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have been held. Here and there

there may have been bargains of
which we know nothing, but the
great body of Chinese have come un-
der contracts into which they gladly
enter and which they honorably dis
charge with their earliest wages.
MFR. Blaine says: In the entire
Chinese population OF the Pacific
coast scarcely one family is to be
found: no heal thstone of comfort, no
tiresides Of joy; no father nor mother,
nor brother nor sister; no child
reared by parents; no domestic and
ennobling influences; no ties of affec-
tion. The relation of wife is degraded
beyond all description, the females
holding and dishonoring that sacred
named being sold and transferred
from one man to another, without
shame and without fear; cne woman
being at the same time the wife Of
several men,
This is his statement, and it is cal
culated to produce a profound I'M
preston on the moral sensibility of
people ignorant of the true facts. II
is true that large numbers Of the
Chinese women were brought ont of
China under contract, too but not
for Chinamen-notf for their own peo-
ple-but for the foreign population
that reside in California When the
Chinese made their representation,
concurrently with that Of the moral
residents OF San Francisco, to the
government, laws were enacted which
put an entire stop to the traffic. 1t is
ended. The more respectable Chinese
OF San Francisco not only were glad,
but actually undertook to send back
again those miserable creatures. A
large number OF than were gathered
together, put on board ship, heir
passage paid, and then the lawyer
employed by the employers OF these
poor creatures got out writ of la
beas corpus and brought them all
ashore again, and only when COM
PEELED by the court let them go away
And this man was one of the commit
tee that went to Washington from
Con- Er.,o;,ao ~ r,pra,apt tn n,t
government what denominations the
Chinese population were.
"Why are there no families? The
same christian Chinese gentleman
whose words have uttered. says: III
a great measure it is true that many
OF the men who come here out oi
China re bad, but il is the fault OF
the treatment the Chinese have re.
ceiyed in this country. The better
classes OF women do not come here
because they are subjected to insults
and all other hardships. L could no
tring my wife here. There are mer
whose wires live in this city who hat
to bring them here in mems clothes
to save them from the insults o
hoodlums and others. A Chinamar
Is not allowed to become citizen
He Is obliged to 60 back to China
so they no not bring their wive:
here.'"
Referring to Mr.. Blaine's statemen
that the Chinamau first came to Cal
ifornia in 1918. and that since tha
time not one step toward assimilation
has been taken. he says:
Shameful. no matter who says IL
When the Chinese immigrants ar
rived, from the testimony OF inc0n
testable witnesses, their houses an,
shops and quarters were reused; the,
were pursued by hooting mobs. VIII
hurt, shot, pelted them; their head
were cut open, their bodies bruise'
and buffeted, and that was their re
ception in the land Of liberty.
"That was their first lesson-tha
was the first step towards assimila
ton.
Then they have been taxed inor
dinately in every direction by elias
taxation; taxed as no American citi
zen and no other immigrant has beer
and heavily, too, for schools to whic
they were not permitted TO send
child. That was the second step
assimilation.
"When several Of them applied fo
citizenship, wishing 10 have the priv
ileges OF others, law was passed b
Congress that they should not be
come voters-which was a third ste
toward assimilation. They have bee
hunted and hunted, and shot dowl
and in every way conceivable abuse
without relief, without defense. Nc
the foxes In the field, nor the wolve
In the wood, nor the bears in tn
mountains. have been hurt and hmm
ed as these multitudes without RI
dress; another step toward assimilE
tion. When the Gospel is preache
with culb it is failure. ] woul
not be go converted. Even Stephe
took refuge In heaven when the n
ligious arguments were stone. Ca
we marvel that the Chinese do M
like us and DO not like our religion
After showing why the Chimes
work for less wages than the Amer
cans, and showing that their employ
ment enabled many manufacture
establishments to employ hundred
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