| Show I THE CHINESE QUESTION IN A NUT SHELL for years the commerce manufacture and agriculture of the states and territories of the pacific coast and of the irocky mountains have suffered materially by the invasion of alio eyed pigtailed pig tailed loathsome mongolians Mongo lians who hav come in swarms liko grass hoppers and like them portend misfortune and poverty they have driven alie civilized man from the dark mines and from he workshop from the warehouses and docks from the loom and hr il iv share aliey have insinuated themselves inac do service established a standing menace to health and cleanliness alike in kitchen and nursery they have driven white girls and women from honest labor into disreputable traffic and exasperated he white men whom they robbed of their inalienable birthright of labor at the bottom of all the troubles which have of late years agitated and disturbed san francisco and other cities in california and surrounding their cheep labor they have m battered bitt ered the feelings of the workingmen and endangered he security rity of capital here in we have not yet had so much from the inroads of these celestials Celesti als from the nether regions there is sufficient labor on the market for all the agricultural help needed less of which is needed hen than elsewhere on account of the fortunate fact of our lands being mostly parceled out in small homesteads whose proprietors can manage them without foreign assistance manufactures have not yet been as much developed as they might have been and when they are our people have too much of fraternal homogeneity to allow the detrimental inroads of these parasites on the body politic mining at last has hitherto been of a laborious fatiguing character precluding the from accomplishing any tiling in it and then we have for tuna tely not yet been afflicted with mammoth monopoly corporations which mcgar locsi of white laborers employ the cheaper chinese help still the evil is not altogether absent we have some of it among us more than is compatible with public decency and private welfare there are the opium bens where quite a few of our citizens male and female inhale the soul debasing body destroying influence of the poisonous drug there are the wash houses which spread miasmatic ex ha lations around their premises and prevent many an industrious honest white woman from turning an honest penny to feed and clothe her little ones but the most objectionable feature because a the same time endangering the health of he impairing the legitimate business of respectable firms is the promiscuous and illicit peddling of vegetables by these unclean mongo lians if there is any filthy lucre it if certainly be income they derive from their green truck from house to house they pack the dangerous produce of their and many people are incautious enough to buy the stuff which they would not tolerate on their premises if they had any idea of the hasty manner in which their turnips onions radishes lettuce ac are raised besides Bes idea they fell dearer than all our city green groberg groc erg who besides without any exception known to us pains to furnish their customers only such produce as they can warrant for wholesomeness this practice of patronizing the chinese vegetable peddlers injures first tho buyers by exposing their health next the green grocers cf the town who do a large share in building up the community pay their licenses taxes and are otherwise first and last in the discharge of any public duties thirdly it injures the farmers of the neighboring settlements whose sale of well raised garden is correspondingly despondingly ly reduced thereby crip plying them in their purchasing means and indirectly entailing loss on arery business man in town we that our look this matter up and take to atop an unlicensed traffic which injures all the interests of the people they are identified with and only individuals to our race and civilization |
