Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-08
ORIENTAL EXCLUSION


- the east, and recently from q toul
- of the west coast, states that the
people Of the British provinces have
launched the shibboleth, canada fol
Canadians!" and are taking steps t.
make 1t effective. OF course the Cana
dams will appeal to the dominion gov.
eminent, and, If necessary, to the i'm
perial government later, and they know
their cry will be heard and answered.
All that is necessary for them to do is
to organize public opposition to coolie
immigration, and their central govern
ment gives immediate heed to the pop
ular demand, and some measure of re-
lief is certain to follow
When San Francisco witnessed bloody
and frequent riot and Dennis Kearney
gave the cry, 1.-The Chinese must go!"
as the ultimatum of the people, our
law makers at washington sneered at
the cry and the men who made 1t, re-
fusing relief till forced to make con-
SESSIONS or invite rebellion, and every
phase of the troubles now shackled on
San Francisco can be traced to the tao
tics OF the railroad lobby in the Repub-
lican senate in those fateful days.
Under the manipulation of legislation
by railroad interests, immense grants
of land and money were given the men
who opened the U. P. and G. P. rail-
roads, and these roads must be built
to claim these great gifts, and 1t would
never do to bring starving white
men from the congested labor districts
of the east and pay them fair wages,
so the Chinese coolie was brought over
in hordes, and from that day to this
the Pacific slope has been an inviting
location to the man with money, but a
veritable Donnybrook fair for the man
with only Drawn to sell. Coolie immi-
grafton is the child of Republican law
givers and has long been the cause Of
labor troubles on the Pacific coast.
The British workingman arises to off,
set similar conditions, and under gov
arnment we of the United States are
wont to asperse as monarchical and
therefore not free, as we are free, he OBJ
tains immediate redress. Our freedom
of the people" sounds well and reads
well in the declaration of independence,
but only for partisan political purposes,
while the Briton's freedom is virile
fact and makes him indeed free,
he lives in a howell or palace
fact underlies this statement
Of piteous truth, and the workingman
who is a voter is invited to study it
well.
The cry that sufficient labor could
not be had to build the many roads of
the northwest, while millions of work.
ingmen were being dumped into our
eastern ports, was a false cry, but be-
cause the men would have to be trans
ported at a greater cost from Atlantic
ports to Pacific ports than the coolie
could be brought from China for, and
because the white laborer would de-
mand more pay for his work, Ieagued
shipping and railroad interests, under
the aegis of the ruling Republican
senate, flooded the land then with cooIie
labor, and would do so now if they
dared to.
The settlement that could and should
have been made then must be made
now, and all the difficulties to be met
and overcome are the result of the
ruinous policy of the class now called
upon by unerring justice to pay the
fiddler for their long dance.
The coming session of congress will
hold many good men who have travelled
over various foreign lands and who
know conditions on the Pacific slope
and who will rise to the demands of
the people and settle this matter once
for all by excluding oriental peoples
from landing here, even if it shall re-
suit in losing every foreign market we
possess, upon the broad, national and
humane ground that markets cannot
help us if we cannot produce com
modities to send to them by the labor
of the men who form two-thirds of our
voting population. The cruel sophis-
tries of Dennis KearBey's day, SO
lavishly advanced by the moneyed
power, are no longer tenable, even by
politicians, and the day of the man who
made and makes the prosperity OF
which our political bosses boast is al
iandI when Democratic men and
measures shell adjust the prizes Of
empire and the man with the hoe OF
pickax shall count in the award to the
fullest measure of the results of hli