Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-10-11
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as foreign devils" And our conduct to.
wards them has inevitably intensified
these feellngs-it has driven them back
upon their naturally self.contained ma
lures and habits. So they bring here and
retain all thier home ways of living and
dressing their old associations and reli-
gion. Their streets and quarters in town
and city are China reproduced, unallevia-
ted Christian missionaries make small
inroads among them There is an intel
ligent and faithful one here (Rev. Mr..
Loomis), who has an attractive chapel and
school, but his followers are few, and not
rapidly increasing. But he and his pred
ecessors and assistants have been and are
doing good work in teaching the two
diverse races to better understand each
other, and in showing them how they can
be of value to one another. They have
been the constant and urgent advocates of
the personal rights of the Chinese. The
religion of the latter is cheap, snowy
idolatry. with apparently nothing like
fanaticism in it, and not verp deep hold
in itself on their natures. Josh" is their
God or idol, and the Josh" houses are
small affairs, fitted up with images and
altars good deal after the style of cheap
Catholic churches in Europe. Their whole
civilization impresses me as low, disci-
plined, perfected, sensuous sensualisrn.
Everything in their life and their habits
seems cut and dried like their food. There
is no sign of that abandonment to an
emotion, to passion, good or bad, that
marks the Western races. Their great
vice is gambling; that is going on con.
t stantly in their houses and shops; and
commercial women and barbaric music
minister to its indulgence Cheap lotter
les are q common form of this passion
| Opium smoking ranks next; and this il
believed to he INDUCED in more exten
! Sively among them here than at home
: since there is less restraint from RELATIVES
: and authorities, and the means of procu
ring the article are greater. The wildly
, brilliant eye, the thin, haggard face. ant
, the broken nervous system betray the vic
l tim to opium-smoking; and all excited
staring in eye and expression, he was al
, most frightful object, as we pecred il
through the smoke of his half Lighted
little room, and saw him lying on his ma
in the midst of his fatal enjoyment.
But as laborers in our MANUFACTURES AMI
e as servants in our houses, beside thei
8 constant contact with our life and indus
D try otherwise, these emigrants from tn
! East cannot fail to get enlargement o
ideas, freedom and novelty Of action. AM
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G our higher civilization. Slowly and hard
ly, but still surely this work must go on
and their constant going back and fort
between here and China must also trans
s plant new elements of thought and actio
f into the home circles. Thus it is that W
: may hope and expect to reach this grea
people with the influences of our bette
, and higher life. 1t is through modlfca
o ton and revolution in materialities, il
$ manner of living, in manner of doing
D that we shall pave the way for ou
r thought and our religion. Our mission
aries to the Five Points have learned t
. attack first with soap and water and cleal
clothes. The Chinese that come here ar
' unconsciously besieged at first with bette
food and more of it than they have a
home. The bath-house and the restau
rant are the avant couriers of the Christian
= civilization. -E
The Chinese that come to these state
t are among the best Of the peasantry fron
: the country about Canton and Hong Kong
Q None of them are the miserable coolic
: that have been imported by the Englis
: to their Indian colonies as farm laborert
y They associate themselves here into com
$ panies, based upon the village or neigh
borhood from which they came at home
4 These companies have headquarters in sa
1 Francisco their Presidents are men q
high intelligence and character and thei
9 Office is to afford temporary refuge 70
f all who belong to their bodies. to assis
:. them to work. to protect them agains