Show TELEGRAPHIC AntiChinese cftieao I Chicago l6The anti Chinlillla meeting at Seamens Hall on West Randolph street last evening was a great success in point of attendance and enthusiasm nil the seats being occupied It was the first of a series to be held under the auspices oflthe trades assembly The representative body of the wages workers of Chicago who hope to create here a public sentiment which shall spread over the country and bring about the re enactmen of the Chinese bill The 500 tradesmen were called to order by Mr Rogers president of the assembly Mayor Harmon was chosen chairman His honor who was warmly greeted said he had not prepared a speech but the subject WitS one to which be had given much thought When the news came from Washington that thd President had vetoed the bill restricting Chinese immigration there was s feeling of pain in the hearts of ninetenths of the people west of the Alleghenye and of thousands east of indignation on the part of mullions mul-lions especially in California where the Chinese were a curse and nuisance Applause Hayes blundered but Arthur Ar-thur went deeper into the question feeling called upon to eulogize the Chi neses to applaud them They did not York for our benefit alone but on account ac-count of their greed of gold which they did not Epend here but took back to China with them to enjoy tie did not intend to say anything of a party nature but it behooved him to remark that the party behind Arthur feeling that he had committed a terrible blunder was doing its level best to correct it Applause The democrats had sunk enough in folly to attempt check tho passage of a restrictive Chinese bilK The question was whether we were to allow that vast hive of humanity 400 000000 people to come here Mr William Halley of Sacramento be next speaker began by saying he was glad the better class of newspapers meet with him on the question mentioning mention-ing particularly the Tribune Applause He had lived in California for 8 years and told what a curse the Chinese were I to that state The Eurlingame treaty I which was responsible for their coming was a delusion the Chinese caring nothing noth-ing for it and the United States deriving no benefit from it as was anticipated morally and socially physically or politically The Chinese were a disappointment dis-appointment and not desirable as neighbors neigh-bors They were simply imitators originating origin-ating nothing They did not progress On the contrary they have been going backward for 200 or 300 years He IT wanted to see the mononolies PO tao 1 Applause Leland Stanford and other plunderers had turned California into amoral a-moral and physical desert they having no sympathy with the feelicgs and hopes of white workingmen Referring to the veto the speaker said the Presidents reasons were very weak The monopolists and their hireling preachers telegraphed him to do it These men were in league against the producing classes of the country and it was time there was a change Applause No people had ever stood as meek as there of California hav inglthe remedy in their own hands He did not think thePreeident should have power to veto everything indiacrimnately especially when the will of the people was distinctly expressed and clearly understood un-derstood upon any measure Applause The President had no right to say that the Pacific Coast could be a slop pail for Asia thud preventing the development of the country and making it not only the pride of the United States but of tho whole world The following was adopted Where There is radical distinction in the race civilization and manner of life between the American native and the Chinese people who have come to the United States merely to make money to spend next to nothing and to take it away with them on their home journey at the earliest opportunity remaining re-maining alien and unassimilated during their stay among us and constituting amoral a-moral and social nuisance as provided on the Pacific Coast which is acknowledged by the antiChinese bill passed by the pressure of unanimous public opinion wherever it was not falsified by a subsidized subsi-dized press in the interest of soulless monopolies therefore be it Resolved That we stigmatize the Presidents Pre-sidents veto of the ntiCbinese bill a treason to civilized society in opening this continent to an avalanche of Mongolian Mon-golian barbarians who would degrade the standard of lifo of tue whole white race by practices and manners of living which cannot be tolerated among civil lized nations of these enlightened times Resolved That we demand from Congress Con-gress the reenactment of said antiChi nese bill until it can be passed over his excellencys veto and that we call upon the people of the whole United States to relegate to private life all officeholders and ail legislators who have proved themselves traitors to their race and country |