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Show Ths Chinese question -has assumed a new phase in Calffornia: Sixty Chinamen in a cigar factory in San Francisco have struck, says the telegraph, because the owners of the factory refused to discharge the -white workmen. It is said the strike was ordered by the Chinese Union of San Francisco. . All this may be true, and all this may not be true. Probabilities must be considered even when direct state-mentt state-mentt are made, and the probabilities are all against such a course on the , part of the Chinese. Whether it is true or not, it is a splehdid illustration of ;.the wisdom of settling intricate political questions by strikes and boycotting. Truly, there is a poetic justice in the action of these Chinese.- : : " |