The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-03-13
VOL. VIII.
THE NEGRO AND THE CHINA
mAN-WEIAT THE LEADING
PARTY LEADERS say OF
THEH.

Blame insists that the bill restricting
Chinese immigration is no violation OF
the spirit or purpose of the BJrlingame
treaty. Seven thousand women have
been imported ss prostitutes, and the
one hundred and fifty Thousand Chi
nese in the country have not come as
immigrants voluntarily" az the trea-
ty contemplated, but as ''conlies. ="
The Senator says further tina. the ex-
clIsIon of these ''slaves' is necessary
# we would exclude moral death. He
insists if the Chinese enter New York
or Boston and live there as in San
Francisco, that the black plague will
be generated. In San Francisco there
is no hot weather, the thermometer
rarely rising above 65 degrees, while
in st. Louis and New York it rises to
115 degrees, even IN private residences.
The servile labor of people who can
live each day on ten cents worth of
rice drags down manly toll to its own
level and as free could never compete
with slave labor IN the South, even so
would popular industry be degraded or
annihilated by the Chinese everywhere
in the United States. If this impor-
tation of coolies be not prohibited, the
first general famine in China would in
duce the utter destruction of the habit
able value OF the Pacific coast. In
fact the overwhelming of California
by the inexhaustible floodtide of
Mongolian multitudes has only been
prevented by the insecurity of rights
and property awarded the race In this
country. The question therefore
seems to be one of final Importance,
which Congress had no right to evade,
and Mr.. Blaine's conduct is defensible
on the principle that dire national ne
cesities know no law; and treaties, when
public safety is suprema lee, are nuga-
tory. The President differs toto eOelO
from Mr.. Blaine. He has made honest
Republican speeches on the negro
question until thoroughly imbued
with the idea of race equality.
He believes that the earth is
the Lords and the fullness thereof,
and that Chirese, Hottentots, Sene-
gambians and Wendell Phillipses are
alike Gods people. Our naturaliza-
ton laws are based on such generous
philosophy that we can only object on
principle to Chinese immigration by
confessing that between Mongolians
and Caucasiaus, as between Africans
and Csuc4siaDs. God reared barriers
which man cannot wisely surmount.
More than thirty years have passed
since the Chinese incursion into Cali
fornia was begun, and they are still as
remote socially and as a race from the
Caucasians as when they first left the
impress of their vices upon the gold
coast. Two hundred and sixty years
have elapsed since Dutch and New
Englanders began the importation
of Africans and they, too, are
no more nearly transformed into
Dutch or Yankees than when they
left Africa. II the President had ap-
proved the bill for which Blame voted
he must pronounce against his own and
BIaine's whole theory of white and
black philosophy. No wonder Garri-
son, Phillips and Fred Douglass were
excited as never before. The negro,
as we'll as Chinaman, was on the verge
of Niagara. II the Chinaman must
go down to rise no more even 80 with
the hapless African. Blaine, the
mightiest of Republican leaders, has
set his face against the African, while
the President, consistent with himself
and race-theories of his party and with
the brosdest assertions of the equality
of God'scr creatures, vetoed Blaine's opin-
ions and California is VesuvIus. But
what will Wharton county and other
colored provinces do about it2 Is
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