Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-05-22
AMERICANS vs.. CHINESE.
A POWERFUL PAPER WHICH IN.
TERESTS US ALL.

tutions-The Anti. Chinese Memorial
to Congress.
To the President, etc:
The anti-Chinese convention Of the
State of California submit the follow
ing memorial.
Speaking for the entire people of
this State, your memorialists represent
that for sc years we have been settled
upon the shores of the Pacific, and
thus brought face to face with the
great Monaghan hive, with its 45O,
100000 of hungry and adventurous
inhabitants. 4 x
Taking this as the proposition for
discussion, viz: that, regarded from
the standpoint of immediate material
results, and considered as the coolest
question of dollars and cents, ard put.
ting aside all considerations of gov
eminent, social and moral order, and
even patriotism, there is no advantage
or profit in the mixed race system now
being forced upon this coast, or in any
mixed race system whatever.
That there is more mere money
profit in dollars in homogeneous
population than in one of mixed
races, while the moral and political
objections are unanswerable.
For while the Chinaman works in
dustrlously enough, he consumes very
little, either of his own production OF
of ours
That he imports from China much
that he eats and much that he wears,
while vast catalogue of articles con-
sumed by our own people, the produc.
ton and sale of which makes.our com.
merce and our life what it Is, the
Chinaman does not use at all.
That he underbids all white labor,
and ruthlessly takes its place, and will
go on doing so till the white laborer
comes down to the scanty food and
half-civilized habits Of the Chinaman,
while the net result of his earnings
are sent regularly out of the country
and lost to the community where it is
created.
And while this depicting process is
going on, the laboring white men, to
whom the nation must in the long
run look for the reproduction Of the
race, and the bringing up and educat-
ing of citizens to take the place of the
current generation as 1t passes away,
and, above all, to defend the country
in time of war, is injured in his COM
fort, reduced III his scale and standard
of life, necessarily carrying down with
it his moral and physical tone and
stamina.
But what is even more Immediately
damaging to the State is the fact that
he is kept in perpetual state of anger,
evaporation and discomfort always
bordering on sedition, thus jeopardiz-
ing the general peace, and creating a
state of chronic uneasiness, distrust
and apprehension throughout the en-
tire community.
That this alarms capital, and forces
it into concealment or out of the
State in search of better security,
checks enterprises, increases the cost
of government, especially for police
purposes, while decreasing the sources
, of revenue from which taxes can be
raised.
t And that whether the producing
, classes are right or wrong in thei
opinions is practically immaterial, fo
experience has shown that the opin
ions and the results from them ar,
! permanent and ineradicable.
t But there are other and higher con
:, siderations involved in the Chinese
+ question than that of mere industria
| progress or material development.
We assure our fellow-countryme,
e East that the dominance, if not tn
existence, of the European race il
this part of the world is in jeopardy
We call their attention to the fac
=, that the Malayan Peninsula, as wei
!, as other countries bordering upo
China and the China seas, have al
ready been overrun by the Chinese
and that the Malayan, one of tn
great races or types of the huma
species, is being rapidly annihilate
to make place for them.
g That the islands of the Pacific al