Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1870-07-27
Thc Chinese Question.

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Last week sin closing an article on thl
Chinese questioa. we said,s gBtrip thi
Chinese question of tile coolie phrase, il
which it is involved. and it becomes sim
ply ssqsestion otemigration, tob be treated
like the emigration question between our
government and Europe" This land is
the home of the freeman it is the asy-
lum and the refuge, of the .down-trodden
of Europe.
l0tWesare, all of us, children of the emi-
grants of the Old World, and few of us
can boast Of better line of descent than
can the emigrants who daily come to our
country. Few can trace our blood to any
connection but with the. mass of the peo-
pie of Europe. After being here a few
generations the foreigner is so completely
.assimilsted to everything that is Ameli;
can that his connection with the Old
World is Lost. So completely, in thou
sands of cases does he become American
lied that his origin is forgotten. ., a fam
lily here one generation removed from the
father who landed as an emigraut on our
shores is as, completely an American as
are those VINO can trace their lineage, back
to the landing. of the May Flower, in
1920. The family becomes American in
every particular. 1t is not necessary
shat one possess great foresight to dis
cover this truth. 1t is self-evidcut and
if the reader look at those about him he
will discover the, truth presenting itself
on all sides Perhaps he need not go SO
far as to those around him; perhaps his
fathers family record tells him the same.
The foreigner who comes here of his own
free will comes to improve his condition.
If he be, industrious, sober and upright,
the object of his coming is realized. 1t
is the nature of man, if he has the ,privi-
lege or right, and knows the direction to
the improvement of the condition of him
self and family, to eagerly enter that way,
and strive for that Improvement. Here
in this country, under our government.
the avenues are open alike to all, and
those avenues lead to all places in life
that are desirable by man. The foreign
ers see the opportunity open FOR advance
meni, and avail themselves of it.. Hence
the cause of the hundreds of thousands
Of. Europeans. coming. to cur shores an-
nually. r. .... .,.-..tl..
No harm can come to us as q nation if
he Chinese come among us, in a greater
number annually han do the foreigners
If Europe, provided, that he comes of
lis own accord, as do the people Of Eu-
'ope. 1t is said that be exceeds the
American in adapting himself to circum-
stances. If it be true, he will adopt our
business ways, our religion, our politics,
md, in short, turn American more rap
dly than do the Europeans. lie is a .
leathen, we are told. We say yes to
hat, and add, go were our European
athers. 1t is less than eighteen hundred
.ears since the people of England, Ire
and and Scotland roamed naked over the
highlands and lowlands" of those coun-
ries, and worshippcd in groves-set
part az sacred groves-under religious
ystem that bears no resemblance to the
ne under which the people of those.
ountries cow worship. t.......-.. -..- i
1t is less than eighteen hundred years
ince the German people were in con-
ition equally as low as that occupied by
be people of England, Ireland and Scot
and, We know the condition of those
ountries now. Their condition then
ears an unfavorable impression to the
eviewer when compared with the condi-
ion of China of to-day. If the people
t those countries changed from their low
ondition to their present high one, what
lay We not expect of China ! Let the
oor be Opened wide to the Chinaman ,
Tho comes of his own free will. He will
| time convert himself to our superior
-ays, and instead of China revolution
ing America, America will revolutionize
hina through its own people. But out
pom his coming as coolie. .... H.. ...