The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-03-01
MAYOR
81 SCHMITZ OF
FRISCO
Writes of the Yellow
Peril
7IA Menace to American
ss LabOrerS'
And a Drag Upon our ClVll
izatiOn.

Trtten for the Scripps.c hl.Ao 10 civ OF san "
Eugene +, Sohmh1 M@3"'
FT9ac''rJ Ths 'Dryoblem Of Chinese exclusion Is
~ longer problem, it is ademonstrateu
y Da'i,ion No one on the Pacinc
roast who possesses any social or pol'1. a
cal intelligence or foresight can see wv =
s;dos 10 the question. There IS Out ono i /
Tbo Chinese as race must beexc'u"eu ,
t.au, orr sphere, from injurious compe'
,,,ion with our labor, from destruc'''I
;n,erlerence with our enterprises auO
irom damaging contact with our CIV"
zation. 1T. ,;,ed in
Only those who have actually hVeu ' =,
contact with the Chinese can reSi'Ao "
the fullest extent what their aorn'Ss.On ,1"a
% mi, country means. One must nave
sooa and Known them in all OF their ma
tive flth and squalor, their vicious enu
dooeneyate wees, their baroarlc ieuus v
..eocbarous cruelty and their pernieious
sa.,ems Of slavery to understand 'na'
,Ioi, very presence is q pollution ana I"
souyce Of both moral and physlcal III e'
tious disease IL, S,a,es
No other section Of the United s'a'e,
-. oooo into contact with the orien'a
civilization and suffered from the pres res
onco of the Orientals as has the fSciu'
ooos,. and no city has been cursed wiz
snch an Asiatic colony as has ban rrau
o;sco In no other American cl'ies il"
white labor been Obliged 70 cou'pI' ~
mi,h the slaye hordes Of the EssV, vi
Iowsst social dregs Of the Celestial Eu
.i,o os /, has in San Francisco ana VI
iaroer coast cities. Consequently "he
od the Pacific coast raises its voice III ~,
,os, of the admission of Chinese anu
to,ard of Chinese exclusion, 1t shou
Is he needed as the voice oil experience
plea for race, for country and LOT hou %
san Francisco's Chinatown costs mo
90 Govern than any similar sized Col
mrni,y in America, and entsils m'
,r,uble on the police department. III
all the rest of San Francisco In 81
o. oi the utmost vigilance baroar" IN
= ders are of frequent occurrence
1p' ground dives and secret dens, where
the oriental vices flourish, VIII
- hasheesh and opium are daily food {
- hundreds OF females are held in a ci
q tivity worse than death.
q One has but to 20 through the con
q less sweat-shopS TO see the effect
S American labor. An ordinary liv
* room will be crowded to snffocation "
9 coolie slaves (many of them atllic
Is with canceroua and syphilitic diseas
* busy eighteen hours day making Gig
9 or clothing. or shoes or hundred OF
q products that are purchased by unscr
~ ulous dealers whose selfish greed q
q weighs their humanity, and sold to
8 unsuspecting public in competition "
goods made by labor that cannot live
Q ia few cents a day, that requires suita
sSS clothing aud nourishment as well as q
air to breathe and reasonable hours
work.
~ San Francisco's Chamber OF CONNIE
= actuated by merchantile greed and
~ hshness. has betrayed and dsgraced
self and the community by resouti,
in favor of the admission Of certain ella
% Of Chinese, a note OF discord in
otherwise harmonious demand Of the
tire west for absolute and most string
exclusion. These shipowners have
years in direct violation of the spirit
the exclusion act employed Chin
coolies as sailors on American vessels
that dividends would be larger.
American vessel should be allowed
carry Oriental crews, aud no person d
values his safety should travel en- av
sci so manned. The eowardiy, 'tresch
nf Gus conduct OF such crews in time Of ,
VI aster is notorious. Witness the wr
ar Of the Rio Janiero, where 40 lives "
ol lost within sight of land.
al Those merchants who hope TO
Nv crease their profits by getting chea
.. class OF labor at the expense Of N
's own race, are pursuing disast
ous policy, for the Chinaman is not a c.
sumer in thisoountry, boards his mon
en- creates no demand for goods, Will
:. white laborer enlarges the market as
prosperity increases IN ehigher va
w he receives the more he buys. To 10,
wages is to decrease the purchas
w power OF the class that creates mari
aud ON whom markets depend for ;
Il tsnanoe. To substitute Chinese is
close markets altogether.
O. Neither should labor In our own co,
try DO permanently injured in order
p create temporary profit for few in ney
opened markets of China, for il
l. only q question OF a short time VII
the Chinese themselves will make eve
w thing that is now exported TO IN
country and make il under conditic
o. with which We oannot possibly eompe
"a, The Oriental civilization will
Ill amalgamate with the Decide tai I
ideas, the customs, the religion Of ,
q Chinese are not ours. The teachi,
the training, the methods Of thousau
Of years. cannot be changed by a gene
tiou, especially when those concern
a'ubooraly resist suggestion OF chan,
FOR unknown centuries. Chinese ciyili,