The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-08-14
Chinese philanthropy-Fallacy.

brought this country into troubles and en-
barrassments, out Of which it may take scores
OF years to deliver it, If it Is ever delivered
out OF them at all--are, of course, taking
hand in the discussion of the Chinese ques-
ton. and Of course making middle OF
that too, as they do Of everything else to
which they apply their vain philosophy
which seeks to set aside the laws of Heaven.
The first great error Of these madmen Is
their assumption that races wholly distinct
can be assimilatcd and made to live together
peaceahly and contentedly. This PROPOSE
ton they have. through the cooperation OF
the bascst and most sordid politicians the
world ever saw, endcavored to establish by
force in the South. And they are doomed
TO defeat. But how is it with the South
how with their country Of which the South
is q part-while the cruel and impious expe-
riment is made? An experiment which has
been hundred times and over settled
against the theory of the crazy philanthro-
pists.
These busy bodies are stirred to another
deluge Of their idle defamation pumped out
upon this devoted country. The white peo'
pie Of the Pacific coast revolt at ASSOCIATION
with Cinnamon, whose distinctive peculiari-
ties, implanted by nature and beyond the
power of philanthrophy to modify, make
them objects OF aversion TO the white man
to that degree that renders social assimilation
of the two races impossible. But this the
Dhanthropists deny, and they proceed TO
speak of the many merits of the Chinese and
contrast them with the whites to the dis
arrangement Of the latter. Have not the fools
drawn similar contrasts between tue whites
and the blacks? And, we are sorry to add,
has not the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor in this State drawn very similar con-
tras.:
The most of these deludcd zealots are very
emphatic on the industry of the Chinaman.
Industry seems the great point with them
il is quite Puritanical principle. 1t is false
to disparage the white man on this ground.
lie is tue most industrious, perscrering, and
saeacio,ls of all the races Of men. He is too
independent, too proud spirited, TO be the
subscrvicnt slave 10 any man-to bear the
insults and abuse Of cholcric masters, and
such may prefer to rule the Chinese, who
obsequiously obey and submit. But what
would be that nation composed of overbear-
ing masters and submissive slarcs-the for
mer of one race and the latter Of another,
and yet living in political equality: DO the
philanthropi4ts mean 20 say that the white is
only fit TO drive the inferior races to work,
and not at all tit himself for labor? Such is
the logic of their assertions. Adopting
their views, the white laborer should be
driven out of employment, or out Of the
country, and rs many of the Chinese as
might bc necessary to do all the labor of this
country should be imported. What Il nation
we should then be!
We have before us long letter in the
New York Tribune, which purpOrts to give
an impartial statement of the condition of
the Chinese in California, and their treat
ment by the whites. The writer represents
them as docile, orderly, quiet, patient. ill.,
dustriOuS. and submi>Siyc; and for these
qualities places them above Americans, Ger.
mans, and Irish; but Immediately the VIII |
ter admits that the ChinIman has very grave |
vices; that she docs commonly, and with
" out shame, mary things that we con-
g slider wrong and diSrcputablc," and that
lie lives in w:ctchedneSs and squalor,
in small quarters, in manner
shocking 10 all moral scnSlblItlcS and TO
even dcccncy. lie goes further and says
il might l,c better that he should never have
been introduced into this country. But
being here the pEiaulhropi>t bcgins his old
Shrek for freedom, equality, and fraternity
for the Chinese.
Thus do these people essay to smother
every natural every civilized sentiment and
principle of the superior white against their
equality with the Chinese or
any other inferior race. They denouncc '
nearly every trait indicative OF the superior
lace-slich rs their independence, their de- {
lnand for higher wages their demand for
the comforts and Sustenance of civilized So
cety--and praise up all that indicate barba-
rlsm, such as low wages, miserable lodging,
disgusting food, trucking submissiveness,
&c. Their arguments only prove the supe-
riority OF the race they would put on level
with the barbarian, and the perpetual an
:agonism which they deplore proves that
The peaceful equality of the two races is alb
solutely impossible.
4 single instance very forcibly shows the I'M
'easonableness and inconsistency of the phil
The Tribune correspondentsays
: The Chinese quarter in San Francisco con-
>ists for the most part of a lot of decayed
rookerieS, which put our Five Points to
blush. The Chinese live here very much
as the Five Points population live in
New York" After confessing this degra-
iation of the whole race for which he claims
he rights of equality with the white race, he
avs nothing against them. but seems to
freak q philanthropic malice upon the
'wners of the rookeries, who, he says, draw
heir tents, and "perhaps so to ch1rch on
SUNDAY and no doubt thank God that they
are. not like other people"
How can these people help the case:
Must not "rookeries suited to human
rocks . be provided for them? Somebody
nus, own them; and it wouldn't do to inn
prove the rookeries, because that would in
.rease the rents, and then the dearly beloved
Chinese would not live in them, but would
End other habitations suited to their means
and habits. This philanthropist is not en-
ragged at the crooks" but he inveighs
against the owners of the rookeries who have