Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-17
The Chinese Question.

At recent meeting Of the Bozeman
SelflmprOvement Association the men,
bers present debated the following ques-
ton: Resolved, That the Chinalnan is q
det.mnent to this county,
The debate grew quite interesting anu
lrcw out many valuable facts on both
| sizes.
| The affirmative side objected to Chinese
emigration Lcyas;se Of their coming to this
country as slaves; retaining all their in
terests and sympathies in The old country,
and consequently sending all their earnings
home: bringing with them loatilsOme dis
eases and immortality, tilc4r inability to
unite with lis as 4 people, either politically
or socially; their non-progressiyc charac-
ter. and consequent inability to fill the bill
Of an American citizen; the fact of their
being heatllens and worshipers of idols !;
their reduction Of the price of labor to
such an extent that Americans can not
compete with them IA white man can't
live on what a Chinaman is willing to
work for;'' and last, but not least. that
large numbers OF them introduced into the
factories of the East would drive the pres
ent female employees from their work and
force them into life worse than death.
The statement was also made that the
population of China is such that it can
easily spare enough Cinnamon to flood this
country and even equal our present popil-
lation.
With these objections, the negative held
that inducements should be held out to the
Chinese to make their homes and invest
their means amongst us; that we are to a
great extent to blame for the Chinaman
sending his money to China; that they
are rs capable Of uniting with lis political
iy and socially as the negro, and unlike the
latter, are industrious and frugal in their
habits that this is q free country. and q
man is allowed to worship God according
to the dictates of his own conscience; that
statistics prove that the Chinaman is more
pcaceaMy disposed and less addicted to
cine than uneducated white men; that
most of their immortality is directly charge
able to the whites that support it; that
white men loaf around saloons, and that
it is necessary to have some persons to do
their work; that many enterprises would
to-day lie dormant but for the cheap labor
of the Chinese; that they are benefit to
the country by bringing under cultivation
immense tracts of land that. without their
cheap labor, would lie practically dead and
worthless; that they work mineral lands
that would otherwise remain valueless and
thus add to the wealth OF the country
that they perform labor, necessary to the
prosperity OF the country, that white men
will not perform; that cheap labor is nee
essary to the country, and will no more
drive the white race from employment
than the loom, the sewing-machine, and
other useful inventions that man has a
right to work for low wages that We can
work ten million Cinnamon in our low
grade mines, and double that number on
the unprOductive lands of Colorado, Neva-
la, Arizona and elsewhere; that even
should the immigration of Chinese to the
United States equal our present population
stated at 3S,O0G.OOO, we have an abundance
of room; such population in the Stxte
Of Texas alone would not crowd it as
much as Massachusetts, that the Chinese
immigration to this country has been ex-
aggerated; that 1000 in one year is the
largest number of the Monaghan race that
has come to this country, at which rate
it would be two hundred and fifty years
before we would have one million, end
nine thousand, five hundred years to In
crease he present population of Chinese
In th,s country to thirty-eight millions.
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