The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 23, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1901. CHINATOWN IS A MENACE TO HEALTH .I, 4 | | | | | MEMORIAL OF THE EXCLUSION CONVENTION ADDRESSED TO THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS O the President and the Congress of the United States: Pursuant to a call officially issued by 'the city of San Francisco, there assembled in that city st day of November, 1901, for the purpose sing the sentiments of the State of Cali- convention composed of representatives Supervisors, City Councils, trade, com- organizations to the number of ent it was resolved to memorial- of the United States as fol- civic and without di the President and the Congr lows thousand, Soon after the umbers of under. con' negotiation of the Burlingame treaty in 1868 were brought to this country nbers so increased that in 1878 the pac ctically demand for the la coolies ple of the § unanimous restriction of igration. Our white population suffered in eve bor and trade, having in numerous in- stances been ut of employment by the competition of the Chinese. The progress of the State was arrested because so long as the field was occupied by Chinese a new and desirable immi- gration was impossible. After a bitter struggle remedial legisla- tion wa 1882 and was renewed in 1892, to run f Your memori s, in view of the fact lled Geary law expires by limita- tion on May ning that you have been petitioned against its re believe that it is necessary for them to repeat and easons which, in their judgment, re- quire the re i the continued enforcement of the law. usion have been most advantageous The effe nese resident of Ca g to the last cens 5 ement of Czlifornia by Caucasians had T T r to the adoption of these laws, a healthy growth of the State in population has marked the progress of re- Every material interestof the State has advanced has been our portion. Were the restriction laws are convinced that our working population would be 1 the noble structure of our State, the creation of d industry would be imperiled if not destroyed. only confirmed your memorialists in their knowledge derived from actuailiy coming in se, that they are a non-assimilative race standard of American thought undesirable as citi- Although they have been frequently employed and treated lecent consideration ever since the enactment of the exclu- which was the culmination and satisfaction of a’s patriotic purpose, they have not in any sense altered s and have not socially or otherwise as- To quote the Imperial Chinese Consul “They work more cheaply than they live more cheaply; they send their money out of the to China; most of them have no intention of remaining nited States, and they do not adopt American manners, colonies and not after the American fashion.” Physical Assimilation Impossible. Until this year no statute had been passed by the State for- bidding their intermarriage with the whites, and yet during their jong ence but few intermarriages have taken place and the offspring has been i riably degenerate. It is well established that the iss of the Caucasian and the Mongolian does not pos- s the virtue of either, but develops the vices of both. So phys- similation is out of the question. It is well known that the vast majority of Chinese do not ir wives with them in their immigration because of their se to return to their native land when a competency is Their practical status among us has been that of single competing at low wages against not only men of our own men who have been brought up by our civilization to and civic duty. They pay little taxes, they support no tutions—neither school, church nor theater; they remain fornia in 1539 s, to 600; and General whites steadfastly, after all these years, a permanently foreign element. The purpose, no doubt, for enacting the exclusion laws for periods of ten years is due to the intention of Congress of observing the progress of these people under American institutions, and now it has been clearly demonstrated that they cannot, for the deep and ineradicable reasons of race and mental organization, assimilate with our own people and be ‘molded as are other races into strong and composite American stock. We respectfully represent that their presence excludes a de- sirable population and that there is no necessity whatever for their immigration. The immigration laws of this country now exclude pauper and contract labor from every land. All Chinese immigration of the coolie class is both pauper and contract labor. It is not a voluntary immigration. The Chinese Six Companies of California deal in Chinese labor as a commeodity. Prior to the exclusion they freely imported coolies, provided for them, farmed out their services and returned them, and if they should die their bones, pursuant to a superstitious belief, to their native land. America is the asylum for the oppressed and liberty-loving people of the world, and the implied condition of their admission to this country is allegiance to its Government and devotion to its institutions. It is hardly necessary to say that the Chinese are not even bona fide settlers, as the Imperial Chinese Consul Gen- eral