The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-02-27

signed DIV +. n. ". HIIc dSAce
with him in some of his ideas, some
| like to refute. I do, like him
say that the Chinese question is
not a political issue; it is only the
protection Of free white American
labor versus Monaghan slave labor.
will also admit that this country
is the refuge fer the oppressed OF
all nations, but | also claim that
all the oppressed of Europe, who
seek an asylum in the United
States, do assimilate themselves to
the laws and customs of the land
and put their energy to improve
and develop the country, and have
always been found ready in times
of emergency to give up their lives
in defense Of their mother country.
Can anyone claim that the Chi
nese ever did contribute men or
money during our civil war? Ger
tainly not, and still at the time
they numbered over one hundred
thousand on the Pacific Coast.
Take it even here in your Territory,
when roads are snow bound when
a calamity occurs; when prospect
ors get oyertaken by snowslides,
do these heathens contribute their
share in opening the roads, or Dig
ging the poor unfortunates from
their snow tombs? No! no! And
why? Because they do not care,
and never will have any human
feelings for our race. All they do
care for is to earn money to ship
back to China. Then, if such is
the fact, and no intelligent man
will deny it to be SO, why should
we allow them to take the bread
and butter from our white work
ing men and women?
Who has been building up this
country for the last hundred years?
Who in your Territories goes out
month after month prospecting to
advance the mineral wealth of the
nation, is il the white workingman
or the Chinese leper?
! certainly conicidc with f. X.
G. in abiding by the laws of our
country. | do not believe in using
violence to get rid of the Chinese
evil but, then, when he tells us to
have patience; that the evil will
soon be stopped that Congress is
going to pass law to prohibit
further Chinese immigration, l will
tell him in answer, that such law
was passed four years ago, and still
the evil, instead Of diminishing.
has all the time been increasing
until thousands and thousands of
our workingmcn on the Pacific
Coast are out of employment and
their families clamoring for bread.
But in concluding his article he
says: "What shall we do with the
Chinese already with us?" He
answers Let them stay" This is
just what we want to stop. We want
to make intelligent Americans see
that they have to side either with
the Chinese or with their white
brethren, and we want to adopt
such stringent measures Gall the
time complying with the law as
will soon starve them out of the
country.
+. Is. q. further says that out
side of San Francisco and a few
large towns on the Pacific Coast
their numbers are not larger than
there is actual need of them at.
present. | claim, Mr. Editor, that
the gentleman views on the sub
lect are unchristian-like. Because
we do not suffer as much here i'm
ketchum from the evil as they do
in California is it a reason why we
shall encourage them to stay or
come here? No. / say, it is
movement where all laboring classes
ire in unison here and in the
East. If they like the Coolies so
much, pray they may succeed in
having Congress pass law to put
hem on q reservation and have all
heir advocates appointed to try to
Jhristianize them.
1t may be if +. X. G. had sons
md daughters growing up he would
ind it very hard work for them to
earn a trade, as the Chinese have
he monopoly of nearly all the
rades that girls could learn, and if
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