The Tribune Demands Its Senators Back Chinese Exclusion

How will Senators Squire and Allen vote on the home Chinese exclusion act — to keep the Mongolians out entirely? Both have hired and worked Chinese servants, and by the way there are several aspirants for office in this state in both the democratic and republican ranks who employ Chinese in preference to whites. It is said that the passage of the House bill will cause the suspension of diplomatic relations with this country by China, the expulsion of all American missionaries and merchants from China, and the curtailment or destruction of our foreign trade and the turning over of the trade of Portland and San Francisco and the Sound to British Columbia. This is but the bowl of the capitalists and the wail of lovers of Chinese cheap labor. Greater than all other evils that have been pictured, is the destruction of American labor by the swarms of Chinese watching and waiting over the border for the approaching 6th of May. The heathen hordes should be kept out of the land. They not only compete with white labor in this country, to the detriment of the latter, but they smuggle nearly everything they handle into the United States, pay no duty on it, and send all of their earnings to China. If it comes to the worst, the United States can get along without the trade of China. Progressive Japan is already capturing the great bulk of it. Our senators in congress know the feelings of a majority of the people of this state on the subject, and should vote for the Geary bill. Dolph, of Oregon, is opposed to that bill. He is from Portland, where the Chinese have cut a wide swath through that beautiful city, which Asiatic plague-spot is a disgrace to American civilization. Thank God there is one city and county in Washington, at least, where the leprous heathen is not admitted — except in McNeill's Island penitentiary.