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Show ; j CHINESE AND WORKING MEN. i-l ." A correspondent of the Herald of this ;! city has sent the following to that paper from Green River, Wyo., which appears I j ! there as a poster : ; i , "The Chinese must go. One and all take I I f i heed. Over two weeks ago the Chinamen in I I this town were boycotted, yet a few are still If" to be found in the employ of hotelkeepers I ' j! I and others. This must not be. Take this i i 1 notioe, therefore, as the last warning, j ? ' - The names of those who have oon- ;, tinned to hire Chinese labor and patronize the same, since the boycott, are known, and these Chinese sympathizers shall be closely watched for the next ten days.. They will be allowed until the 15th of October, 1885. to substitute white for I i China labor, and if this order is not com. ! H puedwithby that date, every hotel, every 3 j ! j store, every place of business, "and every in- ' ";! dividual who hires, supports or harbors S, Chinamen shall be in turn boycotted, and f : ! those who in any way help by patronage, or otherwise, places of business, or individuals j who have been boycotted, shall also be placed on the boycotted list. This curs, j which is corroding the very vitals of American Ameri-can free and honest labor, must and shall be : ' wiped out. . ; ij Every one knows what boycotting in ! i Ireland has come to mean, and boycotting :'y in Wyoming will be no milder. On the I ; lostcr referred to was the cut of a breech- I . t loading rifle, and on a boycotting order f ; ! at Green River that cut has much the ' 1 same significance as the 2x6 with skull ; ' j and cross bones cut of the orders of the ' i vigilantes of old days had. The Chinese I ; question has assumed an entirely differ- I j ent aspect from what it was originally! Then it a question of political economy, and whether or not it was desirable to I i :- ' i i ! jl , ,;jv permit cheap Mongolian labor to compete with the labor of the white man. To-day it is the question ques-tion whether or not persons who are here by consent of the Government, and who are committing no lawless acts, are entitled enti-tled to the protection of the laws, 'or whether they shall be set upon and murdered mur-dered by a lawless crowd. It is a terrible I thing when an American missionary in China is mobbed, and the whole country is astir over it; and wherein is the difference differ-ence when inoffensive Chinamen are mobbed in America? Yesterday the State Department at - Washington received pamphlets and reports from U. S. Consul Seymour, at Canton, China, telling of the persecutions to which missionaries mis-sionaries there are subjected. ' What aggravates ag-gravates these things is that often these persecutions have the encouragement of the local authorities, and that often the authorities are unwilling to deal justly with the Chinese. Cannot the Chinese Government say the same thing about the American Government, and say how Chinamen are murdered and their places pillaged, and that the local authorities j here refuse to deal justly with I Americans? The " heathen Chi-I Chi-I nee " must laugh in his sleeve , when he listens to the sermons of an 1 American missionary on Christianity and thinks now industrious Chinamen are murdered in Christian America. Certainly, Cer-tainly, if the "heathen Chinee" on his native na-tive hearth-refuses to accept American Christianity his mind must be very much darkened, and assigns as a reason for refusing re-fusing to accept our Christianity that it does not seem to have made Americans much better than Chinese, if the Rock Springs massacre is the result of Christianity Chris-tianity and a higher civilization; For Americans to, murder Chinamen in America, and forthem to preach salvation and the doctrine of love your neighbor as yourself in China, is a sort of beam and - mote affair. If workingmen in Wj'oming may order Chinese here and there at their pleasure, and murder Chinamen when such pleasure is not complied with, and the United States Government is powerless to do anything to protect them, surely the United States have no ground of complaint against the Pekin Government if it is - powerless to protect American missionaries in China, a Government that professes no Christian civilization. j |