Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-04-24
The Chinese Question.

has heen 10 some extent ostracised a
and pereecuted in California tor
friendship to the Chinese. writes 10 O
a Wisconsin paper the following as I
a fair statement in behalf OF those =
who oppose their unrestrained I'M :
migration to this country; !
Suppose, then, that during the
last twenty years one hundred ana I
thirty thousand Africans, men, I,
mainly. had been brought to Wis
oonsin. Gradually they had work.
ed themselves into many KINDS Oh
business. They were gardeners
shoemakers and tailors, and crowd
ed ont from manufacturing estao
! lishments, like those of wooden ana
, and cotton goods, all white opera.
q tives. They had no families 10 sup
mort and could live for bare pit
lance. No white man who unoeI-
$ took to raise family could compete
Y with them for a moment. 1t wouio
:. onlv be a question of time before
. thew would work their way into the
printing offices and set adrift every
|. white printer in the State. Suppose
d that the only women they were 10
n, bring with them were low prostl'
10 tutes who would open cheap broth
els in which boys of fourteen were
~ enticed and corrupted. And then IN
he addition to all this suppose my oio
i'm friend Sanford were to see from
oil the windows of his editorial sane
:. tnm 1900 or 1000 fresh colonlstf
10y coming into Racine every week OF
'sy two from Africa still further to com
ast plicate the difficulties accompanies
emit with their immigration. What II
M the world would he have to say
I Would he say, "ours is great an
no glorious country, and it is the nom
nu- Of the oppressed of every land Tha
sur, might be very easy to say, an
ose sound we'll, but how about your ow
-. or your neighbours children WIN
jug wonld be driven away into oths
ton lands in case this influx of African
S OF should continue? =,
for But my old friend might say, tn
on,v ia onlv picture of imaginatlo
raw No, it is just exactly the condl.!ss
"a" in which we find ourselves rsimpl
bsls- parts of California. gnitude of til
and appalled, withae difficulties arisin
Ie all question We see no other issue O.
,ovo. frs~ to saw to our Chinese brethre
tsstnus far and no farther" And v
East are amused at the absurdities
ions Cook and Beecher, and others ill
>asi- them. who go into sneh eantnrtio,
of in their condemnation of our peopl
~, If Beecher's sons were to come
competition with our Chinese bret
g'a- rem who have no families to suppo
llng and can live on four cents per ds
Use +? he would get such an idea of th
: to question as we have here in CalifO
mia.
NAV But suppose they were admit,
ID to citizenship. and made voter
here what then? At present they sin
for ply compose psriah class amor
us. condition of things not co
~" templated by the constitution OF Il
lard United States. But would Broth
the Beecher or Bro. Cook advocate I'll
sSGu PANPNoioiSh w ,GoN OuO uuuQtS
,sed thousand ignorant heather vote
,ho,. to the dangerous masses of the ign
'"es rant voting population of our State
the There is no sane man that advocat
om. 1t. In conclusion let me ask OF
. eastern friends to attach son
-4-s~-s-s~ srv0 Suon creuiE I'd THIS @.
the tent, at least, that they have u
q of lost their common sense or their r
mer ligion by coming to this coast. Ed
Iu dreds of our best citizens have be-
ie' driven to their wits ends by tn
'ate question of Chinese immigratio
rted and they see nc possible way of Q
the cape from the evils that accompar
mos it but to say TO the 100000, 900
Mongolians 10 China, "please stay
~ home; we do not invite any more
ears you to come among us, at least f
and the present"