admits. ‘We respectfully represent that American labor should not be exposed to the destructive competition of aliens who do not, will not and cannot take up the burdens of American citizenship, whose presence is an economic blight and a patriotic danger. It has been urged that the Chinese are unskilled and that they create wealth in field, mine and forest, which ultimately redounds to the benefit of the white skilled workingman. The Chinese are skilled and are capable of almost any skilled employment. They have invaded the cigar, shoe, broom, chemical, clothing, fruit canning, matchmaking and woollen manufacturing industries, and have displaced more than 4000 white men in these several employments in the city of San Francisco. As common laborers they have throughout California displaced tens of thousands of men. But this country is not solely concerned even in a coldly economic sense with the production of wealth. Grave Danger of Over-Production. The United States has now a greater per capita of working energy than any other land. If it is stimulated by a non-assim- ilative and non-consuming race there is grave danger of overpro- duction and stagnation. The home market should grow with the population. But the Chinese, living on the most meager food, having no families to support, inured tc deprivation, and hoard- ing their wages for use in their native land, whither they invari- ably return, cannot in any sense be regarded as consumers. Their earnings do mnot circulate nor are they reinvested—contrary to those economic laws which make for the prosperity of nations. For their services they may be said to be paid twice—first by their employer and then by the community. If we must have protec- tion, is it not far better for us to protect ourselves against the man than against his trade? Our opponents maintain that the admission of the Chinese would cause an enlargement of our national weaith and a great increase of production, but the dis- tribution of wealth and not its production is to-day our most serious public question. In this age of science and invention the production of wealth can well be left to take care of itself. 1t is its equitable distribution that must now be the concern of the country. The increasing returrence of strikes in modern times must have convinced every one that their recent settlement is nothing more than a truce. It is not a permanent industrial peace. The new organization of capital and labor that is mow necessary to bring about lasting peace and harmony between those engaged in production will require greater sympathy, greater trust and con- fidence and a clearer mutual understanding between the employ- ers and the employed. Any such new organization will require a closer union to be formed between them. These requirements can never be fulfilled between the Individuals of races so alien to one" another as ourselves and the Chinese. The Chinese are only capable of working under the present unsatisfactory system. All progress then to an improved organ- ization of capital and labor would be arrested. We might have greater growth, but never greater development. It was estimated by the Commissioner of Labor that there were a million idle men in the United States in 1886. Certainly the 76,000 Chinese in Cali- fornia at that time stood for 76,000 white men waiting for employ- ment, and the further influx of Chinese in any considerable num- bers would precipitate the same condition again, if not indeed make it chronic. If the United States increases in population at the rate of 12 per cent per decade it will have nearly 230,000,000 people in <100 years. Our inventive genius and the constant im- provements being made in machinery will greatly increase our per capita productive capacity. If it be our only aim to increase our wealth so as to hold our own in the markets of the world are we not, without the aid of Chinese coolies, capable of doing it and at the samge time preserve the character of our population and insure the perpetuity of our institution? It is not wealth at any cost that sound public policy requires, but that the country be developed with equal pace and with a desirable population which stands not only for industry but for citizenship. Chinese Crowding Out Americans. _In their appeal to the cupidity of farmers and orchardists the proponents of Chinese immigration have stated that the Chinese are only common laborers, and by this kind of argument they have attempted to disarm the skilled labor organizations of the country; but we have shown you that the Chinese are skilled and are capable of becoming skilled. As agriculturists they have crowded out the native population and driven the country boy from the farm to the city, where he meets their skilled competition in many branches of industry. But shall husbandry be abandoned to a servile class? Shall the boys and girls of the fields and of the orchards be deprived of their legitimate work in the harvest? Shall not our farmers be encouraged to look to their own house- holds and to their own neighbors for labor? Shall the easy meth- ods of contract employment be encouraged? We are warned by history that the free population of