The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-08-01
HARRISON IN CALIFORNIA.
His Chinese Record Renders Him In
tensely Obnoxious to the People.

tensely Obnoxious to the People.
Los ANGELES, July 1S-[Special. Ito say
that the nomination OF Gen. Harrison dismayed
the republicans of the Pacific coast would be
putting it altogether too mildly. They were not
only dismayed but enraged when the news ar
rived, and the tidings of a great national demo-
cratic victory could not have cast a greater
gloom over the various headquarters of the
party in this city. Two candidates before the
Chicago convention were especially OBJ
noxlous TO the people OF the Pacific coast
One was John Sherman, the other Ben
!amin Harrison. 1t is needless to say
that the chief objection to the latter was, and
is, now that he is really the candidate, his pro-
Chinese record. 1t should be understood that
for the past fifteen years there has not been any
important difference OF opinion among the peO-
pie OF California on this Chinese question.
Democrats and republicans. rich and poor re-
ligious and irreligiOus-all have agreed on the
main point, that the Chinese should be ex-
cluded. This unanimity of opinion was ex-
hiDlted nearly two years ago when vote was
taken to show the popular sentiment on the
exclusion of the Chinese. Out OF a total vote
OF 10000, less than so favored the admission
of the Chinese. No party in this state would
dare TO place on their ticket a man who en-
plOyed Chinese in any eapacity-much less one
who had at any time in his career pronounced
In favor OF them. Such candidate would be
overwhelmingly beaten. The objection to the
Chinese is not altogether that they labor
cheaper than white men. 1t is due more to the
knowledge, gained by experience, that every
coolie here, who may live on ten cents day,
sleep in bunk with fifty other Cinnamon In
a room II by IA, and who does
absolutely nothing to build up and improve the
community in which he lives, supplants a
white mar with a family, every member of
which adds to the general wealth and welfare
OF the town or village in which they live.
Coolies do not contribute one cent to American
schools churches They pay taxes
worth mentioning; they procure nearly all
their supplies from China and the jails, pri-
sons, almshouses and lunatic asyluns OF the
Pacific coast are full of them-a heavy burden
for the taxpayers. Five times the Chinese
steamers have brought the germs of smallpox
to San Francisco TO spread from that city over
the coast and desolate hundreds OF homes.
There is not a single city of importance on the
coast which has not from time to time one or
more Chinese lepers to be cared for at the pub
lie expense; for when q Chinanan is seized
with leprosy his companions Immediately
abandon him TO his fate. Chinese opium dens
tract a habit which is a thousand times
more difficult to refrain from than
drunkenness and Chinese gamblers
and lottery dens cause the authorities constant
trouble. Wherever the Chinaman settles in
the town or village there civilization seems to
never has another class of tenants. A street
entered by Chinese is soon abandoned by all
the white occupants, and becomes in short
time full of tumble-down buildings, from which
the foulest odors issue. No sanitary laws are
regarded by the Chinese The dens which they
occupy are often in too vile a condition to de-
scribe. 1t is, indeed, sad and humiliating to
think that within the past few years so-called
American statesmen" have voted against bills
to prevent this foul brood of Asia from coming
into competition with the American working
man and his humble, but clean and pleasant
home.
For years the people of California have
struggled against this yellow curse, and to-day,
in spite OF the restriction law, thanks to repub-
lican federal judges, the Cinnamon are pouring
faster than ever before into the state.
Is it any wonder, in view of these circum-
stances, that republicans have little hope Of
carrying this state for Benjamin Harrison?
With the facts before him in the senate of the
United States, and petition after petition for
relief from the suffering white people of the
coast. he deliberately voted fourteen times to
perpetuate the system of Asiatic slavery which
has been such a curse to California For his
course in this matter he will lose the state by
one of the most tremendous majorities ever
rolled up against political candidate. The
people OF California hsye been triaed with too