Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-01

ner6, seeks CdlIIOTuIls1 as tuG peart-QlVef does the bottom of the sea, and returns as soon as possible to the free air of his native soil Place these Chinamen on. the same footing with other immigrants. and the re. suit will be that. while many will return te the home of their forefatliers, a large DOT. tion will make this the home of their de. Iscendants. This was and is the case in the Dutch East Indies. where they were less oppressed than ill California. .Aa4 Hsnjtea-r
 Under these circumstances, if this immi
 grafton should be proportionate to the ne. cessity for relic that exists in China. or tc the capacity for receiving it here; or, agaii, If it should bear the same relation to the parent population that the emigration from Ireland and Germany bears to the home population of those countries, the male adults of Mongolian origin on this cont
 neut would soon ontnumbers those osof the European race aEe5l dE4% 7agla rosao1a "a
 s. When we consider that the prejudice o1 Face is. with us, a part of the foundation ol politics; that the moral characteristics ol various nationalities become important parts of the frame work on which parties
 are constructed; that the opposing armies
 which fight with the ballot, and at times
 threaten the sword, are, to Ea large extent massed by races; when we consider this, and then turn to the prospect of homo. geneous mass of people among us, their male adults outnumbering largely those of all other component parts of the popula- tion, and having no sympathetic bond with us in their language. traditions, or. so. fal as it goes for anything, their religion; then the social and political Importance of this great problem dawns on the mind.
 To the thinker wlo has come to look up- ou the Americas as the birthright Of the European under the tutelaga of the An
 glo Saxon; as presenting the prospect of a hemisphere peopled with new race built up from the best elements of the European numbering more than twics the present population of the globe; a race which will be homogeneous, enjoying the most com plete means of inter Standardization by steam and electricity, having one language one form of government and one idea oi God; to him the startling possibilities in- volved in the problem before us come as the discovery of neglected data, which may invalidate the result of years of calcula- tion.a.t fa4 IgI.s f
 P If the probabilities of the case bear any proximate relation to the possibilities, the teeming population of our hemisphere two or three centuries1 hence may have more Chings and Changs in their geneo- logical trees than Smiths and Browns; for. other things being equal. the predominant blood will be that of che race ebast able to maintain all undimlnishel rate of finceease; and the vitality of the. Chinese nation dur ing constant struggle for life seems to be- speak for it at least equally favorable pros. poets Ill less crowded homes. "
 With an emigration rom China stand in 6 in The sanle raEIu se sroTna pnps,fn- tlon that the drain from Germany holds to the population of that country, we should nave an influx of more than one million Chinese yearly. Ten. years of this rate would place upon our soil a preponderance of male. adults of Mopgoliaht blood over those Of all the other families of man among us. f, yaave. f.f.o
 The perception of this possibility cannot but awaken Tn the mind of the true Amer lcan the gravest thoughts. The social, po- :ltlcal, and ethnological questions involved are of transcendent in, oortance. .aae-.ti o
 The question of the prohibition OF the heavyi taxation of Chinese immigration is almost sure to be one of the earliest and most bitterly fought political issaes of the far west. The hostility of the Chinese to the white laborers, especially of the Irish, IS already beginning to show itself openly in the most violent acts of Intimidation. But it is not difficult to foresee that any legislation, which has for its object the suppression of any social element or force that has oncs shown itself to be .,ecessi- ty in rapidly carrying forward the system of internal improvements on which a large part of our material industry rests, must ultimately fail ge sse.s'~ -. ..
 We may therefore assume that the rec. ognition of the necessity of Chinese labor in the Far West insures an influx of Chi. nese proportionate at least to the extent of the great system of public works, which will be needful for the growth of tue Vest ern States and Territories. We shall see, further on, that these Asiastics are obtain :. ing strong foothold in almost all other branches of labor, because they answer the requirements better than any other class of people. Itlis therefore not improbable that taeyl will find their way, in large numbers, to this side of the Rocky, Noun tains. oss ,.e;f.4,..<a =.
 s Is it probable that the party warfare of the country will leave this enormous quan- tity of possible political force in the latent condition appeftaining to aliens? ? silee
 Gaiuing the right to vote means gaining citizenship. the removal of ofdisqualifcations, and the protection of their distinctive in. terests and customs to degree propor- tlonate to the number oftheir votes. se Hay Ing obtained these, the Chinese emigrant will become, beyond 3 doubt, a permanent citizen. s~,.F4 '''''''' With this prospect before us 1t may not be nninteresting to glance at tic character 1sticts of this race. both in countries to which they have emigrated, and in their own home. ] bsaisss5 seLs sn.9 ds.a lieg.srl.IF * Twenty years of contact between the two races Tn California have done little to- ward removing the prejudice against the Chinese. They have poured steadily into and out of the country; but, surrounded by barriers. they have been forced to form 2 world of their oEn. Within this some fifty thousand men have been thriving, while many of them have amassed large fortunes. Many an enterprise, too has swanped in failure, which would have giv- en' brilliant returns but for she tyranny of white work who prevented the employ- ment of cheap Chinese labor. This tyran ; ny is met with at every step :, from the courtroom, where the Chinaman is denied the right of giving evidence in mixed cases to the gold digglngs. where white row : dies, acting as self-appointed collectors. levy the mining tax winch Is never assessed upon Americans Recently, however. va rious manufacturers, farmers,l land others braving that wild beast, the Irish mob <,,,, v,l<xs, ~