The Morning herald., 1876-06-13
JOHN RHIuAMAN.

Iemigraton directed its steps from China to
America, that the Chinanan would prove
himself to be sach an undesirable elenen
the diversified nationalitiss that make
up our population. When the Chinaman
first knocked for entrance at the western
gate of the nt--California-it was
with the recommendation OF frugal habits
and industry, thougha little heathenish in
his ideas, and that he would sooner bow
down to his idol and lisp prayers to Con-
fucius than to tolerate any Of the Christian
forms of religion, that he WAS admitted
He could live on pound of rice and rat
broiled or stewed for week. This was a
diet that NEST admirably y suited the gentle
man, with almond eyes and yellow skin,
10 work of rigor and severity--that Of
pioneering the Pacific railroads through a
wild and dangerous country. Cheap labor
has been the curse of American industries
1t is that which hinders and drags down
what could be otherwise made perfec-
ton, and ewing to the great reduction that
could be made in the prices Of wages, by
free importation of this class of labor, the
tide at once set in, until the wholc1Western
country ia overun with people that have
proven themselves enemies to anv form of
Society, and dangerous to the Christian re-
ligion.
The Chinanan is the foe Of law and
order. He comes upon strange soil, sub
missive enough, after leaving the harsh
laws Of his own country which hedged him
about with restrictions on every side but
it is the work Of only a few months to
relax this restrained feeling, and become
az disportive and obstreperous as the wild
animal when loosened from the iron hand
of the keeper, and given freedom and he
takes advantage Of license nearly as quickly
as the lawless when away from the civil
zing influence of good police force and
turned upon the great undveloped West.
If the Chinaman could be grappled by the
pig tail appendage on the back of his head,
and pulled short in his career, it would be
better for the preservation of wholesome
moral atmosphere in those sections where
he resides and sets up his idol. In the
East he has developed into a son of St.
Crispin, and must laugh to know the ease
with which he has learned to initiate the
Yankee and make paper soIed shoe with
eats as the pegs, and horse hair for thread.
But in this position he is continually on
the strike, and demanding higher salary
as his ideas of civilization increase. As
Il Iaundryman he is in the most useful
position that he can be placed, as washing
and ironing are more suited to his fancy
than all else in these ranks Of labor which
his people follow in this country.
| But it is on the Pacific Coast, that the
i Chinaman has rendered himself most OBJ
noxious both to society and religion. In
the former he is parasite, dangerous to
law, and promoter Of the very worst and
uncomly forms of life, while to the latter
he is an avowed enemy, and the wor-
shipper of his idol TO an extent that rem
ders the Christian religion intolerable to
him, and but for the well fortified customs
of the country, would give him with the
greatest power in numerical strength in
any community, all arbitrary spirit Chi
nese women have been brought to the
American shores by the vessel load for
immoral purposes, and are marketable
openly in San Francisco ior such uses
while those quarters of the city in which
they dwell are harbingers Of pestilential
, diseases, and arson, or robbery and murder
are common TO their modes Of revenge.
Emissaries from the people Of Confuci,,r
are actually circulating through the West,
) securing converts to the worship of this
heathen belief 1t has been found neces.
, sary to hold indignation meetings to pro.
test against the scourge this demoralizing
/ element has placed upon labor and society
, in the West. Congress and the President
have been menorialized by the people Of
the Golden Shore, including twenty six
thousand mechanics, through Senator te
give them help. President Grant has
: called the attention of Congress to thu
: question, and it is to be hoped that it ma,
, soon be attended to, for reasons that bav,
+. been before stated. The main points il