The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-08-21
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
AUGUST q.
The Chinese Question.

Amcrlc1 nave commenced the DISCUSSION oil TIC
question, and are strangely at variance. The
Democrats Of the South want Chinese labor, and
prefer that il should be introduced under the in
famous eoolie system, while the same party ut
the North, of which Senator Casserly of Califor-
Mn Is q specimen, are frenzicd ut the idea that
Chinese should be permitted to land upon United
States territory in any form. The Union Repub-
lican party alone seems to have grasped the ques-
ton as statesmen and political economists. 1t
demands that emigration from China into the
United States shall be guided and directed by the
rules which govern emigration from Germany
and Ireland that all restrictions and disabilities
imposed upon Chinese shall be removed that
the cOolic system or any approach to it is not to
be tolerated upon United States territory.
Mr.. Eugene Casserly, the new California Sem
ator, and exponent of the Northern Democrats,
is bitterly opposed to Chinese immigration,
80 much so that ut the banquet rendered to the
Chicago commercial delegation at the Lick House,
and to which some Of the leading Chinese mer-
chants Of San Francisco were invited, he fatty
refused to take a seat Mt the table with them.
Nlr. Casserly says that sit is the duty of every
class of men to unite to prevent the introduction
of the Chinese. If they come in contact only
the common labOrers to-day, tomorrow they
will be in competition with the mason, the
bricklayer, the carpenter, and the machinist, for
they are The most frugal, Industrious, and IN
geHiO1s people on The face of tie earth. Look ut
the splendid granite building occupied by Wells,
Fargo & Co., The stone of which was cut in
China, and was built by Cinnamon. Men who
can do such work for less than half the price
paid white mechanics were an injury to the
State, and he would unite with any PARTY that
would use energetic means to keep them out Of
the country There was only one party that
could be depended upon for that purpose, and
that was the true old Democracy"
What an argument for an intelligent man to
use hurled ut the friends of Chinese emigration.
like the boomerang it returns to wound the I'M
skilled hand that sent it upon its GRAND, and in
answer to which a leading New York paper
Christian nations have used powder
and ball to batter down the very prejudices and
isolation which it is now proposed to set up here
rs n safeguard. The Chinese excluded d. outside
'ar6ariGns.' We propose to exclude what SEN
ltor Casserly calls : the most frugal, Industrious,
md ingenious people on the face OF the Garth
such characteristics are ordinarily regarded as
i~rst-class qualifications for citizenship, and not n I
reason for prohibition"
The problem Of Chinese emigration says
he New York CONNIE rcial Advertiser, "wiII
DON stare as in the face, and press for n
The question of race will be born
GAIN and come in a more disagreeable form
han it has in the case of the African. Two CEN
uries had nade the African on this continent
American in language, mode of life, and religion.
he few years Of Chinese occupation leave them
$ entirely Chinese as when they landed, and a
entury might pass before any change would be
nade. They come with a religion crystalized
nto a defined form, with n philosophy based
pom sure foundations, with modes of life and
bought all established and hardened, with a
language, with literature and law. They
re no wild, halE-naked savagcs, plastic and sus-
'ptible to any influence. They are older and
Iore unbending than the everlasting hills, and
nc customs and laws Of America would have no
ore effect upon them than a fire Of peas on the
de of a pachyderm. Now what is to be done
it'll these people? They are coming in fast, and (,
viii come In faster At Promontory Point, I
c Asiatic with his pick confronted the European 1
ith his, and the two civilizations looked into !
CHI others eyes. There they met hand to hand. ]
re one could point to all the eastern half Of the I
lited States and all Of Europe, threaded with J
nails and railways rs the work of his hands. i
re other had behind him the great wall of t
the canals of that country, and this one II
of railway-one Of the toughest bits ever n
lit We fancy the Celt and the Chinaman h
'ked ut each other with unfricndiy eyes" Il
In answer to which We append a portion of
ckem Orr's speech, . Chinaman who addressed
Memphis Convention: "
. I know the Chinese are hcathens. but you wan. 81
ton and cane, and If he makes them You will not ii
ect much to him. Applause and laughter.l As r.
MS being n heather, why shall we send the Mace
ian cry to you IN vainP Shall they say: Come p
save US in vainr No. they do not even saw In
{ they. win come. benighted as they are, and lie n,
your door, and say DO, massa, teach usr" "
at ae the railroads forl What are the telegram.
! What Is the nineteeth century for, If not To a.
ig . the Word to the people who have IL notr =,
not spurn thOse people from you You may be -
means Of evangeiizing them The Chinese are a VI
lie, patient, susceptible people, and will follow In
love those who try 10 teach and benefit them. e.,
e begets love You be kind to them, and they
you- l don't say that they are all the same. CO
rule without exception. Bot IL Is let You 10 be
{ your door against Chinese. Your land Is your RI
: Ny opinion IL that Providence ordained them
the world. There are $50, OOO, 600 of gu
They arc physically strong. but they have up
J, but do different kind Of work. II you have n
I'd house, you want . cook II you have . big
c. You want . ~footstool- They can do n great on
=, but warn you not to take them indiscrimin- to
III you do, you get the ofiscourings Of the no
!. L went To the West Indies there I found -
ing but misery You must not take the wharf =
/; you must get them from the rural districts of a,,s
hundred miles or so from the coast, where Coz
people are n1rieuiturizts g. what GOD co,rJ int
- IL - 81 80, feel
"H4 sVOo snoemakerE but
our ;surc Or Irro I0,L 49, ul wh'
"US ASh" We "huueu u the lab
that n contract had been entered intn IN the
TO
ago tr tue importation OF oU, UOO Chinese to maj
= - 49, .ou- WI
!. PAone1eour-o Ihct WHICH wol
seized upon by parties here as evidence that bee BE-
coolie system of these islands had found a Chi
mcnt in the United States, and that what mei
permitted in the States could with safety be al all
we'd here. The system is not looked upon rae
favor, and the question is now being tho apt
lilly ventilated by the press. Touching this y