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then. What our unemployed did then, let us 

 hope their successors will not do now. Then 

 they allowed the little yellow Chinamen to get 

 the work and take the money away with them ; 

 they let Chinamen build the railways, reclaim 

 the marshes, till the fields and vineyards of a land 

 which should have been the English labourers' 

 inheritance. On the Central Pacific Railway 

 alone four-fifths of the labour was done by 

 Chinese. On the Southern Pacific Railway, 

 again Chinese took the work which Englishmen 

 should have done, and this through no want of 

 patriotism on the part of the employers of labour, 

 or any niggardliness in the matter of pay. On 

 the contrary, the builders of these lines were 

 prejudiced strongly in favour of white labour, 

 and had a strong disinclination to emploj'- China- 

 men. Over and over again they advertised for 

 white labourers, but could not get them, and 

 those they obtained allowed themselves, through 

 drink and want of steadiness, to be beaten by 

 the Chinese ; for no one who knows them can 

 believe that the Chinaman has yet been born 

 who could beat a Cornish miner at his own work. 

 And yet the gang of Chinamen beat the gang of 

 Cornish miners in the rock-cutting in the summit 

 tunnel of the Central Pacific Railway line, accord- 

 ing to the evidence given by Mr. Crocker in 



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