Telegram-herald., 1889-06-05

white workingmen particularly. Be
tween you and me, good reader, it
was largely the cry of the demagogue.
Scratch 4 property holding Californian
today, and ten TO one you will find
him quietly. but none the less positively,
a pro-Chincse man. He will shout anti
Chinese with the best of them for busi-
ness, political or other prudential rea-
sons, but he knows and will admit 10
intimate friends that Chinese labor has
been the making of California, and that
without it the state would not have
been what she is in this year of our
Lord 1889. The lands that have been
reclaimed. the grapes thet have been
harvested, the railroads that have been
built and the wines and fruits exported,
are the result of the plodding, uncom-
planning, industrious and poorly paid
John Chinaman. You might as well say
that the South Atlantic states should do
away with the services of the negro as
that the Pacific slope should Danish the
almond eyed Celestial. Today, even, they
are necessities; not creatures merely held
OH sufrerance. They can do and will do
what the white man cannot and should
not. They are the scavengers Of the cities,
the safety of the country. There are
times in the vineyards, the hop fields, the
fruit groves, that thousands of men are
necessary at once, for u week or two
weeks, say q month. in the year. For
that time are they needed, and only then.
White men could not exist on one months
work in twelve, but the Chinese can. 1t
will be a perplexing problem to solve,
how the California grapes and fruits can
be harvested when John Chinanan is no
more. met Dennis Kearney today on
the fashionable thOroughfare that Is
named after him and the late general.
The sand lots orator is little down at
the heel at present, but he Is blatant
and bold as ever. what should
we do with them?" he said angri-
ly IN answer to my question;
''throw 'em in the sewer; they're no
earthly good. If they were not here.
white men could have employment and
this country would be populated by
Christian aud Caucasian workers. Put
the Chinese out altogether, and there
would flock from the east an army of
white laborers who would he credit 10
tho state, who would be the consumers
as we'll as tho producers, which the
Chinese are not; who would spend
their money where they earned it, which
the Chinese do not; who would improve
society, not degrade IL, and who would
help tho general cause Of humanity"
Now this argument Of Dennis Kcarney
is tho regulation argument Of the day.
Perhaps it IL the strongest side II the
case; it Is certainly the most popular.
But the interesting fact remains. that
thus far no one has been discovered who
can tiu the bill, who can take the place
of the heather. for with him the coun-
try has becn developed and agriculture
and viticlilture made profitable With
out him it would be an -npossibility.
Mark you, please. this letter is not an
argument for the Chinese. Far from it.
II Is 4 beautiful dictum and q most ac-
ceptable one, that this glorious country
j. for the Caucasian, not the Monaghan,
for the Christian. not the Pagan; for the
"A IL Ntt-tfNf va - ttlft ttHtta ai..A
for the darkness Of Chinese superstition
Heaven speed the day that If NAV come
20 pass. but we must look At things as
they are. not as We would wish them %
be. And in things as they ara we 6nd
the pig tail a very large. important and
by no means lovely element IN California
iife. II You would see the Chinaman 81
his best snd worst. vou must look him
oSer in his own house iD san Francisco.
I have seen him IN his haunts night and
day. in she cool x the evening aud il
the bright lcht II the morning, and
know him fairly vel Within a com
pact area e twelve blocks Is Chinatown
here located. ard YET within that area
nearly oo0 Celestials i've. CT rather
exist They herd together Ike rats. ara
their mode - living Is httle above
tise animal The Chinese loss hollSes.
theatre. restaurants. ociun1 Joints
snd gambling hslls have beer frequently
dssCriled. h7s they car give Iittle idea Il
the ree king iepvsvitv Il the place. For
two or three collars guide wi1 sske
couple through the entire town. ard the
excarsiou sskes from = the evening