The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-10-09

he right to establish their own schools Tor
Americans in China.
Article VI roniers equal rights upon China
men 10 the United Statse.
Under these articles numerous body OF your
,itizens have established themselves IN China
possessed themselves OF the coastlng trade. and
many other branches of navigation and traffic.
aud thus deprived thousands OF Cinnamon OF
employment The complaints Of these poor
people are not conveyed TO you f; because our
government has too much respect for its treaty
obligations to permit you to be annoyed with
any expression OF regret concerning the working /
OF its compacts with you. On the other hand. /
while the prof OF which the Chinese coat aud |
river junk trade have been deprived, by Ameti- |
csn steamers. 90 TO swell the dividends oil your |
navigation companies and afford employment 10 |
your maritime classes, your shipouiiders, and |
your machinists, your newspapers are hlled and |
your halls ct legislation resound, with outcGies
against Chinese labor in America.
Thus it appears that the United States main
tains precisely the same position in respect 10
China as The other European nations do. Ion
all desire 10 possess advantages in China, which,
At the same time; you would deny to Cinnamon
in America. You have bombaried our ports and
forced Us into an unwilling commerce with you.
which now you desire shall be entirely one-sided.
Your reason for this unisirGess is not sordid
one. You are clear-headed enough to perceive
that the benefit TO commercial intercourse cannot
be unilaternl. But you fancy that the advantages
of social Intercourse may ne msuopolized By one
party. You will not permit Us TO shut ourselves
up. You dems=d every privilege for Americans
in China. but you would deny the same privileges
TO Cinnamon in America, because in your opn-
ion, the presence Of the Chinese amongst you is
a menace TO your civilization. You shrink from
contact with Us. not because you regard us as
mentally or bodily interior-for neither fact nor
argument will support you here-but rather be-
cause our religious code appears to be different
from yours, and because deemed to be
more abstemous in food, clothing and shelter.
If our religious forms. our daily bull Of fare,
and our demands for wages were the same as
yours, it would be difficult 10 see what grievance,
either real or fauciful. you would have to com.
plain about Since you profess in your politicpl
constitution, your pulpit decamations and, more
than all, 10 your manner of living. that you are
not bigoted and care nothing for religious forms,
the menace 10 your civilization appears TO resolve
itself into fear Of losing your accustomed roast
beef, white shirt-eollars and carpeted houses. 1t
is u menace 70 the sensual indulgences to which
you have been accustomed during the last three
centuries-thst is to say, since the opening of
sea trade to the ORIENT
There Is significance in this coincidence, to
which, in another place | shall have occasion to
al!ade more fully. Meanwhile, let US agree upon
the grounds of your hostility 10 the Chinese in
California. | say it is chiefly the fear of having
to descend Gas you would regard it) TO your no
ton of the Chinese level of subsistence-rice,
ore suit of clothes and bare walls. This is the
substance Of your l300.page Repeat of the Joint
Special Committee TO investigate Chinese Emi-
grafton. II it Is anything else, shall be glad to
shift the issue with yoa.
Treating this as the essence OF the Chinese
question let Us see what there is in it. Sub
stantially, ASIA desires seclusion from the Euro
pean world; Substantially Europe desires com
merce with Asia. In India this commerce is
carried on by force. In China and Japan, be-
cause you cannot employ force, you desire to so
arrange Il that while the commercial benefits
may be mutual, the social advantages. as you re-
gard them, may all be on your side. You Insist
upon trade with China, but you want no contact
with her people, for fear of their pagan influence
aud their economical mode of living. Can you
be graEifed in both respects? Impossible.
The same God that made you. made us /; the
same memorable laws Of nature that govern you,
govern Us. Foremost among these laws ia that
of grayitation. When a substance falls to the
EARTH the earth rises at the same time to the
Z
cal. This law holds good throughout the physical
world; it also holds good throughout the moral
and political world. Nature forbids One-sided
arrangements. II you must trade with China
you must come in contact with Cinnamon, and
| be subjected to the influence of Chinese morality
i and Chinese civilization. The iuhaence may be
small, may be remote, may be inappreciable-as
Is the rise of the earth toward falling substances
but it must take place, and neither you nor We
can helpit. You may drive US out of California
but We shall influence your social affairs all the
same. The goods that We now manufacture in
| San Francisco will be fabricated in Canton aud
no matter how high you may raise your tariff
you will walk in Canton shoes, wear Canton
shirts, smoke Canton cigars, and shoot each
other with Canton revolyers and gunpowder; for
/ We can make all of them cheaper than you can
If you have debauehed Us with opium, we have
got even with you by acquiring your mechanical
arts and henceforth, unless Europe and Asia
! shall fall back upon a now impossible scheme oil
strict non-intercourse, their fortunes must &c
together. If. as you believe your civilization j;
superior to ours, it will have to fall little in
order that ours may rise great deal and tbi;
must take place whether the few Chinese now
in California shall remain or not Ii ia God;
law and cannot be avertsd. 1t is the means by
which He has and will continue to slowly kni
together the diverse threads of all human life.
In my next and final letter propose to show
how mistaken you are in regarding your civiliza
ton as, on the whole. superior TO ours and on
the contrary. how much your civilization owes IL
ours, and how rapidly it would decay without the
support which our civilization affords it, even al
the present time. After this | will endeavor 70
draw picture of what California would be Bert
the Chinese driven from it, and to justify th
delineation will refer to the expulsion or tht
Moors from Spain and the Chinese from Manila
And when | shall have done this, / will rest N,
case.
Let me in this place. however, endeayor t
correct one great miSapprehensiOn in respect II
the Chinaman. You are continually objectinI
to his morality. Your travellers say lie is de-
PRAYED your missionaries call him ungodly
your commissioners call him uncleanly; AM
your sans culonsS call him everything that is vile
Yet your housewives permit him tc wait upoI
them at table they permit him to enter their bed
chambers they con6de to him their garment
and Jewels; and even trust their lives to him
by awarding him supreme control over the kitch
en- and the preparation of their food. There
glaring contradiction here.
The plain truth is. that what you have regard
ed as evidences of immortality and depravity ar
simply evidences Of indulgence and misery. Chin
is in feudsl condition. Her mobiles are enol
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