Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-02
rhe Canker nc she Heart or a Great
state anu q Great Ciiy.

at the last election, will not be dis
regarded in Congress-at least mol
by the Democratic party. The YER
dict rendered in this State against
chinese immigration simply en-
phasIx xed the conviction of all in.
teiiigent Caiifornians that the Chi
nese must not only not come bu,
must 60.
No trivial cause could have ex'
torted such q practically unani'
NOUS rendering of that voice of the
people which is in this case verify
the voice of the living God. Here
and there, to the thousand Califor'
nians who voted against Chinese
immigration, there was one eccen
trio or malignant or foolish MAI
who voted to perpetuate this great
infamy, crime and disablement to
. whole people. The few hundreds
who voted for Chinese immigra-
Z tion simply emphasize the voice OF
the people Of whole State, who
understand their grievances and
perils better than any stranger can,
demanding that an iron and repres-
elve yoke shall be taken from their
necks.
During visit of some weeks du-
ration to San Francisco the editor
Of the HERALD gave special atten-
ton to the Chinese evil. He acted
on the spirit of the old adage that
where there is so much smoke there
must be some fire, and desired to
Investigate for himself. He trusts
that the people and press Of what
Il destined to be one of the half
dozen leading cities in the world
will tolerate him in giving a few
4 Of his impressions.
Many circumstances of Its physi-
eal conformation combine to give
the metropolis OF the Pacific Coast
An air ut once unique and charm-
ing. No record of the commercial
world In ancient or modern times
gives us note of q place more ad-
mirably adapted to struggle for the
very lead of the class of great cities.
Il IL not straining the imagination
TO say that, fifty or sixty years
hence, San Francisco may be the
very center of the exchanges of the
world. From the standpoint Of
trade her advantages are as strong
as they are numerous. She is, be-
sides, the center OF the mining belt
Of the world. Young as she is she
/ displays in her harbors a range OF
shipping which Marseilles. an old
seaport when Christianity was
born, cannot surpass, and
which Naples and Venice
cannot rival. The proposition may
be unhesitatingly advanced that
II the Chinese hordes had been
kept away from California, San
Francisco would already be the
richest city, per capita, in the
world. Her advantages are SC
singularly great that che may be
this now, but every dollar she now
hes might have been three under
more enlightened policy.
The Chinese population of Sar
Francisco, compressed into few
blocks, but numbering from thirty
to forty thousand males, have real
" made this favored city seem but
= mere shell. In the first place
they fill menial situations. This
not only enforces upon Caucasian
help sharp competition, but it de-
grades avenues OF labor whi ch
would have saved innumerable
girls and women from prostitution
and legions of boys and men from
unredeemad hoodlumism. We pity
the man who does not sympathize
to . reasonable extent, with tht
pride of the honest poor. The mos
degrading slavishness is peculiar
ity inherited by the Asiatic peas
ants from time whereof the mem
ory of man runneth not to the con
trary. To them there is no pain il
the most degrading seif-sacrifice, OF
In the surrender of what would bt
called decent self-respect in 6
white man or woman. The newt
able result is that domestics
brought In competition with Chin
amen, feel dwarfed and belittled
Multitudes of them prefer vice, vic
lent or degrading, to entering int
the fell rivalry. And even thos,
who, from q perhaps not under
stood but really philosophic resig
nation, force themselves to compel
with Cinnamon, find themselve
underbid and disprized.
This is lamentable view of tn,
matter, but the whole evil has b.
no means been told. Feeding him
self on little rice, if he is a me
chanic; making the deadly fume
of opium the substitute for hun
drsd Innocent pleasures which tn
Caucasian naturally likes to enjoy
and which stimulate the trade ant
enterprise of city; housed il
nlthy dens to which the pig pens o
. fancy English farmer are a pal
ace, these Cinnamon are scrapinl
their earnings together, day b.
- a. o~dar that thov NAV aarf,