Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1879-02-25
LetterfrOm Senator Blaine i'm reply
to Mr.. Garrison upon the Chinese
Question.

Question.
The following letter from Senator Blaine
was published in the New York Tribune yes
terday morning:
WAsHINGroN, ID. c. Feb. u. 1879.
To the Editor of the v. !. T,rJune:
The reflections of Mr. William Lloyd
Garrison upon the Senators who voted for the
bill restricting Chinese immigration are
made, think. without the thorough examin-
alton which he usually brings to the discus
sion of public questions. Permit me. with
plainness of speech, and yet with the sincere
respect | entertain for Mr. Garrison. to state
the grounds on which cast my vote for the
measure.
First. There has not been from the out
set any immigration of Chinese in the sense
in which immigration comes to US from Eu-
rope. 1t has all been ''under contract and
through agencies, and il not in every respect
of the Cody type the entire immigration
from China has had the worst and most de
moralized features of Coolyism. The Bur
lingame treaty specially ''rcprobatcd any
other than an entirely voluntary immigra-
ton" and yet from the first Chinaman that
came. in 1913, to the last one that landed at
San Francisco, it is safe to say that not one
-, ~ ,". "a an c"'HeN so'uh-
90 ~ " oo'coe' l. io'o' 'hc
i..o'us vi s,e ga san rrahclsco custoni.house
show that 233, l3G Chinese had arrived in this
country and that %, 273 had returned to China
The immigration since has been quite large,
and allowing for returns and deaths. the best
statistics can procure show that about 100. =
900 Chinese are in California and from 20. 900
to $4,000 in the adjacent Pacific States and
r.1 oe -.
VI '"h i"rse population tuilv
nm, 'e'.e "i' "iu" "''Ies. Inc women
-. ~, - ~ '''''iNu "'r seven 'h""s-
-, "n'', " :" "'' accounts theN are
l. "'.' ~" . i"i o's 'nu 'n' AhHio-oaN"n
'. ~, f 10, ~ i''ip"i u, anu ie""ness. ohc
VI wy me" "'iiornians ever met
10y '""' NO. oi' stoie " occeht ana pure
, III" C ~pu,u e'ci NV oeeh lonnd IN inc
w., Mno,s on'n i"'n't',"loh; Is only IN
e'a,.Ias r ",,ui mp. 'ne "hiihasiheu'
~ NV. gu" ,oniSS u ''"o'li ana '"ilor-
10" :''a. '"s p"i"''.i "a" nc i"uho 10 me
Co. r.ara;a VI s,' n'nese quarter OF
:.:.' r"n VI '',s from apouhd-
luz, lug 'es'l'l,o; .cit rom lhose wh" nave
nau personal oppor'uh"S 10 study the subject
~ ~ .u'o''.,s ue'aiis IN 'he entire chinese
fr.P.I'' =: u. ',i' a''h' 'o"s' scarcely one
. " =. 'o'' io "car'hs'ohe Oh COM
80 Nv -. VI !"o "o 'a'her nor 'hother'
Nv, Do".. M u" chi'u reared ny
p"s. -" ~ an" rnnopi'ng 1nnu-
- 800 ~ ~ az. ',""i ne reia'ioh Oh
-. - az w, "n', an description, the
ie'iaies noi"ihs anu ui'h"horlng that sacred
ha'he pei'e sol" ana transferred from one
man " """'nc'' "nn""' shame ana without
ica. o"e Woman pei'ip w 'he same time the
"he 10 seser"i men Many oi these women
eaiiie 70 oah rra.icisco uhder written con-
H.. = no
~ entereo mo 1 nave myself read the
translation Oh some OF THESE abominable doc
a"ehts. i as hatioh we nave the right to
keep OUT ih'ectious diseases, II we have the
right 10 exclude the criminal classes from
coming 10 US. we surely possess the right to
eAci"!c 'i'a' Immigration when rceks with
i'hPu,ny anu WHICH cannon come TO us with
GU, Piehte"usi! sowing the seeds OF moral
ana pnyslcal disease, RESTITUTION. and death.
InTa. Inc 'hinese immigration to Cali
lorna began with the American immigration
III 1870 Inc TWO races nave been side by
siae ior more thah thirty years, nearly an en-
ure genera.ioh ana nor one step toward as
simhatioh mas Deeh taken. The Chinese oc-
euPf '',e" Wv" peculiar quarter III the cty,
aui'eie W ''eii y" /" u,ess, speak tneir own
language worship III their own heather tenn
pies, anu INSIDE the ihuhiclpai law ana indie
selves, even prohouhcihg the death penalty
ana executing IL IN criminal secrecy. II this
were LOT year only or Tor two or five or
even ten years II might be claimed that more
ui,e was needed ior ao'hestica'ion and asslnl-
liationi put TINS mas been going on for an en-
tire gehera'ioh ana the 'hinaman to-day APP
pioac,es no "e.re, 10 our c'lilzation than he
ain wheh 'ne noiaeh "ate srst received him.
IN sworn testimony peiore an investigating
eoihiii'tee Vi congress IT Mears, the health
omcer OF oah rahcisco' described as IA care
ihi ana learned m man testihed that the condi-
tioh Oh tne Ihihese quarter Is horrible, in-
eoneeNaoiy horfioie lie stated that the
,hihese as rule I'VE IN large tenement
MUSES., Id ~ uuihoers crowded INTO indlvidu-
a 'oonne' "'iou' proper Ventilation, with
nah "' 20 a'. anu Underground with great
a,a, Vi nun, 'ne oooIs from which are horri-
pio. "a. .i'pe" '',eir ihohe OF taking a
ioo". W, wv anu putting q nooring halt
way 70 .he ee,ih'g' po'h hoors being crowded
al hight WIN sieepefs. In these crowded
ue"s oas' VI ., 'i MAJ were concealed from
,ne P''icr r, Inc! i've Underground in
nunhs' ING typography Oh That portion of
ehihaooih such that you enter a house
sometimes ana mink mat IT Is one-story
mouse anu you WIN ma Two or three stories
ubNH DclON on the size NIL, where they live