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


is the belief, growing broader and more in
tense with years, that this Republic Is to lib
eralize the government of the World.
But HoV 2
Must we do 1t by Contact, or by Example
Must we pour all the earth into our terri
tory, and trust that Free Schools, Free Press,
the American eagle, and tic stibtile influences
of our time and situation will unity and
blend them?
Can the world best be taught how to gov
ern itself by actual presence with us2
This is the highest aud broadest form
which 'The Chinese Question" takes.
For only upon the conviction expressed
in the affirmative of these questions, dare
the American Republic, to-day, welcome,
or even permit. the inflow of the yellow
millions that threaten our Western Coast
II II really be true, that Asia, unregenerate,
decayed, and inert, can never be blest with
the good and Christian institutions that
come of the pure individual, acting from
convictions of conscience and judgment, by
any other influence than that of actual con-
tact with America, then, perhaps, we are
called upon to rise to this new and fearful
struggle with forces whose proportions may
well appal us.
For we now stand, face to face, with a
grave, may afearful-question. We are told
that country, ain which population OF
" more than four hundred millions treads
"closely upon the capacity of the soil for
supporting existence" is about to precipi-
tate great portion of that immense number
of people upon us, and that: With an
" emigration from China, standing in the
"same ratio to the home population, that
"the drain from Germany holds to the
"population of that country, we should
"haye an influx of more than one million
"Chinese yearly, ten years OF which wonld
"place upon our soil preponderance oi
"'male adults of Mongolian blood, over
"those of all the other families among u.s.
We are warned, by another ardent advo-
& cate of Chinese immigration, that the Celes'
tial already arrived has been but "a scout tc
"spy out the land, but close behind, follow
"his serried columns
"A multitude. like which the populous Ncrth
Poured never from her frozen loins! I"
This is fair warning. Let us not reject it
A hundred and forty thousand Chinese
"scouts" are already landed upon oul
shores. These are but a few in comparison
4 with the "serried columns behind. Then
1t is time, now, and this is the God-favoret
moment of our opportunity to stop the leak
while yet the entering stream is narrow
/ Let us never sink 80 good ship through
4 rent, which with this timely cry of warning
Il we can so easily repair
II. WHY DO THE CHINESE GOMEZ
1t is not as pilgrims in search of Liberty.
In this they differ from all the immigrant
VIC have ever previously had. Every Eu
ropean immigrant, whether he be Celt, Sax
on, or Scandinavian, comes with some con
ception of our country and its institutions
conception often vague and imperfect, bu
nevertheless sincere and enthusiastic.
have heard or read of few more touchin
tributes to the glorious light of our Free Gov
ernment, than story told by Hon. Jas. II
Campbell, late our Minister to Sweder
Away up within the Arctic Circle, in llttl
fishing village, on one of the lone fiords I
the North Sea, he met an aged man. To h
inquiry, Mr.. Campbell said, :" am frol
America-the land of Freedom" With
quick glance of intelligence, the old nan e.
claimed to the interpreter" Is it So? l Al
"glad to see him, for have heard of th
"far-off country, where men are free. al
"too old to go, but love to think ho
"good it mus: be to live in such land"
Far be 1t from us, in the future, as 1t h
been in the past to say to the landing p
grim, come to dwell peaceably among u
and cherish our free government, go back
i No individual, led by our light, who, com
h to live near It, can be sent hopeless away.
But the Chinese are coming of no SUI
s. influence. 1 doubt whether the Chinam
a lives who has emigrated to America, with
4 desire to enjoy our institutions. They q
being brought, unnecessarily, injurious
nay, believe, wickedly. Every one up
the Pacific coast, (says the recent report
n the San Francisco Chinese Protection
ciety,) ''from the richest merchant to
'.most wretched-looking rag picker, is dire
''ly or indirectly, under what are known
.'the six Companies organizations simi
sin their operations to our Express Comp
''les. The managers, here. keep record
''every man, woman, and child who arri
''ln the State; also list of those who
''turn, die, or leave the State" Not O
do they thus import, number, and wa
them, but the bones of every one who
are carefully gathered, "wherever they
be found" and they go back to China
shiploads. "No Chinaman SO poor or
rsgraded as to have his bones unhonort
by burial on our foreign and unholy soil
Is this not wide difference2 In
Irish cabins, and among the German VII
by the salmon fiords of Norway, or am
the Welsh crags, there is glimmering idt
America, and Americas government,
there is none in the man whose very reli
demands that even his bones shall moi
main here.
They are being brought, not I'm
lingly. perhaps, so far as the men are
cerned, though the women are kidnappe
China, placed on shipboard and openly
by these famous "Six Companies" on
val in San Francisco for the basest purp'
But the men of China labor for p
where an American demands a dollar,
in that crowded land are barely abl
squeeze the narrowest means Of exist
from the soil. The promise of our wae
golden news. Not alone the hundred
fifty thousand ''scouts," but all the ''se
columns" are likely to be tempted.
Now mark the consequence.
The Central Pacific Railroad paid a
time, says Mr.. Richardson, only one
day, gold, to Chinese laborers, Will
Union Pacific was obliged 10 give TO
ordinary hands.
Twenty-nine days, and forty d
apiece, will bring them. Railways. c.
mines, factories. plantations, hotels, kit
will employ them. An Editor in Obi