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

AOAzSot dPPOdto tndl Was OutTcQ III DeIlall
of the resolution. and his remarks
were frequently interrupted with loud and
prolonged cheers. He said it was an ad-
nitted fact that the Chinese are an evil and
a curse. This being true, what can there
be wrong in getting rid OF them? In
order TO do this, the Convention was dis
cussing the only lawful measure by which
to accomplish the desired end He said
the statement had been made that boycot-
| ting is illegal. He denied this. 1t is un-
| lawful for people to band together to do
harm. but not to unite to do good. He
denied that boycotting is new. but held
that it is as old as civilization itself. Ma
tions protect themselves in that way, and
he remembered a notable instance-when
| Germany boycotted the American hog.
When a woman does that by which she
loses her chastity, she is boycotted by the
world. st. Patrick boycotted the snakes
in Ireland; they all left, and there is not
a reptile in the world that will not come
| out of its hole at the dead hour of night
and crawl a mile over a hair rope walk to
stick its fangs into an IEishman Some of
the speakers had complained that the Chi
nese are being driyen to San Francisco.
| Well, amt that the way home? Didn't
they come in that way? The Senator said
| that if he had not answered the arguments
of those who had spoken in opposition.
| those on his side, more able than he, would
do so, and in few days a practical Illus
tration will be given of the boycott system.
| Senator Sargent made an able legal argu-.
ment. He said that the Convention might
not be aware Of the fact, but they were
taking steps that might put the ballot into
| the hands of the Cinnamon. He had Just
| received a letter from Senator Mitchell, in
| which were expressed strong hopes that
| his bill would pass both houses of Congress.
He feared that what was being done would
| jeopardize the chances of Congressional
relief. II the news went East that there
we're in this State thousands of men who
were being allowed to starve to death,
there would be a complete revulsion of
sentiment against us. He made strong
appeal to the Convention to reject the pre-
posed boycott.
| Ex-Collector Sears said that he had
listened for two days to the discussion in
the Convention. He thought they had as
sembled to do something towards getting
rid of the Chinese, but he had failed to
hear any of those who are opposed to boy
cotting suggest any plan of operation.
They had spoken OF the treaty, but, iudg-
ing from his experience. at least nineteen
| twentieths of the Chinese had come here
| in violation of the treaty. The BurlingaIne
treaty said the Chinese might come here of
| their own free will. They do not come
here because they so desire, but are brought
here in abject slavery. The speaker said
that the Restriction Act had done good,
| and the more the Chinese question is as;-
| tated the more good the Act does He said
he was heartily in favor of the resolutions.
Boycotting had been tried in his town,
Santa Rosa, and had been very effective.
NJ. NJ. Estee, of Napa, said he was in
favor of the resolutions. He. favored the
boycott, and believed all fruit men will in
time. He knew the fruit men would
| suffer more than any other. but the question
had to be met and il had as well be met now
e then outlined how the fruit men could
secure the necessary white labor to handle
their crops. Even if il did work a tenn
porary hardship for one season, the sacri-
tice had better be made at this time.
Ii. Wenstock. of this city, said We
have heard some OF The gentlemen who
are opposed to the passage OF this resclu-
ton preach about principle, and self sacri-
flee. and love of country, and patriotism.
and it has been quietly ihtima,ed that some
OF the gentlemen who have spoken in
| favor of this resolution are not sincere and
that they have simply spoken as lhev did
for effect Now. Mr. Chairman. let us see
by what motives some Of these gentlemen
who are opposed to the passage of this
resolution, ard who have prated about
their self-sacritice, are actuaied and how
much of unsellishness they have mimi
tested in this movement Let me read 10
you an extract from an editorial written bv
certain advocate who favors retaining the
| Chinese now among us and whom we
have had the honor of listening to this
evening. This man in en- editorial, be-
lieve, written by hirnself, and published in
his own paper in San Francisco within the
past week, says:
We are opposed to driving the Chinese out of
the country for two reasons. and one of them is
pure unadulteratcd selt-interest We have q
fact o4E. and in it we work Chinese skilled la
| Dorers We have farm and upon II patient.
obedient workers. and the harvest is upon us
we have in our family Chinese COOK he is an
artist, does not get drunk steal, and is never
! impudent, and ii he should become So he is a
man and we can kick him I; we have a fruit or
chard and strawberry patch. and the Chinese
are good ,it-pickers. We have hop field and
| our hops are about rcadyt 10 be gathered, and we
are fond of lager beer. 1t is for our convenience
and our comfort, and our profit. to keep these
clean, patient polite, skilled and reliable labor
| ers, and we intend to keep them and to con-
tinue. to keep them, until the law exies them
| from the country, and then we will be glad to
| see them return to their native land.
| How noble these sentiments. how pub
| lic-spirited, how lofty. how selfsacrificing
| Patriots such as Washington, Jackson,
Lincoln, Grant, and the millions of others
who willingly submitted to hardships. pri-
vations, loss and suffering, who We're pre-
| pared TO sacrifice all that is dear in life.
for the benefit and welfare of their fellow
! citizens, and for the preservation of this
as the home of the free among the
nations of the world / repeat that to
men who feel as thus man does, patriots
| such as these must seem foolish, if not in
sane. If the grasping, greedy, selfish, nm
American spirit shown by this man had
animated the people of this Union
| at the outbreak of the civil war.
what would have been left of our free in
stitutions? How long would free govern
ment have remained on the face of the
earth? What would the world think of
us if we took every pretext to haunt our
pretended AmericanisrA, and yet rather
than deny our precious bellies the smallest
delicacy from the hands of our artistic SER
vile cook; rather than have the profit from
our farm. orchard or factory lessened by
one paltIy dollar, we would prefer to see
our country endangered its liberties threat
ened and its laboring classes degraded and
driven to starvation? The present en-
ployerS of Chinese coolies may be divided
into two classes-those who are willing to
dismiss their Chinese, but at present cannot
do SO, and those who can dismiss them but
| will not do so. The former class we must
try to aid and assist in every way, but the
latter class, whose sentiments are so ably
and clearly expressed by the gentleman
whom have quoted, must be left to this
| Convention to be dealt with
4 The remarks of Laura DeForce Gordon,
upon being introduced TO the Convention,
were, in substance, as follows:
Il l am almost at a loss to know what to
say upon the important question you are
called here to discuss Never since the
days in which the wisest and best men OF
our nation convened, for the purpose oi
canvassing the evils of African slavery,
and sought remedy thereto, has this Gov
ernment been confronted by subject OF
such grave and solemn import as the Chi
nese problem.
Those people have come among us for
one purpose only, that is, for our money.
They are an alien race in all that the name
implies. They have nothing in common
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