Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-09-26
JOHN CHINAMAN AS A COLONIST AND
VOTER


Each and every political party in this coun-
try has set its face against John Chinaman,
especially as a possible factor in the scheme of
American citizenship. No party platform in
this part of the Union is perfect without
hearty denunciation of the Chinese; and
Kearneys crisp motto, FThe Chinese must
90" finds echo from every stump which lines
the pathway of our political campaigns. Be-
fore us lies the Nineteenth Century, the great
London Review of the times. Among the
most important articles in the current number
is one entitled "The Chinese as Colonists.
The writer of that paper seems to entertain
not unfavorable view of the Chinaman as an
immigrant and settler; but in order to get his
subject well before his readers, he is candid
enough to present him as i'll the following
summary he is indicted. He admits that the
people of the United States regard the Chi
nese in the unfavorable light herewith pre-
scented: 'They are pronounced to be the scum
of the population of the worst districts of
China; they migrate without their families,
and the few women they import are shipped
under system of slavery for the vilest pur-
poses; they introduce their own bizarre habits
and ideas, and studiously eschew all sociabil-
ty with colonists of other races they outrage
public opinion by hideous immoralities; they
ignore or defy judicial and municipal institu-
tons; they form secret and reasonable asso-
Citations amongst themselves; they manage to
afford by their low miserable style of living,
to undersell and underworld white men as
mechanics, labourers, and servants; they fail
always to carry home their gains to the old
country, and even to have their bones con-
veyed back thither for interment; in word,
so far from seeking to become cOlonists or cltl-
zens in the true sense of the terms, and strlv-
ing to enrich or benefit the country of their
temporary adoption, they are mere Migrants
and adventures, and that of kind positively
hurtful to the general welfare and progress.
This sounds like very vigorously construc-
ted and comprehensive plank in political
platform 1t might well be engrafted among
the resolutions of the Republican party, so
truth telling, strong, compendious and salts
factory are its various counts.
The writer thus quoted has an evident lean
ing toward the affirmative of his own PROPOSE
ton. He likes to find sound and tenable
reason for averring that there are good mate
rials in the Chinaman for colonist; but still
he is forced to admit, either in Difference to
his apparent purpose to plead Johns cause as
A British, as contradistinguished from an |
American, colonist, or by his own inherent |
candor, what is conceded, with much truth |
fulness, as follows: Gone thing, however, it |
would seem allowable to assert without risk of |
mistake . For the elective FRANCHISE he is |
Utterly unfit, nor would he care for the privi-
eye of exercising it if thurst upon him. .
This asserveration comes with additionalforce
emanating as it does from a writer who has a
very streng prediction in favor of the notion
hat the Chinese would, under favorable con-
litions, make good and useful colonists. Even
II this light however, he insists that they
must be held in the condition of unfranchised
ubjects and not at all within the conditions
# citizenship. Thus it is made to appear in
Justification of all that has been said, crudely
~ kearney and his friends, and with more
liceness and circumspectiOn by more careful
nd judicious speakers and writers, that the
Ihinese are all that has been said against
hem by their most implacable enemies; and
lso, quite as unfit to be entrusted with the +
allot as their most vehement critics have al
Jays and everywhere pronounced them to be,