Show THE CHINESE QUESTION we have fought the chinese night fight t In California and lost it it has been upon tile the part of the americans a chinese mode of warfare sound and fury and on the part of the chinese it has been a combat to which they brought neither arms nor strategy but only persistence anti and patient endurance we have agitated the question ef chinese emigration and while we have made speeches and held elections memorialized congress carried test questions to the supreme court worried by license laws and poll pax tax collections leati ons passed municipal ordinances to their annoyance imprisoned their prostitutes blackmailed their gambler threaten threatened pd to burn steamships and canted local elections upon the chinese question the they y have poured pruned in upon us in ili a silent tand and irresistible sorow a way that is more alarming than an actual and forcible ible invasion we say we have lost the battle battie and go BO we have at every avery single point the anti antl chinese enil enli emigration gration party lias has been routed and overthrown the republican party and the democratic party have opposed chinese emigration and still the emigration tion pours in upon us senator sargent and congressman Lilt luttrell drell frell have agitated the matter ili in ithe senate t and house and nothing comes of it we have passed laws jaws in the Legisla legislature and the courts of california have annulled them atheni we V have engaged our criminal courts to punish their prostitutes gambler 3 and vagabonds and they lave have have defeated justice by doggedly submitting to imprisonment and overfilling the capa capacity gity pity of our jails aridly and by stolid nonresistance non resistance wearying in 9 our courts into letting them ig lg alane 19 ac chinese emigration is not an unmixed un axed evil there Is an argument in its favor this argument at aument is the one of temporary necessity of individual profit of cheap labor nor and present i convenience the farmers formers ii have havo ave avo utilized chinese iab lab jabor hi m thap res buro suro of their har harvests vests The tile railroad builders haqq availed of their steady and arid industrious indus working b k habits they dyke the ahe tudo tide lands land build roads work iu in factories raisa raise vegetables catchi catchy nish fish and serve berve in bemal menla ad capacities cadi capi cities mieles they solve boive tho the serva servants t 1 problem in 1 the country they a act as us breakwaters between the mastres mis tres 1 hua the maid in cities and do something towards toward s mitigating the insolence of cooks and chamb chambermaid chambermaids ermald by affording a poor substitute for white while domestic servants in basei casei cases of dir dire extremity but quietly and insidiously the the tho chinese are eating at the them vitals of our prosperity and unless the broad proposition can be maint maintained alried that a country may prosper with an adalien alien allen and 0 population there gidy can be bd no conclusion in favor of chinese emigration grat gnat ibri if a country countr anay may attain a real and in permanent erman eXit advancement with its labor interests in ili the tho hands of a class that will vill send their earnings abroad then california is on oil the high road to prosperity if it is not essential that the population 0 of o a state should be become coffie citizens thereof and bei be clothed with all the responsibilities alid and duties of citizenship then we may look upon the incoming Chir chinese feso fese without alarm slowly yet surely they are invading fields of profitable blei biel industry every branch of labor that they have attacked they have subdued i their advance is slow alow cautious and silent but ut it Is as irresistible as an arm army of locusts the progress s of tile the kansas is grasshopper from field to field Is no more destructive and absorbing than the march of chinese labor tile the irish washerwoman was tiie tho first to succumb the german cigar maker fell next in order tho the italian gardener and fisherman are mado to give way ady before the inevitable cli cil chinese the slipper maker fell first in his line the shoemaker next women and and tailors hung on upon the tho thes 6 gewing cowing machine machino poi foi a time but had to give ive ivo V r store porters portera boys to clean elean ean 0 ounces cee ces cooks in kitchens childs n nurses and second girls box and bag makers emp employees lorees in cordage woolen and silk factories at turning lathes and in all tho the lighter mechanical occupations laborers on farm farms i in n placer mines on rail roads road sill lii ill 1 made a de way wax for the tho cheaper asiatic laborer instead of fifty thousand white laboring renwith men with fifty thod thousand gaud gand white in fifty thousand houses raising rig tig children to multiply their geinert generations spending their money in the land where their labor produced it we have fifty thousand patient laborious animals living in crowded tenements sleeping upon shelves feeding upon tea fish and rlee rica cooking with charcoal in bra importing from china their own goods and rending pending to china chida their earnings the chinese are not alone dan dangerous erous to poor men but in good time they will eat cat up the rich already and always they have been their own bankers they have long since dispensed with our merchants aa as middlemen they import their own goods even now they monopolize the trade in tea rice sugar silk opium and all the fabrics and productions raised in china thoy they supply at san francisco and in every interior village their own people with good goods and we see no do reason why they should not in time own the woolen cordage age silk shoe shoo cigar tobacco and other factories the sugar refineries and rice mills import goods in their own ships arid and remove the relation which now exists between the chinese and the americans the chinese have greater wealth they tiley have overwhelming wh elming num numbers bers bere they can live lve ive infinitely cheaper than our own people and when we reflect upon the war we have waged against them and its result results swe we are not altogether convinced that they are not the superior people As yet we have had bad no trouble or conflict between the tho races our times are prosperous our country is expansive labor is plenty but remove all this a and i nd let us ask our ourselves elves will our white working classes be patient and endure should poverty press them should hunger invade their families should labor become searce scarce and would they thoy silently suffer while these barbarians consumed their substance the rightful inheritance of poverty is labor will our poor people res rese rest gon content tent while these aliens fill their places suppose in this coming NV winter inter with all its horrors of climate and hi scarcity of labor the tho city of nei new york b had bad ad chinese inen ju tho th heart beart of the town ready to perform skilled and unskilled labor willing willingto to for any compensation and capable by their habits of living jiving upon ten cents per day would its white people its labori laboring Dg men and women look patiently on and see their children starve ban sau francisco is young and prosperous california is new and sparsely settled labor today to day is abundant food ia is plenty but in the midst of this dream of comport comfort t is there not in this chinese population the germ of future danger with all the modesty of a defeated partisan and all the humility that ought to characterize the advocate of a lost cause 1 w we e cannot avoid suggesting possibilities to bur po 1 1 ti clans and arid throwing out these theae hints for the consideration of our prosper prosperous ofis business men and wealthy citizens S F chronicle the ago of Ri rings eings figs the world lias bas seen is 1 ta stowage stone age its bronze and its iron age to say nothing of its age of steam electricity etc of which might have had a certain amount of ring in them but we are now living jiving lu an age ago of rings in the ring age look where you will in church state or social life lire and there you will fand them if one cannot rule ho lie will combine liis his influence and talent with ona one or mero mere and the ring rules and plunder is generally the cohesive power which binds them together and anti being belog so bound they grow bolder balder with every completely gorged they fall oin oft or the public like a giant in uneasy sleep shakes them off when will this ring era end not until the rich become licher and the poor are made poorer and aud then it will end iu in revolution men seem to havo have forgotten themselves and to act like wild beasts who prey upon Olle one another honesty is geffre scoffed at and honest men regarded as fools such a condition of things cannot last long iong there Is that hope llope for those who come after us the ferment of corruption works swiftly and a sound reaction follows as daylight follows dark darkness iless but we are in for tor it now at all events there are rings in in every direction and plunder in the most of them the rich mans income is swelled and the laborer labore rys nys is pinched the limit is fast being approached cities and companies are burdened almost to bankruptcy by ay debts heaped up by reckless jobbery to own a house 2 Is to be t sexed aed lo 10 vond yond income to hire one is to help shoulder debt and to pour into the safe of which robbers have the key only grind down tile the people until they are too poor poon time to vote nud aud spoliation triumph is complete As things look now it will not be long before such a condition is brought about but then comes a time after that washington gazette |