Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-03-14
Indians and Chinese.

One OF the most marked diHcfeuces
between people Of intelligence and cui-
ture on the two sides of our continent
is found in views taken upon questions
involving Indians and Chinamen. Peo
pie here view such questions very dit.
ferently from the way they are viewed
bv people of the same class IN the
| states; aud of course we think we are
right. We know the Indian aud we
know the Cinnamon. We do not IKE
either of them. that we confess. but We
protest that We are as anxious tn no
what is right 10 regard to them as our
eastern friends can be-. As We read
the debate in Congress upon the Chi
nese bill we constantly wish that the
speakers knee more of their subject;
and as for Cook end Beecher we could
| gl.dly condemn them to ten years
residence upon this coast (the Chinese
remaning) for their nonsense, ony We
expect 10 live here ourselves. II would
be hard TO teach Joseph Cook anything.
His head is already fuller than that OF
Goldsmith's schoolmaster. and to ge.
anythipg more in would be more ditfi
cult than to force water into boiler
when the pressure is high; but if he
should live in San Francisco one year
he W ,uld learn one thing-that the
: Chinese must &C, or, at least, they must
cease TO come.
We have not forgotten about Con.
fucius and and Lao Use. and the inven-
ton Of gunpowder; VIC even remember
2 the artesian wells and the invention Of
c printing, but we see the pig tail and
q hear the Yang tse kiang language, and
We feel we feel it in our bones that Tho
Chimes must not make a little China
of our beautiful Pacific coast. 1t woulc
| be wrong to allow them to DO 40.
Our feeling is the same toward the
i I dian. Our instinct is against allow
ing him to retain this rich coun'r,
without using it, IA dog in manger
e This race instinct is curious thing
e but defy any one not to feel 1t whe'
n in contact with an inferior people. |
= is not that we feel that the lower rae
has no rights but that they must liv
- rs we do if they wish to live with us
10 and that If they do not like tn Sc term
he they are at liberty to 20; aud our con
X science sanctions this. We feel that
a is right thus to present the alternative
" civilization or death, to the lndi n. an
~ civilization or departure to the Chin,
re man. II the Indians or Chiname
is would accept civilizatlt all objection
~ to them would soon be overcome; bt
: until they are ready to do this, the,
= are objections that can not be orerccm
G. just as we are not willing to 60 an
live in China or Africa, We are n
We Willing to have Africa or China broug|
: to us; and the Cinnamon do brir
China with them. They bring the
as language. their customs. their tond al
IN their clothing. their women and the
gods. their virtues and their sins, al
it is China wherever they make
home
Our feeling in regard to these low
- races no doubt reaches back through
w thousand generations, and probab
ed produced important results in many
nd struggle for ex stence in which our ra
ers has been the victor. The very orig
- Of the feeling may have been tho
~ struggles; but none the less is i one
OF the safeguards Of civilization to day
re we allow inferior races, who underh
ter us in life's market, what seems perfe'
nv " fair play, they will swamp all 0
4. institutions and force US to their lie,
~ Of living. If they would adopt o
rye customs We could absorb them. but
md they will not, then our civilization m,
net protect itse'f BY the most humane mea
u within its reach, and for the Chine
that is undoubtedly to check immig'
e"' ton.
md The Indian can be made citize
The and if all efforts in regard to him tc
an this direction the process need not
tend over half a century. Our nat
~ can digest and absorb the two d
skinned races that it has taken 10
ready witkou. dyspepsia at least
is our hope--but the Cinnamon we '
,e's not. cannot swallow. Rev. d. ".
Tor