Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-06-18
Speech Of Hon. Frank Pixley on the
Chinese Question. .f.

opeech OF Hon. frank PixleY on the
Chinese Question. .5f-
The following speech, recently delivered
in San Francisco by Hon. Frank Pixley,
is fraught with suggestions of vital interest
to the people of this coast:
Mr.. Pixley said: do not believe in
the universal brotherhood Of man and
fatherhood of God" 1t takes q great
deal of faith to believe that all who claim
to be human were created by God for
men. Some Of them might have been in.
tended for apes and monkeys. Many
think it best to bring Chinese here and
talk of the brotherhood of man and father
hood Of God, and that tho Chinese have
the same right as ourselves to come here
and get living. Those who talk of the
necessity of cheap labor arc not the men
who labor themselves they are those who
employ others, and want the cheapest.
Others say it is question between the
Irish and Chinese, aud they feel like the
woman whose husband was fighting with
the bcar--they don't care which whips.
But tell you it is not a question between
the Irish and the Chinese, nor between
the Germans and the Chinese. 1t is
contest between tho idolatry of the old
world and the Christianity of the new;
between the symbolism of Confucius and
the religion of Christ Their further i'm.
por.ation can be stopped. AS it required
great war to rid the country of slavery,
so Ito | believe if this encouragement of
Chinese emigration is continued, it will
bring ruin to the country. They will
, come over here in swarms. If, US Mr..
Casscrly said, they are skillful, indus
trious. etc, then they arc the more danger
Gus. But am opposed to them whether
superior or inferior. They are different
race and color. We do not want to mix
with them. The types Of the different
families are as distinct now as they were
centuries ago, and they will DO kept dis
tinct. 1t is the same with the animals.
Their instinct keeps the different races of
animals distinct. The Chinese arc so un
like us in everything that the cannot como
unless they absorb or drive us out, or we
become a hybrid race. They number five
hundred millions, and they will como in
immense numbers and Ovcrwhelms us.
But the political question is the great one.
One hundred thousand Chinese immi-
grants have come here in twenty years.
| There is to-day 10000 of them among us,
$1,000 of which are males who would be
voters if they had the right Of suffrage
We have opposed them with hostile lcgis
lation, and in various ways shown our op.
position to their coming, yet they still
continue to increase among US. Cease
| this opposition, subsid;ze the steamship
line that brings them and encourage their
coming, and they will pour in upon us
like the locusts of Egypt. This is no idle
fear. Strike down the barriers aud bring
them here in competition, and they will
drive every white aborcr from the coun-
try. Look at the women in China. In
infancy they are destroyed if too numcr.
Gus in the family. AS they grow up they
are sold into slavery, and live a degraded
life. Go through the lanes of this city,
where they arc congrcgated, if you dare,
and see their degradation eond infamy.
We want no such creatures here to poison
society. | was right the other night when
| said if there was no legal way to prevent
their being brought here to fill our hos
pitfalls, and to communicate loathsomc dis.
case to Others, | would be one to take
torch in daylight and burn the steamers
at our wharvcs that brought them.
[Chcers.] Mr. nixlcy then read from
book description Of the Chinese and
their habits, customs, morals, religion,
government, etc., which was not very fiat.
tering to them. lie read it, he said, to
show their social life. lie then proceeded
to say Under the inevitable striking out
Of the word white" from the Naturaliza-
ton laws-and he believed it was inevita.
bic, for the Republican leaders were going
to do i'll cannot see why Cinnamon may
not vote and strike down our system Of
civilization aud society, aud introduce
their own. can sec no reason why
Mongol and Tartars, might not sit in the
Presidents chair, and in the halls of legis.
latiou, and make laws for us. The indus
trial question is an important one iu con-
sidering this subject. We do not want
cheap labor Cheap labor is heresy.
| Immense cheering.] No Government
ever lourished under cheap labor. Every
country paying high prices for labor is
| Iot Us W Say VIC W0ut
migration, and form immigration societies
asking Europeans to come here, and tell
them We pay high prices for labor, and
bid them leave their homes and come to
the great Republic, where there are homes
and farms for them all /; at the same time
VIC arc giving subsidies to steamship lines
to bring men here who work for ten cents
day-that is not the way to induce the
white race to come and make their homes
among us. If you want cheap labor, give
increased subsidies to the steam lines. aud
send to Asia for it. The much talk of
conflict between capital and labor, he
said, was good deal Of myth Capital
was useless without labor; labor must
starve without capital. If he had mil
lion ducats that very night, of what use
would they be to him without the laborer;