Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-24

For, as our example brightens before the
world, shall not our infu eace grow greater !?
And as our people are unified, homogeneous,
and harmonious, shall not that example
brighten? If our light to-day, is illumi-
mating the pathway of England to Liberality
and Justice, and is showing better ways to
France and Italy-indeed to all Europe
shall 1t not tomorrow stir Asia, and
soon throw ray even into Africa,
while, If it is fed from rude and Impure ma
tcrial will it not glimmer more iaintly and
expand more slowlyr
Mr.. Mill says, in recent letter, on this
serious subject, that the questions of tho tex
tent and limits of the right of those who
" have first taken possession of an unoccu-
"pied portion of the earth's surface to ex-
"clude the remainder Of mankind from in
'' habiting It; and the means which can be
legitimately used by the more improved
branches of the human species, to protect
themselves from being hurtfully eucroach-
"ed upon by those of a lower grade of civil
iization, are two of the most difficult and
" embarrassing questions OF political mo-
"rality."
Accepting, in the fullest degree, the seri-
ousness and difficulty OF the questions in
volved in proposition to prevent the ex-
tensive immigration of Chinese to America,
it must be considered that we have hitherto
never thought of raising those questions o.
all. We have received many nations, with
out amurmur-nay with welcome. 1t is not,
to us,a question as to the extent to which we
shall 60 in policy OF exclusion; we are
not calling upon us the attention of the
English philosopher by carrying it too far I;
it is now simply to be seen whether ever,
under the most pressing necessity, we will
"protect" ourselves from being "hurtfully
encroached upon by those of a lower
"grade of civilization"
TWILL THE oHINAMAN MAKE GOOD
CITIZEN?
do not believe he will. And therefore
is conclusive reason why we dare moi
allow our FIVE hundred cap'ltalists to have
their sweet will of our cou ntry. We have
had sad experience that thu, Republic canno
long digest slave syster !, Our throes ant
heavings have been too terrific to permit o
more of that food
And yet every san'a mature, law-abidinI
man, in this Republ &c, must be voter, o
he will be, in ;reater or less degree,
slave. He who b as no ballot, has no sur
rights. We treat. the Chinaman, in Califor
MIA, now, "out .ageously," is tho testimony
Certainly, we do; he has no vote. w
always have, we always will, treat outrage
ously men 'Sho can safely be imposed on
If they live in our community, but through
laziness or delicacy decline, or through dis
franchise nent are unable, to take part il
framing our community's laws. it is as sur
as the selfshness of human nature that w
will enact a code to bear lightly on our
selv es and heavily upon them. A man VIII
has, not the ballot wherewith society is con
II oiled, can never be certain of the right
! which society organizes to secure.
"Even boys in the streets take the cue
"and kick and cuff the little yellow faces,
said Mr.. Richardson. So have boys in th
streets done, always, with the little bacl
faces, whose fathers could not vote. w
may be perfectly sure that the full measur
of justice is not possible to the Chinaman
he will always be, more or less, a slave
until he is fully and completely citizen
This is not because he is from China, am
not because he is yellow, but for the reasol
that we have thoroughly tested just such
case. We dare tolerate no inequality in pc
litical rights. 1t Injuries those under foot
but it still more cancers the feet of those VIII
trample upon them. If the Chinese com
at uN, they must come und'sr laWs ofe,
ing them the ballot
We can tolerate no slaves amongst us
the Chinaman must be an American citizen
or he cannot be an American, at ALL Yer
well, then what sort of citizen will b
make?
His merits are, if Ne accept the statement
of his friends, that he is patient, perseve
ring, and laborious. He tolls well. Bl
beyond this, it is doubtful whether singl
characteristic is above the average exec
lence of our present population.
He is not so intemperate in China, as o,
people are, here. But he smokes and chew
opium, where our inebriates drink rum, an
the standard of his abstemiousness is n,
preserved after he comes to America
AS to his morals, 1t seems hard to state
| def nffa onp nl,,oinp IIa 10 infinitalu hat In
or fearfully worse than we. A few Chimes
wives have landed in San Francisco, but the
are so very few, that it is justly accurate
: say that all the women who have come fro
: China to our coast, are prostitutes. Out
the forty-one thousand Chinese, now in Ca
fornia, only four thousand eight hundrt
are females, and nearly every one of the
is harlot in San Francisco, Sacramento
and the various towns. Wherever these pc
= pie go, even into the little mining town
and the clustered villages that have sprur
up around the Pacific Railroad Station
y they have their own quarters and their pr
: portion of these childishly-shameless W
J. men. Even their San Francisco friends, I
| ETotbCtlNc oOCloty pcioio uuotct, cuu 0
nothing better in their favor than to ale
'r that "their system of marriage, if not in 9
!, "cordance with our notions, it is not mu
"a "worse than Mormonism and Free Love
10 Not in accordance with our EMOTIONS
Ia That ia we'll chosen expression. Perha
IN if we could regard marriage as but
'h "notion," we could be pleased with
ne Chinese ideas, and be able to see that af
al all they were "not much" worse than Nj
monism or Free Love
TO Surely this must be terrible moral
IL that our five hundred capitalists desire to
ur stow upon the country, when such is
best defence it has
VS. As 10 his religion, he is either Pag
m worshiping the ugliest and most hi
ID. GUS idols, or he is nothing. The Pagans
10 said to be the poorer and more ignorant,
~ If so. it is just to say that it is only the pc
TX est and most ignorant who even max
II pretense of religious faith. They have