The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-02-25
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CONDEMNED
Judge Humphries Opposes
Coolie Labor in Seattle
Address.

Extracts from the speech of Judge E.
Humphries before the King County Re.
publican club in Seattle, February %:
Mongolian immigration.
The great danger to the Pacific Coast
is the immigration of the Japanese,
Chinese and Hindoos, and in addition
to insisting upon a high protective
tariff, in order to protect the laborers
in our mills, factories and other places
of business, the republican party must
stop the immigration of mongolian
coolies into this country. 1t is estimated
that there is an annual increase in the
surplus population of Japan of at least
100000, and unhindered in fifteen years
they would soon drive the white race
off the Pacific Coast by sheer force of
numbers, as has been stated by Pro-
fessor Ide Wheeler of the University
of California. In 1912 the present Jap
anese treaty expires, and it is neces-
sary for the republican party to be on
the alert, and to protect the Pacific
Coast from the encroachments and i'm
migration of the monaghan races to
this country. In 1900 there were S.
9S6 japanese and ll9,050 Chinese in
this country. From 1890 to 1900 the
japanese inct teased in this country
1872 per cent, and at the same ratio.
starting with s5,9S6 in 1900, the CEN
sus in 1910 will show at least Japan
ese population of 100000, which shows
that Professor Ide Wheeler is not wrong
in sounding the alarm. Senator Piles
has stated that 80 per cent of the EN-
ploys in British Columbia mills and
factories are Chinese, japanese and
Hindoos, and 20 per cent of the labor in
the mills of the Pacific Coast are Jap
anese, Chinese and Hindoos, and when
You take the additional numbers en-
ployetd on the railroads, in the work
shops, barber shops, house servants,
stores and factories, it will show a
great increase in the japanese popula-
tion. 1t will not be of much benefit
to the white people of this coast to
have tariff on lumber and coal to
protect them from coolie labor if YOU
permit this coolie labor to cross the
lines from British Columbia and work
in our mills, shops, factories and other
places on the Pacific Coast.
Taxpayers As Jurors.
Under republican form of govern.
ment, brains and education should be
the criterion instead of property quail
ifications. The mere fact that electors
inherit property is not a good criterion
to fix their capacity as jurors. The re-
publican party owes it to the masses
to make no discrimination regarding
property qualifications for Jurors. Ev-
cry man is entitled to be tried and have
his cause tried by jury of his peers,
without regard to pDpery qualifica-
tions, and the present jury law, pro-
hibitlng electors without property to
become jurors, is contrary to republ.
can principles of government, and the
next legislature should amend the lew
by striking out the word Taxpayers"
therefrom.
Supreme Court Judges.
1t was a great mistake made by the
last legislature when it amended the
direct primary law, so that the people
are not permitted to nominate Judges
of the supreme court. 1t raises a sus-
picion that certain special interests were
desirous of packing the supreme court
with their own men. 1t was said that
it was necessary to do so, as large
verdiets of juries would put certain cor
porations out of business, but they for
got the fact that when a man was COM
PEELED to work at dangerous employ
ment and lost his arms or his legs, he
was put out of business. The only
means the working man has for making
a living for himself and family are the
nse of his legs and his arms, and when
by the earelessness of employers those
legs and those arms are taken off, they
have destroyed the employe taken
away the means of which he lived, and
put him out of business, and every
eleetor of this state, who believes in
fair play, believes in the honest ad-
ministration of justice, should, at the
coming election, rebuke the legislators
who saw fit to insist on the disenfran-
chisement of electors in the nomination
of iudees in the supreme eourt.