Rome was driven by slave labor from the country into the city, where it became a mob and a rabble, ultimately compassing the downfall of the republic. The small farms were destroyed, and under an overseer large farms were cultivated, which led Pliny to remark that ‘great estates ruined Italy.” The experience of the South with slave labor warns us against unlimited Chinese immigration, considered both as a race question and as an economic problem. The Chinese, if permitted to freely enter this country, would create race antagonisms which would ultimately result in great public disturbance. The Cau- casian will not tolerate the Mongolian. As ultimately all gov- ernment is based on physical force, the white population of this country will not without resistance suffer itself to be destroyed. Economically it was thought wise at one time to employ negro slaves, but the accumulated wealth of the South was wiped out by an appalling expenditure of blood and money, precipitating condi- tions which bore with terrible force upon a people which were once considered great and prosperous. The cornerstone of their struc- ture was slavery, and the cornerstone of any structure based upon the employment of Chinese coolies is servile labor. It is repugnant to our form of society and to our ideas of government to segre- gate a labor class and regard it only as its capacity for work. If we were to return to the ante-Rellum ideas of the South, now hap- pily discarded, the Chinese would satisfy every requirement of a slave or servile class. -They work incessantly, they are docile and they would not be concerned about their political conditions, but such suggestions are repulsive to American civilization. America has dignified work and made it honorable. Manhood gives title to rights, and the Government being ruled by majori- ties is largely controlled by the very class which servile labor . Britain in goods sold to the Chinese. would supersede, namely, the free and independent workingmen of America. The political power invested in men by this Govern- ment shows the absolute necessity of keeping up the standard of population and not permitting it to deteriorate by contact with inferior and non-assimilative races. Questien Involves Our Civilization. But this is not alone a race, labor and political question. It is one which involves our civilization, and that interests the peo- ple of the world. The benefactors, scholars, soldiers and states- men—the patriots and martyrs of mankind—have builded our modern fabric firmly upon the foundation of religion, law, scienee and art. It has been rescued from barbarism and protected against the incursions of barbarians. _Civilization in Europe has been frequently attacked and imperiled by the barbaric hordes of Asia.” If the little band of Greeks at Marathon had not beaten back ten times their number of Asiatic invaders it is impossible to estimate the loss to’civmzation that would have ensued. When we contemplate what modern civilization owes to the two cen- turies of Athenian life, from which we first learned our lessons of civil and intellectual freedom, we can see how necessary it was to keep the Asiatic from breaking into Europe. Attila and his Asiatic hordes threatened Central Europe when the Gauls made their successful stand against them.” The wave of Asiatic bar- barism rolled back and civilization was again saved. The repulse of the Turks, who are' of the Mongolian race, before Vienna finally made our civilization strong enough to take care of itself, and the danger of extinction by a military invasion from Asia passed away. But a peaceful invasion is more dangerous than a warlike attack. We ¢an meet and defend ourselves against an open foe, but an insidious foe under our generous laws would be in possession of the citadel before we are aware. The free immi- gration of Chinese would be for all purposes an invasion by Asiatic barbarians, against whom civilization in Europe has been frequently defended fortunately for us. It is our inheritanee to keep it pure and uncontaminatad, as it is our purpose and destiny to broaden and enlarge it. We are trustees for mankind. In an age when the brotherhood of man has become more. fully recognized we are not prepared to overlook the weifare of the Chinaman_himself. We need have nothing on our national con- science because the Chinaman has a great industrial destiny in his own country. Few realize that China is yet a sparsely popu- lated country. Let their merchants, travelégrs and students then come here as before to carry back to China the benefits of our improvements and experiments. Let American ideas of progress and enterprise be planted on Chinese soil. Our commerce with China since 1330 has increased more than 50 per cent. Our consu- lar service reports that “the United States is second only to Great The United States buys more goods from China than does any other nation, and her total trade with China, exports and imports, equals that of Great Britain, not including the colonies, and is far ahead of that of any other country.” Commerce is not sentimental and has not been affected by our policy of exclusion. The Chinese Government, knowing the