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

our attention from a higher and less selfjs]
STANDPOINT. 1t is not simply the possibiiit'
OF few acres of grain that cannot be har
vested. or or orchards whose fruit may no
De egathered, but it is question of infinitel,
greater magnitude and solemnity. 1t i
tne future OF this country. not the effects o
To-day. The men of this commonwealth
should view this matter in the light of pro
phecy, as future events can be easily traced
from existing causes. Consider the paucity
OF our population, even of this whole coun.
Try, as compared to that of the Mongolian
Empire, which has five hundred million
OF people--a number SO vast it almost
makes one dizzy to comprehend its magni-
tude-and think of the power they possess
over US numerically We should look
forward to the possible situation of this
country nifty or one hundred years hence,
II this alien race is permitted to remain here
IN our midst, and TO continue 20 increase
Their numbers ad infnitum.
The possibility of our being submerged
by an overwhelming influx of Mongolians
IN the near future, carries this question
lar, far beyond the mere gathering of fruit
or reaplng harvest for single season.
But deny that the claim of our fruit
growers is well-founded when they insist
that II the Chinese are discharged from
their vineyards and orchards their fruit
will go to waste. With the present cut in
railroad fares, only SO from Missouri river
points, there IS no earthly reason why the
place of the Chinese laborer cannot be
filled by white men and women.
l have recently returned from a ten
months tour throughout the East, and
scarcely met man, woman or child who
did not say they looked longingly toward
California as their possible future home.
They said When | get rich enough [
shall visit that beautiful land, your glorious
Golden State, but, they added, .'One must
have money there-it is no place for a
poor man: the Chinese fill all industrial
positions. and the poor working man and
woman cannot compete with them, though
when | earn money enough shall move
to California. Now, / say, send the Chi
nese from your farms, your vineyards
your orchards, and households. and bid
those working men and women of your
own race to come and fill their places,
Can il be that those men who attend our
horticultural conventions and who insist
that their fruit will go to waste unless the
Chinese are allowed to remain and gather
it-can it be that those men are in earnest?
Can they mean this? Why, they talk as
though no fruit was ever raised outside of
California, or without Mongolian assist
ance' The Eastern States raise ten times
the fruit that we produce. yet there is not
Mongolian amongst them 1t makes
me almost ashamed of my kind to
II ear people talk as though our whole
social fabric, or domestic affairs.
would 20 to everlasting smash were il not
for Chinese laborers. But think of our
Eastern homes. How did our mothers get
along with housework and laundrying?
They never saw Chinaman, and their
homes were more prosperous and happy,
and they raised enough more children than
we do in California
do not wish to take up the time of this
Convention, but wish to say that am in
tensely interested in the solution of this
problem. and, after a careful investigation
of il, believe that there is but one peace
aole solution OF it. You all know that |
am not fanatic upon any question, nor
do talk or act rashly or impulsiyely upon
any question, though some OF You may
think me little cranky on the . women
question. But, upon this question of
Chinese labor, have reached my convfc-
tions after calm and deliberate study And
while am absolutely opposed to everything
pertaining 10 Nihiiism or Communism
Tor IN Government constituted as this is,
the ballot is more powerful than the bull
let to right the wrongs of the masses-and
am implacably hostile to every PROPOSE
non 10 expell the Chinese by force or in
violation of law, do believe that the onlv
peaceable solution of this grave problem is
the system proposed by the labor leagues
bovc3tt
The Chinese only want our money.
Withhold il from them refuse to employ
them in any capacity, or to recognize or
patronire in business those who do, and in
ninety days there will not be Monaghan
pest left on the Pacific coast.
II the fruit-growers, who advocate the
retention of Chinese in our midst, because
their frait is likely to be lost for want of
hands to gather it, are acting in good faith,
and are honest in what they say. will
pledge myself to fill every place now filled
by Chinese in their orchards or vineyards,
with white men or women, inside of six
weeks, if they, the fruit-gi overs, will place
themselves under bonds to employ them,
and pay reasonable compensation for their
services. There are in Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and Iowa ten thousand white men
and women who are temperate, industri-
Gus and faithful workers, who will gladly
come to our beautiful State TO find employ
ment and homes. Let them come, and
send the Chinese away. Refuse to en-
ploy them, keep your money away from
them, and they will return to their Flow
cry Kingdom, and may God keep them
there forever.