Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-19

| For years the people OF this Coast have
been tricked by the Chinese and theil
white allies. By the lavish and skillfu
use of Chinese gold in Washington and
and here, the efforts of our people te
protect themselves from the Chinese in
flux have been thwarted, and the laws
made from time to time to diminish the
dangerous and destructive tide of Mon.
golian immigration have been rendered
nugatory. The patience of the Coast
was we'll nigh exhausted when the cam
paign of 1883 began to draw on. On all
sides it was said and agreed that the time
had come when this Chinese question
must be settled, when the citizens Of the
Coast must make their voice heard and
their power felt in the National Conven-
tions, and give the great parties to un-
derstand that, whatever their programme
might otherwise be, it must include an
unmistakable and consistent anti Chinese
policy, or it would encounter our deter
mined and active opposition. The press
of California was unanimous upon this
point. There was no difference between
the Democratic or Republican newspap-
ers when the subject was discussed in
their editorial columns; and, when
the qualifications of possible nominees
for the Presidency were canvassed, their
soundness or unsoundness on the Chinese
question was made the touchstone of
their merit, so far as we were concerned.
Sherman was rejected because he was
not sound on that all-important point.
So was Harrison. Blaine's position, on
the contrary, was and always had been
against the Chinese industrial invasion,
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enthusiastic preference the Pacific Coast
manifested for the Maine stateman. The
Republican party in this State felt that
it must not be one whit behind the
Democratic party in it's devotion to
the States industrial interests and in
it's sympathy with the universal
anti-Chinese sentiment and no
delegation ever understood better what
its constituents wanted it to do than the
delegation which went hence to Chicago.
1t was to procure the nomination OF
Blaine if possible; and, failing that, the
nomination of any good Republican,
sound on the Chinese question. That
this was we'll understood is conclusively
shown by the utterance of a leading dele
gate, who shaped in great part the action
of the delegation and was very conspicu-
GUS in all its proceedings. He said, when
the Blaine fight was looking dubious and
discussion was beginning as to whom
should be taken up in Blaine's place:
1t is absurd to talk of agreeing on Harrison;
he cannot carry the Pacific Coast. nor can he
carry several other States N which would be r.: Re-
nese question The labor vote will be against
him, aud California will never support man
who voted against the Chinese bill and every
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he voted to naturalize Cinnamon and give them
the right of suffrage, and Allison did the same
thing. If either of these two Is nominated we
might as well give up the fight in California
Every word of this was true. Yet the
Republican party made the grave mis-
take of nominating Harrison and our dele
CATION committed the crime of voting for
him.
The Report will not support Harrison
for the Presidency of the United States.
1t will do all it can ts defeat him. Per-
sonally we have nothing to say against
him. But his policy-all his utterances
and his acts, while he was compare
lively free agent and was master of his
own opinions and arbiter of his own acts
was pro-Chinese, and anything We can
legitimately do to prevent him from
reaching the White House we shall do.
1t is our clear duty to do this. No
matter what our personal relations or
general esteem might be for any pro-
Chinese citizen who asked the suffrages
of Californians, we should oppose him
with all our might. The Report has al
ways been anti-Chinese and always will
be. We know the harm the Mongolian
invasion has done; we see on all sides
the moral and physical ruin it has
wrought; we can cast our eyes ahead
and see the disasters that will
come upon not only our working
classes, but upon our very civilization
itself, should the teeming and strug-
Cling hordes of China break in upon
us; we have watched for years their de-
termined, ingenious and insidious at
tempts to do SO; we know the history OF
their race we'll enough to understand
that such efforts will never cease while
there is the most shadowy hope of ulti-
mate success, and therefore we have
always and we always will do all that
Lies in our power to repel the assaults
and to checkmate the strategy of the
Chinese. The people of California mus1
stand to their guns, Harrison is pro
Chinese. If he should be elected
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a great Chinese victory. If we hell
to elect him we shall deliver ourselves
over, bound hand and foot, to the de-
stroyer-we shall declare to all tn
world, and especially to Congress and t.
Harrison and his Cabinet, that we ar
not as much opposed to the Chinese a
we have been represented to be, an
that pro-Chinese legislation will not b
offensive to the majority of our people
Let us beware of such a mistake; for
might be, very probably would be, ou
ruin. Hence let us work against Harr
son, vote against him in the name {
California and the white manhood OF tn
coast.-[S. F. Report.
A little girl was sent across the stree
to neighbor for milk. The COW whic
the neighbor owned had ceased to giy
, milk for the time, and there was none t
| be had. "There is no milk to-day" sal
: the little girl on her return. "No milk ?
said her mother. "What's the matter