Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-29
POLITICAL.
DENNIS KEARNEY AND STEPHEN
MAYBELL SPEAK.
They Denounce Harrison and Nor,
ton as Pro-Chinese-A Large
Meeting.

Dennis Kearney and Stephen J. May
bell held street anti-Chinese meeting at
the corner of Fourth and K streets last
night. There was large attendance The
meeting was indeed one of the largest
street gatherings seen here for a
long time. Many came out of curiosity
to see Kearney, while the Democracy was
out in full force and prominent in
maintaining due enthusiasm. There was
no presiding officer, Mr.. Kearney introduc-
ing himself. He found plenty of applause
and considerable cheering. Indeed, there
was manifest great deal of enthusiastic
activity, and Kearney can go away truth
fully saying that lis meeting was a whoop-
up of large size. The meeting lasted until
after 10 o'clock, the audience being held re-
markably well.
Denis Kearney said in effect-barring his
vituperation and abuse-that while in other
countries the ruling class make the laws,
! here the people consult as to their own in
terests, and make the laws under which
| they choose to live, and men to execute
the laws. He announced himself for high
| tariff California protection-that is, he was
in favor Of protecting American labor and
not Chinese labor; of protecting American
industries and not Chinese industries. He
wanted a prohibitory tariff on Chinese
slave laborers, brought here under contract
! to lower wages and lengthen hours of labor.
The man who votes to shut out Chinese is
a protectionist and a friend of American
labor. That being agreed to as a truth.
what is to be said of the man who votes to
let them in? Isn't he free-trader2 Com
petition by white with Chinese labor is
next to impossible, so he whovotes to food
the country with these degraded serfs is for
free trade in labor If such a one is nomi-
mated for office on a protection platform
wouldn't you say here is hypocrite? If
Senator Hoar was a nominee for President,
would any Californian vote for him ?
Certainly not. Well, he is not
running, but one like him from
Indiana is running for President,
Kearney couldn't see how any but pro-
Chimes ecould vote for him. The Republi-
cans had nominated for President a Chi
| nese advocate who, in and out of the SEN
ate, acted favoTably all the time to Chinese.
He read an essay in 1879 To-Chinese, and
his course till he left the Senate was in
keeping with it. With time his pro-
Chinese convictions steadily grew stronger.
| He (Harrison) favored unlimited Chinese
| immigration and the naturalization of
Chinese. If he had not held such views
the pro-Chinese Convention would not
| have nominated him. 1t put an advocate
of man dealers at the head of the ticket,
and one of the firm of Morton, Rose &
| Co., London bankers and English agents
| for Canton slave-dealers, at the tail. Nor
| ton he denounced as a British railroad di-
| rector and British banker and a British
! importer of Chinese He read a lengthy
extract from the New York Sun of Febru-
airy 81, 1888, in which the Canadian Pacific
| Railroad is spoken of as " devilfish,n
part Of scheme TO flank the Republic
with a British military road, to fortify
British empire in India and to line the
American border with unfriendly senti-
ment of a population loyal to Great
| ing of the road as political
machine with stock of $65 000, 900, of which
| $50, 600 900 is owned in London, SIS 10000
| in Holland, SIS, 600 600 in Montreal, So 000,-
600 elsewhere in Canada and in New York
The article went on the speak of Morton &
| Co., owning $4,000 shares of the stock. This
| road is British corporate pauper, feeding
| upon Americans, said the speaker, and re-
| fusing employment unless you wear
the British ensign and swear al
| legiance to the Queen. The convention
lOtlCu up It's eyes III uOly uOTTOT
of an American railroad Director. Do
you hear any of them railing at this Brit
| ish railroad Director? Why, no. Nor
| toms road pays its British employees Just
about one-half as much as Governor STAN
ford pays his men, and yet Stanford's name
was not mentioned in that pro- Chinese
| cheap-labor Convention. This British road
| is competing with American railroad men.
1t wants to get into the trans-continental
pool. 1t demands 10 per cent. of the earn
ings of the Central Pacific to keep its hands
| off. He asked if this was notrobberv, and re-
piled to himself that ii was and appealed
| to the railroad men to resent it at the polls.
The Republican party in California, he
| claimed, is captained by General Dimond,
whom he denounced as an American Chi
| nese importer. He continued, denouncing
Mr.. Morton as owner also of an English
line of steamers between Hongkoug and
| Vancouver. subsidized by England to food
| the country through the back coor, in vio-
| lation of our laws, with "Asiatic pests"
To elect Mr.. Morton, he said, after
that would not help settle the Chinese
question. Republican speakers will per-
scribe free trade poultice to stop Chinese
immigration. Ask them why they don t
stop or help to stop the immigration. II
is not question of tariff, but of Chinese
cheap labor. When they talk tariff to you,
throw Chinese bomb at them and ask
! them to explain.
The speaker continued in this strain his
coarser language being omitted and his
vituperative exclamations against Harrison
and Morton. He then introduced Stephen
J. Maybell, who spoke in like strain
| dwelling QpOn the Chinese ouestion mainly