, 1877-11-03
Tho Chinese.

cO0UemnatOFy OI CulHcSo iiuIu1-
grafton, and recommended the
adoption OF repressive measures
to check the volume of that
peculiar class of immigration.
This, we believe is the first re-
ligious body that has come out in
opposition to the Chinese on this
coast. While the matter was
under discussion, a clergyman
said that in California there re-
mained "but three things for the
white laborer, and they were
death, degradation or migra-
ton" He said that there were
100000 Cinnamon in California,
nd "once here they conduct
themselves and their business and
religion after their own notions,
having laws even to the death
penalty executed after their own
desires. The tendency of all
this is toward vice, and is vastly
dangerous to us and our stability.
A million more of these people
must and will come, and preju-
dices and race hatreds will de-
velop portending evils almost
incalculable. Can Christianity
change these people? OF the
100000, only about one in 1000
has been really converted. The
prospect of their conversion is,
humanity speaking, very small,
and right here l say, let not the
Christian boast of what he is
going 10 do, yet let all be done
that can be to shed light on the
souls of those people, but let us
not encourage this immigration,
for, Judging from the past, the
future is sad and gloomy. In
time, these Chinese, if they con-
tinue to come, will be enfran-
chised, for any great number Of
people, long in Republic, must
become citizens or the Republic
fail. If, then, they continue to
come, we shall have heathens at
the ballot box, in the jury-box,
and even on the bench, and, be-
fore these, Christians must ad-
Indicate. AS laborers they live
so cheaply that they can under
bid the American laborer, who is
compelled to live and raise and
support a family as an American
citizen should. He must add to
our homes and our material
strength, have papers, books,
ETC., and must clothe, educate
and raise up American children
in the state our society system
demands. Now the Chinese Ia
borer, at $3.50 per day, compels
the American to fall from a price
enabling him to live as our civil
zation demands he should. Then
the Chinese falls to 81, and the
white man has to fall too, and
cheaper all his habits and all his
civilization. Then the Chinaman
falls to IS cents and so cents and
the white man cheapens and
cheapens, until he, like the China
man, falls to a level beneath our
civilization, and civilized state of
living, and that brings vice and
degradation. The thing is as
clear as that 2 and 2makes 4, and
that our people at the East can
not see it, is the wonder of the
day" He continued that the
Chinese immigrants were slaves,
unattached to the Government
and unimpressed by civilization.
Chinese labor produces the hood
lum, the tramp and the hummer.
The nation that degrades labor
commits suicide. But what shall
large landhoiders do without
cheap labor? Better they die
beggars than that labor be de-
graded by servile class. Let
them sell their lands off in small
parcels to American families, and
cease to coax a servile class to
our shores, that they may enjoy
large holdings. When the maya
zine of our poor white trash ;
exnlOdAs in contact with the