Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-11-02
JENKINS CHINESE.
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTOR ADMITS
That He Worked Chinese, but Adj
mits Only Part of the
Truth.


Dental Elector. He is stumping the State
for the English Army Blanket party. The
chief organ of the party the San Francisco
Examiner, having attempted to create a
diversion from the true issues of the cam
paign by falsely and wickedly arraigning
certain Republicans as using products of
Chinese labor, the RECORD UNION pointed
J out how utterly silly and contemplate was
such campaigning by showing that prolni-
nent Democrats hire Chinese.
AN EXAMPLE.
Mr.. Jenkins was an example. We might
have given many more, and have pointed
out candidates on the Democratic ticket who
not0 hare Chinese IN employment. We might
have shown that certain delegates to the
st. Louis Convention that nominated Mr..
Cleveland have all along and now hire
Chinese. But Mr.. Jenkins being on the
State ticket was terrible example enough
for the present-though we confess that
this whole business is the low down. in
politics, and that the only excuse for it at
all is the cowardly classifying and juggling
of that shining example of Democratic
meanness, the San francisco Examiner.
Mr.. Jenkins has sent us a card. We
print it in full, TO give him perfectly fair
show. He says:
MR.. JENKINS CONFESSION.
"Threeyears ago. at the time of the anti
Chinese agitation in Sacramento and all
over the State-that is two years ago last
winter turned off ali the Chinese help |
was employing at that time at the State
House Hotel and employed white men in
their places. turned Off all my Chinese
help at the hotel. The RECORD UNION at
that time gave me credit for so doing, and
said that the way to effect the exclusion of
the Chinese was not to employ them, or
something similar.
Then two years ago last March bought
this farm, aud it had about 100 acres.in
willows. In July, August and September,
1886, and August and September, 1887 |
employed from 20 to 25 Cinnamon to grub
willows for the purpose of killing them.
At the same time / was employing white
men and was paying them $50 month for
the same work. boarded the white men,
and the Chinese boarded themselves, max
ing difference of so cents day at least in
favor of the white help. My regular white
help on my farm have spring beds, hair
mattresses, feather pillows and good
blankets, and good house to sleep in. l
have eight white men besides the foreman,
and they can go to them and ask them
about my table, and my treatment of the
white men that are there. Then these
Chinese have always worked under the di-
rect supervision of my white foreman. and
so far as saying that would not have eny
other kind of help than Chinese it is dis
proven by the fact that l have always un-
der any circumstances given white help
the preference, as can be proven by the
employees l have at this time and formerly
have had. This work of grubbing willows
ON the bottom land of the Costumes river
is work that must be done at the very hot
test season of the year, and then it is a
very uncomfortable place to work and il is
almost impossible to get white men to do
the work. | have offered white men at the
Changers Store $50 per month when l was
paying the Chinese 81 day, and the white
men refused to do the work got nine
men, howeYer-eight besides the foreman.
So far as my preferring Cinnamon, have
always preferred white men even if / had
to pay them more wages, and they can in
teryiew my white help now on my farm
and ascertain if it is not so. l employ no
Chinese now"
AVOIDING THE TRUTH.
This statement by the Democratic candi-
date is disingenuons. He GAYS he en-
p!oyed Chinese in 1856 and in 1887. Why
did jenkins stop tnsre? Why did he not
state, as the fact is, that he employed Chi
nese in 1888 also, and that, too, up to very
recent day. indeed, up to within few days
since. Did he wish the people 10 believe
that be had hired no coolies since 1882 If
so, he twisted the truth, to put it mildly,
for We repeat that he has had gang of
Cinnamon at work for him in 1888, and up
to day not far back in the record of this
fall.
HARD HIT.
Mr.. Jenkins party is hard hii and the
candidate squirms and begs and :isoogizes.
He admits that he employed Cinnamon
and pleads that he couldn't help himself.
That is the plea that tens of thousands in
California have made for some years If
the truth were made known, there is moi
Democrat in the State who has not either
employed Chinese, worn Chinese made
clothing or used the products of Chinese
cultivation of the soil, or the results of
their labor in some form.
Mr.. Jenkins unintentionally makes out
good case for protection. He ought to be
Republican on that ground, for he shows
that it is the right policy to protect white
labor against the ruinous competition Of
Chinese labor. The party Mr.. jenkins
represents proposes, however. to open the
gates OF the nation free to the entry of
Chinese. made goods and Chinese produc-
tons.
LOGIC.
As Senator Stanford has so well put it, CT
what avail is ii to exclude the Chinamau,
but freely admit the products of his labor
MIR. Jenkins Chinese employees, we repeat,
are less dangerous to the interests Of labor
when in California under protective sys-
tenn, than out OF il under free trade Every
one who votes for Cleveland votes directly
to eventually let all the products of China
and Chinese labor be poured into California
and all the other States without restriction.
To work for Chinese exclusion, and at the
same time to vote for the establishment of
free trade policy for the United States, is
worse than foolis5--it is idiocy and in
sanity.
Police Court Notes
In the Police Court yesterday morning
| NJ. Dusenberry, convicted of misde-
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