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The Chinese Must Go

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 15.

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The Chinese Must Go

At a so-called "labor" meeting recently held in San Francisco, an anti-Chinese representative from Washington Territory said: "Although there is not a Chinese at present in the town of Tacoma, the people there have discovered no radical change in the workingman's condition." Neither would they discover any change in the workingman's condition if the Chinese were expelled from the whole Coast. Nevertheless the nihilistic tendencies of a large and growing class of the people must find an outlet, and so, either by fair means or foul, "the Chinese must go." After that, what?