The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-08

duties perform no charities 10 maintain All their
gains they take from tho community. Iney
import the clothes they wear and the 1000
they consume They ask the intervention
OF no white mddieman 10 import their goods. CHINA
Is the home 70 which they propose to RETURN 10 WHEN
they send their earnings and event Of death they
provide for the transmission OF their bodies TO the
Celestial Emplre nom tue soil Of which alone their
souls may ascend TO the celestial Kingdom The Chi
nese have prevented thousands from iinmgrating 10
our coast; have driven thousands from sner employ
mens, have brought many &c want aud idleness, nave
driven many 10 poverty suicide ano crime; have taken
such labor from women as enabled them to lead lives
OF vruous Independence and has driven too many Of
them to practices Of shame and guilt They deprive our
boys OF the opportunity VI employment, ana close
against them the avenues trade and mechanical
and manufacturing industries. The Chinese IN our
State occupy the place that ought TO be filled with an
hundred thousand happy homes and half million OF
white population.
FALLAclous ARGuxESrs
1t has been urged that in the absence OF Chinese
labor harvcs,s could not be hered and our rail-
reads could not have been built The long and rainiess
summer answers tho first objection The splendid SUD-
slay gwen " Inc general sove,nmsn' 70 inc
them have built their road from the Pacific TO Ogden
with white labor as rapidly a. the Union could build
from the Missouri River westward. This subsidy came
from white labor and had II been expended for white
labor would have contributed many thousands OF
homes families to State An argument Is some
times made that The Chinese I'LL the place OF menias
and engage in labor that the whites would not perform;
that they form stratum or society under our lowest
and thus they raise the white laborers 10 higher
plane This Is not true. The Chinese as rule avoid
the harder aud moro dangerous cmployments, seeking
In our forests or quarres, transfers engaged IN
heavy hauling; they do not work IN deep mning are
not found workers in places OF danger nor where long
endurance and serious heavy toll is demanded
THEIR PURSUITS
They have become TO large extent domestic
servants cooks chamber girls and childrens
nurses they success they have usurpcd the wash
tub, and aundrymen taken tho place largely oc
cupicd in other countries as the last refuge OF the
female OF The toil,ng poor They have nearly monopo
LIKED cigar making box manufacturing, the making OF
boots shoes slippers coarse clothing; underwear Tor
me a
machine from our female workers. they labor III all
the lighter mechanical Industries in making o. WOOL
lens, silk rope ribbons, mating sewing bags; arc
successful in all emoynents requiring dexierons ugcr
manipulation attend Offices, act us porters IN stores
messengers. From certain kinds OF fshng, vegetable
raising peddng street picking and from host OF other
minor employments the Chinese have entirely driven
turing In railroad building in constructing evecs for
the reclamation OF overnowed lands, in bitches for irri
CATION in vineyard and orchard labor. grape gathering
and fruit picking they have taken the place OF those
who might have emgracd to the State aud OF those in
the Stale who would have been glad OF the employ
ment We may not extend this argument 10 show how
terrible is becoming tho strain upon aboring popu
latlon, how unequal the rivalry between the two
classes o. labor nor need we use any other arguments
than The facts herein stated 10 prove that uni,
peaceful remedy is speedily found for the solution Of
this race conflict thore will come out OF 1t scenes OF
violence that shall shame our civilization
Thus we experience embarrassment from both classes
Of the Chinese The criminal and the vicious set at
defiance our laws, poutc our moral atmosphere, aud
are nocuatng our population with the perfected vices
oil four thousand years Of paganism The industrious
and the we'll disposed arc rvalng our workers, and
with advantages which they can mover hope to over
come
ASSIMILATION IMPOSSIBLE AND uSDEsRABLE
The Chinese can never assimate with people,
can never become homogeneous with W.. They are an
alien population IN our midst they have no respect Tor
laws, institutions our religion or our people
They form an absolutely ind,gesiibo element in
our society that cannot and Will not endcavor
10 assmilate with ~ they have domestic liio and
The best feature OF the immigration lies in the TACT that
they do not as rule attempt acquire real property,
establish homes do not bring their wives to tho coun
try The best oil their women concublncs tho bulk
OF them and prostitutes tho nature OF whose
vocation furnishes but few children who may grow up
to citizenship unYcr our amended constitution. How
undesirable Is a Heot population, distinct anu
class, that cannot become citizens In our Republic
We may not presume oven to discuss this before hon.
