Daily Kennebec journal., 1879-03-04
Dailp krnnebfr .Journal.
Remarks of Nr. Pickard.

Feb . in opposition the resolutions introduced bv
Mr.. himball of Bath. in relation to the abrogaton
OF The Chinese treaty.
Mr.. PIcKAHp said the gentleman from Bath
had read from the Lewiston Journal. lie
would read from the Kenncbec journal.
"SAN FEANcIsCo, February -. A large
pubic meeting presided over by Gov. Irwin.
was held to-day. After a number of speeches
It readoptcd the resolutions OF the chamber
of commerce in favor of the Chinese bill
Five thousand persons were inside the hall
and as many in the street. \ dozen clergy
men have sent a request to the President to
sign the bill"
This dispatch shows the ceiling of the peo-
| pie at san Francisco upon the Chinese uucs
ton. The gentleman from Bath says he does
not intend any reflection upon Mr.. Blaine by
Introducing these resolutions, but that his
movement is i'll the interest of commerce and
trade. admit We are "A commercial country.
| Our ships whitcn every sea, onr hardy seam, n
enter every part of the habiablp globe. We
exported to China in 1873 bit SO. 500. .0O0: for
this snail trade shall we import vice, crime.
! leprOsy and pestiience from the Celestial En-
| pirc: | understand from reliable authority
! that the Chinese Government itself desires n
new treaty with us; they object to the emf
grafton of our rogues into their country. ~
we'll they may. iut doubted the sincerity
of the friendship of the gentleman from Bath
for our junior Senator, after he exhibited
ITarpcrs' Weekly of March 3, 1879, with the
picture Of Senator Blaine embracing a negro
with his right hand because he had rote, and
holding at arm 'sleneth Chi8omoa because
he had no vote.
! desire to present few facts in relation to
this matter. From Isis to Oct. LIST, 1877.
233. I3G Cinnamon had arrived in this country,
and 93.273 had returned to China. 1t is esti-
mated that about 100000 Chinese are now
in California, and about %, 100 are in the adj
jacent States and territories, making in all
l34, ,eAo in the Pacific States and country adj
lacent They are nearly all males only
about 1000 Chinese women have come to this
country. They are said to be of the lowest
cast of human beings; only step advanced
from the brute creation. l.ewd, dirty. beast
! lv in all their habits and instincts mere pros
titutcs. In 1871 and 1872 was clerk Of the
I T. = Senate committee on appropriations
/ senator Cole OF California being acting chair
man. during the sickness of Senatdf Morrill,
of this STATE During this time learned of
Califurnians (who visited their Senator) Il
great dead about the ''heathcn Chinee." rs to
the nuiSancc> they were in that thirty ing
voung State Let il only be known that thi,
Chinese emigration-this Cooley trade. Is to
be encouraged by the nitcd States govern
uent and this great hive OF more than 100
ooo, ,00) souls (if they have any), will swarm
and light upon our Pacific shore in numbers
in swarms far more numerous than the locu>is
and frogs OF Egypt came upon that country
Why, Mr.. Speaker, that vast Chinese En-
pire could send to our shores a number equal
to the entire population Of the United States.
and never miss them at home. If famine
should occur there, and that people have free
/ access to our shores, and could get trans
portati0n. they could send, o,OO0. 600
any year they pleased to eat out our sub
stance, and send pcstilcnce among our peo-
pie. They live, the great mass of them
upon rice and fish. which abound in great pro-
fusion in all the numerous fresh water pontls
ard streams that cover at least one fifth part
of the terragueous surface of that vast and
p0pulous region OF the globe. If pestilencc
should come to the fnny tribe, or by any
means the food supply should be cut off in
that country they would fee to the Pacific
shores, as did the Goths and Nandals of his
tory prey upon their neighbors of old
Bat il is said we must keep faith with these
harharians-thesc dolatrous heathcn people:
we must observe our treaty stipulation must
we! Whtn did these MonVolians ever keen
a treaty with any outside nati0n on the globe?
When did this celestial power (as they claim
to be- ever observe their treaty obligations? =?
Never We have right to ahrogatc our
treaty. y year ago by joint resolution. Con-
eTe,s gave expression to their discomfort with
the existing treaty with China. The propo-
sitiun advocated by MIR. Blaine. if | under
stand it. was to give the Emperor of China
notice that after Jan. l. 1850. the United
States will treat the obnoxious stipulations of
the BurlingGme treaty as at an end.
We have perfect right as nation to do
i.nt and I homo ~ ,r;I