The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-09-02
CHINESE IMMIGRATION.

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who lately visited the East, sent letter to the
Chicago Times for publication. We commend
his views to Chief Justice Noggle particularly,
and to our citizens generally. He SAID:
The question of the probable influx of Chi
nese into the United States is not new. 1t has
been thought and written of many years; but
no man was ever found to favor it, through the
public press, in Congress, or on the stump,
until quite recently. Says Bayard Taylor, III
his work on India, China, and Japan:
1.-The only taste which the Chinese exhibit to
any degree is love of the mOnstrOus. That
sentiment of harmony which throbbed ike
musical rhythm through the life OF the Greeks,
never looked out of their oblique eyes. Their
music is dreadful discord; their language is
composed of nasals and consonants; they ad-
mire whatever is distorted or unnatural, ana
the wider its divergence from its original
beauty or symmetry, the greater is their de-
| light The mental idiOsyncracy includes
moral one of similar character Ii Is my de-
liberate opinion that the Chinese are, morally
the most debased people ON the face OF the
earth. Forms of vice which in other countries
are hardly named are in China 50 common
| that they excite no comment among the natives.
| They constitute the surface level, and below
them there are deeps on deeps OF depravlty so
|
not even be limited There are some dark
| shadows in human nature which we naturally
shrink from penetrating, and | made no at
tempt to collect information of this kind; but
there was enough in the things which | could
not avoid seeing and hearing-which are
brought almost daily TO the notice of every
foreign resident-to inspire me with power
| full aversion TO the Chinese race. Their touch
| is pollution, and, harsh as the opinion may
seem, Justice to our own race demands that
they should not be allowed to settle on our soil
Science may have lost something but mankind
has gained by the exclusive policy winch mas
governed China during the past centuries.
And this was the common sentiment with
men really we'll informed, and acquainted with
the subject as il was also the healthy and natu-
raj impulse of the masses in California, ana
throughout the Union. Now, however, 1t ap-
pears there is small party in California who
favor this Chinese inrold, and this small party
gains the ear of the Chicago eXcursonisiS, "ho
become the instruments OF vile sander III
tclegraphing that "only Il few dirty dc!na-
gogues oppose the Chinese Immigration.
II a man were 10 throw open his fields and
permit herds to enter and destroy his crops,
he would be thought insane; or II he would DC
thought insane; or If tie were 10 wish the
most ignorant and drpraycd IN his country or
staff r. h.. his NEXT door urighbors, and asso.
r;ata with his family. he would be- thought uu-
worthy IN b,v, = iorJly Yet So great and
j;ncrai;hl, i me opathy of the people ON this
,,i,lt, i.s,,a tba, IN. hundreds of cumpara-
,;1I ;,,;,,,;f.o,,, ,,o,t.rs bav. received more
at,a.,;no I, ttar, mr.. ,ny "diriy drma.
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tha t,nnrican mItborony or n Irasr. ranked
~ v;rtnrs Love- If roontry now means love
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cI,J;,a ,,r;c,. ,,,I ,,n,.r Az. ., humanity
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n,,,,+r,. ;rt, a cnndi.;,n or DEGRADATION and
nor.rty o.Il;,r ru;nnt,s and destructive and
ttr,.;,,,, ts;,,;,s ana Africans ,ntn = nos;tion
lar wlirh th,.y are wholly unxuitcl Hence i,
CONES int ,6,. cor,,rv i ciyip, tac;, conscnt
- n. cnro,,r,c,,nrnt If Cbjursr rro:pration
bv s,lfsb and interested nartics Who cxrrct 10
make money by il The political machinery.
aIso i in r.oj,u.ss to make very base Use Of
them Human RIGHTS and universal suffrage is
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