St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31

VINO are reduced to most Strengthened
circumstances by the competition of
Chinese labor. If your people here
only knew the deplorable state of affairs
existing among the workingpeople of
the Pacific coast, and all On account of
Chinese immigration, you could readily
understand the intense bitterness of
feellng which prevails on this Chinese
question:
''TO illustrate the Chinese methods of
undermining white labor, / will cite
you a few instances" continued Mr..
BARRETT. "a San Fra ncisco lady has
white girl in her employ as house help.
The agent Of one of these Chinese COM
panles will visit the house and ask the
lady what wages she is paying for help.
When told $3 or S4 week, as
the case may be, the agent
immediately offers to supply
Chlnaman for half that sum. The
usual result is that the white girl is dis
charged and the Chinaman takes her
place. Factories where white girls and
boys are employed are visited by these
CnlneSe agents, and the same PROPOSE
tlons are made. 1t is too often the case
that the trait of avarice gets the better
OF sound judgment with these factory
managers and the white employees are
discharged to make room for the cheap
Chinese labor. The same system Is
carried out into the rural sections
where fruit picking and packing is
great business, and everywhere with
the same results. White labor is being
crowded out by the Mongolians. We
see the miserable effect of it in San
francisco in the number of hoodlums
who jnfest the city and the thousands
OF young women who parade our streets
at night, forced to life of shame be-
cause they are deprived of earning an
honest living by being crowded out of
honest pursuits by the Chinaman. 1t
is no wonder, l say, that the Chinese
question should overshadow all others
III California, and tell you. am plac-
ing the Democratic majority this year
at low estimate when l say HARRISON
VIII lose the state by 10000"
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In addition to the advantage the DEM
ocrats enjoy on account of HARRIsoN's
ChlneSe record, Mr.. BARRETT thinks
that THURMAN's anti-railroad record
VIII strengthen the Democratic cause.
THURMAN is as much of popular idol
ldol IN California as BLAINE" remarked
MI. BARRETT. The railroad question
is bigger question on the Pacific coast
than 1t is East, because all the railroad
capital there is concentrated in the
hands OF half a dozen men, and the
masses of the people see railroad monop-
Oily III more monstrouS form than you
see 1t here. Our people adore BLAINE
because of his great fight against the
Chinese. They hold THURMAN in equal
alteration because of his courageous op-
position to the railroad power With
the Republicans weighted by HARRI-
SONS Chinese record and the Demo-
gratis boosted by THURMAN's name OH
the ticket. it doesn't require person to
be prophet. or even the son of a
prophet, to tell how California's electoral
vote will be cast this year"
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Secretary LITCHMAN's letter to Chair
man QUAY reads very like an article
Which is paid for at so much line. The
fact that it is addressed to the chairman
OF the Republican national committee
is give-away to commence with. and
1t Is so replete with the stereotyped
arguments in favor of protection that
Mr. BLAINE is wont to deal in the pub
lie Will be inclined to believe that
Secretary LITCHAMAN only signed his
name to document that had been cut
and dried for his signature.
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The Pioneer Press insists that Mr..
SCHEFFER is not Republican because
he does not subscribe to all the tenets
of the Republican party. The charge
against MIR. SCHEFFER may be true,
and yet it doesn't become journal that
has faltered so often in its loyalty to the
protection principle to upbraid any
member of the party for similar weak
ness. 1t is case OF the pot calling the
kettle black.
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An English-Canadan writing from
Grafton threatens the GLOBE that un-
less this war talk on the part of the
CLEVELAND administration is stopped
he will begin an open attack on
North Dakota right away 1t will be a
dangerous undertaking. North Dakota
is always loaded for bear.