Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-10

Christian beast. They excavste cellars
three stories deep underground, and IN
their subterranean caverns they swarm as
numerous as vermin. They are content
with q diet which the American people viii
never accept until they have been trained
Tor centuries in q starvation school.
Competition with such Rretches is not
to be dreamed Of. No American can offer
10 work tor wages so low that the Chinese
will not bid lower. The process of degra-
datlon and pauperism, with the resulting
dePrsvity, will strike deeper and deeper
root among the people Of California, and
60 on with ever sccelerating speed until it
terminates in a living death, unless a
strong arm be ~interposed to save us. HUI
man vision can discern but one terminus
to the downward grade. When California
shall have virtually become a Chinese col
ony, when the American laboring man
shall be compelled to work for 10 cents a
day, and board himself, when it will no
longer pay to import the Chinese slaves TO
work in our labor market, then, and not
until then, will this invading Monaghan
column turn aside to rsvsge other and
tresher fields. When this horrid crisis shall
haye been reached, our
LAST ACCOUNTING CRY OF DESPAIR
will have been forever hushed in the 81
lence of social and moral death. When
this crisis shall have been reached, the
american people on this coast will not only
have been robbed of all claim to respecta'
bility and deceBcy, but will have lost even
the semblsnce of humanity, and taken on
beastislity in its most offensive and despi-
cable type. Then must our Sons and
our daughters go forth to mingle with the
heather, to share the heathen's rice and to
imbibe the heathen's vice.
AS brothers OF your order, as bone Of
your bone md flesh Of your flesh, we call
on you for help in the hour Of sorest need.
As sentinels at this western outpost OF the
republic, We warn you that the enemy Is
upon ~. We warn you that you cannot
safely ignore our appeal. When this
horde of Asiatic locusts shall have de-
voured every green thing on the Pacific
coast, it will pour over the mountains IN
countless hosts, and extend and widen the
area of devastation, till the shores OF the
Atlantic are reached and ~rsysged. In our
impending doom, you can therefore read
your owo. The wall OF our children for
bread will be caught up and re echoed
from the cradles in your own households.
If you turn q deaf ear to our entrestles,
your children and your children's children
will rise up and call you cursed forever.
We therefore call upon you throughout the
and breadth Of the Union, from the
North and the South, the East end the
West, to rise for our rescue.
There is but one source otreIet. The
relations of the republic are wholly
under the control OF the federal government
and Congress, as the legislative branch OF
the government is vested with full power
10 establish safeguards against the Chinese
A voice or vote from Maine or
Texas Is as potent on the floor OF Congress
10 the proper settlement Of this vital ques-
ton IS is q voice or vote from California.
We, therefore, most earnestly entreat you
to address yourselves at once to
your local representation in Congress,
and to plead with them in our
behalf. We entrest you to convene imme'
in your various lacsl assemblies
and to prepare and to forward petitions to
Congress praying for the utter and entire
prohibition of all further Chinese immigra'
ton to the United States. We entrest you
to circulate similar petitions among your
fellow citizens who are not members of our
order, but who are nevertheless DESTROYS
of protecting the welfare, the responsibility,
the lives of American lGboring men. Let
this action be taken without q moments
delay.
Adopted by District Assembly No. 50,
Knights Of LABOR, at San Francisco, Cal,
January "a, 1856"
This circular has just reached Boston,
and already o mass convention from all the
different assemblies in Boston ia being
talked Of.