The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-03-14

country; are the most prosperous; have
more money to obtain their desires, and
consume more of the necessaries and
Injuries Of life, generally speaking,
than those of any other nation, yet il is
singular fact that in the consumption
of sugar they are behind the English
about IA per cent, the proportion being
about 781 y pounds per capita in Great
Britain, to sol 4 pounds per capita in
the United States. For a long term
the working classes have groaned under
depressed times, continued taxation,
and want Of employment, and it 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 VIGOROUSLY 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 spreading
race. Just think of this for one mo-
mentl During the years 1S94-lS95,
the people of Oregon and Washington
paid to foreign manufacturers and pro-
ducers 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, Could this amount have
been retained among ourselves. what a
wonderful factor those / 200, 900 hard
earned dollars would have been during
the many hard. hard months of econo-
MIXING and pinching and starving
through which we have just passed. If
it were necessary that we should buy a
necessary staple like sugar abroad in
order that we might sell our surplus
Of some other products, we might as
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 our
products we receive back coin in pay
ment we are just that much better off.
The pernicious trade in Chinese sugars
which has grown to large proportions
on our Pacific coast, is deplorable to
think of. Americans, free working
men, supporting the labor Of race of
people born in poverty, reared in
squalor and living in pestilence and
disease. You have but TO walk through
any city Of any consequence, having a
Chinese quarter, made to a certain ex-
tent wholesome by the sanitary laws of
better civilization surrounding them
TO realize the beggary, the stencil, the
nauseous handling of a moribund pop
ulation whose labor exists upon the
payment of ~ cents for days labor.
We have seen how the Chinese live in
our own midst, thousands Of them hud-
died and bunked together in dark, mar
row rooms, void of ventilation, the foul
stencil of which makes the strongest
heart grow sick, and draw our own
conclusions, in buying Chinese sugar.
A gentleman who came to America
when the cholera and plague prevailed
in the Orient, said that every pack
age of merchandise, and even silk,
! etc., should be fumigated thoroughly
to eradicate the cholera germs lurking
in that disease stricken country"
These are not idle words, but the
deep sounding words Of warning from
one knowing well the dangers to which
we are subjected. from an eye-observer
! of the natives themselves, and the hor.
rors of the CHASTITY work Of death
, among that myriad of fast-breeding,
: pestilential people. Such are the risks
taken by every person buying Chinese
, l...lo ..ood. Cvcl, tho chauCaa unuaCQe
5 sary chances against the homes of oui
working people, and without Gauss
4 other than the support of degraded, ill
{ paid labor, as described. These fact
$ are daily becoming better known &
= our own people. So much so tina
o many stores now display the sign
1--WE handle the American Refined
: Sugars only" and it is a safe rule t
: follow, where no such announcement
= is made, to be sure you are not gettinl
a China-made sugar is to ask the question
0 or promptly transfer your custom.
h See that you are supplied with N
Q other than the American-made article
Q made by American workmen, L
Z American clearly factories, operate
0 by American capital, paying America
: wages, in good American coin an
IS keeping that American money at home
IS not sending it abroad to support tn
Is Chinese nation
q We have here in our own glorior
u state of Oregon and sister state
r Washington as evidenced by the expos
II ton Of the Manufacturers and Pr
RS ducers' Association, one Of the greats
fields for beets this or any other coui
try can produce. In rejecting Il
af coolie-made sugar, and buying on
st American made goods, you are encou
4. aging and strengthening the hands
. your neighbor farmer. and building I
Nv an industry in which you will you
,a self share, and in time proudly reah
:, the greatness of the soil upon which v
ns live and which God has blessed with
m special providence as unsurpassed
ne the face Of the globe.
~ The total number OF cattle In the Unit
et States Ia 1890 was 81 1868, 572, OF whit
e. ~ 4o4 xxara x~orlfng oxen and 1881