The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-02-26
Chinese Labor.
From Colorado Chronicle:

from COLORADO Cnronlcle:
Editors Chronicle note with
much surprise the article in your is
sue Of January Is, quoting our liter
airy friend, Joaquin Miller on the
Chinese question. l take exceptions
to his statement in which he claims
that all the people IN that region (the
Pacific COAST except the labor unions
are a unit in favor of the Chinese.
Mr.. Miller surely has not travelled
much outside OF California points
sweeping statement.
AS a matter of fact his statement
is literally untrue as regards the city
of Portland, Ore, Tacoma, Wash.
(where not a Chinese is SEEM; Sc
attic, and Spokane, to say nothing
of the smaller towns, where the anti
Chinese feeling is more pronounced.
Mr. Miller's statement is surely a
revelation to Californians, especially
those who reside in San Francisco,
and no doubt Mr.. Miller's article will
be considered very valuable stuff by
some of our Christian advocates.
However, I look upon such a charac-
ter with pity, and suggest more Wig
orous climate, a little healthful ex
ercise, with some health food diet as
such an article can only emanate
from a diseased brain.
Upon the books of the city of Ia,
coma, Washington, will be found
law, enacte by just as brainy men as
Mr.. Miller, men who have seen as
much of the world as Mr.. Miller, who
declare in that law that no Chinese
shall be employed within the corpo-
rate limits of the city of Tacoma
AS to their cleanliness l can only
include those l know personally.
Many of them are no doubt particu-
lar about their persons, but I have
visited "joints" as an officer that
were really nauseating with Smells"
Probably those smells are indicative
of culture and refinement? Then,
again, those modern opium dens,
where these heathens practice their
hellish habits; but | suppose that,
too, denotes education and criterion
for people of the west.
Mr.. Miller was at one time a judge
in Grant equity, Oregon, town, and
never tried Chinaman for any
crime. Remarkable record. And
there are those who doubt Mr.. Miller
tried very many cases of any kind in
~rant county, Oregon.
| When we take into consideration
the many petitions extensively signed
by merchants, lawyers, judges and
men and women of all walks of life,
hGeary exclusion act one can only
brand Mr.. Millers article as lie and
a misrepresentation of the true situa-
ton of the west, even of California.
The article brands the author as an
enemy, not only to labor, but to So
clety as well.
| consider the article a libel upon
the west, slanderous of the press
and a reproach upon good citizen
! ship.
sentence Mr.. Miller to six months
residence in the "Whitechape1' oil
Seattle, which l believe will clear his
brain and change his views on the
, ideas of the western people in regard
to Chinese.
That Mr. Miller is eccentric is put
3 ting it mildly, and as he admits his
southern sisters are not strong, anC
e are in need of help which cannot b.
furnished by white girls, would sug
gest that he take trip to the south
: ern states, and make a canvass of tn,
e colored citizens who make much bet
n ter servants than Chinese, and NOR
y entitled to it.
This much mooted Chinese doctrin
d will not hold water" and a man Xix
n Joaquin Miller must be mentally ur
d balanced else he would never hav
L published such an article over hi
l. name.
u Come up north, old man, chang
is of climate will have the desired effeo
and l am sure 1t will change you
a. opinion of One Lung 'Wah Chung
IS and the rest" Fraternally
ID G. e. DEMOREST,
10 Organizer w L. u, Kalispell, Mont
N