Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-10

land where no one else could then make a
success OF market gardening. and, lastly, by
competing with Europeans In certain trades
and for rough work
Ihis last 1t was which brought them into
difficulty. For the Cinnamon not only worked
long hours, but, living lower standard
OF life than their white competitors. they we're
able to underbid them in the matter OF wages,
10 AN extent which threatened to drive Euro.
pean labor out Of some occupations altogether.
This might he all very well for capitalists,
who were accused then and thereafter of fos-
terng the trade in the importation of Chinese
coolies In order to keep down the demands of
their own working countrymen and make
more profit for themselves. But 1t did not
suit the views Of the Caucasian wage earners
at ALL They soon learned that competition
OF this kind could not be met In the ordinary
way.
made up my mind on this, then, and am
as firmly convinced OF it now. Under the
system OF capitalist production and compe.
titon for wages regulated. in the main, by
the standard of life in various trades Euro.
peans, even in temperate climate. cannot
hold their own, In the long run, with these
Woodworking Asiatics; in the tropics they
have no chance at all against Industrious
coolies from the southern provinces of China.
In the Sandwich Islands also found them
in considerable numbers not only on the sugar
estates, but In the towns. The same, of course,
In California. There the feeling against 1.-The
heatnen Chnce" even stronger than in
Australia. Chinatown in San Francisco with
ita practically sef-goyernng community and
underground communications. was already an
extraordinary development for an American
city.
In 1879 the Government OF the United States
yielded to the pressure brought to bear from
the Pacific slope, fearing tie serious trouble
which might have arisen between the races
had tine Chinese immigration into California
continued nj its then rate 1t " impossible
for anyone who saw what going on to
deny tllat the white workers had strong case.
1t doubt contrary TO all international
rule and order that Americans should claim
the right TO travel. trade and settle freely In
China, and yet that the Chinese quite az in
dustriOue workers and fully M competent
merchants in their own line an Americans.
should be excluded from the United States
Moreover, the law became operative a few
years after the Chinese had been OF great
servce in the development OF California and
the other States Of the Pacific COAT
But the thing done. After the passage
OF that enactment the Chinese we're shut out
from North America and ths Auntrhiasian col.
oncs. little later British Indians were liable
to heavy fine for landing In Auatrala and
the embargo OF one hundred pounds sterling
on the famous ItnjpOot crickctcr Ranjcctsnghi
the Jam OF IthmnugRar waB removed by ape
clnl ordinance OF the J'urlia,ncn,g In the col
ohicB where he waH 10 play. n would have
Dech beitcr had this Indian OF tho moAt ancient
lineage In the whole of II!ndOssn refused "a
he thus exceptionally favored However. the
1act tina, British Indiana HhOud bc thus treated
10 the i3ritbh Empire proves ,ha, nc prcju
n,cc against Aaiatica vas and ~ by no means
confined to Tho dislike OF the CfzAeBe.