Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-01-04

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bed with the legs of those navy.blue
britches dangling around her fair neck
and cried like a woman for half an
hour.
Are We Ruined by Chinese Cheap Labor.
Dr. Holland Concludes Discussion Of the Chinese Cues
ton In scfibner, for January:
It is tossed in the ears of the China
man that he is a heather, that he sends
his money home. that he is an opium
eater, that he does not bring his wife
and children with him, but does bring
prostitutes /; that he is filthy, that the
quarters he inhabits are breeders of
disease, that he is gambler, etc. It
is fair question to ask, in the face
of these charges, whether the treat
ment melted out to this heather has
been such that he sees marked supe-
riority of Christianity over heathenism.
About how impressive is the Christian
lesson impaired to heather by the
unrebuked too of ho0dlum's boot
What would heather naturally think
of Christianity that greets him with
howl on his landing and follows him
with discriminating laws and regula-
tions, and public contempt. and priv.
ate unhindered abuse during ali the
time of his residence! The charge of
heathenism is just trille absurd. And
if the Chinaman smokes opium, who
drinks whisky? If he has prostitutes,
whose unrebuked example does he fol-
low! If he sends money home, it is
precisely what the Irish have been do
ing, in the most filial, brotherly and
praiswOrthy way for the last century
| If he comes to California without his
wife, he does simply what tens of
thousands of Californians have done
since immigration to the State began.
If ,ha is a gambler how long is it since
ga'nt9ius went out of fashion in Cali
lorna If hi" 1: .a are filthy why
does not the health beard, OF -hy do
not the city authorities, attend to their
duties?
We ask these questions not because
VIC suppose they decide anything, but
because, in our ignorance, we would
like to know. In the East, the preju.
dice against our heather brother John
in California seems little unreason'
able, and we want more light. We
have been in the habit Of welcoming
all other natiOnalities. We are
strangely insensitive to the importa
ton Of thousands of criminals and
scamps and scalawags from Europe
and we cannot yet feel sure that The
importation of the Chinaman is not z
better thing, on the whole. He Ger
tainly is Industrious, he minds hi:
own business, and, so far as we have
seen him here, he does an honest day:
work, which is more than can be sale
of a good many Christian laborers
whom we have around us. OF ont
thing, at least, we are sure. No PEG
pie can hold large body of men ii
contempt, and regard them will
hatred, and treat them like beasts
without demoralizing themselves
That thing has been tried, and tried il
this country, too. The Californian
cannot afford to have the Chinamal
with him, unless they can treat hin
like man. They must either do thi
or the Chinaman must go. TO hold ;
fellow-man in fixed contempt, to spi
upon him unrebuked, simply because
he is of another race, or is supposed
in the competitions OF life, to inter
fere with ones prosperity, is simpl,
to lapse from Christianity into barbar
ism. And that, in it's own time, will
produce results in which the Chimes
will not be interested, except as Oh
servers.