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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 19: our Yellow brother. (search)
ches are known in Europe. From the senior partner, who is going to San Francisco with a view to business, we learn that Ralston's busy brain has conceived the idea of opening a great watch factory in San Francisco, and doing the watch trade on a scale not yet attempted in Geneva or Neufchatel. The main feature of Ralston's scheme is the employment of Yellow labour in the place of White. Yellow labour, says Cornell, is cheap and good; the men are docile and intelligent; they never drink, n Jackson Street will be able to make a watch. A company has been formed in San Francisco, with Cornell as president, Ralston as treasurer, and Cox as secretary. Cornell is a patron of religious enterprises. Ralston is a patriot, so stiff in loRalston is a patriot, so stiff in local feeling that he will not have a sofa in his parlour, a picture in his lobby, that is not of native origin. Cox is a shining light among street preachers, who devotes his Sunday energies to labour in the slums and alleys of San Francisco. Part
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 23: Chinese labour. (search)
pany, so that the White men from Chicago are bound to Cornell and Ralston very much as the Yellow men from Canton are bound to the Wing Yungle seventy watchmakers back to Chicago. Yet Cornell, sustained by Ralston, and knowing that his workmen have no money, takes up very high gran pack your duds and go. The workmen ask for an interview with Ralston, known to be the chief proprietor in the new company, if not the first suggestor of employing Chinese hands. Ralston consents to see them. An interview is held, of which a report is given in the daily papr own people, we ask you respectfully to consider our petition. Ralston replies: Individuals! I am William C. Ralston. I own thirty-fWilliam C. Ralston. I own thirty-five thousand dollars in the stock of this company. We intend to manage this business in our own way, to submit to no dictation from workmen. le capital reposes, labour starves. We can wait. I am the same Mr. Ralston who made this same speech to the bricklayers and plasterers on t