Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-21

was IN FEBRUARY last ,U5U Cinnamon IN the |
vicinity ef Truckee. There are none there |
now. Immense applause.l Throughout |
all the numbering camps of the coast they 1
have been discharged. There has been no |
bluster, buncombe speeches and resolu- |
tons, no newspaper talk, but the Safety |
Committee has been quietly at work all
these days, and the results are the best |
evidence of what they have accomplished. |
They are working and not talking. and its
work and not talk that counts. Many
thousand white laborers have come to
California from the East during the past
year Many took advantage of the cut
rates, others the excursion rates of the G.
A L. The old veterans found in their
recent visit to California a slavery worse
| than the one they fought to put down,
more degrading, more debasing. When
| they return to their Eastern homes and re-
| count what they have seen OF this evil in
California. there will be a change of senti-
ment east of the Rockies They will make
| concessions when they understand it better;
| when they hear of the blighting influences
this curse has brought upon this people
| they will not look with so much horror
upon the acts of the people at Seattle
Nicolaus and Rock Springs. We had borne
this evil until it seemed impossible to bear
it longer when the State Convention gave
US the boycott. If that had not been given
at that time disastrous results might have
| followed. He dared any man to
| show where a Chinaman had been
| misused, hair of his head harmed,
a dollars worth of his property destroyed
| by the enforcement of the boycott. No
| boycotter has been convicted of crime
| for no boycotter has ever committed one
| 1t means not simply to not buy of or sell
| to Cinnamon, but it means to refuse to have
! any business relations with those who do
| employ or trade with them-those whose
greed for gold outweighs their love for their
| fellow-man. The boycott has net been in
| volled except where a few have stood out
against the many. Don't employ Chinese
and you at once are benefihng your own
race.
The speaker spoke of pickle factory in
San Francisco which some time since ad-
vertised for help at 30 cents per day At
| that small pittance there was five times the
number of applicants as could obtain en-
| ployment. They blocked the streets in
| front of the office to such an extent that
| street car travel was interfered with
Girls and women willing to work
| for that small pittance went away
weeping bitterly because they could not
even get that small pittance to assist clothe
and feed their bodies. There are thousands
of our own people, our own flesh and
blood, anxious to make an honest living
that are kept from doing SO because of the
| Chinese. In view of these facts, is it not
strange that you still insist upon giving
| these people employment, and continue to
use articles of their manufacture? The
spirit of freedom and right will prompt one
to stand by this system of boycott. This
evil must be checked. Do you want an
| other revolution? If you have not the
courage TO stand up by the boycott, don't
bn 10 sta
| and fight. All the white laborers that were
out of employment last fall will be out of
work again this season, and several thou
sand more will be added to their number
The clamor that will go up for bread in
California will be such as to make the
| State trembie for the result. This is
| the first gun of the campaign.
| Wise, brave men, who have stood
up for the right will direct it in
| peaceable channels. No article should be
| bought, handled or used that is not the d.
rect product of white mans labor. | am
with the boycott until it wins or until l am
! laid away in the grave. We must and
| should make up our minds to stand by the
| white men and women of our country and
| against the Chinese We are on the eve of
q campaign in which we defy either of the
! political parties to throw down the gaunt-
| let to the labor classes and form an alliance
and believe 0000 Republicans and 40
| 900 Democrats believe as do. Applause
| If they have no place for us in their plat
| form then we have no use for them. No
matter if the Chinese do drive hard, we
will continue 10 drive until we drive them
out if it takes until doomsday.
SENATOR FIcHEE.
The next speaker was Senator Filcher of
/ o hn ,ff 30,
makea speech on the Chinese question. For
the last month his head had been full of
water. [Laughter.l During the past week
it had been full of wind and water, princi-
paily wind. Laughter He reviewed the
Chinese evil from its first appearance in
California, over thirty years ago. He said
it was a blight on civilization. More are
coming to our shores now than were leav-
ing, and all here seemed to be employed
If they came upon us with drawn sword
they would be no match for us. White
men are superior in intelligence and civil
ization, yet in the matter of contest for ex-
iStence the Chinaman is our superior. He
will grow fat where a white man, with his
greater wants, must starve. Here two
destructive nations of the earth have
met, and the question is who will
succumb? Shall we stand up and |
meet them like men worthier of
a higher civilization? In looking over |
this audience, l see the substance of the |
people are-here. The respectable element |
could not find time to come. Shall we allow |
them to overlook this question, and thus |
give aid TO the Chinese? He related sew
eral amusing anecdotes about the tenacity
with which housewives clung to their
Chinese domestics. Some wives would
leave their husbands rather than be forced
to get along without their Chinese help.
Earl, the fruit-ShiPper. says one white man
is the equal of two Cinnamon, and he only
pays them one-third more. Senator Rou-
tier tells you that one white man is more
than the equal of two Mongolians, and
you could not get him to employ a China
man at any price. [Applause.l l believe
we can get along without them. II you
are Californian q white man, or an |
American citizen, then cease employing
them, either directly or indirectly. Our
fathers and mothers got along without |
Chinese help, and why cannot We?
What they have done we can do
if we are worthy of our ancestry
Is their example worthy our emulation
Why should civilization longer tolerate
this curse? 1t is more infamous, damn
able and debasing than ever was African
slavery in the South. The hand of Provi-
dence is helping us in grinding this matter.
An Eastern lady, riding through | street
the other day, saw few hundred OF these
people and asked Where do they sleep?"
They burrow in their holes. Get up a
shooting scrape and they come out of their
holes like rodents, and the streets will
hardly hold them. An Eastern visitor in
viewing the same portion of l street said:
If this blighting spot existed in my town
in Ohio it would be blotted ont as nui-
sance in less than twenty-four hours fl
we in California should propose such
thing the whole East would rise against us,
and all the respectable people" would
stand up and say, For Gods sake don't:
you will prejudice our case in the East"
They would say it was either all
buncombe, demagogry or foolish
ness. There is strong pro-Chinese
sentiment growing here. They say,
''Oh, am as much opposed to Cinnamon as
you are; but don't want to send them all
to San Francisco" Why not send them out
by the way of San Francisco? Did they
not enter by that route? They say we
must not do so and so-we will starve them
to death No danger of that there is no
such good luck in store for us. Laughter ]
All this talk is mere stuff, bosh. They
come here TO make money and carry it
away with them. We can't blame them,
for they come here to better their condi-
ton; but we can and do blame ourselves
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