The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-02-20

ally charged with lack of sympathy fo
workin gmen, but he has had the courag
to disagree utterly with sandlot oratory
The danger of an avalanche of Chimes
emigrants is vastly exaggerated. Wha
has happened2 We have had twent!
years of Chinese emigration, and there
are only about 1000 Chinese now in tn.
emigration there has been great fielC
for cheap labor in Pacific Railway con
struction. We have received in twenty
years fewer Asiatic emigrants than we
often receive of European emigrants in g
single year. If in the last twenty years
under all the stimulation of emigration
we have brought over but this small mum
Der, how are we sure that American in
stitutions are to be buried under an i'm
mense avalanche of Asiatic emigrants in
the time just ahead of US? l believe
that the bugbear of the enormous ava
lanche from China is absurdly emphasiz
ed. 1t is hoodlum boguey. 1t ought
not to frighten US, even if it be magni6ed
by political necromancers Our popula
ton is doubling every thirty years. We
are soon to have 1O0,000,000 people here
born on our soil The man who remem
bers that we have 100000 from Europe
every year landing on this Atlantic Coast
and is frightened by the landing of the
same number from the Asiatic Coast on
the Pacific side during fifteen or twenty
years, is not estimating at i,s proper val
ue the recuperative vigor of the Ameri.
can nation. We have succeeded on the
Atlantic seaboard, we have succeeded
even in New York, in holding our heads
above water while the Irish deluge and
the German has come in. We have the
fifth German city in the world at the
mouth of the Hudson. We have the
second Irish city in the world there, and
yet we are not altogether ashamed Of
| New York. More than half the imports
of the United States yet pass through her
harbor, and she is yet an American city.
| We shall be proud of San Francisco if she
manages an immigration half as large as
we'll as New York has done her Irish
! and German and Italian and Polish and
| Bohemian influx.
| beg leave to insist upon the fact that
| the Chinese emigration thus far has
done more, and far more for this country,
financially, than the Irish did when the
Irish was no larger. [Applause.l We
have official statistics showing that co.
900 Chinese now in California contribute
to the annual revenue of the State over
100000. Did any 10000 Irishmen
among the first who came over ever do as
much as that2 Applause. Let US have
the truth on this topic, no matter whose
prejudices are offended. We have Off
cial information that the amount of du
ties paid by the Chinese importers into
the Custom House of the port of San
Francisco is 81, ,900 600; freight and pas
sage money in ships from China, $65O,OOO;
rent for stores and storage, $l,O00,000;
for State licenses and taxes 50, ,250,0 900
for American products in San Francisco,
81 100, 900; for water rates for Chinese
miners, $2.200,000; for mining claims
bought by Chinese miners, 81 $780, 900; for
American products in the State, So, ,000,-
000 (Among the official documents
which must be compared on the Chinese
question are Senator Morton's minority
report, and that of the majority in the
Committee of Investigation in California
in 1876, the California State publications,
and the memorials sent to Congress by
the six Chinese companies. See also
Kwang Chang Ling's letters to the San
Francisco Argonaut, and the Rev. o.
Gibson's volume on THE Chinese in
America"
The Surveyor General of California says
the Chinese have increased the value of
the property in California $200,000,000,
and this property to day is held by white
men. Have any 100000 Irish done as
much as that for California? Applause.
Where is the sandlot orator that dare say
that his race on the Pacific Coast has ad-
ded 1920 900 900 in value within ten
years to the property in California held
by white men? [Applause These Chi
namen have, according to official state
ments, reclaimed million acres of marsh
lands which were worth So an acre, and
now are worth 500 an acre, and each one
producing seventy-five bushels of wheat.
These enterprises have given employ
ment to 100000 white men, and these
men now turn on their benefactors. l
undertake to say that there has not been
on the face of the globe, since the first
emigration of the English to this country,
as profitable an emigration as these Of
fetal figures show. Applause.
If l speak of justice to capital, I shall
be accused, oil course, Of being bought
AS l heard the sandlot orator say once,
and it is the best thing l ever heard him
utter: There is not money enough in
the United States to buy hair of my
heard" [Applause. 1 have been crit
icising capital here until have shown at
least my impartiality. If you 60 into
California, as scores of my friends who
have brought me information have done,
you will find that capital at large, as rep
resented by the great managers of manu-
factories, and ranches and extensive
farms, is in favor of Chinese immigration
under good police regulations in San
Francisco, and fair construction of the
Burlingame treaty. On the whole the
substantial part of the population of Cal
ifornia speaks of Chinese emigration
favorably. This morning a gentleman
who has spent months in San Francisco
| told me he had talked with at least
| hundred owners of property and leaders
of public sentiment preachers, professors,
| teachers, merchants-and that he had
not in his long residence in San Francis
CO found one man or woman opposed to
Chinese immigration. Applause. 1t is
very well understood not only that there
are two sentiments on this topic in Cali
! fornia, but that the reason why the more
conservative sentiment does not make
itself heard is because sandlot oratory
threatens riot and con1agration, and is
SO little under the control of the San
Francisco police that the city sleeps as it
were on it's musket There is not a
church with any spiritual life in it-on the
Pacific Coast that has not a class in its
Sunday school for Cinnamon. The GER
tainty is that more than 5000 Chinese
answer to the roll call in evening mis-
sion schools in San Francisco, and study
successfully the English language Over
5000 attend Sabbath school 1000, it is
supposed, have accepted Christianity ii
is certain at least that more than four
hundred have been baptized. There are
a thousand Chinese children born in this
country. We have two hundred Chinese
students in American colleges and pre-
paratory schools, and some of them out
ranked our best boys [Applause.
Do you say that there can be no assim
ilation between the races? Nitro glycer
inc! That is the proper metaphor fol
the relation of Irishmen to Chinese; anC
because this topic is so explosive we are