The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-08-05

ated. Many men have been fortunate
in being unable to let go of enum.
bered realty in that vicinity. The fact
of gold discovery in the frozen north
made many realty poor mortgage rid
den man of Seattle well to do. Mr.
Burke's political aspirations, and his
subsequent flop, concerns us little. His
connections with the railroads and nis
associates and other environments, are
OF some concern, as "straws show how
the wind blows" The statement that
he employed many union men is of
some interest, and we will leave these
statements to be verified by the union
men of Seattle. If Mr. Hampton's
statement of that is true, Mr.. Burke
has been going some. Queer that we
have not seen his big headlines in Sc
attic labor papers, telling how fair Mr..
Burke has been. We opine, however,
that the contractor who built the build
ings, insisted on union labor, "and now
the would-be senator is using this fact
that union labor was employed, to get
votes, claiming that it was his desire
to have union labor employed Let us
now analyze Mr.. Hampton's ''true
story" AS to Judge Burke's attitude
and actions during the Chinese distur-
Dances in the Northwest twenty five
years ago. "The story, he says is sub
stantiated by every surviving resident
of that period of territorial days, by
every writer of northwestern history
and by the recods of the courts There
is one surviving resident who now
makes the statement that Mr.. Hampton
(whOever he may be- makes many most
glaring misstatements As to the kill
ing of Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyo.,
those of Seattle knew but little. That
local disturbance had nothing to do
with he general movement on the
Coast, and was entirely local affair,
and had no bearing on the affair in
Seattle III 1880. The ASSERTION that
the Rock Springs affair had anything
to do with the "Issaqnah valley (Squak
valley them is absolutely false. The
Squak valley people We're then cut off
from any communication which would
have informed them of the Rock Springs
affair, of the day previous at Rock
Springs
The facts are that the Wolf Bros.
of Squak valley (hop raisers) brought
Chinese into the valley to pick hops.
Some of the citizens Of the valley went
to Wolf Bros, and asked them not to
employ the Chinese as the Indians and
white ranchers of that locality needed
the work, and had been in previous
wears employed in the hop fields, and
to allow the Chinese to come in would
deprive the homesteaders and Indians
of that source of income. The Wolf
Bros. needed not the request, and, on
the first night after the arrival of the
Chinese at the Wolf ranch, some white
men and Indians did shoot number
of Chinese And | again say, that had
nothing to do with the general move
ment on the Sound. | doubt ii the
people of Squak valley knew of the
agitation on the Sound at the time, for
it had not assumed any great magni-
tutle at the time of the Squak trouble.
More likely the Squak affair had its
influence in the future agitation on the
Sound Mr.. Hampton says the excite
ment spread rapidly, professional agi-
tators went from pace to place organic
ing the restless element against the
Chinese and advising Iawl.ssnes and
violence" The facts are that the
"Knights of Labor" labor organiza-
ton, was being formed all over the
United States at that time. In the
East. as well as the West, it was or
ganizing the labor men rapidly. This
was being done on the Sound, and dur
ing the time the agitation relative to
the unemployed, and the tact that Chi
nese were being employed instead OF
white men, entered into the discussion,
and wish to say now, that during the
entire agitation there was no advocacy
of personal injury to the Chinese, and
as a matter of fact, no personal injury
was ever inflicted. II is true that the
people in the great majority realized the
menace to the white race in permitting
the influx of the Oriental race And
the overwhelming majority were with
the organized effort to peaceably get
rid of them. Mr.. Hampton says that
on September 2s, 1885, an anti-Chinese
congress was held, and was dominated
by outside influence True, many rep
resentatiyes of the various cities were
at the meeting. The agitation was