Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1877-03-31

and customs, and wish to live
apart.
1T has been the svowed policy
of our country to invite from other
lands not only the oppressed, but
all who might wish to better for
tunes, to come to this" But for
long years, If not for always, we
have had laws to prevent foreign
countries from landing their crimi-
nails, contagious sick, and paupers
on our shores, and the rule should
apply to Chinese-the greatest OF
moral, social and physical plaques.
The United States will never re-
cover from the damage already done.
The moral injury cannot be esti-
mated, and the physical wound will
never be heale,l. If every Mongo-
liam in the land were converted and
sent straight to heaven, the number
IF souls sent to hell by their influ-
ence to this date would be much
greater. For every one even pomi-
nally converted. twenty, yea, a
hundred Caucasians are eternally
damned by this great. heather con-
tagion. The rising generation,
about the cities and towns especi-
ally. is in many ways subject to its
influence. The hoolum- vicious.
lawless and worthless young persons
OF both sexes-is an element of So
ciety on this coast which given
promise only Of turbulence and
moral and physical degeneracy, and
its existence is mainly due to the
presence of Chinese. It is difficult
10 make the people of the East I'M
derstand the enforced idleness
which has cause1 our young people
to fall into bad habits. Neither do
they understand the evil influence
of cheap prostitution, making it
possible for ally boy to crafty his
lust for twenty-five or fifty cents,
and this experience leads them to
destroy the moral sensibilities of
their female associates of their own
race and this vile contamination is
spread indefinitely. Nor do they
see the daily increase in the use of
opium, the most insidious, degrad-
ing and terrible foe of man; more
enslaving than rum, more danger
GUS than tobacco, and more fatal to
tho soul than all other vices com
bined. All ages and both sexes
are affected by it, and the Chinese,
for gain, are industriously promot-
ing it in every community.
The Eastern people seem to for
get that every magellan arriving
in this country comes as a coolle
and is practically slave for a Pc
riod of several years. There is no
escape from this servitude by an
appeal to our laws. for the Chinese
maintain system of government;
debts are collected. and penalties
involving additional years of slavery,
and even death, are inexorable, re.
gardlnss of our civil and criminal
codes. Females seem 20 be slaves
for life and are sold like merchan-
disc, and almost all of them live
life Of chattel prostitution. There
are 10000 or $1,000 of these, and
the diseases bred by them will
rankle in the blood of the Americans
for all time. If immigration is I'M
hindered this number will be in
creased until every city, town aud
hamlet in the United States is rotten
with iniquity. Our Eastern friends
must not expect to escape this
horror if they are allowed to be i'm
ported without let or hindrance. 1t
must be rendered, too. that no
Chinaman comes with tho intention
of making this country his home.
His only object is to make. by the
utmost economy. q SUN of money
with which he can return to his ma
tive land and live comfortably.
The people who agree with The
Observer would raise a great hue
and CRY if Africans were being
brought to the United States under
the same condition as the Chinese.
OF course the African is not so we'll
advanced in civilization, but at the
end of his coolie servitude he
would be about as well adapted to
American interests as the Chinaman.
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