, 1886-03-04
Money sent out Of the Country.

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One great objection raised against
the Chinese is that they are sending
money out of the country. This Is
heard on every hand. 1t is true.
The Chinese do send money out of
the country. But are they singular
in this? We are all sending money
out of the country. That Is The in
depreciation of the fgu ures ful nished
by the bureau of statistics, which
show that we are taking goods from
foreign countries at the rate of $780,
100000 to 5000, 100000 year 1t is
an editying thing to hear an "agita
tor" dressed up IN a suit of French
goods ordered from a local tailor,
made up b. Chinese ana paid for by
the dupes of demagogy, declaiming
against tie Chinese for sending
money ont of the country; and then
see him make bee line for a saloon,
stuff his skin full of hot Scotch
whisky, and find him again a little
later with his head enveloped in
wreathes of smoke from a foreign
made or Chinese-made cigar-still
going on, as volubly as his crapu-
lous utteranee will allow, with his
diatribe against Chinese for sending
money out of the country.
Therefore, when it comes to send
ing money out of the country the
Chinese are not our only sinners.
The "agitators" themselves do it,
and better men are continually do
ing it. Even here in Oregon, instead
of wearing our own excellent home
spun, we take dress goods from Eu-
rope; while the Cinnamon wears
woolens from Oregon City or cotton
drills from Fall River. Our i'm
porting houses are full all the time
of goods of every description from
foreign countries, and shipments of
gold to pay for them are very large.
Some of the money the Chinese
here manage to save, they do take or
send back to China. instead of drop
ping it in the liquor shops, through
which it would be sent to foreign or
eastern brewerie5 or distilleries. But
they get no money here unless they
work for it-unlike the leaders of
the crusade against them, who neith-
er toll nor spin, yet dress better lat
the expense of their dupes) than
solomon ever did, and have money
for whisky besides. When a China
man digs up stump and gets a dol
lar for it he may send the dollar. or
part of it, ont of the country; but the
place where the stump stood is there
yet, that's certain, and the value of
the land is increased to the full
amount of the dollar at ieas', by the
transaction. Many Chinese have
worked for years in our canneries.
The wages they have earned are their
own, and no doubt they have sent
away a considerable portion of them
TO China. But the product of their
labor, in the salmon pack of every
season. has brought ten dollars into
the country for every dollar they have
sent out of IL This salmon pack,
besides, creates demand for lumber.
and furnishes work TO the box factor
iss, makes freights for river aud
ocean vessels, commissions for mer-
chants Gud business for insurance
companies; aud IT oven goes for to
support the vilsst. doggcries of our
river towns, though every doggery
becomes a center of mob violence
against the Chinese labor that is the
basis of its support.
Ii sending money 10 foreign soun-
tries IS so great Il sin we know of
nobody who is so free from it as to
entitlo him to cast tho first stone at.