The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-11

The San Francisco correspondent of the
HERALD reports an interesting conversation
with a member of the Chinese Embassy,
which Embassy has now reached Hartford.
1t should be understood that the principal
members of the Embassy speak English,
were educated in this country and are at
least as competent for the delicate duties
intrusted to such officers as an American
Ambassador who is sent to a country which
he has never seen before and of whose Ian
guage he is ignorant.
The Chinese government has sent this
Embassy, evidently, to show that it cares
for it's people who are scattered abroad over
the earth and that it understands the value
OF treaties. The Chinese, our correspond
ent was told, have the same rights under
the treaty to come hero that Americans have
to 60 all over China !; and China looks to
the United States for an example in the OBJ
servance of treaties, especially in case
like this, it was shrewdly added, because
the Americans sought this treaty. If Con-
gress should forbid the importation Of Chi
nese here this would be at first matter
affecting the English, because they embark
from Hong Kong, which is British colony.
All this is, OF course, merely fencing with
the question. 1t is more interesting to read
that the new Chinese Consul in San Fran
cisco means to try to have that blot upon
the city, "China town." cleaned and made
decent and if he can get the police to help
him he means to close the gambling bells
and worse places which abound there
One of the first discoveries he will make is
that the worst dens in ''China town" are
owned by "most respectable people" and
that most of the policemen who are sta
toned in China town derive handsome
private revenue from the vices they wink
at and tolerate. That is to say, he will find
that the fostering sore which Christian San
Francisco has so long tolerated is main
tanned for the profit not of Chinese, but of
SO called Christian people, property owners
and public officers, who vigorously de-
nounce the Chinese, while they jingle in
their pockets the money they make from
their vice and misery. The Chinese Con-
sui, we read, also means to make some in-
quiry about the seventy-ive thousand dol
lars per annum which the California Chinese
are forced 10 pay into the school fund,
while they are not allowed school priv
leges.
We understand from another source that
as soon as Congress reassembles promi-
nent Representative will introduce bill
providing that all the Chinese now in Cali
fornia and Nevada shall be sent back TO
their own country at the expense OF the
Treasury, within six months after the pas
sage of the bill, and that thereafter any
Chinaman found in either State shall be re-
turned at the expense of the person found
employing him or selling him anything 1t
would certainly be more honest to do that
than to simultaneously abuse and swindle
them. The protest of the six Chinese COM
panies against false statements made about
them is given in to-days HERALD.
HAS TAMMANY CHOICE ?-Star Chamber
secrecy may do very well in autocratic govern
ments like those Of the Gar of Russia or the
Shah of Persia and there are governments in
which proceedings in the style Of the Span
ish Iuquisition are appropriate, but neither
is just the thing in q free city like New
York. Let Tammany remember this and
deal in an open and honest manner with the
people. If it has any choice for the Mayor
atty it should make it known, and not re-
sort to secrecy or subterfuge
Two kepubiican Statesmen ON the
Currency.
On Friday General Ben Harrison, Of
Indiana, spoke at Richmond, in that State,
on the currency; and on the same evening
General Butler, of Massachusetts, addressed
the people of Biddeford. Maine, on the same
question. Both are republicans but they
utterly disagree on the most important
question of the day. General Butler de-
nounces the efforts of the last and present
administration to strengthen the public
credit as o swindle, and demands that green
backs shall be made a legal tender for all
debts, public and private. He is, in fact,
an infationist, and in harmony with Sem
ator Voorhees, and the democratic plat
forms Of Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas and Louis
lana. General Harrison, on the contrary,
is for resumption, and his speech on this
question is in the main very able. We print
it ut some length elsewhere, and ask work
ingmen to read it and see If they do not
agree with him in thinking that the labor
ing man should demand the best dollar
and not the worst, for his work. General
Harrison rightly says that laborers work on
credit but must pay cash for all they buy.
A workman is paid only when he has per-
formed the labor, and it is to his interest
precisely as much as the dollars he agreed
to work for He cannot afford to gamble
on his wages, and currency Of fuctuating
value puts him at the mercy of SPECTATORS
General Harrison shows in detail what
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