Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-24
JOHN CHINAMAN AGAIN.

Judge Sexton of Oroville is busy, just now,
trying the Chico murderers. 1t Is greatly to
be hoped that these cowardly cutthroats will
terest prescriptions of the law. The culprlts
illustrate the whole volume of popular barba
rism concerning the Chinese. The brutal
fashion is to hate John Chinaman first, and
then consider him a rightful subject of any
white blackguards murderous propensities.
He is a coward himself and the cause of COW
ardice in others He makes no friends ex-
cites no kind sympathies has no affections,
apparently. He puts self-sutficiency to
shame. We gorge ourselves with meat be
cause we are morbidly ca1nivorous and he
outworks us, outfits us, out-lasts us and out
lives us on a simple diet of rice. He is re
proach to a great part of our boosted civiliza-
ton, He is a quiet, calling, complacent,
skeptical smile at our progress. He knew
alchemy before ever assayed any ores or
metals; he wove silks before we ever knew
that the silk-worm existed he made paper of
rice water before any Egyptian ever wrote on
papyrus; he had exhausted arch making and
wall building before any Anglo Saxon laid
brick and he had fixed religion a fixed
scholarship, an exactitude in science and
perfected civilization centuries before Christie
pher Columbus was born. So we murder him.
There is no other recourse. There is no al
politicians berate him because he cannot talk
back; our newspapers abuse him because he
neither advertises, subscribes nor gets inter
viewed ; and our hoOdlums stone him and our
Caucasians roast and rob him because they
think nobody will take his part. Meantime
he keeps recurring, like the problem of squar-
ing the circle, like spiritualism, like polemics.
Every time we murder him we confess judg-
ment. He is too much for us. He is the III
solvable problem and puts us to our trumps
Labor Reform meeting, . is why We get So
mad. The Presbyterians say there are a
hundred thousand Johns on this coast need
ing g evangelizing, We cannot kill all these.
We cannot reship them, at once, to their ma
tive land. Possibly We have begun at the
wrong end of the Political economies which
concern these swarming immigrants. Ger
tainly there is nothing gained by the courses
we have been pursuing toward them thus far.
And while it is like taking the part of the
grasshopper or the potato bug to say one word
i'll their favor, it is but self justice to say that
the absurdest folly in the world is to take the
chances of being hanged for the numbering OF
them. We know gifted jurisconsult who
gives it as his professional opinion that ''mur
der is the unlawful killing of a white man
other than a newspaper editor but even |
that sort of ethics does not help one to solve |
this Chinese problem. Until it is demonstra |
ted that Cinnamon, like porgies, sea-weed |
and bird-lime are good fertilizers, it is not at |
all an admissible proposition to grind them
up and spread them round for land-dressing. |
May it not be possible that, following the in
evitable revolution, these hardy animals may
be utilized to solve the question of redeeming
the seventy millions Of waste acres of Nevada
AMI cut up into small farms and vineyards
the vast idle acreage which perpetuates the
curse of Spanish grants in California