Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-05-28

cerned, it might as well have be-
dumped into the sea. Now, suppo
the Chinese had not been here at a
Suppose that all this money had bes
? paid to white men They would ha,
married here, they would have bougl
lots and built homes and cleared land
Ihe whole amount would have bee
Iexpended here, and in all human proh
ability, Portland instead Of being
bankrupted and stagnated city OF 25
o00 inhabitants, would have been /,
prosperous city of $4,000 to $4,000
inhabitants. The extent Of the mate.
rial and moral curse of this Chimes,
slave labor on the Pacific coast car
not be fully computed in figures no,
amply portrayed in words. You and
l, both of us, through our own exer
tons, and by the blessing of God, have
secured enough SO that we are not
compelled to work at manual labor
Tor our Lying. We have little some.
thing 10 leave to our children, but we
all know that riches are very uncertain.
They very often take to themselves
wings and fly away. 1t may be pos
slble that our children may some day
have to work 1t manual labor for their
daily bread. Do you want to leave
your children in country where. if
that contingency comes, they will have
to compete for their daily bread with
coo6e slavesf No, never. We, both
OF us, if we positively knew such fate
was In store for our children, no mat
ter how much we love them, had rather
bear them to their graves and see the
earth close over them forever. And
feeling 80, must we not, both of us.
have some sympathy with the iaboring
men who are now among US, with
in the world but their hands
to depend upon for a living and some
Of them with families to feed, and who
now and here, have to compete with
these same coolie slaves for their dailv
bread2 And is there one single man
IN this community, who has to EMPLOY
abor, that would turn deaf ear tc
tree men Of his own blood and race for
'he sake ofa mere saving of a small
in wages hire these alien
layesY If there be such men thew
horld hide their heads for very shame
The people of Portland have now
ecome divided into two distinct par.
les the anti.Chinese and the bro.
hinese. The people of Oregon, like
ne people of California, should be a
nit on this Chinese question. There
louid be no rest until this curse Is
But it should be removed
and through the law. There is an
repressible conflict between free labor
I'd slave labor that never will and
,ver ought to cease. This Pacific
'ast cannot remain peaceable half
hite and half Chinese. The Chinese
ust go, and they ought to 90. But
methods but lawful methods ought
be employed. The states of Cali
mia and Oregon, in their state capac.
?; have never done towards the re-
oval of the Chinese what they might
we done, and ought to have done, by
e lawful exercise of their plenary
served police powers The Chinese
suid be evicted by law, aud not in
hance of law, and until we have
ch legal remedies our only resourse
to refuse to give them employment.
this we should all agree. Aud if
classes of our community should
rec to this, there is no doubt that
9 anti-coolie associations would ioin
tn us in ferreting out and Furnishing
persons who would resort to lawless
'thods. BY such conrse peace in
ad of discord would reign in our
DIST. AS | probably will not be pres.
at the meeting called for tomorrow
will suggest here the resolutions
'ich think ought to be adopted by
1t meeting:
lst. That the existence of Chinese
We labor is an unmixed and unmit-
ted evil and we pledge ourselves
gly and unitedly, to do all in our
yer, by all peaceful and lawful means
get rid of these alien serfs, and that
that end we will not give employ
Mt in any capacity to any of these
lie slaves.
md. That we respectfully entreat
fellow citizens of the anti-Coolie
'ociation of this city, to unite with
IN preserving peace and in discoun-
ancing all lawless methods and
cesses for the eviction of the Chi
e, believing as We do, that by
Using to give employment to them,
by counseling others so TO do, they
be compelled 60 leave through
Of employment.
rd. That, inasmuch as the courts
his county and state are entirely
bstfucted, and the officers of the