neces- sities of the situation, being familiar with the fact that almost every country has imposed restrictions upon the immigration of Chinese coolies, does not regard our attitude as an unfriendly act. Indeed, our legislation has been confirmed by treaty. Nor are the Chinese unappreciative of the friendship of the United States re- cently displayed in saving possibly the empire itself from dis- memberment. So, therefore, America is at no disadvantage in its commercial dealings with China on account of the domestic policy of Chinese exclusion. Therefore every consideration of public duty, the nation’s safety and the people’s rights, the preservation of our civilization and the perpetuity of our institutions impel your memorialists to ask for the re-enactment of the exclusion laws which have for twenty years protected us against the gravest dangers, and which, were they relaxed, would imperil every interest which the Ameri- can people hold sacred for themselves and their posterity. R €Vv. Delivers an Address. | SLAVERY IN v Continued From Page Two. work y of the American procure the comforts of a home and | re for his children an education glike to the anarchist and to the criminals rope and is content in an American's eve for the hab- of & horse or a dog. He is content and | work -like life. by the American people and by the people s coast on the plea of what unrestricted to the filthy and brutal spawn cannot enter here. ) , but those Chinamen sl trade in their peculiar way in- e industries of our country. The | to live in narrow quar- ( American soil. for the bare enance _of All of these things enable for a pittance compared with the laborer, who properly | emen of this convention, that we | the degradation of the American (Applauee.) He is the bulwark | to use an old and well- | dinner pail must not be Chinamen to_enter into (Renewed applause.) no not one in the e excused from doing his tion means to this land or to | | R R e e e e e e e R S S e e e e | | 3 : Among Many Hupnter Whiskey 2nd the best will be given you. Never Sold 10 Years Old its neighbors. That is well known from past experience. As Americans we owe it not alone to the future, but to our own time, With its mighty spirit of its ‘wonderful progress, which is due to our free laborers, to see that the Chinese exclusion law is re-enact- ed. (Applause.) J. S. TAYLOR SPEAKS FOR AMERICAN FARMERS He Says They Are in Sympathy With the Laboring Classes in Their Battle. J. S. Taylor of Napa, past lecturer of the State Grange, foliowed with an ad dress in behalf of the iarmers of Califor- nia. He sald: Mr. Chairman and Members of the Chinese Exclusion Convention—I have been requested to address you @s a representative of the farm- ing interests of this State as to what effect the free and unlimited immigration of Chinese would have on our farmers and have chosen for my subject “‘The Chinese Coolle aud the American Farmer.” Gentlemen, where in the world will you find a greater contrast than that between these slaves | of theOrient and the free and independent farm- ers of America? The coolie is, to all intents and purposes, a slave, He is owned, both body and soul, by that powerful corporation, the great trust of China, known here as the Chinese Six Companies. His fare is paid to this country and, if he has any difficulty in getting in, this pow- erful combination has the means ‘to employ the brightest legal talent that we have, which will, sometimes, I am sorry to say. prostitute its ability in trying to defeat the purposes of our laws for the fiithy lucre of the ‘‘heathen | Chinee.” If he gets ashore his expenses are paid until he finds work; he may be sent into the country and hire out as a farm hand or as orchard help. Then he slaves for years in or- der to repay his masters if he should die here, to have his precious bomes sent back to the Flowery Kingdom. John is very imita- tive and soon learns to run & farm or an or- chard “allee samee Melican man.”” When he has repaid his masters their due and shown his ability to run a farm or an orchard success- fully he is backed by his powerful trust and put in a position to compete with the free-born and independent American farmer. And what competition! Oh, my countrymen; free-born American citizens of this grand and glorious republic, think twice before you let down the bars of restriction against this, to us, most alien of all human races. Some of our mirguided statesmen and avari- clous manufacturers would barter the well- being of our laboring and farming classes for an extension of our trede with the Chinese Empire; they do not act upon the principle of progress, TRADE MERY, SR AR R AR Ask for & Till CHRISTY & WISE COMMISSION CO.. Jac. “the greatest good to the greatest number,” 225223 Califernia St...%an Franciseo, Cal. but their motto is “‘the greatest good to the Teic phone Main 675 least number.”’ For this paltry foreign trade they would destroy the greatesi market in the . world, our own home market. What makes this B s e e e e e e e R e e as HE newspapers of this city have paid a great deal of at- tention to the question of slavery, and the public have come | | | to know through the efforts of the press that here in this [ free land, in the city of San Francisco, under the very | shadow of the flag that is the hope, the inspiration and the glory | of all who love liberty and rejoice in freedom, human chattels are bought and sold, bartered and exchanged——yes, in the very market place. And there is no Federal law on the statute books to reach and remedy this evil, and so the new Chinese exclusion law must be framed to wipe out the last vestige of slavery on To learn this may astonish many, but it is a fact mneverthe- At present there is no law relating to the question of slavery, unless it relates to negroes, mulattocs or foreigners; therefore with reference to Chinese slave girls who claim to have been born in the United States there is no penal statute by which their owners can be prosecuted—Excerpt from speech by Duncan E. McKinlay at the Chinese Exclusion Convention. CHINATOWN. e P T S et AL the greatest market in the world? paid laboring classes and pur procpeross tare! ers. But debase American labor to & Chiness standard end the American farmer to a sert » r Fimi o e Jestroyed the commercial su- e farmer knows that his be market is the home market, ang. et marat also that his best customer and his best friend is the well paid, well housed, well clothed and well fed American workingman. Therefore, workingmen of California, let your volce be heard on this subject With' no uncertain sound, and I feel assured that the farmers of this State and nation will rally to your standard and carry it, like our brave soldier boys in the late Spanish war ai % ey opanish war did theirs, to complete v b TELLS OF UNSANITARY STATE OF CHINATOWN Dr. Williamson of the Board of Health Reads an Interesting Paper to Delegates. Supervisor Charles Wesle; - gested that the Rev. Pe(eryC,Rfiwdrk:uge invited to address the convention. The suggestion was greeted with applause and Mr. Reed was appointed a committee to bring the clergyman to the convention. Dr. Willlamson. of the San Francisco Board of Health then read the following paper: In presenting views upon the subject asi by the committee of mnngzm-,n!a’. the 35}12‘3 feels it incumbent upon himself as a represen- tative of the municipal government, to limit his remarks as closely as possible to the in- fluences exerted by the Chinese upon the gen- eral health of this community. At the same time an attempt wili be made to show in what principal respects the race in question is an undesirable element, especially when colonized in citles and towns. Industrial or social con- ditions will not be considered, as these feat- ures can be more thoroughly dealt with by those whose study and research of the prob- 1%:135 J:;’e?twdn’flmx;%z:n"m them to discuse W intelligency - sv.?‘}’l)dlns, i igence and under- hat may be sald concerning the Chiny San 'Francisco will apply With . almost. ae equivalent amount of force to any community upon the Pacific Coast in which people of the Chinese race may be found, and it can be ac- cepted by those Interested as onme of the con- ;rnmnn: éncmrs én the many reasons which justify and even demand thi - the exclusion act. B b Taking the habits and customs of the Chincse of San Francisco as typical of those exhibited by them when grouped in any American com- munity, it can be alleged without danger of contradiction that the section of the city - habited by them has given more concern to the | ‘“iSenator Bulla ' Speaks for - South. authorities than all the rest of the city com- bined. Violations of sanitary laws and inde- cencies of many descriptions suppressed or abated than they are almost In- variably repeated. The Chinese, exclusive of the official and mercantile classes, appear to revel in dirt and wallow ence to becoming and remaining clean. even when the cleanliness is provided and paid for by the landlord, the city or the State. During the past five years the holders of | real estate In San PFrancisco's Chinatown have been' compelled to spend many thousands of dollars for sanitary plumbing to replace that | of antique and inefficient character which has been condemned to the health officials. It i5 an acknowledged fact that unless a strict daily watch is maintained some of the oc- cupants of the premises hege improved plumbing has been placed will fexhibit their disapproval of such innovation by willfully breaking and damaging the same. Property owners in Chinatown, who would otherwise be perfectly willing to follow the di- rections of the Board of Health, have often complained against being forced to put forth large expenditures for modern plumbing, claiming that as soon as it is installed it will be ruined_beyond. repair. In the Chinese quarter of San Francisco open rewers have been found running through underground living apartments. After these have been closed by the authorities they have been repeatedly reopened by the persons living in the premises, who seem to regard an open sewer as a convenience instead of a nuisance. In the subterranean strata there are places where tunnels have been dug leading from in- habited basements beneath the street as far as the main sewer, which has been opened in crder to afford ready access, for what par- ticular