Year: 1870

TO THE LABORING MEN OF THE UNITED STATES


AND ESPECIALLY TO THOSE OF CALIFORNIA AND


ALONG THE PACIFIC COAST.


San FRANCIsco, July 10, 1870.


There is a great question of policy now
presented for your consideration. We
have about forty millions of people in all
the length and breadth of our country.
China has more than four hundred millions,
and can spare the full amount of our popula-
ton to come and compete with our men
that work for living. Shall they continue
to come among us


CHld to their own interests, the rich of
our country insist upon cheap labor, with
out regard to the sufferings Of our citizens
who have families to support, and who sus-
tain the government in times Of peace and
war.


The Chinese are still coming by thou
sands to dig our gold and to overrun the
country with cheap labor to the injury Of
our mechanics, laborers and merchants.
All they make is paid out for the produc-
tons Of their own country, or taken away
to return to us no more twenty-five hun
dred Of them in this city live in one house,
while that number Of other people would
occupy at least two hundred houses We
allow them to enjoy the fruits Of this coun-
try and the protection of our laws; while
our people are mot permitted to 90 into
their territory beyond their seaport cities
without danger Of being murdered.


Our men Of wealth demand cheap labor,
that they may increase their store, without
refiecting that the Chinese Will not con-
sumo the articles produced, and that con-
sumers, without money or labor cannot
purchase from them.


Every business suffers alike from the un-
wise policy of bringing to our shores such
vampires Of the human race.


They have their own merchants, their
own mechanics, their own labOrers, and live
within themselves. All they get from our
mines, produce from our land, or receive
from those that hire them, goes to enrich
China and empoverish US.


Their men are unfit for the society of
Americans. Their women are worse. The
use of language to describe their degrade
ton would be unfit for the public eye.


We are now organizing State Conven
ton to oppose their immigration BY all law
full means. 1t is national question, and
we demand the abrogation of the treaty, ex-
cept for commercial purposes.


We do not oppose them merely because
they are the slaves of those who employ
them, but because bond or free,' they are
a curse to our country; their presence
among us is in the highest degree offensive
and they are becoming more and more re
pulsIve every day.


The advocates of cheap labor talk about
developing the resources Of the country as
If the hundreds of generations yet to come
should have nothing to do. There is no
good reason for developing faster than the
happiness Of the people requires anything
more is fallacy. The mines undeveloped
will be as rich in thousand years to come.
The soil untouched for thousand years
will yield its grain in as great abundance
to the human family then as it would to us
now.


We want them for our own descendants,
and not for pagans of the Chinese Empire.
The happiness Of our people is the wealth
and glory Of the nation, and Can only be
promoted BY removing the cause Of discon-
tent.


To enrich our manufacturers and starve
their workmen is not the true policy of good
government happiness cannot come from
such an unequal division Of the products Of
labor.


We seek the greatest good for the great
est lumber Of of oar oson people. 9 He
that will not provide for his own household
is worse than an infdel," is as applicable
to nations as to individuals.
We ask your bel Q in this laudable un-
dertaking, and think We shall not ask in
vain.


1 The Convention meets on the Oh day OF
August, at o'clock p. m, in the Fifteenth
District Court room, corner Of Mon gom-
cry and Washington streets in Sanfrancis
co. All trades or labor associations are re-
quested to send delegates; and for every
additional hundred members over the first
hundred (or fraction thereof one more
no association Of whatever size can send
more than five delegates.
Elections must be certified to by the