Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-03-06
THE VETO.
Indignation Caused by it en-
the Pacific Considerations
Hayes Figure Burned ia Eff

Indignation Caused by it ON
the Pacific CGast--FHresifaeFlt
Hayes Figure Burned ia Eff
figy.
The message vetoing the Chinese
immigration and importation bill has
failed in convincing Californians of
its propriety. 1t is easy to magnify
the Importance of treaty stipulations.
1t is quite another thing, however, to
satisfy people, while withholding
remedies for grave evils that are con-
stantly increasing. Whether it vas
due to the precautions taken by the
authorities or to the fact that it had
been known for several days, that
the President did not approve of what
Congress had done, there was no vio-
lent popular outbreak upon the re-
ceipt of the veto at San Francisco in
which city, at the sand lots, about
1000 workmen assembled to de-
nounce the President, give new i'm
petus to agitation, and wait for a
more radical cure for the Chinese
evil than the one vetoed, which at
best was looked upon as quite insult
ficient. Meetings were also held at
many other places in California, de-
ploling the view taken by the Presi-
dent. At Hollister, San Benlto oun
ty, his figure was burned in efigy,
and at Fairfield, in Sanoma county,
flags were put at half mast. At
Dutch Flat, the last Chinese shanty
within the town limits was burned,
and an indignation meeting organ
ICED.
The President is everywhere spok-
en- of as haying disgraced himself,
killed the Republican party in Cali
~tornia, turned a deaf ear to the wall
of the Pacific coast in order to pam
der to the interests of the Chinese
Emperor, and yielded like a coward
to the popular clamor of men totally
ignorant of what they advocated.
The question is asked, Compared to
the damage inflicted by the presence
of a degraded and inferior race, what
are trade interests?" The total ex-
ports of merchandise from the Unit
ed States to China are said to amount
to no more than S., 1000, 600, while
over S12, 600, 900 are sert annually,
in silver, to pay for imports. 1t is
not probable the Chinese will quarrel
with such customers, and if they
we're foolish enough to do so, the
loss of such q trade could not prove
injurious to the nation. Complete
non-intercourse with China would be
preferable to continuance of trade
with the accompaniment of immigra-
ton. That in point of fact, there
has not been, since the negotiation
of the Burlingame treaty, an immi-
grafton such as 1t contemplated. The
Cinnamon that demand its protection
are imported coolies Of the most de-
graded type. Only a small proper
ton are females, but they are lewd
and impure beyond the Anglo-Saxon
conception of those words. No where
outside of China unless it may have
been at Sodom and Gomorrah has
the world seen anything to compare
to their atrocriOus n~astiness. Among
that people rs they exist on the Pa
ciic there is scarcely a fau.lly-there
is certainly nothing like home. They
are without hearth stone, iireside or
the endearment Of father, mother,
brother or sister. The relation Of
husband and wife is degraded and
there are no children raised by prOyi-
dent parents.
The cutlery about violation oftrea-
ty and consequent loss of trade,
therefore, is ali sham. The real diff
Guilty lies in the fact, that the Prcs!-
dent has neither the head nor heart
to appreciate the evils inflicted on the
Western coast of this continent.
Up to October /, 1876, the records
of the custom house at San Francisco
show that 233, 1856 Chinese had ar
rived in this country and that ~, 273
had returned, and from the best calcu-
lations that can be made there arc Mt
present in California and adjoining
territories about 1875, 900 Of them.