CHAPTER XXX.

Tuer Tartrartc Masonic Horpek vs, AMERICAN Crr1zEns.—The anti-Chinese
Congress, etce., etc. —(How to read newspapers intelligently. )

‘© A Crisis !”’

m To the thinking man—even to the man who does not think—it is evi-
dent that we are upon a momentous crisis. Never in the history of Puget
Sound has there been a time when it was more clearly the duty of the
‘alm toremain calm, of the law-abiding to maintain their respect for law, of
the passionate to hold their passions in restraint. The air is full of
rumors, and they all mean that the people will soon have to solve for
themselves a most important problem.

Our towns are full of idle men, of men who are willing and anxious to
work at any wages, however low. All they demand is a bare living for
themselves and families. This they must have.”

[The Chinese and American masons in conjunction had prostituted
the Government and courts, so as to nullify the laws excluding the Chinesc
from the country; this so inflamed the people, many of whom were in sore
distress on account of the same, that they determined to rectify such in-
triguing deeds of darkness, and virtually enforce the laws against them.

It being customary to kill, rob and drive out poor American citizens
with impunity, though being lawfully where they were, only because
they were ‘objectionable,’ why then should these objectionable
masons, who despise and discard and prostitute our Government, set up
one of their own in our very midst—-lurking in the dark—to which they
owe their allegiance; are here in violation of law, without honesty or
virtue, a swarm of masonic vermin over-creeping the land, gaining by
intrigue and masonry what their ancestors did over the Roman Empire by
force of arms. Why then should they have any more influence, power
and protection, with and from our Government, than full-fledged Ameri-

‘an citizens ?]

“THE ANTI-CHINESE CONGRESS
assembled at Seattle to consider the best method to rid the Puget Sound
country of the Chinese curse, There was a very large attendance,
nearly all principal points on the Sound being fully represented.

Mayor Weisback, of Tacoma, was chosen Chairman. He considered
the question as of the highest importance to the whole nation as well as
to this section. There has been nothing since the war so important.
These Chinamen are not here under authority of law. When the laws
fail to afford the people protection, the people are in duty bound to
protect themselves. The people, when united, can accomplish wonders.
We started in six months ago, at Tacoma, to fight the Chinamen. We
legislated against them in our city council, but [their brethren] of San

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Francisco have employed [masonic] lawyers to break down my Govern-
ment and declare our ordinances void. We went to those [masons] who
rent houses to them and tried to get them to covenant with us that they
would not rent or lease to Chinamen, but they refuse to sign. You curse
the Chinamen for coming here. They are not to blame. You ought to
take the men who brought them here by the neck and choke them. In
this crusade you have the united capital [masons] of the coast against you
—a hard fight. I have been engaged in the work for years; chains and
prisons have been my portion, but I believe there is an eternal justice.”

“Dr. Taylor referred to the insults’ heaped upon the working
people by [masonic] capital, and to the hardships endured by poor
laboring women on account of Chinese competition. He advocated
boycotting all who employed Chinamen.”

‘*Mr. Magill said, when he left Tacoma, his constituents had told
him that if any of their delegates became weak-kneed, or faltered, to
telegraph the fact, and they would never be allowed to land.”

‘©G. Venerable Smith spoke of the anti-Chinese crusade in California.
and the obstacles which had been thrown in the way of any legal measures
owing to the interpretation by the [masonic] courts and the [masonic]
lawyers.”

‘*The committee presented, and the meeting unanimously adopted
the following :

Preamble and Resolutions.

“The citizens of Western Washington Territory in convention assem
bled, for the purpose of devising, ways and means to rid our Territory from
the presence of the Chinese, declare the following principles and resolu-
tions as our own sentiments :

“Tt is the duty of our citizens to organize themselves for the expul-
sion of and protection against the invasion and the presence of elements
foreign to the principles of the laws of existence, of self-protection, of
mutual good government and its aims and results, our individual and col-
lective welfare and happiness,

‘*Life’s highest gain is individual happiness, the duty of true and
just government, is to promote the same, to create, dispense and promote
the greatest good to the greatest number. Where governments are formed
they are and ought to be a mutum cuniract for equal rights, equal burdens
and equal justice to all, thereby promoting the welfare and happiness of
allits members. No government can be just where elements are permitted
to exist, which, by their nature, are not fully responsible to all duties of
citizenship, and whose productions flow not in a collective fund to enrich
the commonwealth with their productiveness, and assist the same with
their full, true, and loyal support. The principles are most grossly vio-
lated when elements are introduced in the body politic, which, while they
share the full rights, benefits and protection of the government with
the rest of the citizens, are [as masong] not in sympathy and accord with

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524 A Crisis.

the same. They become factors in our institutions, conductive of condi-
tions which are positively and absolutely in every respect in direct oppo-
sition with every principle of true Republican Democratic Government,
are in opposition with every law of political economy, and are opposed to
our homes, families, health, decency and morality,

‘* Resolved, That the present excited state of the people on this coast,
and the depressed conditions of industries and commerce, are due to and
directly traceable to the persistent refusal of Congress to legislate in the
interests of the people.

‘¢ Resolved, That it is our firm and steadfast resolution to rid our Terri-
tory, and if possible the United States, from the presence of Chinese slave
labor.

‘* Resolved, That to accomplish this end we ask all citizens to discharge
all Chinese in their employ.

‘* Resolved, That on the return of the delegates to their respective
localities, they shall call mass meetings, to be held October 3, 1885, for
the purpose of appointing committe2s to notify the Chinese to leave on or
before November 1, 1885. [White American citizens were generally given
only a few hours or even minutes.] These delegates shall call mass meet-

ings of the citizens to hear the reports of said committee on November 6,
1885.”

* *

‘* Seattle, October 16th, 1885.

M:. Editor :—We, the citizens of Seattle, wish to get a hearing in
some way in reference to the Chinese question, as it is impossible to do so in
the papers published in Seattle, they being published in the interests of a
few wealthy [masons] who have houses and gardens to rent to Chinamen.
There are probably not more than fifty persons in Seattle (of 7,000 or
8,000 inhabitants] who wish the Chinese to remain here and on the Sound.
Those fifty are [masons] who have shanties and gardens to rent to China-
men,

Every meeting held and every speech made by the Anti-Chinese
people here is ridiculed and called incendiary and the like by the papers
of Seattle.

I ask if we are not all united in the desire to be rid of the Chinamen ?
T ask if a few aristocrats and lovers [masonic brothers] of Chinamen are
going to dictate to the people what they shall do? As this movement is
for the universal good of the people, I ask why not all join in the good
work ? H. B. Kipper.”

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H. B. Kipper.”