purpose the Chinese alone can say. On one tour of inspection tlers of bunks occu- pied by sleeping Chinese were found in a tunnel just on the verge of an open sewer. The utter contempt for the simplest princi- ples of sanitation has resulted in the deliberate breaking or obstructing of drain pipes which unless discovered by Inspectors have been permitted fo discharge thelr output Into cel- ars and other excavations, where it saturates the soil and continually gives forth offensive exhalations. Opium smoking, once a purely Orfental vice, has recelved so much attention in the past that little reference is necessary, except it be to point with disgust and chagrin to the read. iness with which the habit has been adopted by a considerable number of whites who after reaching their appropriate level of degradation find in the crowded and unhealthy purlieus of Chinatown a haven of uncleanliness admirably adapted to thelr debased instincts. Police vigilance has minimized to a great extent the prostitution in the quarter which served as a notorlous distributing center for venereal diseases and it is not long since the district was cleared of many white girls who plied this calling among the Chinese exclu- sively. As a_result of poorly ventilated and over- crowded apartments, the utter disregard of ordinary principles of cleanliness and the uni- versal infatuation for dirt, disease is active, In the fiscal vear ending June 30, 1899, 54 deaths occurred among the Chinese, = Estimat- ing the population at 18,000, this number gives a death rate of 30.44 per thousand; the city's death rate was 19.72 per thousand. TIn the following year 562 deaths were credited to the Chinese, or 31.22 per thousand; the city’'s death rate was 18.81 pér thousand. 'During the last fiscal vear 418 deaths were reported, or 23.2% per thousand, while the city's rate was 1943 per thousand, These firures show the death rate among these people to be vastly In ex- cess of the general death rate In the eity of San Francisco. The diminution during the last fiscal year is due without question to the fact that many sick Chinese left the city during the quarantine excltement and their dea took place at different points of the Interlor, ALDEN ANDERSON GIVES HIS VIEWS ON SUBJECT Says He Is Vnaltora._bly Opposed to Chinese Immigration Into This Country. Alden Anderson. ex-Speaker of the As- sembly, was unable to be present owing to fmportant business, znd the secretary read his views. In part he sald: It seems superfluous and entirely unnecessary are no sooner | | by them has given more concern to the authorities than all the in fiith in prefer- | ape=—tioie lord, the city or the State. clusion Convention. for the rople of California to meet in conven. tion to declare their sentiments upon the que: tion of the exclusion of Chinese coolle labor from our shores, because the sentiment in this State, without regard to creed, ¢l or po- litical affiliation. is almost unanimous upon the subject, and that unanimity declares in no uncertain tones the desire for continued ex- clusion, It is because of the misleading reports ‘which have been sent abroad, however, in re- gard to the feeling upon the question in Call- fornla that it is necessary that some form of public expression should be given by the peo- ple of the State, and for that reason the call- ing of this convention is to be highly com- e destrability o white hel ed esirability of e help as compart to Chinase, both 20 the Individual and the State, is greatly in favor of the former in all re- spects. It is a fact not to be denied nor con- troverted that no other class of labor can exist on the same amount and class of food and with as little expenditure of money as the Chinese. They have no family ties and do not and cannot and, for that matter, care not to affiliate_with our soclety or with our institu- tions. They come here mot to stay but to accumulate money to return home. They bring the bulk of their food, which is rice, and their wearing apparel with them. They eend the bulk of their earnings out of the country. I believe that I am understating rather than overstating the fact when I say that 90 per cent of the money paid to the Chinese laborer is exported from the country. PRESSMEN PASS SOME STRONG RESOLUTIONS G. M. Benham Presents Them to the Members of the Exclusion Convention. G. B. Benham, representing the Print- ing Pressmen’s Association, delivered a stirring speech and read the following resolutions: which were adopted by the Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 24: Whereas, The constant and menacing influx of Chinese Into the United States is essentially detrimental to the interests of the entire work- ing class, and especially to the organized work- ers of the Pacific Coast. Every trade and occupation is Indirectly inter- fered with by the Chinese, and many trades (notably the shoe workers and the cigarmakers) have been irretrievably injured by Chinese com- petition; and ‘Whe: After investigation by a committee reas, from the Printing Pressmen's Union No. 24 of San Francisco seven Chinese printing offices are found in San Francisco, and others are known to exist In other coast