The herald., 1893-09-16

outnoiNcb anu W our pOntoIlty w chhcb
this protection to the advancement OF
the country.
He thought, however, that the China
man had been lily advised and was in
favor OF giving him an opportunity to
right the mistake. The Chinaman was
almost slave to the Six Companies.
and 1t was upon the advice OF that
power thatthe Cinnamon had refused
to register. The reason why the Six
| Companies had 60 advised those under
them was because leading legal authori-
ties OF this country had counseled
| them so.
"It was not the best way to say to
congress that the Geary law was uncon-
stitutional, because it would reply that
| it was not for US to determine. What
should be done was to petition congress
to enact bill allowing the Chinaman
additional time in which to register"
The speaker favored the present bill
recently introduced in the senate, Civ
ing. six months more in which to
register.
REV. HOWARD ADVOCATES TEMPERANCE.
Rev. Bert Estes Howard, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, spoke next.
He first read letter from w. G. Patter-
son stating that while an unwelcome
guest was in our midst. and while he
had become law breaker and the law
should be upheld, he certainly hoped
the government would give the Chinese
another chance to register. Nothing
was ever lost by tempering juetice with
mercy. He favored the passage OF the
bill recently introduced into the senate
extended the time for the Chinese to
register to three months.
Proceeding with the discussion Mr..
Howard said that on an occasion like
this the people were apt to become in
temperate in their demands. He
thought the best course to take was
temperate course.
1--WE certainly cannot deny the right
OF the government to require the China
men to register. 1t was done for the
benift of those who had right to be
here. There was no hardship attached
to it to those who had right to be here,
the only hardship being to those who
were illegally here.
Deportation is legal, but we should
regard the higher cause, the antecedent
cause, which lead to the Chinaman be-
ing here and why he did not register.
"As has already been stated, one OF
main causes has been the advice of the
| Chinese Six companis. In conversation
lately with an intelligent Chinaman, q
keen thinker, he stated to me that one
cause his countrymen did not register
was because II did not afford any pro-
lection to those who did comply with
the requirements of the Geary act. l
say, however, that il they cannot COM
ply with our law, why then they should
be deported.
81 would auggest that the government
should define what ia q laborer. ! do
not believe in allowing the Chinaman
who deposits good vegetables at my
door every morning to be deported from
the country and his place taken by
highbinders who are detriment to the
country" ~ .s
He thought that the government
should let the vegetable man alone but
to ship the highbinders and the Six
companies out entirely.
Inasmuch as the Chinaman had acted
upon the advice of the Six companies
the speaker thought that he should be
given one more opportunity to undo the
wrong into which he had unknowninply
entered and would therefore offer reso.
luton that it be the sense of the meet.
ing to petition congress to allow the
Cinnamon ak months additional time
to register before enforcing the Geary
law.
The motion wssseconded bseDr Wild
noy.u0D 90
EDITOR oEARKEs cRFA FATEs A pIyERssoN.
Mr. Bresee sthen,arcse and proceeded
to present the motion, but here an a. un-
expected change pI9affairs arose.
A man on the right side of the hall
arose and said that be had understood
that the assembiage was mass meet
ing to discussitle Chinese question, and
he thought that before the motion was
voted on the other side OF the situation
should be heard, and he desired to make
few remarks.
Cries of "Hearl' go up on the
platform" "rhat's the stuff" imme-
piately resounded from all parts of the
church.
Mr.. Bresee said that as il was a mass
meeting, he, as the presiding officer.
was quite willing to hear the gentleman
briefly.
The man then came forward and in
troduced himself as Mr.. Clark, editor OF
the Labor Review, a labor paper of this
city.
At his best Mr.. Clark ia not the nos
SCISSOR of very melodious voice, and
last evening it was not even I'D to its
accustomed standard. But what he
lacked in melody he made up in energy.
AT fret his remarks were in low tone.
but finally he became warmed up to the
subject and launched forth into q severe
arraignment of the church in general
and the ministry in particular. His
talk, while rather foreign to the subject.
was received with storms of applause.
He stated that he did not desire to be-
any discordant element in the discus.
sion, but he desired to present the side
of the working classes.
The ministers did not understand the
condition of the poorer classes. 1t was
not the clergy who sat in their studies
and unused over things past and future
who were the best able to discuss and
settle the condition Of the poor man.
but the workingman himself, who eyerv
day went out to his toll. The preachers
were impractical.
4 The trouble now was that the We vet
carpeted churches were becoming fur
ther and further away from the poor
man, who was not welcomed.
The speaker then treated of the in.
huence OF tho Chinese in the section
and declared their presence was burn.
ing festering sore on the Pacific coast
He was for the enforcement of the
Geary law. The Chinese had had an
opportunity to register and had nrt