Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-01

the blessings oil Il civilized, progress
siyc republic.
Our brothers Of the Pacific coast
are crying aloud for relief, and our
capitalist government denies it.
Morality, religion and industrial
interests demand immediate and en-
crgc.lc measures against the scourgc,
while short,sIghtcd commcrcialism,
and the shallowcst scntimentalism
would open the flood-gatcs to the
rankcst degradation which is insep-
arabic from the Chinese race.
The appeal for relief must be an
swcrcd by the working people Of the
country, for it seems that our capt.
tallst government is totally oblivious
TO the danger that threatens our
very existence.
The Grand Jury of San Francisco,
IN their report last May, use the fol-
lowing language:
Crew recognize how widespread this
evil opium smokingJ has become in our
midst, 1t is a vice which calls for the
most prompt and radical legislation"
The Grand Jury declared also,
that the habit was being spread by
the Chinese.
The following items printed uni
ycrsaIly III the public press, indicates
that the East is not exempt from the
curse:
NEW York, May ~ A little girl
thirteen years old, named Maggie West
bridge, was discovered few days ago in
n thinese laundry and opium Joint in
Brooklyn. The place is described by the
police as an opium Joint of the viesl
character, numbers of young girls being
induced to 20 there and smoke the fata
first pipe which leads to ruin. Maggie
said yesterday that more girls frquenteG
the place than men. They are all Ameri
can girls, too.
"NEW YORK, June 9.-The HeraHs
Boston special says: Nellie Gately, {
pretty young girl who was found in the
opium den Of Lung Wah in Cambridge
"a n LttlnntinI pnplittnn laHt ,t,hf
before the local court to-day. She salt
she went into the place to get her broth
ers collars, when she was seized by
Cinnamon who thrust a lighted pipe into
her mouth and compelled her to smoke
until she became unconscious. She wa,
found in this condition when the police
raided the den. Lung Wah was iineC
$40 and costs. The girl was discharged.
The Courts in Francisco have re-
pcatedly had their sentences reversed
by the Supreme Court on the ground
that the sentences were dlscrlmina
tons against the Chinese, and the
Onl " relief there seems to be left tl
the white inhabitants is to take the
law into their own hands. Certainly
when 1t becomes Il question of White
or Monaghan supremacy, the people
must rise up against the decisions Of
courts which are so corrupted as tC
discriminate against the Whites and
in favor Of the Mongols.
We are impclIcd to place betor,
onr readers extracts from u pamphlet
entitled, 1.-The Conflict of Races,
by Washington NJ. Rycr, NJ. d., Of
San Francisco, Cal., the pcrusaI o
which has confirmed an opinion long
held, namely, that onr present civil
ration cannot stand against an un
restricted influx of syphilitic. lcprous
cunning and vicious barbarany
And rs it Is to the working pcopl,
that our civilization must look fol
maintenance and progress, to then
also must we appeal to defend on,
people from the Chinese scourge
the direct result of private capital
ism, the degrading monster which
Labor must in sclf-dcfcncr destroy.