cities.. These offices are l-:u}om:n fin‘“lhanrlgng‘;n;n . exe- cuting al printing cigar-| nt- ing for the Chinese cigar trade and for some white manufacturers, and are also doing litho- raphing, lowering the price of all, and are pidly making {nroads in other specialties in | the printing trade, thus direetly endanger SANITARY LAWS VIOLATED. AKING the habits and customs of the Chinese of San Fran- cisco as typical of those exhibited by them when grouped in an American community, it can be alleged without dan- ger of contradiction that the section of the ecity inhabited rest of the city combined. Violations of sanitary laws and inde- cencles of many descriptions are no sooner suppressed or abated ! | than they are almost invariably repeated. The Chinese, exclusive of the official and mercantile classes, appear to revel in dirt and wallow in filth in preference to becoming and remaining clean, even when the cleanliness is provided and patd for by the land- In the Chinese quarters open sewers have been found running through underground living apart- ments. After these have been closed by the authorities they have been repeatedly reopened by the persons living in the premises, who seem to regard an open sewer as a convenience instead of a nuisance.—Excerpt from Dr. Williamson’s address to Chinese Ex- —_—_—-s eQ our means of livelihood and (as in every other occupation entered by the Chinese) assisting in the general lowering of the standard of living of the American workers. The committee finds these conditions largely due to the instruction in the printing trade given by the Christian missionaries to their Chinese converts, and the apparent laxness in the enforcing of the now existing laws against Chinese emigration. In view of these facts, and the deplorable moral and material results to be seen from the | PRt Shine B midst b it v y_the Print! ‘s No. 2 of San Francisco, a8 & m 2 e ection for Its members in their occupation, and In the interest of all organized workers, that we demand tho enactment of a law posi- tive in Iis restrictions against Chinese ang ait Asiatics; that the exclusion law known as the act be rigidly enforced until its expira- tlon; that In furtherance of our desires we pledge our moral, financial and political support to such candidates and political parties ac sig- nify their desires to stop the further Inroads of the Chinese upon American sofl, and in this we ask the support of all who wish to defend the interests of the American producers; that we will oppose by every means at our command any candidate for public office, any political party and all legisiative or executive action favorable to the continuance of the Chinese invasien, an emigration ruinous to the morals of the ”A"’é’.‘n demm;nmh to American pro- s anc gerous to the lives and - ness of the American wgrkers, g JOSEPH ROWAN, Delegates Printing Pressmen’s Union No. 24 to Antl-Chinese Convention. November 21, 1901, J. C. Millan spoke in behalf of the Cigar-makers’ Union. nator John F. Davis of Amador pre- sented the report of the committee on memorials and resolutions. It was re- celved with cheers. He then moved that the memorial and the resolutions be signed by the officers of the convention, be forwarded to the President, members of the Cabinet, members of Congress and California’s Representatives in_Congress. In seconding the motion W. Macarthur spoke as follows: A statement was made In the convention b; one of the ers vesterday that we wanted the people of Europe to come to this country. 1t s the position of the organized labor move- ment of the United States that there are peo- ple_enough from ve here mow. In that view it must be distinctly understood that we are not in the business of excluding Chinamen to make room for the pauper labor of Souther~. | Europe or other sectioes of the world., In re gard to the commercial interests, which has an argument against exclusion, organized labor fs that we ars ks every dollar of our trade with China to preserve our citizenship and the {deals of American lite. If {o preserve that trade we urged as the position of illing to lose have to Labor Is Strongly Opposed to Chinese. ey American citizen we willing to sacrifics every dollar of it. We take this ground: That if the United States can't trade with China it can trade with California; that if California can’t sell her products to Chinamen she can sell them to Californians. There are plenty of people within the domain of the United States to take our products. if thev can only get the wherewithal to buy them. Senator Davis then introduced the fol- lowing resolutions, which were adopted: ‘Whereas, We recognize in the character and rapidly increasing numbers of Japanese and other Asiatic immigrants a menace to the in- dustrial interests of our people; and whereas, we belleve that the time has arrived when cognizarce should be taken of this condition, therefore be it é Resolved. By the California Chinese Exelu- sion Convention that the question of Japan- ese and other Asfatic immigration be reférrsd to the executive committee of this conves with instructions to devise and pursue steps as may be necessary and advisable to Continued on Page Eight.