Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-02

all nulsahces! Are we compelled to have
them here, whether we want them or not
Can Congress force them upon us? He
never believed much in States rights but.
so far as self-protection was concerned. he
was in favor of that doctrine. Immense
cheers All that a man has he will Give
for his life. In an issue of this kind he is
not going to stop to consider what the con-
! sequences are going to be. If it comes TO
that, that there is no other source of relief
I rise up in your might and abate the evil
Defend your own lives and the homes of
your wives and children. Quit employing
them, buying of them. Let us have moth.
ing In common with them, and treat those
who have to do with them the same as we
do with the Chinese themselves. Let us
have nothing in common with the Chinese
or those who in anyway employ them
| There were two things in the history of q
woman he could not understand. There
is 10 accounting for tsstes," he said, = but
l never knew how it was a woman could
love poodle dog, or Chinaman. either
He then related several instances where
women who moved in the first circles of
| society, were members of the church and
protested Christianity, refused to take
| bright, intelligent, industrious, capable
white boys and girls to labor for their board
instead OF leprous heathens whom they
had TO pay wages to. Many such instances
had come under his observation, where the
poor of our
OWN RACE WERE CAST ADRIFT
Upon the world or gathered into the poor
mouse, because white women, those who
pretended TO be the cream of society, pre-
| ierred the Chinese. If he had such wife
| he would become jealous and consider he
had good grounds for the divorce proceed
| .anphter IL
stance of a man in San Jose who succeeded
in getting his dirty linen washed free, at a
| Chlnese laundry, in consideration of the
TACT that he secured trade for the heather
and helped crush out a white laundry.
such man ought to be put in a balloon
with three days rations, set adrift when a
strong east wind is blowing, and 90 out on
the broad Pacific. In San Jose, a much
smaller town than Sacramento, the League
! numbers LOCO. They have appointed a
committee OF four in each ward to make a
! thorough canvass, see every male above
the age OF II years, and see whether he is
Tor or against the movement. When the
| canvass Is completed the list will be pub
lished and every man in that CITY will be
found standing on one side or the other.
There was no middle ground, there
could be no lodging the question; he
Who was not for was against them.
Lei TIE rich feel your power let the poll
tlclar know the mettle you are made Of
that you are in earnest, that YOU are in this
fight to stay until the last Celestial is
shipped. He did not care two cents
whether they went east or west He would
IKE to consign carload of the leprous
heathens to Senator Hoar. He would like
| to see
| THE CHINEsE-LovING SENATOR
When ne received his bill of lading of a
carload OF freight. He would like to have
a photograph OF the Chinese admirer when
the car was unloaded before him. Railroad
them east, ship them west. If any one
else wants some of them, why don't OBJ
Ject Anything to get them out of Califor-
ma. II there is any serious trouble. it will
pc IN San francisco, but California can
take care of that without any aid from
Congress. 1t is our own local. financial
social question. Perhaps the nation can
not send them back under the exisfinp
Burllngame treaty, but that is not a matter
winch concerns us. If the nation gets in a
bad box we cannot help it. but we will
snow to the world that we won't have
tneih, ana that We can help ourselves
lCheerS. China can't 20 to war with rs i
we send all her subjects East where thew
are more admired than here: where thay
can do better, and where the people express
such high regard for them. Nor would
emma Object If We would pay their passage
back TO China, where they can see Their
mothers and wives, from whom they have
long been separated. [Applause.l Let the
poiiticlans in Congress tend to their owr
business, and we will tend to our own bllsi
ness on purely business principles. True
kee knows now to do it; so does Roseyillt
ana heddlng Those people are law.
ABIDING, loyal citizens If you don't want
a man IN your community, YOU tell him tc
walk and he immediately proceeds to loco
mote and that is business. Truckee is 3
small town, but She said to 600, take wall,
ana they did not stand upon the order
OF their going but Travelled. If a clnI
OF l,0U0 in this city would say to the 2. O0f
denlzens of | street, Co.. they would fol.
low the example set by their brethren in
! iruckee. You have been long suffering
have borne this incubus long enough. and
must now seek its lawful radiance. 1t is
lawful when you don't want a man to tell
him to go, and he goes. That is business
business upon your part, and execution on
MS. he told how much had been accom-.
plished in San Jose by the League Chinese
had been discharged on every hand. and
the good work was going nobly on. He
was very severe upon the clergy who did
not come out and take a decided stand
with the people upon this question.
john Quinn and Noble Fisher were
elected delegates to the San Jose Conyen.
ton. The former delivered a short add.
| dress
one hundred and twelve signed the roll
making the membership of the League
over oOO. A hat collection was taken I'D
which Melted 81 10.
The following resolutions were passed
Wrfuu
| corded fact that all races of people when suf
| 1ering from oppressive injustice have sought
| through petitions TO the governing powers OF
| the time, requesting or demanding the removal
OF the evil complained of, such petitions meet
| ing with varying success, being more or less eff.
| tectiye, according to the amount of pressure
brought to bear ON the persons petitioned by the
| earnestness of the popular demand and where
as in the greatest number of instances such ne.
| ttions have always been met by the wealthy
or governing classes of all countries with every
conceivable obstacle in the shape of legal chi
| canery, the laws delay" amendments at
| tached to laws enacted, multiplying their opera
ton, or clauses loosely constructed warranting
the entertaining of doubts as to their validity,
| thereby opening the fiood-gates of legal argil-
| ment and newspaper discussion, generally re
sulting in the discovery that the law as enacted
is not a law at all in the sense desired by the
! popular feeling, as instanced by the Chinese
| Restriction Act, which does not restrict but
like Macbeth's witches, keeps the promise to
| the ear and breaks it TO the hope" OF the hun
| Sly anu ana. whereas,
| in most cases the petitions of the working
millions have been rejected, treated with in.
| difference and contempt, or been fatty re
| fused by the governing powers, render
| ing the efforts of the people at the
| peaceful reform of abuses abortive and SO driv-
| ing them time and again to adopt other and
| more potent means than the time-honored Gus
| tom of petition substituting therefor rebellion,
| in which the right of petition "cuts no figure y
| and is g more honored in the breach than the
| observance and whereas, France. SPAIN Ire
land, Hungary, Italy or Greece furnishes us with
| no brighter or more noble example than that be-
queathed to us by our Revolutionary sires
| whose petitions to King Georges Government
for legislative relief met with response similar
| to that which the starving French received from,
| King Louis Minister, Foulon, who when they
| demanded bread and work, told the people there
| was plenty of grass in the fields-"go and eat
grass, you canaile' aud whereas it is not neccs-
sary to point out to Americans the result of our
| Revolutionary fathers having thrown their petit
| tons to the winds, and having taken up arms to
exact the rights denied them by petition and
| by so doing established the best government OF
| the age-a government of the people, by the
people and for the people-ehallenging the adj.
miration of the world by its republican sim
plicity and purity: and Whereas our early con.
nection with England as one of her colonies left
us legacy in fostering carbuncle in the form OF
negro slavery, which, later on became a ma.