Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-02-20
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THE ADDRESS
That Will be Submitted nj the Meeting
this Evening.

AuAt Will pe SuDmitteu ~ the meeting
this Evening.
At the meeting of the Anti Chinese
League, in HALEY Theater this even.
ing,the Executive Committee will sub
NIT its report and present the follow.
ing address,:
To the people of Wood River and
-4Itst,as County: mana.
We, believing the EFFICIENCY Of the
times demand The lawful and peace
full exodus of the Chinese from
amongst us, that the citizens of the
country shall be enabled to earn bread
in connection with other duties owed
the nation, when war demands the
last sacrifice, both life and property.
Greater love than this no man can
give bis country: and that country In
return for such love should provide
ways and means for its citizens to en-
JOY life, liberty, the pursuit of happi-
ness,-to increase and multiply,
clothe, nourish, and educate without
being brought in contact with an ali
en-, servile and barbarous people
Aliens in their own country, exiled to
the rivers and harbors of China itself;
pirates by instinct; idol worshippers
from choice; inoculated with leprosy,
they are huddled together from their
floating habitations by six mammoth
Chinese close interpretations, bound to
servile labor, steamed across the ma
jestio Pacific and dumped on the
western shores of the great Republic,
to corrupt in its sunshine, pollute the
air, and destroy the body polite.
Their servile labor contracts are made
for number of years, during which
time, in cities and towns, they are
packed together in rooms that do not
average 25 cubic feet of air per otcu-
pant, thus causing degradation and
death not only to themselves, but also
to communities, municipalities, and
the State.
Those of them that cannot find oc-
cupation in the larger cities and towns
hurry into the interior, ostensibly as
merchants, but develop Immediately
into keepers of opium joints, where
also sometimes the youth of the viii
lage stray, and are found in stupid
but merciful bliss of their terrible
surroundings.
The females Of the race are situated
in close proximity to the opium joints,
and carry on in the light that governs
night the most brazen prostitution
that has evel insulted or disgraced
civilization. a...as- EI 81.
The farmers escape but a short
time-in fact only until the heather
learns to till the soil, undersell and
take from him his market.
The merchant but short time
laughed in scorn at the fears of his
customers, when the possibilities Of
the future were matter of converse
ton; but times have changed. The
once snug as bug in a rug) store
keeper now casts weary chances over
the pages of his day book and ledger
and wonders why?A The manufac-
turer (haughty autocrat,) found the CT
gar, boot and shoe, clothing, of almost
all descriptions, together with nu-
merous other OF his privileged occupa.
tons, slmost gone. The general la
boring class went starving and tramp
ing over the country, whilst in cities
and towns hoodlums of both sexes in
creased rapidly. Cause: Their means
of making an honest living was taken
from them.
Even the United States Govern
ment became aware that ID had ads
honest and very successful Compel
tor in the little brown man, bed and
reared on the shiny waters of the &C.
lcsteal Empire. Having modus OPP
erandi entirely their own, they
drill from the gold pieces
coined by the mintsi.s of the
government one. third of their value.
All that their ingenuity steals, to.
gether with that which they earn al
most to dollar goes forever from the
common use of the community; a
part of the income that properly be-
w WHO NltHOuI tcdN-
ing us return value received. The
most numerous of prisoners, nothing
is contributed by them to the support
of their felons and thieves. Their
dead are rcsurrected from grave
marked by no Christian sign of sal
walton; flesh and sinews are washed
from skeletons in the public bitches
OF country towns, the different lines
of communication to the city of San
francisco. convey the decaying bones
through thickly populated districts
almost daily. In San Francisco the
boaes are boiled, scraped, labelled
aud packed an chests, placed aboard
ship for their return voyage across
the Pacific, and, ~. -s
WHEREAS, The citizens Of HALEY
are interested ia Kidding themselves
Of this pernieious evil, aud although
our efforts are being crowned with
success, yet we earnestly desire the
eo-ooerafioo of AL citizens of Wood