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Show SOLVING THE CHINESE PROBLEM The San Francisco Post has offered "a new solution for the Chinese problem in California. In its issue of Friday, January Janu-ary 29, 1886, the Post made the following announcement : , Many of the manufacturers who have been employing Chinese in their various trades have testified before the Labor Commissioners Commission-ers that they could not get the white labor to replace the Chinese if they discharged them all at once. Others have signified to the. Post their willingness to discharge their Chinese employes if they could replace them with white labor. - . , i The Post, in desiring to give substantial, ! practical support and aid to the movement to drive the Chinese out of the trades, will for a few weeks publish gratuitously the i names of those desiring work in the lines j now filed by Chinamen. Any person de- i sirous of securing work of this kind such J as washing and ironing, in families as j domestics, as farm hands, in boot and shoe j factories, or in making cigars, overalls, clothing or ladies' underwear should send j to the Post for publication a brief statement of the kind of labor desired, with the name j and address plainly written. , " . j There is some sense in attacking the j Chinese problem in this way, and the j method is both peaceful and legitimate, j .The Chinese went to California because labor was scarce there, and by their industry in-dustry and frugality they thrived wonderfully. wonder-fully. California became an enchanted country to the dwellers in the Celestial Empire, the same as it did to the dwellers dwell-ers in the Eastern States. The Chinese, as a rule, succeeded better than the emit grants from the East, and such being the ' case, they went in thousands to Califor nia and have remained there. If they are a curse to the Coast now they were once a blessing, and this should not be forgotten. Many of the . methods employed em-ployed to fid the Coast of the presence of Chinese have been barbarous in the extreme ex-treme and without any justification. The method by which the Post has undertaken under-taken to drive the Chinese out of California Califor-nia is the only one that can be employed without infringing' upon the rights of every citizen. To exclude the Chinese from our shores is a different thing from driving them . from our shores. The Chinese problem is a labsr problem, and this being the case, the surest way in the world to solve it is for employers of labor to refuse to employ Chinese labor. Ifit is desirable to rid the Coast of the presence of Chinese, and there is not work enough to employ both Caucasians and Chinese, employ the Caucasians. It a poor Irish woman is in need of work and will do laundry work as well as a Chinaman give the work to the poor Irish woman, according to the plan of the Post. We are glad te see the inauguration of pacific measures in California in dealing with the Chinese question, for the employment em-ployment of such measures will soonest make the true merits of the question known, and thereby lead to the speediest and most satisfactory solution of the question. |