The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-01-24


daughter, and DR.. Graham has never re
GREETED the obduracy of his father-inelaw
or the unsophisticatedness of his wife.
HU HAN VERMIN.
The Terrible AmIcfion OF he Pacific
Coast.
S.n Francisco Examiner Dec. 10.
The pioneers OF California can recall
the time when the Norwegian rat was
not known on this soil. TIE great rush
hither from all quarters of the globe, in
the early years OF the gold hunt, brought
the intolerable pest. They infested ships
and were thence landed here. They soon
overran the country, and ''rattage" was
the devouring, disastrous item in many
an account of sales of merchandise con-
signed to this port, which brought dis
may, loss and ruin to the shipper abroad.
Still nobody needed very much the ap
pesrance of the first Norway rat seen
here. In fact, the pestiierous vermin
was regarded much as curiosity or as q
reminder of the cold home" land. Quite
as the Norwegian rats have overspread
the coast, also have the Chinese. And it
is only by those who are in places where
they are most numerous that the evil of
Chinese immigration can be seen and
felt. They are as destructive and ruin
Gus to labOring interests and TO the solid
prosperity of the state as the gnawing
vermin are to every perishable commod,
ity on which they iasten. Immeasurably
worse will coolies become If ever ad-
mitted to citizenship. For nearly thirty
years they have focked here, to reap the
golden product ior which alone they
come, and this gained, 10 hasten back to
enjoy there a lie of sfluence among
their coolie caste which here would
barely be a remove from poverty. But
to give them citizenship and suffrs e
will cause them literally to swarm here
They have hitherto come by hundreds;
they will, if admitted to naturalization,
pour here in thousands and tens of thou.
sands. They will spread ana march,
aud devastate and devour like the yer
min and locusts OF Egypt. Overland
they viii push their way across the des-
| erts and the plains md hence crawl and
threng to every - the union,
but mainly throug ID and on
s.t.sntic snnaai
- <fhs kincy ffsTilSH
with just eneugh -Hglisl l.
hold the little Pyylon required
with our own sPeOpie; bound by their
own associations and the secret orders OF
their Chinese masters; intent only upon
the gain of gold fattening and growing
rich upon subsistence and wages on
which the white laborer can not live
paying no poll-tax; exempt from military
service in time OF war, because OF their
utter worthlessness as soldiers scorning
our schools; scofing or despising Christi
anity or the worship of God, and stub
born in their heathenism; practically
regardless OF and deiying our laws, and
governed mostly by the laws of their own
country as administered here by their
acknowledged rulers; and enjoying all
these benefits of the protection OF the
constituted authorities without contrI-
| buting 10 the maintenance OF our instIlu-
tions, the coolie hordes would prevade
the country like pestilence and reduce
| 1t as a famine. Free white labor would
| be crowded from shops and fields, and
| the working-class driven 10 poverty, dt 5
| 1 Grafton, and the lawIessness OF raveBing
wolves. Something more terrible than
communism would then surely rayage
the land. Men and women will not star We
in the midst of plenty. and when work is
refused them, and their appeals Ior the
means of subsistence, to earn their bread
| by the sweat of their brow, are unheeded
or refused, they viii by force and violence
relieve their necessities in Whatever
manner they can, without ever stopping
to consider consequences. Conscience Is
dumb in the delirium of wretchedness
wrought by the ferociousness of starva
Lion and the agony OF despair, and crime
becomes chronic. Properly would depre
cate in value, business would decay, IN
dustrles be paraiyzed, and securities be.
come everywhere precarOus.
TO allow suffrage to the coolies would
be the certain downfall and destruction
OF the Republic. The votes of the COO
lie gangs, the same as their services anC
their persons, would be at the disposal
and under the control of their Chinest
masters, who would farm them out Il
the political party or the Candidate Oh
the same terms their labor is now had
to those who paid the highest price
Thus the coolie creeper, if allowed tc
grow from the root OF the tree OF Amer
lean liberty, will in time become the
deathly parasite to exhaust and destroy
the trunk on which it subsists. Ii the
ignorance, the superstition, the pagan
ism, the barely civilized despotism--
with much or ancient barbarism main
tained--oI China is to have sway in TIN.
country, by means OF the ballot, the
peril and war which the introduction q
Africans as slaves in the long-gone colo
NAL days finally wrought, will be as 8
gale in comparison to the hurricane o.
desolation which must at last come as
consequence of the further and fatal ex.
tension of the suffrage-the admission
of the coolies to citizenship. 1t will MOI