The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-07-17
Rad Treatmonr OF .ho Ch,n,,..

Rad Treatment OF tho ChInesr.
The outrages which are reported in
California upon the Chinese who come
to settle there are as foolish and short
sighted as they are harbarous. The fact
has been already published that, on the
landing of number of these emigrents
lately in San Francisco, O crowd gather
ed round them and followed them to the
Chinese quarter; on the way they pelted
the unoffending strangers with stones
and mud and struck them with clubs.
Many were knocked down, and when
they were down their assailants daubed
their faces with mud, and pulled them
around by the hair, being cheered on by
the crowds lining the sidewalks, and
not single citizen or officer of the law
interferod by word or deed. The immi-
grants reached their destination more
dead than alive, but there was no re-
dress for them, and no attempt has been
made to trace out the perpetrators of
these outrages and punish them. Some
OF the California papers undertake to
charge this barbarism upon other TO-
re1gners, but their own authorities did
not interfere to prevent or punish the
deeds, and the proscriptive and intole-
rant spirit evinced by their legislators
and political conventions against these
1noftenslve strangers has been such as to
lead to these outbreaks. The people of
the agricultural districts of great part
OF this country need the cheap, reliable
labor OF these patient, industrious peo-
pie, and if the Californians do not want
them, let them send them unharmed
across the mountains. They do not have
the physical strength of the others;
nevertheless it has been found that they
get through more work. In the excava-
tions on the Pacific Railroad the white
laborers threw heavier spadefuls, but the
Chinese had removed more earth at the
end of the day. Why shall the Chinese
not become good citizens? It is certain
ly not the way to civilize them by beat
ing them with sticks and stones They
might mako better use than this of them,
even in California. It is said that in
China criminal under capital sentence
can, for small sum, procure o substi-
tute. That trade might be introduced
to advantage in California. for, it is rea-
sonable to suppose that rufians who can
brutally assault and maItreat harmless
strangers might have need of substitutes
for the gallows some day. It is hardly
reasonable to suppose, however, that
there is not large portion of the better
population of California who feel kindly
towards the Chinese emigrants, and give
them employment. This is evident from
the fact that such test has been given
them as employees in various callines as
to elicit favorable Judgment in their
behalf.
The Anti -Coolie Association OF Califor-
mia, in protest lately issued, says that
there are about 11O, 900 Chinese in Cali
fornia, 100, 900 of whom are i'll state of
peonage or slavery, and are sent ont by
the companies owning them in gangs Of
from 90 to 5000. their wages being paid
to the agent of the company. The bulk
of the female portion of them are scat
tered through the towns and cities for
purposes of prostitution, thus demoral-
izipg the native youth, and sowing dis
ease and sorrow. The employment of
Chinese in all the ordinary labor avoca-
tions has cast out of employment in San
Francisco at least 20, 900 native boys and
girls, from ten to twenty years, who are
thus left to become the victims of idle
ness and vice. They also state that the
cheapness of Chinese labor has not
cheapened the price of single article of
home manufacture. To them is attri-
buted the introduction of the smallpox
or black plague, which has been raging
there for twelve months; and it is stated
that they are subject to many diseases
almost unknown among the Caucasian
race, but which may be introduced
among our native population. The asso-
citation claims to embody among its
membership persons of all classes, creeds
and political opinions. .
The EXCESSIVE MoDEsTY OF Scala
WAC GOVERNOR THE Richmond Wb;o,