orabe and Intelligent Senators and statesmen We are
endeavorlng simply to state ncontrovcrtible facts;
from these facts you will deducc your conclusions
We are stating the evils attending Chinese immgra-
ton 1t is left for you suggest remedies Our peo-
pie OF San Francisco and OF California have exhausted
every effort We have passed municipal ordinances to
bring this unnatural nnd dsorderly multitude within
the bounds OF police aud health regulations, which
they have defeated by the force OF their hunters and
which the United States supreme Court has declared
to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL We permitted to place
per capita tax upon Chinese immigrants
in Australia We are not permitted to tax them in
their peculiar avocations after they become domciled
among US All such legislation IS by the supreme
Court declared 10 interfere with tho regulation OF
and to belong exclusively to the Congress Of
United States There Is nothing left for us but to ap
peal 10 Congress and ask such legislation will
move US from under tho shadow OF this great evil
THg ISsUFrIcrEycY OF LAWS.
Existing laws insufficient. The statute that pro-
vides against The landing OF criminals diseased and
paupers Is imperative, because 1t Is impossible in
crowd Of Chinese immigrants landing at
our port 70 determine whether the ndi-
vidual Chinaman belongs to these classes.
Maiden girls brought for the purpose OF prostitution
labor made In another language, enforced by secret
tribunals under penalties exacted In China by the sale
Of families and children in event OF nonperformance
cannot be revoked by laws To the Chiraman our
form OF oath has binding orcc. Their entire organ
zatlon Is conspiracy against our laws They pure
fatallsts. governed bv no moral code. The pursst
maxim for the government OF their intercourse with
each other and outside barbarans Is that honesty is
tina best policy" When, in opinion, honesty is
not the best policy they refuse the rule To compare
this people with European Immigrants to Insult tho
na,onaities from which We have all sprung and does
violence to the intelligence of the age. TO attempt the
regulation and control OF this people by laws that
guarantee TO each accused person the right of trial by
jury, Is 10 awamp our courts and hinder the admins
trailon OF justice.
ACTION or TIM rsorLs OF oALrpoRxrA.
At great popular gathering held in tns city Of San
Francisco presided over by the Governor Of Site
and the Mayor OF our city, attended by large deega
lions from the surrounding country three citizens OF
San Francisco were ceputed TO visit the national cap
ita and present this question the law and treaty
making power OF the nation. We have endured this
wrong long and patiently. No other community in
America would have borne ihls evil as VIC have borne
it other city in the United States would have
trained from riot; no other class Of laborers would
have been thus roboed OF the daily labor that
their daily bread without rcsortIng 10 violence and
blood; no other climate than ours would have with
uIscascS
wc have exhausted every peaceful endeavor to solve
this problem for ourselves, aud invoke tho aid OF
a higher power.
MORAL CONSIDERATIONS.
We do not discuss this question with those few
railroad builders and manuac turers who lnd their
profit in The OF cool,c labor because regard
The question IRON a higher standpoint we enter into
no argument with those sentimental politicians who
talk Of the brotherhood OF men and the iathcrhood
God because, selfish though u may be- regard tho
interest of country and our own families as para.
mount 10 tins low debascd and Pagan race. We DIS
mi Ina nj rnnV fh.s hont han 1y
assertion that for every Chnainan turned from his
idoiairous worship there have been pered the body
ana souls Of thousand white people, for every Chr
naman gathered TO a Christian Church, hundreds OF
white women and men have been driven TO prostitution
and crime. Ii Chinese immigration rs evil
We demand It's arrest, even though deprive tho
orator and the poet Of his rhapsody about America
being the asylum Of the oppressed and the refuge OF
the downtrodden. II the interests the two people
conflict the Chinese must give way. II oriental trade
cannot be had except at the expense and welfare OF
American people we must re! nqulsh IT, Trade and
commerce IS OF lesser Importance than civilization and
republican Freedom
We claim for our demand that IL is madc by an in