Delaware tribune, and the Delaware state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1877-18??, 1877-08-16

DAsceaFaSing Chinese 10mSGrataen'
The Chinese in California Sc that it =
impossible for them 70 1--we comfuxhbly In
country whore the feelings toward them
is such Is it il in America, and they have
themselves propoaed what they think viii
DO . successful measure to check i'm
migration. They suggest thst the Bur
lingame treaty shall be modified and that
head tax OF 800 be laid on each China
man landing In this country, and further
that the Poetic Mail Steamship Company
make the steerage passage from, China to
this country $75 while they make the
charge from this country to China but $50.
The Chinese merchants, who make this
proposition, say that they think
these measures would be successful
in checking immigration and have
a tendency to start the tide
of Chinese travel the other way,
but the dispatch nno-..acing the scheme
does not Say how they propose inducing
i the Pacific Mail Company to adopt policy
that will deprive it of what has hitherto
been profitable branch of it's business.
The necessity for discourakins the iYnnii-
grafton of this class Of people must be-
very manifest when The more intelligent
Chinese themselves thus recognize it. There
certainly has been a creditable effort OF
, the part of the officers of the law and the
more reputable classes of the citizens il
. San Francisco during the recent trouble
( to protect the lives and property of tn
E Chinese from the assaults OF the villainou
hoodlums bat such efforts have been un
: availing to accomplish all that was desired
and 30 long as the Chinese population y
r California continues to grow ~ accession
from abroad II &c probable that the preju
. | iices which makes such outbreaks posi-
4 bic against them will continue to exist.
Little as it is to our credit that we can
f not maintain for Chinese immigrants thcr
, rights to which under our treaty with thei
| government, they are entitled to our soil
1 we cannet wonder at feeling o
5 horror among Califc7nians at the idea O
4 any great increase of such immigration
n They are distinct and inferior race. an,
;, their presence amongst us "a interiors put
e severe strain on the theories on whtcl
II our government is founded, while the ide
IS of absorbing them into our own race b.
:, intermarr;age, is still more horrible, a
# their numbers at home are 30 great tina
r this would be impossible, and if
y were attempted their race woul,
n absorb ours instead Of crrs absorbin
l. heirs. Any MIXTURE whatever with thcr
e would to tend deterioration Of our own race
d Hence they are infinitely more undesii
h able as immigrants than tho mos
IS degraded of Europeans. for these wi
v gradually be absorbed into the America
ID people and disappear as distinct clas
lie For these reasons We are glad that I'll
ir Chinese on the Pacific coast have come ,
hit see the wisdom OF discouraging the
RS countrymen from coming here, or
ol strongly as we condemn the lawless &c
he which have helped to show them this '
nd are glad that the immigration is likely
"a be checked. 1t is one of the maj
nd cases where good has come out
ia evil, as was the case, for instant
ION when the attempt of the sla
in. power to perpetuate itself by rebelli
,,.h resulted in the destruction of slavery q
en- produced more solid union than CO,
ret have existed while slavery divided us
es I sentiment and interest. The Califor
,se hoodluns ought to be hung for some
ore the things they have done, but the c
ing they sought, and in part accomplish
,ed was one that ought to have been sou,
ere by decent men through lawful metho
u1s and is a good one.