The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-31
CHINESE LABOR.
gHE RECORD Oh BENJAMIN
+. NOWEY.
HOW ITO STOOD 81 THE CHINESE IN THE
FORTY EIGHTH CONGRESS-. AIDED By
CONGRESSMAN EEAN.
The Difference Between Pattern
and Practices.
HOW AND WHERE THE CHINESE LIVE.
The Workingmen Endorse
Robert s. Green.

As the visitor to San Francisco leaves
Kearney street and walks westward he
comes upon what is knowa as Chinatown.
Here, in an area of about quarter of q
mile square, are huddied thousands upon
thousands of Chinese. How many of
these people there really are within the
city limits, no census. taker has ever been
able to ascertain. They live in cellars and
outhouses-- anywhere, concealisg their
lepers in darkened rooms and under
ground passages from house to house.
They are the most degraded people on the
face of the earth. Their food is revolving
to contemplate, and it is truly said that
there is nothing that the Chinese will
refuse to eat. The If average csst of sub
sistence is less than twelve cents day
including the cost of clothing and the rent
of the dens where they live. And ret to
them this manner of living is a Paradise,
when compared to life in China. When
ever and wherever they have been allowed
to compete with white labor, the whites
have been forced to surrender home and
hope. They have no ambition that is
becoming to manhood. Having worked
out the years of slavery which are neces-
nassaoe 10 this country thew ara content
With tba viIest food AND tho bardest toll
nrov;ded that thev can he insnrad a. =
snfficient snnnlv of onium and that their
homes will he retnrned across tha Pacific
The women are fonIer thar tba man and
aryona who has aver visited Ohinatown lac
visitors 70 San Francisco are in The babit
Of doing under the protection of The
nol;cel will snnnort The asaert;on that the
lowest denth Of conce;vabIa DEGRADATION ia
reached by the Chinese women. On the
ether aid . of tba Pacific are At iaast 5o1
o0 Of these creatures e vatoh;n es With With
ypolish bnnorv eves for an onnortnnitv
fo crowd eacf, other ont az their conntry
into the limited states In the economv
of nature this fact is = terrible one to con-
IL welI anors,b for thaorst;csI statesmen ~
advance IDEAS about the RELATION Of man 70
man and about this country being free TO
the Chinese hut over and shova all
THEORIES. warning the people of this land
aoainst Monpolian immipration ia the self
evident trutR that NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ia the
first law of nature" When American
labor meets Chinese eompetition. the com
mands of greed and Gold are that the
former shall fall to the level of the latter
There "a no moral or rhvs;cal mower known
to man that will advance the Chinese work
man to the prope aytandard of manhood.
On the fifth Of October the Republican
marty of Nav Jersey nominated Benianain
+ Howev for Governor. In the third
plank of the platform of his convention
are these words: sThe Republican party
has always been the friend of the working.
man" This ia the platform, Let Us
examine the practice.
BENJAMIN f. Howey was a member of
the forty-eighth CONGRESS. being elected in
1882.
was recognized and a bill was introduced
to prevent the Enumeration Of the Chinese.
On the Sd of Nav. 1885. the bill came TO a
vote. and was passed. reosiying every
Democratic vote in the House of Rep
resentatives. The bill was short and COM
prehensive, being in the following words
.sBE 1T ENACTED By THE SENATE AND
HOUSE, OF REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE UNrrEp
STATES OF AMERICA IN OoseaEss ASSEM-
nLrD That from and after the expiration
of ninety DAYS next aftsr the passaga ef
this act. the coming Of Ohinese iaborsrs TO
the limited States be and the sama is hara-
nv suspended. and during such snsnans;on
II shall net be lawful Tor any Chinese
isborer to come from anv foreicn mort or
nlaca or. having 40 come after The aTnira-
fion If said ninety davs. 10 remain within
fba TTn;tad States !"
Thara was nat any room for aronrant
an this hill n meant.-and as IRE law
new n aans-that Chinese shali not daatrov
tbe homes ~ Amarican worIma. Ne'0'
The-a are now thras RannhI;cap capdi.
5otas befora tba naonla Of Nav Tersav who
,Iara M an bars az tha Honsa ~ Ranyasan.
tat;sas ,uba,, tb;s Iii ,,,os ,,assad - ne
saa baw thav s sctaa ID "''0 l~'Ss ~
RENIsWTN q HowEv 0pp0SED
THE pASSAcE IN TIN mi. RETNG
PAIRED WfTa JIrnGE REaGAN a