Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1869-10-09
CHINESE uADOK.

CCOtt, EsQ IO' "u'"o0' Je"'" O't'
zen Of California. aud for two years .
Representative in Congress from that
State. He writes with iuil knowledge uf
his ss'ject !: &
~: is worth while to consider what
, feet the introduction Of Chinese labor
~ this continent will have or its political
aud social future II 10 bot worth while
to dive into the musty records Of history
aud to speculate on the ascend ncy and
control Of races. Suffice it thrifty t" say
that politically we are oppose TO the in
,roduction Of Chinese into this Country,
unless, like the IrishtDsn, when. asked,
why he did not do 50, and 80 for the
sake of p,sterit, ?" shrsggdd his shoul-
ders and replied. " Faith and BE- jshers.
posterity. hss never done anything Tor
me."A We believe that the siBtrodncti"n
f Chinese labor would be of greatQresent
value to the present generation ; that it
would vitalize the South; -that'it would
make motley plentiful for a while. but like
Ill artificial %stimulauts. the relief would
only be temporary, and when the great
reac,iun CON, 9. "ur country would BE-
verse of than before the introduction Of
| Chinese iahnr.
"Thrre is danger to be apprebendcd to
The country than Those who glance 1t the
Chinese question in . sordid and pecu"i-
ary point of view, seem not to diss:"ver.
What ia an emigration OF even a million
Of souls a year, when drawn from the
'teming 'bosom Of ar Empire within in.
..Iudes more than . third Of the iDhabi.
tants Of the. glotr? Il won't do to laugh
Il their infertority to- To-. Caucasian ace,
'or history teaches in. ottier Cases. besidss
he Tartars aud the Huns, the searly in
vaders Of Eastern Europe, that inferior
races dominated over faces highly civil
z-d aud trained to all the. arts .of, peace
md war. 1t will not do Il" rely. then,
upon the superiority of the !Caucasian
over the MpDKnlisu race, for the Chinese
are an initiative race, and will soon &C.
quire the arts Of peace sud war from
their ffieDds, who are now 80 eagerly
anxious to Introduce them into this coun-
try. The great danger IL, that when you
nee start this great, tide Of Chinese inn
migration, you c .nnot stop it.
4I-s~ Clt-4I saJaS@@HlI
ain 1851 the Chinese muieratioo may
have been said to have fairly set into
Californis. The prrjudice tosthese people
ny The Calif"rnians, the statutory laws
denying to them the right accorded to
white men, retarded immensely the immi
grafton, and prevented that State from
literally being overrun by them. When
john Chinaman reached the shores of
California and was thrown into contact
with the white man, he seemed to recog-
"iz- his inferiority, and by u tacit acqui-
r.scence settled down into a third rate
condition. He was taxed by the laws Of
California six times more for working her
mines, than the other foreigners.
whist the European immigrant en-.
tered into the mining and o:her business
~vocations in the State on equal terms
With the American citizens, the China.
man always followed in their wake, and
seemed to take the leavings, or refuse, Of
the white man. In fact bis c"ndi'ion 10
that State when we left in 1859, was
that of an inferior mental, and seemed to
occupy the positions in California that
The negro did in the South. j I'D ,
yOu SOuc up W III 'ub VT Iavctu, leu
to Que, you woult find a Chinaman to
take your horse. clean your boots, and sct
the part Of a servant. On entering the tsv-
ern You would probably find John China
man in the kitchen. laundry, and ws'l'ng
.r"und the table. In the mines they
seemed to follow in the wake Of the hsr
dy and Industrious white miners, and
when mines were considered worked out,
Exhausted and abandnred by the white
miners, the Chinese would enter them,
and work as hard and iudustriously for
Two or three dollars, asiheir predecessors
had worked for SO many ounces. g"'"3
When 10 small crowds they we're re
m"rkably timid aud cowardly, and were
The prey not only to the American and
Mexican outlaw, but we're also robbed
and Imposed IN even by the Digger In.
iian. But since they have become more
numerous, especially in the city of San
F. Francisco. we see that they have become
more bold and are becoming more unruly
md ~unxovernabie. aud give the police Of
that city much trouble. VIyD
r. o. 4
They appeared to live on mere moth.
ing, for q little rice and sugar seemed to
tie their whole stock of supplies. You
n.L,ld .apo1~, eoo 90 AE tA.~A