Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-27
PRESS EXPRESSIONS.
Various Shades of Opinion Concerning
the Chinese Agitation of the State.

| the Chinese Agitation of the State.
[Ontario Record
A resolution adopted by the Sacramento
| Convention to boycott all those employing
! Chinese labor is less to be commended
| than some of their more conservative ac-
| ton, and the general impression seems to
| be that the sand lot element rather got the
| better of the calmer minds III the Conven-
ton. Failing as it did to represent the
general sentiment of the State, it amounted
| to little except as an occasion for a few
ward strikers and cheap political blowhards
| 10 claw the air and exercise their lungs.
[san Francisco Report
1t Is telling fact, IN excuse of Cali
| tornia's intense anxiety to be rid of the
| Chinese that while in contains only about
| one-sixtieth of the population of the
United States, it has Chinese population
that keeps 100000 white persons out of en-
J ployment, or one-tenth of the whole un-
| employed population of the United States.
| Surely a State that is bearing such burden
| as that is entitled to the sympathy of its
sister States, and to the active assistance Of
| every white workingman in the country.
Oakland Tribune
The whole certificate business should be
| abolished, with the abrogation of all trea-
ties with China, and the coolie invasion
cut of finally and effectually A treaty
then should be made with China which
shall grant 10 Chinese only such privileges
| in this country as are allowed Americans
in China. This will settle the whole ques-
| ton etfectually.
Petaluma Courierl
BY reading the proceedings Of the Anti
Chinese League, held at Turner Hall last
Saturday night, it will be seen that by order
OF the League boycotting commenced here
| last Monday. We don't know to what ex-
tent it will be carried out among our own
citizens, but we do know that the agitation
of the question has already been productive
of some bitter fruit in this community. Ii
has engendered bad and unfriendlv feel
| lngs between some Of our own citizens who
have heretofore been on best terms. 1t has
| aroused feeling Of suspicion and uneasi-
| ness that bodies no good. While we be-
| lieve system of general boycotting is un-
American and should not be encouraged
| in free country, we are in favor of every
person discharging their Chinese help
and supplanting them with white
labor just as fast as it can be
accomplished without injury to then selves
or their industries. If all men were leve.-
headed, discreet and properly appreciatiye
of their neighbors rights, boycotting to
some extent might not be so offensive but
they are not. But few American families
like their private affairs investigated or in
terfered with by their neighbors through
the back door, and they will not take
kindly to it. 1t will take q long time to
entirely wipe out the unpleasant feeling
already engendered by this boycotting bl,s
iness, and to what extent it may be carriiTi
IN the future God only knows We can
only hope that the good serse of our peo-
pie and the golden rule of doing unto
others as we would have them do unto US.
will in the main prevail and control all
our actions We trust every miserable
sinner of us will be happily converted
by the revival now in progress at the thea
ter, and that in the future we will serve
God more and the devil less should this
be accomplished we would have no fears of
boycotting or boycotters, for the man who
loves his neighbor as himself will not will
fully do him an injury. We trust, too,
that the politicians and office-seekers may
not be allowed to use this anii-Chinese
movement to boom them into office They
are already at work at il, and will shout so
long and loud and be 50 Jealous and Off
cious that they will deceive the very elect
ifnot CLOSELY watched. While some of the
brethren are praying, let others keep one
eye open on these fellows and see that they
don get the bulge on us for office.