The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1878-10-16

careless OF WlaL DaQ OcCulIeu OelOTe,
three thousand of my countrymen gradually
found their wav to Manila. Precisely the same
thing happened as before. The Spaniards, GOV
citing the wretched gains of the Chinese, planned
their massacre, and slaughtered twenty-five
thousand of them in four months with a loss on
their own side of but three hundred and thirty
MARTINS History of China, |. 376). From that
moment the Philippines decayed aud sunk 10
nothing. In 1862 when Sir William Draper
captured Manila from Spain, his must numerous
and eager allies we're the Chinese. 1t was a
punishment and retribution to the Spanlards.
Did the Philippines decay because the Chi
nese had been driven from them Yes. But
let us glance at the story of The Moorish expul-
sion from Spain before we dig down to those |
reasons which SO nearly concern the present vel |
fare of California and the Pacific slope eli Amer
lea.
At the time that Ferdinand and Isabella con-
quered Granada SPAN had population OF 81
600 900 CASTLE had 100000; Aragon, u
100000 Granada, 100000. large proper
ton of the Inhabitants Of CASTLE and Aragon.
and all of those in Granada. we're MoOrs or Jews.
Tine former we're the agriculturists OF the penin-
sua the latter the manufacturers aud merchants
The conquest had been aided by fauatcIsm. and
the impersonators of this element claimed Tor
their reward the expulsion of the Moors and
forth, and in the same year that America was
discovered by Columbus the kingdom Of Spain
was closed to the heretlcs. A million oil them
we're driven forth. Some protested Christianity
and remained until 1910, when they. too, were
cast out. Others of the prescribed fled to freer
lands. so that in 1904 the entire population left
in Spain was but S,206I9l. The Kingdom was
wreck, and despite the magnificent conquest OF
America, despite the gold and silver wrung from
the Indians and the monopoly OF the colonial
trade, which was maintained until the period OF
the Mexican and South American revolutions, 1t
never recovered the loss thus sustained. 1t is
only within the past twenty-five years that Spain
has been again enabled TO hold up her head
among the nations Of the world; only since the
time when she has decreed religious federation
and blotted out from her history the bloody and
detestable crime which she committed three
centuries ago. The cry raised against the Moors
in Spain and the Chinese IN Manila was the
same paganism filth, leprosy, lower cviiza-
ton. 1t was false in both cases, as it is in the
present case of California. The real offence was
that the hated races we're more abstemious and
economical than the race in power, and much as
you may eudeavor to conceal it from the world
and from yourselves, this is the offence of the
Chinese IN California. Are not your sans Gu
loteS destroying your harvesters and other labor
saving machinery? Do they not murder those
of their own number VINO are satisfied to accept
lower wages than the leaders choose to demand
| believe that have said enough to show why
the Chinese should not go. 1t ls only necessary
to advert to the enormous interests which they
have built up in this country to make it clear
i, that they cannot go aud | may add that if it
becomes necessary for them to appeal to all
Christendom, and even to arms, against your in
, justice, they are prepared to do so. They did
L., NJ, a. =; aai,
: for the Burlingame treaty but now that both
1 have been thrust upon them they are determined
;. that both shall be respected. They will not be
/. driven forth. 1t must sound strangely to hear q
Chinaman speak of resortng to arms to obtain
h the observance OF q treaty. 1t ls strange but
! it is your method. the method of your boosted
? Western civilization; you have taught it to Us
n and we shall employ it. 1t may, also, seem pre-
posterous on our part to speak of arms, when
i, you believe that we have none. But here yor
n are mistaken.
h During your civil war, single Confederate
q cruiser whose operations IN Chinese waters wert
IF zealously aided by the British Consus, ant
!. alarmingy magni6ed by the reports of the Brit
r. ish merchants in our ports, entirely swept you
; commerce from the Pacific Ocean. This fac
- taught US two things: First, the English ar,
: your rivals in trade, and would gladly ruin you
n second, they are ready to sell war-ships, arms
a and ammunition to your enemies. At the pres
!, ent time they have q number of fine iron-clad
J. which, being our friends, they will be glad to sci
h to US, and, if needs be, show US how to handle
10 The day that you become so weak and faithes
to give way to your Ignorant classes, and per
nit the torch and dagger to drive US from you
"A shores, that day will see every resource of tn
"a Ia.sing empire put forth to punish you. You
"A Scommerce will be swept from the Pacific pei
hona n mat ha al U erin
d OF the Atlantic and you may then learn, whs
ID too late, that China, though old and apathetiC
n is by no means dead or powerless.
20 But pardon these threats. They are merel
n the ebuiltioa of an injured patriotism, an oul
~ ragged sense of justice. We would be you
20 friends, not your enemies. The oldest and tn
n, newest empires of the world, Joined together i
"A the common cause OF Free Trade, would turnis
"a spectacle whose sublimity might form the Pha
NJ ros to new and higher civilization for unite
n. world. Disnnted warning with each other an
m in war seeking for allies, with little regard to tn
r.. incongruty of the alliance, they would not onl
of afford an unseemly spectacle, but they might il
ia volve each other in ruin and the world in desc
N lation widespread that its industrial rehabll
Iv tation may need the work of centuries. | hav
no said 1.-THE Chinese should not can not, wi
an not go. | will now show you that If they did,
an would be so much the worse for yOu-aye. eve
if for the very classes who are camarous for the
r.. removal. What are they doug here In wor
in they are pursuing number of industries which
in without them, woud have no existence at all o
la this coast ALI the evidence in your Chimes
he Immigration Report goes to prove that this is
ad correct description of the class of vocations
to which they are employed The City AssessO
%. who with binocular vision, finds 2S500 Chimes
-. in this city, gives their occupation as follows. Il
or classification being my own:
to a. AS domestcs and washerwomen ........7,2 200
nd (2 As makers of clothing shoes and slippers $50
% As makers of cigars and cigar-boxes.. IS, $50
u a As fishermen, ruck-frmers and hucksers g. EOS
c- (5) As Chinese meTchan IS brokers, clerks, and
- porters, Chinese restaurants, places Of worship
90 and other purely Chinese occupations A. $50
ILL., (6) AS ragpickers .............. - coo
in "a In American manufactures: fruit canning,
w. wooden mills tanneres, matches, gunpowder
We mills, and brick yards ......... .,......3,4 $50
do
mr. IOtai ,oOO
to In other towns Of the State the Chinese a
IN employed in similar vocations. In the rural Sc
tions they pick nneteen-twentieths of the graz
w. crop (Rep., p. l203) In the mining distric
lily they work the placers which white men have loI