Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-16
The Chinese Immigration Ques.
ten.

The State OF California bas raised
piteous wall TO the Congress Of The
United States 10 have Chinese immi,
grafton stopped. The California Sen.
ate passed q unanimous resolution thai
committee OF Senators should prepare
a memorial 10 Congress and an adj
dress 10 the citizens Of the United
States on the social, moral and political
effect Of Chinese immigration and The
policy aud means Of its exclusion. This
memorial and address, in pamphlet
form, is required 10 be sent to
ell congressman aud 10 oil the lead.
ing newspapers. This pamphlet shows
that our fellow.citizens on the Pacific
Slope are indeed wrestling with a giant
evil. In the State Of California there
are Ia round numbers one hundred
and twenty-five thousand Chinese,
that Is, the population Of the State Is
one.fifth Chinese now. The Commit
tee assert that If the immigration Is not
stopped, the Chinese will, in twenty
or twenty-five years, outnumber
the white citizens. AS it Il
now the evil is almost unen.
durable. The Chinese live on al.
most nothing ; they come from the very
dregs of society In China; they have
destroyed the price Of labor, and nearly
all Of them are thieves or worse. The
women never marry aud are degraded
by prostitution to the very loves!
depths of infsmy. This class Of people
know no law except their own, aud they
have secret orders which enforce thier
cruel edlcts, even to the extent of taking
human life. They have no earthly con-
ception of false swearing, aud oil the eff
forts of Christian teachers among them
have been absolutely in vain. For one
Chinaman who has been converted 10
Christianity, II is estimated that one
hundred of our people lave been
ruined by the baneful effect Of contact
with them. While the Chinese form
one.ffth Of the population OF Califor.
MIA, they only pay L four hundreth
part Of the taxes. What they make
they export in the shape Of gold to
China. They are slaves and criminals,
aud instead Of being any aid 10 the
State, they are an incubus. There are a
great many criminals among them, and
the amount Of tax they pay does
not cover the expense Of furnishing
those convicted Of various offenses. In
regard to the females OF the race, the
memorial says: "The Chinese females
who immigrate TO this State are, almost
without exception, of tha vilest snt
most degraded class Of abandoned wo
men. The effect of this element In oul
midst upon the health and morals o
our youth IL exhibited in the testimony
Its disgusting details cannot, for Obvi.
Gus reasons, be enlarged upon In this
memorial. These women exist here in
a state OF servltude. beside which Afri.
can slavery was a b%ene6Cent captivity
The contracts upon which their bodies
are held under this system are fully ex'
planned aud set out In the evidence, and
We submit, more than sustain what
might otherwise be regarded as ar
extravagaul deduction" We canno
blame the people Of California fol
wishing to be relieved from this grea
evil. We earnestly hope they will bt
entirely successful, and that Congress
will take etFectual means TO prevent an
more immigration of an inferior anC
degraded rae of people. We hope
the Southern Congressman will TAX
this Just view Of the matter.
In considering this subject Congress
will, perhaps, learn to judge more lib
orally of the Southern white people
who, like the CAliforniAns, have an In
ferior race of beings 10 deal with.