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Show TELEGRAPHIC KGAR5EY AHD CHINESE. How Both Evils Were Developed Devel-oped In Culllornla. New York, 23. The Tribune's re porter interviewed Jude Ord, oi San Francisco, now here. Tbe latter said: I have watched the progress of the Kearney movement from its inception. in-ception. It was brought through the usual conflict between capital and labor, but principally through the employment of Chinese labor to the exclusion of all other. The immigration immi-gration of Chinese at fint wag very Blight and their coming was not objected ob-jected to, and io fact, scarcely noticed. no-ticed. It was not until the Central Pacific and Union Pacifici railroads, which extended competitive advantages advan-tages to Chinese immigrants, and created such a tremendous influx for; several years to the Pacific coast, that the present disturbances began to exist. White men and women, who were only receiving moderate compensation for their labor, were discharged andChinamen.who proved themselves to be willing and apt scholars, were substituted in their places. Not only did they make able miners, laborers and mechanics, but cooka, servants and chamber maida, and to-day many of the beat bouses contain Chinese servants of every grade. The enterpriang laborer who had saved a small pittance, easily stood this change for a short time, but while he was standing still, speculators, manufacturers and others : with capital, were quickly gaining wealth through the introduction of cheap labor. The result has been that in a few years workingnien have become beggars and capitalists have become richer, and to-day San Francisco Fran-cisco contains over a hundred millionaires. mill-ionaires. As a natural consequence, this great wraith has created a mouopoly. This has assumed such gigantic proportions that any kind of legislation, either locai or statu, is constantly being tampered with, and even our courts are in danger of being controlled by these monopolists. 1 This, with the general depression in business and real estate, placed property prop-erty owners in a very bad oicr. As an instance, I recall the case of Hopkins, Hop-kins, an extensive stockholder in t lie Pacific company, who contemplated building a very fine mansion just outside out-side of our city. Drawings were com pleted and ground broken; its cost was estimated at $1,000,000. Hopkins employed Chinese laborers, and the work was advancing rapidly, but while this was going on, white laborera grumbled considerably, and one night a gang o( these men proceeded to the unfinished building and destroyed it. This was the signal for a general outbreak, since which time confusion and disorder have been rampant under the leadership of Kearney. Hopkins was forced to leave the city, and settled in the southern part of the atate, where he died in a lew months, his nerve.-i having become fatally nJlected. No will was found after his' death and an estimate if his wealth can be formed from the fact that his wife was compelled to furnish a personal per-sonal bond of $10,000,000 as administratrix adminis-tratrix et the estate. The judge continued; All parties must have leader, and Kearney became a favorite among tbe rabble, and was looked upon as their leader. Seeing this, he conceived that his only opponents were great capitalists, whom he despises in their alleged inability to resist him. He was encouraged en-couraged in his course by men who bad more brains than hiniaeW. sorig of whom were amusing themselves at tbfl expense of the public, and some who, from mercenary motives, were anxious or the movement to go on. He very soon. ,became not only popular but puwewul (unong that class of laborers jalio, (far a long time, felt sore At capitftHata. The disconteuted sot throughout the interior hearing of bim imagined that a great power reposed iu bin o4 simultaneously Kearneyism" fouod adherent? in every part of the al&te. 1 Kearneyum is at white heat now, and it is evident concessions must be made by both commuuiBts and cap. tatiats. In the city it has gained ajore strength than in the interior, and no doubt but at the next election it will ow a bolder ffcul, The respectable Ju :ntj element ia ga,i;ai any acts M tainl ?al6m but U wiiiiDS 10 -rV ... pv organization opnos ing monopoly - willing ma.nlyipe . A railroad, steamship aa "rp portions. lu-thwwftjKa..ye,t will aauievo their .ob,eot. " m Kearncvifc want is new .!iv,va com polling 'Cui011 w adhefe to Uie established laws f u?lr3U At the present CixC11 do,Qjj know and don't care to ki?"- ( laws are. They want the C... 1 traffic stopped and object to China men ootniDjr to th s country, who have no other object in view but to gain money, and theu return home without basing spent anything here. Another demand they make is thai the law allowing dead Chinamen to be returned to. their home shall be rescinded, for it Chinamen knew ihev were to be buried in this couulry tiny would not come here for lore or money. If Chinamen were compelled toadhere to the local laws, much of this trouble could be averted. |