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Show IMPORTATION OF COOLIES. What is known as the Chinese Six Companies of San Francisco has offered of-fered to import half a million Chinese coolios to do the rough work of the country during the war. After tho period of hostilities, the coolies are to bo deported. There are two sides to this proposal. pro-posal. Is the country in need of half a jnillion laborers? Samuel G. Blythe declares the coolies aro needed, and he is a very high authority. Our opinion is that, with a little economy in labor hero and there, tho country can avoid bringing In the poorly-paid workers of Asia. If absolutely abso-lutely necessary as a war measure, tho peoplo would not object to the temporary presence of the coolies as hewers of wood and drawers of water. It will be recalled that the first influx in-flux of Chinese was brought about by a demand for common laborers, at the time tho Central Pacific was being built. Then followed a great wave of Asiatics which threatened to engulf tho industrial centers of tho west. Finally, the white worker, to protect himself from the underpaid competi tion, had to demand an exclusion afrt, which was passed by congress. nn |