Show THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET our california neighbors have still n skeleton in the closet that is the heathen chinese they have labored hard and fought bravely to rid themselves of this foe I but the ubiquitous john jelin confronts them at every turn and the bay citizens have yet to endure his ivirty dirty opium defiled arese prese presence nee and may still have to endure it for an all indefinite period they fou fought glit him persistently by their senators and representatives in congress and when they thought a victory was achieved and t that tat john must go the natili national ial big chief countermanded the order for him hint to march at that time but the people on tho the P pacific I c f slope did not intend to rest satisfied with such defeat and so ta iley renewed tho the fight and have been suet successful in getting i n t bill passed and signed by the president prohibiting chinese immigration to this country for ten tell years the new law goes into operation ninety days after its passage in the meantime however the chinese have been growing in in strength and numbers and monopolizing business and common labor in in many parts odthe of the golden state senators miller iiller and parley farley stated that from one thousand to fifteen hundred land in san F francisco rane isco daily at that rate in in one year sundays included from to celestials celesti als would arrive at the bay city if they we were re permitted to continue to come in such clouds the san franciscans fear that it would not be long before the pacific slope would cease to be american or caucasian and would become mongolian hence their anxiety to rid themselves of the opium soaked tramps from the slums of china it is estimated that there are in hr the tile city of san francisco about chill amen engaged in shoemak shoe slice mak ing they arc are said to be quick to learn make a good article and will put through considerable work in one day they work cheap and monopolize the labor and can supply the tile market with pedal understandings be this as it may they can certainly turn out a vast number of shoes which from all accounts find ready sale suppose on an average they make one and a half pairs per day each in one month or thirty days they will manufacture thirteen thousand five hundred pairs of shoes tills this says the california alia alta is a bi big field for thought ait it this and a few other items appear to give the alia alta the nightmare that journal says we have never been able tobe to be sure that the coat which wo we buy from a white tailor has not been cut out and sent to bo be made up bya by a chinaman that our soaps sugars candles ana and the common necessaries of life have not been made by chinese labor and that the potato which wo we cat at our lunch has not been planted by chinese and in their own way no a one who ever saw a chinese vegetable garden worked would ever overbuy buy one vegetable from them even in the question of laundries wo have heard it asserted that persons have given their washings to white whito persons who in their turn have sublet it to chinese so to effect any good there must be temporary discomfort and a little self denial all till round if this self denial is not catholic then it will be wholly useless or only partially successful but alie time to begin is today to day the alia alta is at a loss to know whom to blame for the grow growth th of alic these se chinese evils but thinks on reflection the bay citizens are all to blame for it our western contemporary however is not averse to cecin seeing johns Il money lolley circulate in the city market in the palmy days of dennis during liis his sand lot orations the chinese got scared seared they barrica ded their domiciles domiciled domi ciles and prepared to defend themselves against any attacks by the hibernian agitators at this time the alia alta says nearly every one of them who had the money went and bought r self elf cocking revolvers and cartridges from american firms and ariex armed themselves to resist tho attacks they feared it is safe to assert toda today to da day y that there arc are as many pis pistols t I s in in chinatown as in all the other parts of tho tile city combined the gun stores cliar charged their full rates of course and i it t was vas cash on oil delivery we cannot blame the merchants even inthey if they had sold out the last weapon in r stores to a chinaman that journal is a real radical anti chinese paper and hopes to bo i y revenged ou on some of tile eastern men who were so antagonistic towards the cilium prohibition bill during its pr progress a loress through boh both houses of congress and appears to derive much comfort aiom fi tile following remarks we are told that by tile of august next chinaman mill will bo be in british columbia to construct the Call canadian adian railroad now they the aro arc bound to land on the pacific side and to finish their work en on tho the atlantic after they have gone through tile passes of tho tile rocky alock mountain and tind reached ottawa they will not be more than or SOO miles as the croft crow flies from boston vcr van few of them will remain in in chiado after lifter the road is 11 built but a largo number when bell the weather gets too cold for their systems w will ill cross the st law renco and anil spread themselves over I new york vermont ont maine mai no and new hampshire and as some of us hope hero here find A resting place in it massachusetts ma sa chu getts v here where they can call reach still sunday school three times a day then we e shall hear of tho the rev vh ali moody and mr leo wing Sanke yand and boston will know all about coolies in in a cry very short space of time there can be no possible doubt that tho ilia new nc england and middle st ates will have lidean an opportunity of fraternizing v with etli chinaman as soon as the canadian railroad is is built because if there is is ono one tiling thing moro more certain than another it is that the british will not keep neither v will ill they utilize them in canad band alicy will therefore 21 migrate ignate and chamb shamble f a over 01 cr the border some ome of them we trust a after being pud paid oft off will tako take a pleasure trip through lake lako ontario seo see niagara falls lun iun down like lake eric and find their way into ohio where ezra B taylor will bo be doubtless doi delighted to welcome them and gio give thorn thern ins his bucolic benediction |