Ts the case different to-day? If the Treasury Department had the tneans, as it has the authority to deport the unregistered Chinese of California, the effect of such action would be the destruction or ruin some of the most important agricultural interests of the State, In the vineyards and fruit growing sections of the State, Chinese labour is superior to any other, and the compensation the Chinese demand and receive is equal to that of the white labourer. If the Chinese government would retaliate against our unjust treatment of its people, it need do no more than induce its subjects to leave the State of California. Not only would the loss of their labour be keenly felt, but they would carry away with them a round $50,000,000 in gold. tariff Fang tion, jon may Bathe into int as sugar lucers, part also from a fear that the Chinese exc! pad Jaw would be applied on the island and thus deprive them of cheap and efficient labourers.
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