Show THE TITE CHINESE QUESTION IX IN sax BAN ON ox the instant mr pixley delivered a lecture at the mechanics institute san francisco on the chinese question last saturday evening another lecturer mr H 0 bennett delivered by request an address to a crowded audle audie audience lice rice on the same subject mr air Pix leys leya lecture was in opposition to the importation and employment of China men meu as laborers mr Benu bennetts ettla lecture was in favor of the employment of f that race he the various arguments used against them they were called heathen incapable of understanding der standing or adopting american customs religion language and laws but last month mouth there were 1200 chinese chiefly adults attending sabbath schools in san francl Franci francisco doo goo alone they are zealous stu students delts deits make good progress and whenever they attend school they acquire knowledge with remarkable rapidity nearly three hundred chinese in ban san francisco employ private tut tutors to instruct them in english frenchia fren chit chii german spanish greek and latin he praised their language and government ern ment in china be he said the children of the lower classes often attain to the highest offices learning and ml being the only avenue to promotions I there the schools r are free and education universal you never find a chin chinaman amstut i who ir iff unable to read and write his name can we say he be asked as a much of many who are loudest in their denunciation of the chinese aa as barbarians on the question of their inferiority be he sald eald the cry that the chinese are an inferior race is not a new one to raise against a people it is ts hs old as the history of man the As syrians greeks romans Per persians blans egyptians normans scandinavians ru bum bus blans and spaniards have all maintained this doctrine of ortho the inferiority of those held in subjection tho britons were held by their for centuries to be an inferior race today to day they are among the foremost of races he asserted that it was a flimsy pretext to charge the chinese with driving white mechanics out of employment for there were no chinese working at the trades the artisans of which were unemployed the chinese are chiefly employed he be said at work which white men would not do for the wages manufacturers can afford to pay were they to be driven out of these employments ments menta the number of the unemployed whites would have been greatly increased because it is the cheap labor of these people the little manufacturing industry that struggles fer for existence in the state of california to reject their labor would be as reasonable he argued as to reject steam because not oot generated with pure water there were steam engines in the united states and in england equal to the power of one hundred millions of men but that immense increase in the working force bad not injured the laborers in those countries nor would any force of chinese labor properly managed ay we have only given a few of the prominent ideas advanced by this lecturer upon this subject his hio remarks were listened to with the greatest impatience by the majority of his audience an ordinary man would have been overwhelmed by the violence of the opposition manifested by those present but he would not be choked off hisses groans cheers and cries of various kinds and other interruptions were frequent but as soon eoon as the uproar ceased he would resume his hia remarks though often with but little success as far as making himself heard beard B were broken down I 1 and the alta alia california i fornia says nothing was left undone by the rowdies short of throwing missiles to break up the meeting and have it as disorder disorderly lyas aa possible the papers which do not agree with mr bennett on the subject under discussion agree in calling his lecture an able and dignified argument and condemn the conduct of those who him thi this s topic is an exciting one at att present in california and it la Is likely to become still more important for there la Is an immense amount of feeling on the subject tre THE mork Work ingmans journal burnal 7 a paper published in san francisco urges the immediate organization of a working mens operative cooperative co society to compete commet o with the big grading companies in that city eity r it suggests the raising of a fund fand of by the subscription on the part of five thousand men of 25 each thinkers recognize the value of the operative cooperative co principle but the dimmie diffie difficulty uI is to put it into practical operation must union of on the part of those who enter upon the practice of that principle qualities which are exceedingly rara rare tn th these days |