In Californis. Nevada. and Oregon the competition between Chinse and white labor ]ias grown into an oppression which is steadily driving from the commnities white men who seek a livelihood by active daily toil. Amrican labor. hitherto the strong right arm tif thislepnli. is wvithieritig btieth this Asiatic liglht. The power which has filled this great country with manufactures. with imtproveinunts. which has opened wide the gates of catnimierce with every otlier nation. which has made all the actual wealth of the ntion. is humiliamed before this insidious. farreaching. and dangeroins foe to otir institutions. It is coming upon us with the stealth of a "thief in the night . like the dark speck upon the horizot which heralds a storm. it is growing in hlackihess. gatherini in itetisity and threatons to discharge its pentup artillery tipon our devoted land.