | know
il did not come from China. If it did, /
would boycott the quarter of myself
that came from there. We are all one
h Piuribus 'Unum. We are all homo
genious. We all obey the same laws
and live in the same way. The minis
tiers want 10 convert them. The
churches are all against this movement,
except in Nevada City. There the min.
listers and churches on the right side.
You cannot convert the Chinese in this
country. A minister said that after 20
years there were five converted. think
the estimate five times too high.
But II in 25 years they did convert 5,
how long will it take to convert the
millions of the Chinese. 1t will take
five hundred thousand years. When
the Hebrews reached Palestine,
they were ordered by God to boycott
the heather. give this for the benefit
of the ministers of Los Angeles. Talk
about the boycott beginning in Ireland.
1t began in Eden. The boycott is a
divine precedent. Joshua hustled them
out in short order He wonld do it
now, and so would Joshua's God. But
while you have converted five Chinese
in twenty five years, how many white
boys and girls have been ruined. There
are $4,000 of them corrupted by the
wees of the Chinese. My country, think
of it! 1t takes the damning of 10000
whites to raise one Chinaman in bis as
cent to glory. challenge the clergy to
discuss this with me. L will stay here
till / whip or get whipped. We want
the Cinnamon here because he does our
work cheap, and then after the work is
done treat them like dogs. Perhaps
after we have done this we may convert
them by this treatment There is not a
man in Los Angeles county that owns n
fourth rate mule that does not treat him
better than they do the Chinese, and
then they want to convert them by this
treatment. You have declared
boycott. Now mind you have
boycotted the Strawberries. You
cannot cat straw berries tomorrow. No
more rawberry short-cake, the boy
colt means self.denial Now in this boy
colt we do not ask any man to discharge
his Cinnamon until he has good gang
OF white men to take their place. You
cannot 20 TO man and say, here, dis
charge your Chinese. But you must be
able to say TO him, here is white man,
good aud industrious, discharge your
Cinnamon, and give this white man
place. This is the only way to do it,
If you do this and he will not do as you
wish then boycott him. If he is a fruit
grower, boycott his fruit. Do not buy
il. The boycott has been put on lumber
mills and all sorts of things. 1t is
wholesome institutions; it makes good
saints out of hardened old sinners. We
hope to convert General Bidwell. He
sent out carload of fruit. 1t went on
"a little excursion and come back as it
went. That is the way it works.
Here in Los Angeles you have boy
colt. You want to let all your move
ments be governed by wisdom. Remem-
Der your war is not against any white
man. He is your brother. Get labor
bureau to supply white labor. Boycott
and curtail the business of Cinnamon as
fast as you can. But you can't drive
nor in month. You wont to be
able to replace the Chinese with
white men before you can get rid of the
Chinese. Move mildly. calmly as you
are doing and you will succeed. will
speak here again in room to your
business men. speak Monday at Po-
mona, Tuesday at San Bernardino,
Wednesday at Riverside and Thursday
at Santa Ana, and will return here next
Friday.
HON, 5. NJ. WHITE
was called for and addressed the meet
ing: The main question is one in which
there can be but one verdict-there ia
no dissent here. However we may diff
fer on other matters we all agree that it
is for the benefit OF this people, this ma
ton and for civilization that the Chi.
nese must go. But when we come to the
practical part of the matter we meet
difficulties. We are part of great ma
ton, and the East does not yet under
stand this question. Congress is not yet
ready to do all we want. But while
we are working there, we can do some
thing here for ourselves. There must
be no violence. The man who lifts a
violent finger is your enemy, an enemy
of your cause. You do not dictate to
any man. 1t is simply this; If man
employs Chinaman in preference to
you, you merely say, well, we will not
employ you. The peaceable way is the
way. Ii you work together you can
boycott the Chinese. Get together.
Form an association to go into
the vegetable business. If you
will do this You can BY hard work sue
coed for yourself and drive out the Chi.
nese. When you have done this and
offer man your vegetables if he then
employs u Chinaman instead of you,
then leave him out; let him enjoy the
sweetness of his own society. The
movement rests on your shoulders. If
you will do rs indicate you will sue
eeed in all you undertake. But ii you
do not act together and listen to those
who preach resistance to the govern
ment You will call down upon you
force you cannot resist. am not seeking