Essay Database

In 1878 the California Senate wrote a report on Chinese immigration called the evils of Chinese immigration. The senate was pushed by the white workers in California to do something about Chinese immigration. The white workers claimed that the Chinese immigrants were taking all of their work. So in turn the senate wrote this report to convince people of the evils of the Chinese. The senate wrote about all the evils of the Chinese. Such as …

…hurting our laborers. American laborers could not live or work like that. Our laborers require meat and bread and their costs are four fold that of the Chinese workers so they need higher wages. And the American worker has an independent life and will not be treated like a slave with brutal masters. And in turn the Chinese workers were under bidding the American worker and taking the available jobs thus hurting the American people.