Show the chinese and the white women is there are those who hold that no white girl need ever starve for want of work in california or go to the bad but we fear that a candid in ulry will not bear out this theory t must be remembered that john chinaman confronts our women as well in the kitchen and dining room as in the workshop and factory and that consequently the field of domestic service is limited whoever doubts this should study the personal advertisements in the san francisco papers or devote a day to visiting the employment agencies in that city in the latter places he will find hundreds of decent women and girls sitting patiently hour after hour and day after day and he must also remember thit that apart from these there are other hundreds who prefer to tore receive applications at their lodgings and whose advertisements fill columns of the city journals every day it may be doubted whether the domestic service field was not mea durably filled before the little army of workwoman work women was turned adrift and if this was the case it becomes a doubly interesting and important question how the latter have gained a livelihood since if the chinese commission would direct attention to this question we are disposed to think that some startling revelations would result and that the public would gain anew a new idea of the moral consequences of chinese competition upon the community it is probable that the police of san francisco would be able to throw a good deal of light upon the matter and that the manufacturers who at one time employed women would be in a position to say something about the fate of their old em aloyes it is scarcely conceivable that great suffering rind misery should not have resulted from the change or that many unfortunate girls should not have been driven in despair to evil courses coursed that always happens in centers of population at periods of commercial stagnation or temporary stoppage of production in the present case all the ordinary y causes have been intensified for here it ia Is not a question of temporary suspension of work but a sudden and final diversion of the stream of labor and a substitution of one kind for another under conditions which preclude all hope of better things inthe in the future noels nor is there in the present growth of our society any corresponding opening for the girls who are thus compelled to seek new employments while cheap chinese labor slowly and steadily monopolizes trade after trade man after manufacture the field of female industry is being narrowed instead of widened and the longer the women wait for an opening the less chance there is that it will appear zit sit it may be possible for those who are ignorant of the subject to sneer at the idea wa of A citizens being crowded to the fhe wall by chinam ien nam len but even the most fatuous ignoramus will pause before he in borses or apologizes for a state of things which is responsible for the degradation and ruin perhaps of hundreds of american women and which offers a superficial business briskness as compensation for the shame and disgrace of those who should have been tha the honored wives and m mothers others of the rising generation sacramento record union |