The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-22
REMOVAL OF CHINATOWN
URGED BY A. SBARBORO
Strong Address by President of Man
ufacturers' and Producers
Association.

The next address was delivered by A.
Sbarboro, president of the Manufacturers
and Producers Association. He presented
the issue as it affects the people of
San Francisco, and particularly urged the
removal Of Chinatown. His address in
full was as follows:
Mr.. President and Members of the Conven-
ton: Once more called on to take
measures to defend our State from the threat
ened Chinese invasion. Every important county
In California is here represented by delegates
chosen from its legislative. commercial and in
dustrial organizations California is vitality in
for California knows better than any other
part of the country the seriousness of unre-
stricted Chinese immigration The citizens Of
this State are determined that the blighting
experience of the past shall not be repeated,
If effort on our part can prevent it.
The Chinese began coming to this country
upon the discovery Of gold In California with
other peoples from all parts of the world. 1t
was not long before it was found out that
the Chinese were an undesirable race. I re-
member taking part in the formation of anti
Chinese clubs in every district of San Fran
agitation against the admission OF the Mongol
was kept up and the people of the Pacific
again to Congress for a relief from the in
pouring of the Chinese to California. Finally
the Geary exclusion bill. which, although it
did not entirely keep out Chinese laborers,
served to limit them to such number as to
modify the harm to our people, and let me say
right here that the State of California owes
Mr.. Geary unpaid debt of gratitude for the
most valuable services which he rendered to
the State and to the Pacific Coast.
The force of this bill will soon expire and
unless the next Congress re-enacts this meas
ure We will soon again be flooded by hordes Of
Chinese, disaster of terrible menace to the
peace. harmony and happiness of the people
of California
All the evils which caused the passage of
the Geary bill exist to-day and they exist
more strongly than ten years ago. We have
had now fifty years of experience with the
Chinese among us. The more we know of them
the more We see the necessity Of excluding
them from our shores Other speakers will
enumerate the many reasons why we object
to Chinese immigration. Let me point out
proved by decades. take back with them to
China all the property Accommodations which
they make in this country and leave us only
their vices and diseases.
They dwell among US in filth. They have
made in the center of this fair city a dis
with disease, dirt and unlawful deeds. They
defy our laws. they gamble in hundreds Of
barred dens; they make a business of murder
and they give nothing but evil habits and
noxious stenches.
DR.. Williamson. In his annual report To the
be removed. I fully agree with him. He saws
further:
Chinatown. 1t Is at present cannot he
rendered sanitary except by total obliteration
1t should be depopulated, its buildings leveled
by fire and its tunnels and cellars laid ba rs
Its occupants should be colonized on some dis
tant portion of the peninsula, where every
municipal regulation and where every Violation
of the sanitary laws could be at once de-
tected. The day has passed when progress
sive city like San Francisco should feel COM