Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1892-02-19
A PROTEST FROM CHINA.
THE TREATMENT OF CHINESE AT
BUTTE OCCASIONS A KICK.

Residen.s of tn. City Said to he Out.
rageonsly TreateG-Secretary Blaine's
Attention Called to the Aratter--Re-
ferred TO Governor Toole.
HELENA, Mont, Feb l4.-Pung
Kwang Yu, Chinese charge ad interim
at Washington, has complained to the
secretary of state of the treatment OF
Chinese residents Of Butte, and the mat
ter was referred by Mr. Blaine to
Governor Tcole.
For some time boycott has been in
force in Butte against the Chinese and
hll who employ them, and the informa-
tion upon which the complaint is made
comes from the Chinese consul general
F,t San Francisco. 1t is that various
citizens of Butte "have been obstruct-
ing in their lawful business and out
raseously treating the Chinese subjects
resident in that place. In November
Last various labor unions Of Butte City
passed regulation prohibiting the peo-
pie in the said city against trading and
dealing with the Chinese subjects resi-
Dent there, and at the same time placed
guards at the front of the Chinese stores
to arrest and
Punish ANY Native
who should be found to infringe the
regulations. Subsequently the labor
union forbade the native landlords to
hire any more of their houses to the
Chinese, and ordered them to raise the
rents of ths houses already tenanted by
them. They further required the Chi
nese laundrymen to register their names
and attempted to extort from them $40
each for the same. Upon their refusal
to comply with their demands the law
less people fired at them and assaulted
some of them about the head with their
pistols, SO grievously wounding them
that their lives We're imperiled." The
newspapers of Butte have published
isolated cases OF outrage upon China-
men by hoodlums, but it is not credit
able that they were instituted by the
reputable citizens of that place.
A few days ago burly rough in
Butte assaulted a Celestial on one of
the main streets, knocking him down
and cruelty beating him,
Knocking Him Through "a window
then dragging him out again across the
broken glass. Wednesday night All
Sam, n suburban labadryman. and his
crew came to Butteto participate in the
new years festivities and left the wash
house unguarded and when they re-
turned the establishment was total
wreck. 1t had been visited by a gang
of boys and men and bombartled SO ef-
,fectively that the doors and furniture
were smashed and the clothes scattered
and ruined. During the proceedings Il
large crowd of lockers on cleered the
work Of destruction and announced that
the Chinese mus go, perceably if they
would, but go they must.
I The laboring men Of Butte are circu-
lating Il memorial to congress in which
they say: Your petitioners, represent
ing the wage workers of the state, are
especially and vitally concerned for the
prompt solution of this most important
question. The immigrants are forced
upon US in great multitudes. The stu
alton is alarming. We are being de-
prived of the opportunity to earn our
daily bread. Tho conditions are too
hard to be patiently withstool. We
therefore pray your honorable body to
lgive us prompt relief by the enactment
of laws clearly designated to restrict i'm
migration and exclude Chinese"