Show FAVOR HOME LABOR it is an astonishing thine that in ogden today where scores of homo people are walking the streets in a vain search for work chinese should be able to find and hold employment in the cannery here what is the trouble are the chinese justly entitled to employment to the exclusion of white men the man who would answer yes is a very lonesome as well as a badly warped individual the first care of every community should be for its own and the chinese are not aedene own with ua temporarily they are not of us are the chinese more profitable workers than the white people no they may consent to less than a decent w age but when it is taken into account that every dollar which they can save after paying for less than a human livine is sent away from this place their employment is not only a direct loss to the community but an indirect loss to the institution which accepts their labor take the cannery for instance how long could it live if it depended upon chinese patronage alone not long it receives its support from alie white working classes of this intermountain inter mountain country if they have no labor they acet no wages if they get no wages they support no cannery so chinese labor no matter at what price is not profitable to the 1 community or its institutions as white labor is will white people perform the work at atie cannery if they will not of course the argument comes to a sudden end the receiver and manager says that his company has vainly tried for three years past to find while men who would accept the work now being done by the chinese wo can not dispute his assertion and yet it ie a strange kind of labor at a cannery which will and yet which our own people with suffering families will not accept with all due respect to the gentleman and his explanation THE must confess to a feeling of unfaith aith in such a situation as exists today it would be only fair to the home labor and the entire comman ity to dispense with the creatures alio wear pigtails pig tails and offer once situation to men who have a vital inter est jn this country and men in whom chii country lias a vital interest we believe that there are scores of men who tody would accept any honorable employment the chinese question is not fully understood der stood by many laople in this section alst every possible good quality and advantage they possess ba ascribed tu the chinese and admitted in their bohall and still there remains the fact that their presence here and their invasion of alio several avenues of employment curse this country and wreak untold individual and community evils every chinese laborer who comes to america is a slave from tho day he until the day he departs cither living or dead lie belongs to companies they find labor for him and agree to ship ills bonea to china ithe it he shall die to repay themselves they hold the major part of ills earnings until a certain stipulated sum is discharged and then ho is ostensibly free but not really so lie nast always pay a tax to them while lie remains in america the balance of his earnings ho sends to the only home which he recognizes a home in the flowery kingdom the six companies export all their surplus to the came distant shores within thirty years these combined have sent more than from san francisco alone to china at a modest calculation cu lation tha enormous sum bopre more than of days work taken from our own people and contributed to a race of aliens who have so little liking for america that the most sacred obligation which they recognize toward each other is that the bones of one of their dead not bo permitted to repose here THE STANDARD submits that if this country is not good enough for a burial spot it is not good enough for a working f place |