Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-10

trenching upon his interests and, as landed
proprietors, contesting with him under
conditions he cannot endure.
So it is that now well nigh all interests
are arrayed against Chinese immigration
and against the encouragement of Chinese
competition, and these interests are fairly
represented in the two bodies assembling
here to-day. The duty before them is
plain. They should coalesce but, if any
thing stands in the way of this result, they
must agree upon methods of conducting
the present agitation. There must be no
divided counsels. We cannot afford to
hazard the great interests bound up in this
question upon mere technical differences
or paltry disagreements as to which path
of several is best to travel to the common
end. The anti-Chinese curse must not be
sacrificed to the radicalism of extremists
on the one hand, nor the timidity of the
ultra-conservatives on the other.
There must be procedure within the
our own people; no hasty application
of tests of loyalty, nor the rabid indiscrimi-
mating and prosecuting use of the danger
GUS weapon-the boycott. There must be
found middle ground on which all these
delegates can meet, and as law-abiding
citizens condemn all infractions of the
laws, all outrages upon order, all assaults
upon the persons and property of Chinese,
and discountenance the indiscriminate and
unrelenting application of boycotting, the
terrorism that has ruled here and there
and resulted in " Chinese drives" There
is no legal or moral obligation to trade
with Chinese; we may buy and sell where
we please; but persecution and domicili-
airy visitation of people because they do
not at once undo system California has
been thirty years in building up, is a
vicious resort. and will react upon
the anti-ChineSe cause most iniuri-
ously. The Conventions must agree
that there shall be no cessation of
this agitation until the end is accom-
plished; no legitimate means left untried
to secure the most effective restriction law;
no pains spared to blot out any and all
parts of Treaties that compel the people to
receive unwelcome guests. And more, re-
solve that just SO far and fast as is possible
to be done consistently with the preserva-
ton of our industries from injury, free
white labor shall be substituted for that of
the servile Chinese. And more, that in
the encouragement of the people to accom-
plish this result, all demand for skilled or
other white labor in excess of pres
ent supply shall be supplied through
organization, to bring to this market such
labor elements as its necessities demand.
The possible lawful deportation of the Chi
nese and their gradual elimination from the
labor or business systems; these are ques-
tons that should engage the profound at
tention of the delegates, and be passed
upon with that GOODNESS of judgment and
freedom from prejudice that testifes to
sincerity, determination, and unflinching
devotion to right principle.
The real work of the Convention is in
the direction Of missionary effort. They
should declare upon all the lines indicated
but not mere words, and words, are wanted
Wordy resolutions, though very American
do not accomplish. The great effort of the
bodies must be made in the direction of
educating public sentiment at the East.
They should make history, expose falla-
cies, point out the failures of present and
proposed remedies, suggest new ones if
they please, but above all lend their labors
most to the education of Eastern senti-
ment, and not to the punishment of our
people by radical and unreasonable de-
mands