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country; are the most proSperous' haNe
more money to obtain their desires, and
consume more of the necessaries and
luxuries of life, generally speaking,
than those of any other nation, yet 1t is
singular fact that in the consumption
of sugar they are behind the English
about IA per cent. the proportion being
about 7Sl y pounds per capita in Great
Britain, to 5s1 u pounds per capita In
the United States. For long term
the working classes have groaned under
depressed times, continued taxation,
and want of employment, and 1t is OF
and to our own home people OF the
Pacific coast we desire to speak more
directly, with all the sincerity words
may impress. We have called upon
our lawmakers to protect them from
the notoriously cheap labor across the
Pacific, by the passage of the exclusion
act, yet every day we are aiders and
abettors in sending money to that
filthy, pestilential, disease-spreadlng
race. Just think Of this for one mo.
mentl During the years ls94-lSs6,
the people of Oregon and Washington
paid to foreign manufacturers and pro-
duoers in Hong Kong the enormous
sum of $1,000, 900 for Chinese sugar
alone; this appalling figure, made up
from the quarters, halves and dollars
of the people, never to return. just
think of it'll Could this amount have
been retained among ourselves, what a
wonderful factor those 1000, 900 hard
earned dollars would have been during
the many hard, hard months Of econo-
mizing and pinching and starving
through which we have just passed. II
it were necessary that We should buy q
necessary staple like sugar abroad in
order that we might sell our surplus
of some other products, we might al
: we'll, perhaps, buy sugar as anything
else. but such is not the necessity. we
can sell our products at the worlds
price. which is our market with
? others, and what we do when we ex
port. If in return, however. for oul
, products we receive back coin in pay
r ment we are just that much better on
The pernicious trade in Chinese sugars
r which has grown to large proportionl
7 on our Pacific coast, is deplorable g
a think Of. Americans, free working
y men, supporting the labor of race o
i people born in poverty, reared il
y soualor and living in pestilence AM
o disease. You have but to walk througl
o any city of any consequence. having
n Chinese quarter, made to certain ex
's tent wholesome by the sanitary laws Q
J. a better civilization surrounding ther
It to realize the beggary, the stencil, tn
e nauseous handling of moribund POP
n ulation whose labor exists upon th
d payment of IL cents for days Labor
D. We have seen how the Chinese live
q our own midst, thousands Of them hue
4 died and bunked together in dark, nal
row rooms, void of ventilation, the for
IN stencil of which makes the stronge'
is heart grow sick, and draw our oW
ye conclusions, in buying Chinese suga
G. A gentleman who came to Amerlt
Id when the cholera and plague prevaiie
X in the Orient, said that every pacl
ut age Of merchandise, and even sill
es ETC., should be fumigated thorough
n to eradicate the cholera germs lurklr
e- in that disease-stricken country"
y, These are not idle words, but Il
o, deep sounding words of warning fro
= one knowing weh the dangers to whi'
o. we are subjected. from an eye-observ
On of the natives themselves, and the no
q, rors Of the ghastly work Of dea
#, among that myriad Of fast-breedin
ry pestilential people Such are the ris
IS taken by every person buying Chimes
in made goods. Such the chances. unnece
r's sary chances against the homes OF O
lc- working people, and without eau
tn other than the support of degraded, i
OF paid labor, as described. These FAC
as are daily becoming better known
D. our own people. So much so th
to many stores now display the sig
"We handle the American Rein
Ia Sugars only" and it is safe rule
Or follow, where no such announceme
M is made, to be sure you are not getti
China made sugar is to ask the questi
100 or promptly transfer your custom.
Icn See that you are supplied with
me other than the American-made artic
me made by American workmen,
eet American cleanly factories, operat
,oo by American capital, paying Americ
- wages, in good American coin a
'ns keeping that American money at hon
ons not sending it abroad to support
nas Chinese nation.
Kes We have here in our own glorie
OF state of Oregon and sister state
or Washington as evidenced by the expo
per tion Of the Manufacturers and P
ars ducers' Association, one Of the great
fields for beets this or any other COZ
try can produce. In rejecting
rief coolie.made sugar, and buying o.
let American-made goods, you are enco
osi. aging and strengthening the hands
|ns- your neighbor farmer, and building
,tIv an industry in which you will 20
the self share, and in time proudly real
.om the greatness Of the soil upon which
the live and which God has blessed wit
ign special providence as unsurpassed
,ins the face of the globe.
orJ The total number of cattle In the Uni