Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-13
REMARKS UPON THE BOYCOTT.

sucd damaging lnslnuation.
REMARKS UPON THE BOYCOTT.
Speeches for and Against-Wise Men
Differ in Opinion.
Eight columns of the RECORD UNION
yesterday morning were devoted to the
proceedings of the Anti Chinese Convention,
and yet much of interest to the general
reader was, for want of space, omitted.
The following synopsis of the remarks upon
the boycott was crowded out, and is now
given on account of the Importance of the
subject under consideration.
In opposing the .boycotting resolution.
General Bidwell, of Chico, said You are
responsible for the presence of the Chinese
in this State. You have treaty with that
country which invites them TO our shores
They came, as they had right to. under
the provisions of that treaty, and under that
treaty you cannot boycott or injure them
without violating your plighted faith. He
had been asked to boycott the Chinese veg
etable dealers of Chico, TO displace twenty
eight of their vegetable wagons but he had
declined TO do so. He proposed to stand
by his country's pledges and the mainten-
ance of all her laws. He referred to the
Ant-Chinese League of Chico. the league
that had boycotted him. and said they did
not represent the best element of society in
that community, nor the best interests of
that section. They wore Chinese-laundried
linen at the time they were boycotting him.
He employed large numbers Of white men.
women and boys. His cannery and flour
ing mills were run exclusively with white
help. This was no time for such
action. The people of this State are
not prepared to pass upon a question un-
known of in America-unheard of until
this time. This idea was imported from
Ireland, a dynamite county. If YOU
adopt this proposed system of boycott, YOU
Immediately inaugurate the greatest ty-
ranny ever known or heard of in this or
any other country. You start firebrand
in every community. When you boycott
an individual you destroy his credit; you
take the bread from his family you de-
grade his manhood. He would consent to
boycott no man. He never struck back ex-
cept in self-defense. Boycott is crime,
and IN time will be branded as such. Ii
was an instrument of oppression. He was
willing the Chinese should go. He deplored
the fact that they were here. He regretted
that such an instrument as the Burlingame
treaty was in existence. He hoped that
the sober, better judgment of the members
of the Convention would prevail, and that
the resolution would be refused adoption.
L. w. Hunt, of Alameda, made a vigor-
Gus speech in favor of the resolution. He
said this matter has gone far enough. We
have suffered sufficiently. No man on the
floor of this Convention has been heard to
make an appeal in behalf of the starving
unemployed white laborer Let us stand
by the boycott. Let it be long, bitter and
unrelenting, and in the end it will be sue
cessful and our wrongs righted. Our ap-
peals to the Legislature and to the authori-
ties at Washington avail us nothing they
treat US with contempt: their non-action
is an insult to our intelligence they evil
IDENTIFY regard Us as a set of fools and block
heads. General Bidwell offers no plan by
which our condition can be bettered. no
avenue of escape from the Chinese curse
An effort at this time 10 obstruct the boy-
colt is in effect an effort in the interest of
the Chinese.
Andrew Sbafboro, Secretary of the Ital-
ian-Swiss Agricultural Colony in Sonoma
county, said that the colony had over 500
acres in vineyard and orchard that was
cared for exclusively by while labor They
had demonstrated the fact conclusively
that the fruit interests in this State would
not suffer if the labor was taken from the
Mongolian and given to the white man, his
wife and children. Instead of few mis-
erable huts fillel with a Chinese horde
their place presented many beautiful and
happy homes, occupied by the people Of
our own flesh and blood, of our own reli-
gion, whose interests were in common
with those of our own, who were destined
TO build up and make of California what
she is destined at no distant day to be-tbe
France of America. His company do not
employ Chinese, and never will. Every
day white unemployed labor asks him for
work, and he was only sorry that all such
could not get employment and make of
them what they ought to be-a happy and
prosperous people. All talk of memorials
and appeals to Congress are the veriest
nonsense. When the able memorial pre-
sented by John +. Swift is handed to Con-
gresham Rice, of Massachusetts, he will
be heard to say Here these Californians
are again bothering us about the Chinese.
If they don't like the Chinese why do they
hire them?' Just SO. This statesman
from the old Bay State asks us why don't
we boycott them. We will act upon his
suggestion.
James H. Barry, of San Francisco,
was one of the most enthusiastic
champions of the boycott upon the
floor of the Convention He said
we have been boycotted long enough,
and by - it is time for US to begin to boy
colt. He was in favor of striking from the
| resolution " from the earliest moment" and
| begin boycottilg al once. Referring TO
| General Bidwell, he said a member of the
Convention, if he employed Chinese or
came within the rule as laid down in the
resolution, should not be excepted, but be
boycotted into submission. Advance upon
the enemy's works without delay show
no quarter until the wrongs of the down
| trodden and oppressed of our race are
| righted.
Frank Pixley said he was opposed to the
Monaghan, and he was also opposed to the
proposition to boycott; it was cowardly
and inhuman. When interrupted by
Kisses, he retorted by saying: on may hiss
as much as you please, for expected that
You may talk and roar and fan your
wings, but you do not represent the in
telligence of the State" A member called
Mr.. Pixley to order. When asked by the
Chair to state his point of order, he re-
piled: My point of order is that Mr.
| Pixley says we don't represent the inteiii-
gence of the State; think we do.r The
Chair replied Sit down,sir, your point OF
| order is not well takenp Mr.. Pixley con.
tinuing said The Chinaman has the same
right here that | do. He has the same
right here as any other foreigner has
To boycott is unnatural, un-American in
human. 1t is cowardly word, which only
came into our language three years ago
The same class of men who proposed the
boycott in California are responsible for the
labor riots which lately occurred in London
You propose to arrest an evil by perpetrai.
ing crime upon hepeople." He claimed
it was a crime which could and should b.
punished the same as any other conspir
acy. When asked to show any law agains
boycotting, he retorted: Turn to the Codes
and turn to Conspiracy, and you will fine
it.' His speech, which was limited in time
was interrupted from its commencement
to its close with questions, hisses, and othel
interruptions, but he stood boldly forth
and denounced all the advocates of til,
resolution in most unmistakable terms
He reviewed the great good that hae
been accomplished By The Restriction Act
and claimed that the only avenues of es
cape from the evil arising from the presenc,
of the Chinese in California was to ODE,