Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-13
TIE CHINESE PROBLEM.
Why IohR eaH Never ss lnyssiye-A Cal
ifsrnla Paper Thinks there ls
Nothing to Fear.
From De San Francisco Bulletin.l

From the San Francisco Bulletin.l
It is, on the whole, amusing to watch
the varied comment which John China
man excites in the east as he becomes
there a visible entity, instead of an in
creation OF fancy. Following in
the wake Of the Chinese Embassy, he
seems TO have reached, at least, the shores
of the Atlantic and of the Gulf, and to
have offered samples of his race and of
his handiwork for the inspection of the
North and South. If he does not cross
the Atlantic and invade Europe, it will be
because the way thither has al
wavs been open TO him and
he has found : no sufficient . induce
ment. And herein we discover a full con-
traaictiOn of the exaggerated fears which
some entertain, or at least express, regard
ing Chinese immigration. The fact is,
they are not an emigrating people. The
three great rivers of their country flow
olser athwart its area to the Pacific; and
vet they are not commercial people, and
have not even overrun the adjacent
islands. This is not because they lack en-
terprise or energy, or inquisitiveness, or
ACC uisitiveness. All these promoters OF
commerce are largely developed in their
craniums. But their political and social
aud religious system is wholly centripetal
in It's principles and tendencies. This is
well understood here. though not in the
East or South.
When. however. II comes TO be found
that those peripatetic Cslestials insist
upon a guarantee of having their bones
sent back to their native land, our East
err brethren will ''savee" the generic
character Of Chinese civilization, and Will
understand wiz il never has been and
never can be invasive like that OF the
Goths, or even emigrative to any great
extent numerically, and not ever perma-
nently 50 in the case of individuals. The
Chinamsn does rot intend nor Cesire to
leave the land of his fathers, nor 20 break
the family ties, which 70 him are re-
igiOn.
Hence there is no more danger of Amer
lea being flooded with the Chinese than
OF England being oyerrun with HindOos,
or France with Arabs; much less. IL
may have been the peculiarities of race
and the habits Of climate which have
served to keep other Asiatics at hOms,
but in the case of the Chinese there is a
restricting power over and above and far
greater than these. When our Eastern
and Southern countrymen have learned
these facts as well as we, tliey may per
hans have less hope, as well as less fear
regarding the Chinaman and his mission
in America. it will be found that his
mission consists in coming when he Is
called and gong "hoh ne - hO AoHsSi
wanted.
Meanwhile, however, the diversity. Of
views regarding him is an interesting
study. New England has sent for him TO
make shoes. and TO nsutralize the organ
lied force OF labor leagues, under which
esptial hnds &c hard TO prosper.i FFhe effect
il To make the Senator who halls from
Nstick recur to his 'last," and cry out
Justify against the importation OF servile
labor" and declare that he is opposed
to casting a drag-net over the world and
gathering up the degraded portion Of
mankind 10 lower the price Of labor
and degrade the workingmen OF the
limited States" This is healthy
protest of the whilom scobbler, which
proves that it. is we'll now and
then TO have Senator who has been q
eobbler. And il is not impossible that
even Sumner may be reused from his abb
stractions enough 70 draw = practical dis
tinction between recognizing the equal
right which nativity gives TO citizenship