The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-02-18

tive within a given but very limited sphere.
Mentally, they are strange mixture Of as
tuteness and simplicity, Of perception and
imitativeness, but they lack originative
powers, which reminds one of the monkey
compared to man the monkey, as cunning
as the fox, but who is trapped by hole in
the coeOanut into which be thrusts bis
hand to grab the bait, without having the
sense to open his fist when be finds be can
not withdraw it, and who, stimulating all
the actions Of man, will warm himself by q
fire, but has not intelligence to keep Z up
by placing fuel on the embers.
OF the Chinsman's vices, sinners rs we
all are, it would behOOve us to speak with
charity if he remained in that far distant
bone, from which, no doubt prOvidentially,
for meny centuries his inveterate prejudices
vigorously forbade his egress and our &C
cess to him. The enterprise Of our race
has, however, broken down those barriers
and from an inaccessible sntipode of the
Caucasian be has become an intrusive
neighbor
Constituted as we are, and descended
from the most adventurous portion of the
populations Of Europe, while | believe we
inherit more than an average share Of their
respectively highest qualities, we are found
to have considerable portion Of the evil
by which they are leavened. This evil we
cannot afford to heighten by admixture
with the hideous vices of these Asiatics
and hence we must consider those vices
While must briefly review them from our
stand point, and as they may affect US,
am willing to admit that, as a matter Of
moral abstraction, perhaps great allowances
ought to be made, which we are not able
to make, for a people whose characteristics
are sometimes to us so seemingly contradic
tory, whose antecedents and circumstances
are SO diverse from ours, and whose feel
ings and frame of mind seem as different
from our own as the natural productions OF
Australia from those Of the rest of the
world Australia, where the proverbial
white swans are black, where the crow is
white, where mammalia have ducks bills,
and where the stones Of fruit grow outside
instead of inside the pulp.
The Chinaman, more tilially pious than
the Eneas Of Virgil, is cruel to his off
spring. He sells his daughters to prosti
tuition. He pledges or be sells bis daugh.
tiers, wife Ond children, if pressed by his
necessity and will do so even for pas.
sage to California though be would shud-
der with horror at the idea that, in the
event Of his death in that FL Dorado, bis
bones should not be returned to rest in the
paternal burying place. Infanticide, even
by the cruel process of leaving babes ex-
posed or floating them down rivers to DER
sh, is widely prevalent. In some of the
districts OF China, particularly ID Shan
tung, as IN MantchOoria, instead of taking
the life Of the female infant they unsex it.
1t 1t survives the operation, as is generally
the case, it is raised to labor at any kind q
mental employment among the men, and
far better we're it for this poor creature that
its parents bad taken its life at once. For
this last statement [ give the authority o.
Rev. DR.. Williamson, in chapter nineteen
volume one, of his work, before cited. Il
there be any law to punish these crimes
custom prevents even interference. Nav
more, there exist even public places, walled
areas, set apart by design for the baroarou:
and unnatural deposit Of those infants
wherein they may perish.
DOcilily and obedience to law on the
I part y tie Chinese are tie cesnlt OF coz
aTdIca. Milo, enduring, and unoGsadip.
az ne appear, remove .ho restraints of ssa.
( sad be -ebei7. IL violates oil lsg ar
becomes diabolically and wantonly crue
and destructive. See the recent massacre,
in Peru as evidence. Of all natural or &C
quired sense Of truth or honesty be is en-
tirely Invested He is instinctively LA
and a thief. Rev. DIR. Williamson saws
on page I, volume one of Journeys, &c.
in speaking Of the Chinese:
"A low mean spirit has crept into tn
! homes even of the higher classes; squalor am
Nth are often barely concealed beneath til,
grand silks and embroidered dresses of th
wealthy; land worst Of all
there is 10 truth in the country Falsehoo,
and chicsnery are their hopes and their wea
pons. Scheming has been reduced to sci
e &c deceit and lying placed upon the pedes-
tai OF ability and ctverness."
1t would have been interesting had tn
learned divine Informed his readers the pre-
else period, or thereabout, when that low
mean spirit crept into Chinaman. 1t wa
long ere the devils crept into the swine OIL
the shores Of Galilee. believe it to be al
inherent trait of character and that b,
could live longer without fo)d than without
lying or cheating. That is my opinion 0
the ''heathen Chnee"
The emperor keeps all manner of wilC
beasts i'll what might be termed geological
gardens near bis palace. The ancient EN-
perors, it is said, used to hunt the lion
Not content with deceiviDg the "barbar
lans, be deceives his own people ia THU
way when the emperor wishes to appear
in the role of Nimrod, be causes the Keen
ers to drug the game beforehand, SO that Il
is completely stupeted Here is another
instance Of the hypocrisy of the Chinese
1.-The emperor has killed lion with bis
own band II the whole country cries but
it was half dead ere be levellod bis piece.
(Dr Williamson, vol. 2, p. 1927
1t Is said that it requires a Yankee to
get the better Of a Jew, Greek to get the
better of Yankee, Russian to cheat a
Greek ; but that Chinese can cheat and
eXeorlate all four of them. We have
among ourselves many who are untruthlul
and dishonest; but the Chinese, whatever
his station or requirements, prefers false
hood where truth would answer the same
purpose, and fraud to honesty; has nc
sense OF shame in the preparation of eli
ther, and exults in their success.
Gro BE CoNTINUED.)
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