The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-08-09
run MoNao11AN INVASION.

Cheap Chinese Coolie labor has made
paupers of the American laborers OF
California. The American laborer OF
California is a pauper today. Califor'
mia is the land of milllonaires and pau.
pers. Although one of the youngest in
the sisterhoOd of states, there is today
more class distinction in society than
in old MASSACHUSETTS,, What has done
this?. Weanswer, cheap Chinese labor
Where the Chinaman goes the Ameri.
can laboref must starve. 1t is a mistake
to suppose that the restrictive laws OF
Congress have stopped the invasion OF
the Chinese Coolies. Such is not the
case. In a letter to the New York
World Of yesterday, dated San Francis
co, July %, the writer says:
"In spite Of the laws forbidding Chi
nese immigration into this country
thesemost undesirable slaves are COM
ing over the border by the thousand
Ever since the restriction act was pass
ed to protect the Pacific coast the mva-
sion of Chipese has continued with un-
abated activity. The hordes that now
arrive cOmea as slaves, signing themselves
into bondage for a period OF years for
the services of the agents who agree to
smuggle them safely into American
territory. 1t was not until recent lnves-
LEGATIONS were made that it was believed
such an alarming invasion was going
on. 1t is now known that a fleet VI
slave ships are bringing hordes OF Chi
nese to convenient Canadian ports,
where they are met by the contractors,
divided into gangs of from 10 to so and
struggled oVer the line by guides, They
travel through narrow bride paths III
the woods, camping during the day
among the mountains, and continuing
their journey by night. The Coolle dr.
vers receive their slaves from the ships
at Victoria and New Westminster,
British Columbia"
This continuous invasion of the Chi
nese Coolie is a threatening danger, not
only to the laboring man of California.
but to the wage worker everywhere.
There are over 100000 of these Chi
hese, and China can spare 100000 OF,
a number equal to the entire popula-
ton of the United States, without miss
ing them. In fact the Empire would
be better off to lose them,
Who are importing these hordes OF
Monaghan invaders, do you ask? The
question is easily answered. They age
men Of the type and Woof of Lew
2. Morton, Of New York, candidate for
Vice President of the United States,)
who are bowling protection to Amer
can laborers. They are the men who
are putting up money to elect Ben
Harrison President Of the United
States.
A correspondent writing from San
Francisco, ON the Monaghan invasion
says:
mime hundred and n~inety-nine out
of every thousand Cinnamon who ar
rive in this country are young men, who
are in the prime Of life. They bring
no families with them. No voice of
mother, or sister, or daughter, orsweet-
hart is heard in the crowded den of the
Coolie. His recreation is in the brothel,
the gambling-house and the opium
den. He cares naught for American
customs or laws. He would not be-
come a citizen if he could, and if he
did he would vote at the dictatiOn of
his company. While ~fattening upon
the produce of CALIFORNIA; soil and in
dustry he cannot be called upon to take
up arms and defend the nation and
State in case of foreign invasion. The
citizen must offer up his life on the
altar Of. his country, but the China
man, who is taking the bread out of
his mouth, and who comprises one
fourth of the entire population Of San
Francisco, sits down peacefully and
u%ndisturbed in his cobwebbed lair and
continues uumolested to sap the vital
ity ofjthe State"
A prominent educator writing of the
effect of Coolie labor i'll California, says
ofSan Francisco;
at is because the Chinese Coolie slave
is here that not more than 80 per cent.
of the children of school age go to
school. Ifthe Chinaman was not here,
or ifyhe were compelled to remove to-
morrow, the school facilities of the
city would have to be doubled, for If
the parents could get steady employ
ment at living wages the children
could 60 to school. Every new railroad
that has been built or is now building
in this State has been and is being built
with Chinese labor. The white laborer
would not be a gamer if every county
in the State should be gridironed with
railroads. Every acre of hill and val
ley that is planted in fruit, wine or oil,
means, under the present condition OF
affairs, an acre more added to the do
main Of Chinese labor"
1t will not do to make light of this
question. 1t is full of vitality and in
terest to the American laborer, OF both
sides Of the Rocky Mountains. Its not
a settled question by any manner Of
means, and with a man in the Presi-
genital chair like Ben Harrison Of In
diana, who is OH record as favoring this
invasion of cheap Chinese Coolies, it
would not be long before the Pagan
hordes from China would come here
by thousands, through British Colum-
bia, and come down upon US in swarms,
like the lice Of Egypt, from all along the
Canadian border. The American labor
er has a deep interest in this question.
Do not forget it. "a
A1Annr number of h-nsinnss man of