The Washington herald., 1907-08-03
APPEAL FOR CHINESE.
California Growers Prepare
Letter to President.
MEMBER HERE WITH ADDRESS
Want Exclusion Laws RepeaIed-Pe-
titiOn to Executive Sets Forth that
Oriental LabOrers Are Law-abiding
and Help White Labor by Develop
ing States Resources.

President Roosevelt and Commissioners
OF immigration Sargent are to be pre-
sented with a petition within the next
few weeks, coming from the fruit deal
ers and other men Of the great Bear
State. asking that the laws. with refer
ence to the exclusion of all immigrants,
and particularly those applying to the
Chinese, be repealed.
For this purpose the international
Equality League OF California has been
formed. and one of its representatives
is staying az the Raleigh Hotel.
1.-THE Chinese immigrant is simply a
necessity" said II. d. Kercheval. a we'll
known fruit grower of Sacramento, at
tho Raleigh last evening. TO a Washing
ton Herald reporter. I'VE want the Chi
nese as laborers. and a petition to this
effect is to be presented to the President
with the hope that the exclusion laws
against the Chinese viii be repealed al
together
Mr.. Kercheval owns more than 500
acres Of land near the California cap
ital. all Of which are devoted to the cul-
tivation Of grapes. the Bartlett pear. and
other fruits which find a ready market
among the people OF the East.
Business Men Behind Movement.
Not only the fruit dealers have com
hlned, but in the organization are bankers
and other business men," continued Mr..
Kercheyal, and we mean business. The
japanese are no account. One Chinaman
is capable OF accomplishing the work Of
dozen citizens OF the MikadO. Conse-
Quently, We have organized. and the In
ternational Equality League Will do ev-
erything Ia It's power to see that its de-
mands are properly considered and acted
upon"
The petition. which is TO be presented
TO the President and to the Commissioners
OF Immigration demands and declares.
among other things.
The admission Of Asiatic labor and enterprise %
California under no other restrictions than are I'm
posed upon the admission q European labor and
enterprise 20 our Atlantic seaboard
We declare il 10 be the fact that this State has
never suffered industrial. ecUuomic, or social in
lry by the admission II Asiate labor, nor has such
/ labor degraded ON domestic wage scale or standard
/ Of living.
( We declare TIA, the vast and valuable resources
D n
which, wrought upon such resources, instead II com
/ peting with white labor BENEFITS 81 by adding a
/ the variety and profits q It's employment.
I Asiatic Labor Helps White Labor.
/ We declare that Asiatic labor is sought in such
uouc0mpeti,ire employment. not for its cheapness-
/ for II Is not chcaD-but because Of its reliability
| and adaptation 20 the work.
/ We declare that when Asiatic labor. spent upon
the primary processes VI production. is employed
/ and what Il produces goes forssrd into commerce
/ and enters into consumption employment az higt
wages j. given to white labor m the handling. prep
aration transportation. and distribution Of sac1
/ products.
And further We declare that Asiatic labor her,
I has always been found reacsable. law-abidng IN
ob,rasiye and orderly 70 oommgndable degree, IS
peclay IN the rural districts where its Thrift and So
briefly aEo exemplary
FC. the foregoing reasons, and 20 save Calfonia
frcn the decadence Of her industries related 70 th,
soil we demand admission TO this STATE. IN equa
numbers q Chinese and JapEnese free laboTers and
: 10 the enforcement OF this demand pledge ever
energy and effort that the instinct Of selfprese7a
1 tion can call into action