Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-03-05

Ths HERALD Is the oficial paper OF the city
Itifos Angeles. The city delinquent tax lists
aad ali other municipal notices appear only
10 It's columns
ar. y. N. Rowe ia the Santa Ana agent oi
hs HERALD.
The Beycott --us it Just and
properT
j This country wants no servile class
within It's borders. We tried the ex-
pertinent once OF endeayoring to per
petuate such class Ia one section OF
the country, and the greatest war OF
modern times punished us for that
crime against civilization. Our peo-
pie are still staggering from the stu
pendous load OF debt caused by that
war. The Republic has no use for
any people that neither can nor will
become citizens. The Chinaman is
foreign element, utterly non-assimi-
lative. He is an enemy who does not
even come in disguise. He openly
and avowedly comes with no object
save to squeeze all the coin he can
out OF the country and its people, and
then leave, and when he goes he
leaves not one friend behind. No
invasion OF foreign country by a
hostile enemy ever more surely
robbed that country Of its wealth
and means of sustaining its own peo-
pie than this peaceful invasion by
the Chinese Is robbing and almost
running California, Notwithstanding
the grand resources and illimitable
possibilities of the State. There is
steady drain, year by year, OF about
ten millions of dollars annually sent
TO China, never to return. This has
been going on ior twenty years. How
long can cur finances stand this
pressure? In regard to "boycotting"
these people, some pretend to be OPP
posed to Il because, as they claim, IL
is inhumane and un-American. The
word may be foreign in origin, but it
I u unjveAsal in the application of the
principle Of It's meaning. In princi-
pie II is neither inhumane nor un-
American, but II is just, right and
proper. seli-preservation is the first
law Of nature. The Cinnamon them
selves introduced -boycotting into
Califq71l In its most extreme
fof<Ifs Although there are over
one hundred thousand of them
in the State, what firm or per-
son has ever received the patron
age OF any Of them, unless 1t be that
they have sometimes employed law
yers in the attempt to escape punish
ment for crime. They buy their
clothing in China. What they eat
their rice and their tea, and their
sugar; oven their delectable Chinese
whisky, is brought from the Flowery
Kingdom. Their doctors all are Chi
nese. They will use no medicines in
sickness other than the Identical
dried toads, pulverized baked lizards,
and boiled snakes, spiders and scor-
pions, prepared under the potent
spell OF the weird incantations of the
occult priest Of Taou, on the magic
soil OF the holy, consecrated Central
Empire. The Chinese eat in Chinese
restaurants, lodge in Chinese lodging
: houses, have their washing done by
Chinese, and their clothing made by
Chinese tailors. Under the orders OF
the great millionaire companies to
whom they are virtually slaves, they
never spend dollar with any Cau-
casixn under any circumstances, by
any possibility it can be avoided.
Their traditions, philosophy and re-
kgion teach them they are among
enemies whom they are to get the
West OF by management, but to avoid
any semblance Of force. They are
"wise in their day and generation,
and their sinister policy is only too
successful. Many a one of the
shuddering individuals who are
SO fearful they will be guilty
of ''inhumanity' toward the
Chinaman, would not hesitate 10
ssboycott" white men under similar
or any circumstances. Nearly every
Chinese store in this city has an
opium den in it. Who would employ
white cook of either sex from an
opium den9 Yet these worthless will
apply to the keepers of these stores
for servant or cook to induct into
their families among their wives and
children, and 1t is all right. He is a
Chinaman. II he we're white man,
his antecedcnts and character would
y. strictly inquired into, and he
would be ruthlessly boycotted unless
he could produce a clear record and
good character. But in the ease of
Chinaman this would be un-Amori-
can and inhumane.
The truth is, there are lot OF "un-
American" would-be aristocrats who
care nothing for Republican princi-
pies, or the good OF their own race,
who want thel Chinese retained that
they may have u non-voting, sub
servient and inferior class in their
service, and thereby lift themselves
in the way of appearances above the
level Of those who earn their bread
by the sweat OF theii brows and can
not afford the luxury of slavish de-
dependents. There is another lot
who employ Chinese in manufactur-
ing, ETC., thus boycstting American
labor, and becoming rich thereby,
though by so doing they aid in i'm
poverishing the State; and these two
elements constitute almost the only
defenders Of the Chinese, unless it
be the actually hired and paid advo-
Gates of the great millionaire Chinese
companies.
The boycott of the Chinese is just
and proper, and by enforcing it to
; the fullest, we will rid the State of
an incubus for the doing of which
future generations will rise up and