Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-01-18
TIE CHINESE SHALL co !
WOOD RIVER TO BE RID OF THEIR
BANEfUL PRESENCE.
A Strong Anti. Chinese League Organ.
lied Last Saturday-Its Intention TO
Compel the Chinese to Go, Peace.
fully and Lawfully.

fully and Lawfully.
Notwithstanding the inclemency Of
the weather, the night being the
coolest on Wood River this year, Hal.
ley Theater was crowded last Satur-
day evening, on the occasion Of the
anti Chinese meeting. The assem-.
blage was called to order by George
w. Faylor, who called for nominations
for officers. George M. Parsons be-
ing the only nominee for chairman he
assumed the chair. Frank 0. Hard.
ing, local editor OF the TIMES, was
then nominated for Secretary. Mr..
Harding being absent, T. Z. Picotte,
publisher of the TIMES, was unani.
lneusly called upon to act.
The chairman stated the object of
the meeting. In order to expedite
business he appointed c. V. Haupt,
J. H. Van Ness, Thomas Connolly,
L,ttleton Price, and P. NJ. Bruner a
committee to frame resolutions ex.
pressing the sense OF tho meeting.
General Geo. H. Roberts was then
called to address the meeting. The
orator briefly reviewed the agitation
which preceded the Revolutionary
War, when the Paul Reveres and the
Putnams called the artisan from his
bench, the blacksmith from his forge,
the farmer from his fields to organize
that the Is colonies might be free and
independent States. Those were town
meetings. So was this a town meet
ing; and this time it was called to
stem the tide of coolie Immigration.
The speaker had seen the coolies on
oul shores increase so rapidly in num-
bers in the past 20 years that the
question which confronted US to-day
was not if the Chinese must 60, but
if the Caucasians will not have to go?
These coolies can live on five cents u
day, then gamble the long nights away
over their few pennies or in their vile
opium dens. What money they can
earn only impoverishes this country,
since 1t is mostly sent away to China.
The amounts so sent from this town
alone aggregate $4,000 per month
through the bank, as much more
through the express, and a considera-
bic sum through the money order sys
tenn. These sums serve to make Chi
nese aristocrats, for in that country g
few thousand dollars suffice to make q
man, if not Vanderbilt at least 9
Jly Gould or a John w. Mackay
The supply Of Chinese is PRACTICAL,
inexhaustible, for there are 100000,
600 of them, and by contract with
either of their six companies they car
be landed here at the rate of 1000 OF
more a day. They will never be
Americans. They are not like the
Swedes, or the Norwegians, or the
Germans, or the French, or the Irish
They expect to GO back to China, ano
will not even leave their bones here
to fertilize our soil. After denounc
ing their many vices, the speaker said
their Asiatic home was the source o.
every pestilence that affiicts mankind
and brings shame, misery AMI death
Suppose the Chinese of HALEY
were supplanted by whites? The
whites would come here with wife and
family, or singly, and there would no,
be a vacant house in town. The large
sums sent abroad by these heather.
would circulate here, and bring an
Increase to every business house in
town.
1t is idle to talk of the Chinese a,
barbarians. They are not barbarians
Two thousand years ago they printed
a newspaper in Canton which exists
to-day. Before Caesar invaded Britain
with his legions they had invented
gunpowdcr. Before such ancient in
ventive genius the ingenious Yankee
| is but week imitator. In protecting
the labor of the United States W,
protect the United States; and tn,
speaker did not care how man,
Grants and Shermans were had, unles.
our lahoring classes prospered tn
United States would soon disappea
in the gloom of buried and quasi-for
gotten nations.
Lvttleton Price then presented tn
following on behalf of the COMMITTEE
on Resolutions:
WHEREAS, The presence Of tn,
Chinese upon Wood River Is stand
ing menace to American labor, an,
no trade or calling is secure from thei
deadly touch: they bar every ave
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