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Show COOK ON THE illlNF.SE. l ite Uvrerend JoNrph Heartily .IiuNt-m lliri Cttuie ol tbe NuukoIihii. Miw Vorii, 7. Joseph Coi k, in a lt-ciu i a lost night, tind fubftnntially the lo!lowing to sny en me Chinese quisDoii. San Fraucisco, a brs ve city, burJly dares utter her mind on the Cuiuese question when her sand lot nraioie threaten con flg ration, riut acd murder. Lod fers and roughs, led by a gring of bhallow and foul mouth cneap j icks, mrstly of foreign birth, fiU the carsol Cahfurniaus daily wilh threats of lire, blood and devastation. I am a friend ol the workirjgmau, but not of rioters, tramps, thieves, sneaks and thugs. Anti Chinese clubs crack the defiant whip ol lawlessness over the heads of California's mayors, governors and senators. Thia business busi-ness may succeed lor a day and an hour iu the city famed once for its deadly vigilance committee, but it will not succeed in the long courie ot eventB. It my Bucceed with one state under a corrupt legislature, but it will not succeed with a nation. San Francisco is afraid of her eand lots; Boston ia not, she has seen their chief; New Y'ork is not, for she has beheld the eamo vision, (applause and laughter.) The leader ot the sand lot oratory, by his odious advocacy, sunk an astute popular leader beneath the eea of Massachusetts politics. No political party can swim in eastern waters with KearneyiBm huug around its neck. The supporters in congress of the unconstitutional bill against Chinese immigration should remember remem-ber that their action may Borne day hang about their necks millstone, and that they may wish, as tbe Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts politician did, on the day of his defeat, that his principal supporter was not only on the eand lots, but under them. (Laughter.) The three despised races on this continent con-tinent are the negroes, Iudiane and Chinese. That part of tbe nation which did justice to the first of these races, will ultimately do justice to the othera. There is a provision that the sixteenth emigrant who offers himself him-self for passage on any American vessel ves-sel shail be excluded. When the Chinese embassy came across the Pacific it had more than fifty in its train, and they could not have boen brought on one ship, according lo the proposed legislation. If ever the Chinese emperor should send another embassy, we should be obliged to bring them on several vessels, under this new regulation. Chinese emigration emi-gration so far has done more, and far more, for this country, financially, than the Irish did when the Irish waa no lurger. (Applause.) Tho sur-i sur-i veyor general of California says the .Chinese have increased the value of properly ia California $290,000,000, and this properly, to-day, ia held by white men. Have any 200,000 Irish done asmuchaathat lor California? (Applause.) Where ia tho eand lot orator ihut dare eay that his race on the Pacific coast has added 290,000, 000 iu value, within ten years, to the property in California held by white meu? (Applause.) These Chinamen bavo, accardiog to olticial statements, state-ments, reclaimed 1,000,000 acres of marsh lands, which were worth $3 an acre, and are now worth $10 an acre, and each one is producing seventy-live bushels ot wheat. These enterprises have given employment lo 500,000 white men, aud theBe men n;W turn on their benefactors. I undertake lo say that there has bdi been on the face cf the globe, since the firrt emigration of English to this country, as profitable emigration as these official figures show. (Applause.) (Ap-plause.) Talk about contamination of Chinese vices! There- is more money Inst in a single year in white gambling saloons ol San Francisco than was ever loat in similar places kept by Chinese, aud no Chinaman evir opened a whitkey mill. (Applause.) (Ap-plause.) Wheu 1 hear men, who are roliiog in iniquity crying out against Chineso vice, and when I see a crowd of adult hoodlums applauding applaud-ing younger ones who beat out the brains of t child of yellow skin, wilh brick bats, when I see settlements burned down wilh no police to shield or avenge the ur.fortnuates, when I even see murder mur-der condoned. I feel almost like calling cal-ling upon God to give us Bomewbere on" the Pacific const I had almost cuid u riot, large enough Lo bring out ihe entire military power so as to impress upon S in Francisco, the dignity of her days of the vigilance coninjiltc. (LHid npptause). If tho mayor ot S.ui Frnc seo, if the governor gov-ernor of California, wiehea to represent repre-sent t'ie Be.ulimeot that will carry the votef u! the Berious p.uts of this land, if tiit re i? to be a union between the bbt politicians of California and the best ot the country in the next presidential presi-dential electiou, the thing for San Francisco to do, ia to keep orJer, not ouiy iu Chinatown, but on the Band lots; to seize by the nape of the neck the monocracy and hoodlum quarter ot San Francisco, and if necessary, by the npe of the neck the Cnkese quarter quar-ter alno; but at any hazard to keep both in order, to preserve tbe ; fundamental principles ol our na tional policy, and lo make firet a pure acd then a peaceable Pacific cost, en far as it is trod by cheap Iftt-nr. ( AppUme.) |