Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-10
ReslJ4ts of Expelling the Chinese rEzrnr,n tha Pnrtland Orapnnian

From the FOrClanQ OreSOnlan
 The 'tagitation" at Puget Sound is pro ducing it's natural effects upon the indus tries of that region. Coal and lumber are the great interests there. The coal mines are closed and the lumber business is in an unsatisfactory condition. All Chinese work CTS have heen expelled from that region, and this, with the disturbances that led to it and attended it, has been heavy blow to the ac- tivities of the country. Though the Chinese were the direct object of attack, their pre- sence was only pretext or excuse. The causes of the disturbances lie deeper. They are mainly in the men themselves. Vile demagogues and pretentious. socialists have filled their minds with utterly foolish and unrealizable things. As consequence they have become idle, unreasonable and vicious; and they assailed the Chinese not because the Chinese were really in their way, but be- cause they could be moved in this direction by the scoundrels of demagogy more easily than in any other.
 The Oregon Improvement company has closed all it's coal mines because it could not work them. One mine only-the Black Dia- mond-owned by San Francisco company, is still putting out little coal; but the great industry of the east side of Puget Sound is practically suspended. When it can start up again no one can tell. It's suspension has cut off wages and disbursements in and around Seattle to the amount of $40, 900 per month-a staggering blow to the industry and business of the country. It is the direct, natural and foreseen consequence Of an lrra- tional and violent agitation, of which the ex- pulsion of the Chinese was but an incident of superficial character-though from the oir cIov, o&f comment than any other.
 Owners ot the mines have not been able to go on without heavy losses, and therefore have stopped This has been forced by the unreasonable folly of the men, who were re- solved that mine owners should yield to their dictation in the matter of management. No Chinese were employed in the mines, but a considerable number were employed on the outside, picking slate from the coal and loading cars. These were driven away by the so-called labor organization of the coal region and then wages were demanded for the work which could not be paid without loss.
 In an industrial point of view. expulsion of the Chinese has made matters worse for every interest in the Puget Sound country. There was no sense whatever in the crusade upon the Chinese, since they were help to the industry of the country instead of @ draw back to it, and now, since they are gone, this is already demonstrated Moreover
 
 degree to settle the conditions out of which the disturbances proceeded. The spirit of idleness and loaferism, of improvidence, vice and dissipation, that lies behind this whole emsute, has not only been removed or cured, but, on the contrary, has grown by what it has been feeding On. The outbu1st of fury against the Chinese was an effort of ignorance and passion infamed and mis- directed by demagcgues who find distinction in that kind of work, and who play on the credulity and baser instincts of their dupes for profit to themselves. Wherever such a body of men is found, there the rascals and ssoundrels of ''agitation" will be to spout in- to their ears the false doctrines, miserable platitudes, and half-truths more .spernicious than bald falsehoods, embodied in the catch phrases of called soeialistic philosophy The coal output of Puget Sound has practi- eally ceased, hop culture is at an end, the business of canning fish cannot go on, the work of clearing the lands of the country has stopped; the lumber interest has received a heavy blow; Seattle and Tacoma have been deeply injured in their business; and all good and intelligent citizens are mortified, humiliated, and hurt. But such men as Mayor Weisbach, of Tacoma, George Vena- ble Smith, of Seattle, and the dupes and fools of the movement" the country has with it always.
 What has happened at Puget Sound would happen here and at all other places on the Pacific Coast if the Chinese were expelled.