THE following remarks by a gentleman who was "interviewed" by a reporter of the Chronicle, are more than suggestive—they are instructive in regard to the hard times of which so much complaint is made. Many a speech on political economy contains less truth. "After Congress had passed the Restriction Bill, and while the President's action was yet in doubt, I instructed my foreman in the event of a veto to discharge every one of the twelve Chinamen, but if I had known in time what was said at the sand lots the Sunday preceding I would have countermanded that order. Labor leagues most of all compel the presence and employment of Chinese. Those leagues will only put so much labor on the market and only at an arbitrary price. They will permit master-mechanics to have only so many apprentices. California wheat-growers have to compete with Chicago and the other markets of great wheat-producing districts. They can afford to pay $15 or even $20 a month and board for help, but they cannot pay $25 or $30, and the league will not permit white work for less. Even at $15 per month, and allowing $80 per year for clothing and incidental expenses, in ten years sufficient could be saved to buy a small farm, which is doing well for a common farm-laborer. The woolen manufactories cannot pay the price demanded for white labor exclusively and remain even solvent. If a contractor to build a levee or drain marsh land were to go on Clay street to-day, where it is almost impassable because of men now and for a long time unemployed, and say that he had steady work for two hundred men that would enable him to pay them $1.50 a day, but not the $2 they had fixed upon as the ultimatum, they would revile him. They force him into the Chinese labor market. These men have listened so long to the sand-lot enumeration of the hardships of which themselves are the principal cause, that their hands have forgotten to work, their stomachs are sour, their heads are chaotic, and they go to idleness, to tramping, to beer, to whiskey, and to the devil. If these leagues and these demagogues would let the willingly industrious work at such rates as the inviolable laws of supply and demand can pay, the hegira of the Chinaman into the bosom of his Eastern sympathizer would be hastened."