The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-05-12
A New Phase of the California Chinee,

The Calitornians have more woes
to trouble them than hard and soft
money arguments, administra
corruption and general political
wrangling. Their peculiar and
poignant source Of annoyance is
the Chinese question. The country
has heard the Chinese question fully
discussed. 1t knows that Chinese
cheap labor is the immediate cause
of the uprising against the import
ed orientals. 1t also knows that
the reason why the hostility to them
seems irreconcilable is not merely
their competition in the labor
market but their entire unlikeness
to all other immigrants and the ap-
parent impossibility of assimilating
them as other immigrants are as
simulated, with the general popula-
ton. They must apparently always
remain a foreign and incongruous
element. They are incongruous in
tt cir very essence, They talk
language which nobody can learn !;
they dress in a ridiculous fashion
they live upon food repuIsive to the
European palate, they live in quar-
ters into which Europeans only
enter with loathing. They are
idolators and repulse all attempts
to make them anything else. The
land from which they come is gov
erned by q despotism unmitigated
by the faintest idea of individual
rights. And lastly they distinctly
repudiate any desire to establish a
permanent connection with our
country. They remain only till
they have acquired sufficient wealth
to enable them to return and carry
out their cherished plans in their
own country. The less fortunate
or less industrious who never arrive
at this desirable situation, make it
an inviola bic condition with the
companies who bring them over,
that their bodies after death shall
be returned to China.
Upon this aggravated situation of
affairs the white population of Cali
tornia has naturally given away to
considerable indignation. Resi-
dents in other sections of the coun-
try whose personal interests are not
Immediately involved do not won
der at the excitement of the Cali
fornians and generally extend to
them their sympathy. 1t is felt
that the present opposition to the
Chinese is totally difereut thing
from the unreasonable Know-Noth-
ing excitement. There are such
differences between the usual run of
European immigrants upon their
first arrival here, and the great body
of American residents that there
was at one time narrOWheaded
outcry that they could never aSsimi-
late. These differences are merely
superficial. The Chinese differ
ences seem to be vital and essential.
The contest III California is ap-
preaching a head. 1t has two highly
interesting aspects. There have
/ been for some time antl-cO ollie clubs
in existence. Within a couple OF
weeks some of these bodies have
openly provided themselves with
weapons and proposed an armed re-
sistance to the Mongolian invasion.
This is the latest phase OF the Of
the agitation on the one side.&
The latest phase on the Chinese
side is vastly more novel and i'm
portant. Hong Chung, the head o.
the commission at San Francisco
has lately stated that has country
men looked toreoard to the tim,
aCAen they should be free America,
citizens !; he believed that they al
intended to seek citizenship eventu
ally. Up to this time the Chimes
have repudiated the idea of citizen
ship as ardently as have the Cali
, tornians themselves. They hay,
: wished only for an acquaintanc,