Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-03-17

Where will il End

We hear of nothing more being said or dSne
about the mammuth auti-Mongolan peti4on
which was sent to the Legislature by the ciizAns
of San Francisco This is " matter of incalcula-
BILE Importance, not only to the business men who
are now in San Francisco but also to the welfare
of the entire State for all time to come We have
already had sufficient evidence of the danger of
Legislative delay in regard to this important
question. Mob violence and lawlcss outbreaks
have disgraced various mining localities labor
has been debaSed and honest industry reduced to
beggary crime and drunkenness, and insanity,
and suicide have cast their balelul shadows over
society all ON account of these labor debasing
AsiAtics.
Everybody admits this; every thinking citizen
knows and feels that these evils are attributa-
bic to the Chinese amongst MS, and yet we all sit
supinely watching the rapidly increasing trouble
without doing anything to avert it. We all
know and feel that if something is not done to
check this overwhelming Mong0liAn flood which
is constantly pouring in upon us, that inevitable
ruin awaits us ia the future and yet like a lot OF
horses in burning barn, we stand patiently ga
zng at the blaze which is to consume us.
We who live in these quiet valleys, far re-
moved from the evils of which we are now
writing, may be excused from not feeling alarm
ed about the influx of Chinese population; but
to the great toiling majority OF our people, who
are dependent entirely upon the labor OF their
hands for their daily bread, it is II question of
of our !aboring white citizens are unable to pro-
cure employment which will yield sufficient com
pensaton to keep them from beggary Despair,
and its dreadful results-insanity, crime and
suicide, are doing their dreadful work upon us,
and there is no alienation, no remedy, simply
because the Chinese have monopolized and
debased labor. This state Of things is even now
dreadful beyond computation, aud still the
black hordes are permitted to swarm in upon Us
in increasing thousands.
The natural query is-whcre will all this trou
bic end What viii be the result OF this in
twenty years from the present If nothing is done
to check this pestcntial swarm! Are we to sit
patiently here and see our State ruined and de-
based without attempting to do anything in our
own defense? Men may speak lightly OF this
matter, and console themselves with the idea
that they are Of u superior race, and are, there
fore, in no danger from the proximity OF the
Asiatics, bat there is more truth than poetry in
the Old saw elf yo mnge with dogs ye may
expect to get neas" distinguished traveller
says that the policy of China which has hitherto
excluded foreign nations from their country, has
been of real benefit to the white race, for the
Chinese have shades of social vices darker than
anything ever dreamed Of 10y the most debased
OF white men, The same writer says that even
the touch Of the these human brutca is contaml-
nation. This is the kind Of ubomiuation which
oar law makers are permitting to Hood The couu-
try These are the pagan beasts which are to be
forced into the presence of Our families. We are
not to have them in small detachmens either,
but by whole colonies There are many millions
of them yet to come and come they will, unless
we do something to prevent thcm.-SalI Jose
Rfp0Iter.