The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-03-24
rne Asiasic Invasion.

The decision of the Supreme Court. which
annuts "a unconstitutional the Califorala
iststute aeainst the importation OF Chinese
| women for immoral purposes, Is positively
alarming. and has caused great excitement
In the Pacific States. It In effect decides that
the white races of America can DO noth'pg
| 10 protect themselves from the capture OF
the country by an inferior race. Even pau.
pers. criminals, opd prostitutes cannot uhosr
our laws be prevented from landing IN snoais
and occupying the country IKE the army.
worm or the potato.bug. 10 us IL now
seems far away but 1t Is q present ana Ter
rib!e evil in California, and 1t soon may De
the case here.
It is common delusion that the superior
! race can always triumph over the weaker
one: but those who are acquainted with the
struggles for ex;s' ance amoug animals and
plants know that the very reverse of this is
sometimes true. II Is often the parasite that
survives the life on which 1t preyed, and the
weaker that roots out the stronger. This Is
ssrikingly illustrated by the enormous ad.
| yances made by the Asiatics in California.
They increase there not because they are BET
ter than the whites, but because they are
o,eaper, Chinamen can live on food that
white men cannot endure, and can sleep 10
deas By hundreds that toe Christian nostrll
cannot bear. They can thus underworld the
white men In any field they enter. Conpeti-
Itjon is impossible. They are quick, imita-
Tive, INDUSTRIOUS, and learn trades WITH
astonishing rap,dity. One by one they mo-
nopolize the industries of the western coast.
AS the matter now stands 1t ID not fair
war of races. 1t is not the European and
IAmeriean against tie Asiatic. 1t is war
of the Asiatic, armed with American free.
dom and protected by American laws, against
1.-The white race, trsnmelled by the same
laws. He can fight with his weapon-su6.
mis- iop. We cannot fight with ours-to Kill.
There Is never any question az to VINO VIII
conquer In war Of Asiatics, with their
civilization against Europeans with theirs.
But in fighting the Asiatic on our ground
we are not fighting serpent, but tape
,oorn,. It Is not a war, but disease.
There have been wars OF races often De-
fore In the worlds historic and prehistoric
periods. Wave after wave, the harder and
still barder Indo-Germanie races f)wed
over Europe. Those wars were necessarily
wars almost Of determination. The weak
races disappeared before the strong every.
where, as the Indians do here before the
whites. But war of races implies the right
and duty Of killing. That is the only way
that nature provides for the triumph OF the
hest races, They must kill the weaker,
land California seems now to be brought
face to face with the necessity OF
abandoning the country to the Chinese,
or else of driving them away by force of
arns. Legislation seems to be Of none effect,
and the only question is, Must We give up
Christianity to Buddhism, American enter.
prise to Chinese squalor, all the fruits of our
progressive civilization to Asiatic fxedness
and torpor, or shall we appeal yet once
again to the divine right of might and drive
them from our shores? 1t will not take very
long to show which is the superior race If
We just let the American "go for that Hea.
then Chinee." And we must remember that
nothing else will do. The Asiatic will
surely drive us out of the country if we
.. do not call to aid our fighting qualities. BE
will drive US out, not because he is better
but because he is cheaper. just as rag.moDey
drives gold out or circulation. We are q
more costly race than the Chinese. We reed
better food, clothing, lodging. and a higher
mental culture than he. We are high priced,
and all the better because we are SO. Bul
the low.priced map, protc,ed by our institu
tons, will exterminate US unless we prevent
him by force from doing so.--Baltinaore Gu
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