The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-03-19
SUNDAY MARCH N 1915

South believe they were right in possessing
property in man, and In believing Ia
classes. They can see no taint In the
presence of the Chinese aud wonderingly
ask why we in country where the cheap
labor OF innumerable hands 10 needed, op-
pose the very means by which our wants
can be supplied. We tell them that white
men cannot compete with the Chinese, and
they sneer at us and as much as say" if
you strong Aoglo-Saxons cannot compete
with this inferior and half. bar barous race,
then the sympathy of the world will never
go ont toyou ii you are undone by China
man." And yet that is the point wherein
the whole trouble lies. The Chinese live
on food which the White man could not
swallow if he were furnishing he sleeps
in cribs that would suffocate q W white labor
or and with all restrictions taken off there
is not a trade of the white mans that the
Chinese could not in five years monopolIze.
There is no invention in the race but their
faculty for imitation is marvellous. Show
them once how boot is made and they for
ever after will make boots as nearly like
their fret model as one birds nest is like an
other. In all the western Pacific Islands and
on the Indian coast they have driven every
competitor away and they control the
trade there, neither English, Germaa, nor
Dutch, not even the Jews, can compete
with them. For our good on this coast we
wish dozen chip loads of coolies could be
landed in New York, enough to make q
Chinese quarter on some street in that city.
1t would do some Eastern editors good to
see how they live and to tiud out how one
of their dens smells. They would begin
then to realize that if there were a million
of them instead of few hundred, New
York city wouid be poorer instead of richer
for their presence. They would begin to real
ize that 10 newspaper would ever be sub
ecribed for by even one of all that million
that no pnblic work intended for the health,
prosperity or intelligence of the people
would ever be helped by them tney would
see that trades were falling ito their hands,
but that the public somehow were not pros
periDg, see that from their quarter of the
city the other races were drawing away as
from a pestilence, and wonld understand
that in case of danger million of these
is simply business look, but going fur
ther they would See that every woman of
the race was q slave, that they were being
bought and soid daily, and that every
effort of courts and officials could not
check the vice for moment. This might
be extended Indefinitely. 1t might be
shows that under our laws they but follow
the laws of their own country in all their
relations with each other, and that there ia
not power enough in either police or courts
to change this state of affairs for moment.
The European soon merRes with our peo-
pie, and it is hard to tell after generation
or two whether q man is of English, Ger
man or any other European descent. But
the Chinese have not changed for thirty
centuries, and all other lands, except China,
are to him and his, foreign shores forever.
biiities of the evils they may bring to our
people in the future, is more serious prob
lem than the American race have yet been
called upon to decide.