The Shasta courier., 1855-11-24
John chinamnh.-wha. Of Him /.


Still harping on my daughter pouring
out tears in behalf Of poor oppressed John."
are the papers whose editors look upon the mer-
camille as the paramount interest of the State.
The Golden Era notices the departure Of several
hundred Chinese for their Eastern homes, and
thinks the deplorable consequence will be, q
total cessation of further emigration from that
land, until advices will have been received of
the sounder public opinion now obtaining upon
this question -or rather. we should say, the
shameful misrepresentation of public opinion by
just such papers as the Era, which assumes to
speak for the miner, while it utters the senti-
ments Of the trader alone.
The Oriental also makes mention Of the de-
Parture of several hundred of these peoples al
leging that they leave because Of their inability
to make living here. A great loss, truly.
The Alta, too, makes note Of the arrival in the
Bay city OF several hundred Cinnamon, driven
from the mines, it would have us believe, by the
operation of the new law 1t fears that the law
will I'LL the cities with useless class of men,
and Is under the impression that, in the mines,
"a loud demand rs made upon the next Legis-
lature 10 repeal the law" The Alta. however,
fails to make note Of the fact that the law has
been IN operation scarcely month-not long
enough to judge whether it would work judici-
ously or mol.
Byfarthe richest phaze of this question yet pre-
sented, IS given us by the Empire County Arsus
That paper states that number of men are ira
vehng through the State, procuring the sigma
lures Of the Chinese miners to paper, or power
OF attorney, authorizing the companies at San
Francisco to which they belong to pay 81 on
each OF their respective accounts, provided the
incoming Legislature reduces the Foreign Mi
ners License Tax 10 "a per month. In addition
to the d''Ilar TO be paid when the bill passes,
each Chinaman has to pay twenty-five cents in
cash when he signs the paper-said payment
being for abe travelling expenses Of the agents.
1t is though, by this operation the scoandres
engaged therein will bleed the ignorant China
men to the tune Of some half hnndred thousand
dollars.
In this connection would ask,-wih this !
extraordinary fact before us-and in view Of the I
sudden change in the position of
large portion "f the press upon this question:
may it not be possible that these scoundreIs have
palmed OF. upon those editors manufactured /
sympathy for the long-tails, Of course we do
not for a moment believe they have been hired
to ~rae rpa public opinion. We have different
IDEAS Of the honesty of our brethren. We think,
however TINT it is just possible. occasionally, to
bamboozle an editor. At all events, never was
4 tar MT fr,ltt. tha,, a.
that the representatives from the mining portion
Of the State, will so to Sacramento feeling them
selves instructed by public opinion to repeal, or
At least greatly modify the present law in regard
TO foreign miners license. If such effort to re-
peal is made next winter, gentlemen, you will
hear such laundering of indignation from every
ravine and gulch, as never before fell upon your
startled ears. Mark our words.
Patent to this subject is query which we de-
sire to PROFOUND to those whose sympathes are
against the white miner, and with the China.
man. You argue that the forty thousand China
men now in our midst. are a great blessing
albeit they possessed of manners, habits and
feelings totally diverse from ours, and can never
hope to become citizens of our republic If,
then, forty thousand Cinnamon are great bles-
sing to the State, would not eighty thousand, or
an hundred and twenty thousand, be q still
greater blessing And if one hundred and TWEEN.
fy thousand Cinnamon would prove q blessing
to us, would it not be sound policy for our Gov
to set apart regular fund, to be ex-
pended in the transportation Of the long tails
hither, until that number shall have been reach
ed