The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-01-30
CHINAMEN AND THE CAPITAL

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it. The city that can draw the solid
labor vote of the state to its support will
be selected as the permanent capital OF
Montana. And there is only n city in
the state that can do it. That city is
Great Falls. When it was laid out and
began to assume form and substance its
far seeing. enterprising promoters. prof
iting by the mistakes made by others,
wisely determined that Great Falls
should not be contaminated by the pres
ence of Cinnamon. They have adhered
to the resolution then formed and today
Great Falls is the only candidate for the
state capital which can boast of absolute
freedom from the heather pests. There
is not a Chinaman in it to take bread
from the mouths OF laborlng men and
women and their families. None but
citizens of the United States or those
who may become such can be found IN
the workshops, in the laundries and in
the kitchens of Great Falls.
The labor convention which recently
closed its labors at Anaconda wisely re-
solved not to support any city for the
state capital which employs or encourages
Chinese labor within its limits. The
resolution is the expression Of men who
have seen and felt the depressing effects
and demoralizing tendency of Chinese
cheap labor. They are workingmen,
many of them with families to support
while Others are the reliance Of enfeebled
parents or orphaned brothers and sis
tiers. They see around them many Of
the lighter occupations in which the
stronger dependents may add something
to the common subsistence, filed by
Cinnamon. Turn which way they will
they find a Chinaman blocking the door
leading to honorable bread. The kitchen.
the dormitory, tn, laundry. the garden
are occupied by Cinnamon. What can
the suffering white laborer do? The
law protects the heather from violence.
and the almighty dollar g%rasping dis
position of the average money making
American of the day, smoothes the way
to his employment because he is cheap.
The result is the heather tiLds work
while the white man and IN go to
bed hungry.
The laboring men Of Montana have
long been aware of this fact. They have
made earnest appeals to be relieved of
the intolerable burdens which the
presence of Cinnamon impose upon
them. Their appeals have been met
with indifference upon the past of the
many and opposition by the interested
In the meantime Cinnamon are
being struggled into the state, and
the same old order Of things continue.
The heathens trade with their country
men. The money they make in the
country finds its way to China through a
Chinese trade channel cut deep by the
customs of the heathens during the
past forty years. They are renters of
cheap shacks and not investors in and
builders upon real estate. They obtain
their clothing and most of their food
Chinese channels from their
own country. They employ their own
physicians when they are sick and have
no use for white men aside from making
money through their good nature, in
difference or supreme seltishness. they
it.
Powerless to protect themselves
through process of law against the evils
mentioned the laboring men Of the state
propose to exercise a God given right to
induce the larger cities in the state to re-
spect their wishes concerning the en-
plovmcnt of Cinnamon. They use no
hOnicd words to make them known.
They simply say they will practice what
they preach vote as they talk. They
will not support a candidate for the cap
ital that employs or encourages Chinese
That is enough. Great Falls
fills the bill. 1t is the only candidate for
the capital of the anti Chinese vote Of
Montana. for it is the only one which is
cursed by the presence Of the
heather pests.