Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-17

/ or the Chlnaman, the friend OF the / urk, the
! AIussulman, the Teuton and all others, but
/ above all others he was the friend of America,
and those who come here TO become Ameri-
/ cans. OF what he had to say OF the Chinese
| here he did not wish applied in full to the
/ Chinese in China Over 10000 Chinese are
| here, and with their coming and going will
soon blight American labor, and very soon
FILL EVERY STATE
In the Union. The number now here is a
/ bagatelle to what it may be- The question is
national or nothing. Nations must obey the
law of sefprotection, or they will and ought
to perish. The citizens relation to his house
hold binds him to protect his family, and
bids him to allow no one under his roof who
wiLcontaminate the members of the house,
hold The nation is but great family; the
duty of the Government is to the people as
that of the head of household to its mem
bers. The question concerning the proposed
new members of the family is not, Is he
wealthy or sbillful, but is he fit to be one
Of MS. Is the Chinese character, as here de-
veloped, calculated to purify our systems,
strengthen our morality, elevate our nation
or develop our people in any degree? The
/ Chinaman has keen intellect; has clear. far
seeing sagacity and financial ability, and in
fOrecasting the result of events, is the peer of
the best in the land. In Illustration, he told
OF Chinese manufacturer who labels his
cigars The Chinese Must Co." in order to
commend them to the Kearneyites.
THE cHINAMAN
Is frugal, saving and patient, and uncom-
planning, under the prosecutions of the hood
lum. But the Chinaman is untruthful, en-
! tirely disregards the binding obligations of an
oath, except taken by cutting off chickens
head Deception with him is fine art; he
! is thief, the most consummate of thieves
known to civilization Chinese honesty is
the kind canonized by Confucius. Hon
| esty is the best policy. and no maxim is bet
| ter calculated to deceive. The Chinese are
| treacher0uS; no amount of benefactions, or
for any length of time; no kindness for
/ years; fostering care for decade, will not
guarantee fidelity on the part of the China
mau-as witness the case of the boy fostered
for thirteen years in a family in Oakland,
who, for sum of money, Drained his bene-
factors in their beds and escaped, spite all eff
/ forts at capture, and now, perhaps, has pro-
! fessed Christianity and, disguised by growth,
| is serving in some family to repeat his crimes
/ The Chinese are beastly in habit, and he re-
| ferred to the Chinatown as proof
THEY ARE LAwLEss,
/ They are heartless; affection is'not a virtue
! with them, they are utterly heartless to all
| but self, and will undermine the labor of the
widow woriingwomau, and see her and her
little ones starye, with, on his part, nothing
but an eXultant grin by way of expression
Received here with unequaled favor he
underbids' his benefsctors and sees them
faint and fall, unmoved. The Chinaman is
an oppressor, a slave owner and slave dealer
Governor Perkins was too late in his state
ment, for we have had slavery here for
twenty-five years. The Chinaman buys and
sells. as he would dogs, the women of his
household-sometimes even the mother of his
own children. OF this he cited examples.
Brutality was never more brutal, slavery no
more wrong, humanity never more in
human, than with the Chinese "They lool.
upon us as barbarians and laugh and talk
among themselves at US as fools for allowing
them to come here and LIT them dig and
carry off our gold, and [ think they are right.
/ They go further and say we dare not make
an effort to prevent them" They maintain
their secret tribunals evasive of our laws and
subversive of constitutional rights. They
are rebellious and obey law only as force.
THE QUESTION.
The question for the nation is. are such
characteristics desirable in American civiiza-
| ton? lis said they afford US cheap labor
which is untrue; but even if it were true.
JIlelI lfGSelltG HIS Il b6uuBECy TO degrade la
Dor and polute morals. Cheap labor means
poor homes and sinking of the laboring
classes toward barbarism. No nation on
earth can afford to employ what we call cheap
| labor Reduce wages below n rate enabling
the laborer to keep his family fairly and give
! his children decent education and tit them
! for citizens, and you degrade the laborer.
/ Sink and impoverish the homes Of the people,
and you sap the life-blood OF the nation. In
! the independent homes of the people free in
stitutions are nursed and guarded. The
/ Chinese have no homes here they work for a
/ wage inadequate for home above the burrow
of the ground. squirrel and the rattlesnake.
| They herd and pack together until they pol
/ lutte the atmosphere of the hearts of our cities
As you cheaper labor down to the grade of
! the Chinese rate you force the laborer to
THE LIFE LEVEL
OF the Chinaman. Can the nation afford
that? What people among which to plant
and cultivate the germs of free institutions
Can any material prosperity compensate for
such possibility as our laboring classes being
forced to live on the Chinese plane, measured
by the Chinese wage? After a quarter of
century OF trial they have failed to assimilate
! in any particular with our system. They
| have no claim to come here, and dwell as they
DO. at all to be compared to the claim of other
! foreigners who come among US and become
of u.s. The history Of the Chinese in the
Philippine Islands he cited. They hocked
there in vast numbers, and sought to drive
out the inhabitants under the plea that they
wanted to earn a living. After long endur-
ance they were warned TO 90 by the Govern
ment, but refusing, p 600 of them were
slaughtered in a single massacre. In n second
massacre a few years later 80, 1000 were
killed. Still later they sought to seize the
government of the Spanards there, when they
were slain almost to the last man. The Span
ISL commission OF inquiry reported that the
/ Chinese undermined and ruined labor utterly
| failed to assimilate with the people, were I'M
! changeably heathenish, boarded and carried
away their earnings, and gave place TO fresh
! hungry hordes This was written 207 years
| ago. Three times again were they slaugh-
/ tered and four times they swarmed back,
and at last they captured the islands, I'M
dermined all opposition, and now virtually
| hold the Government at their mercy. The
| speaker cited the history of the Chinese in
| other lands. and read from the works of
| European statesmen and travellers, and drew
| the conclusion that Chinese immigration has
! hardly begun, and is capable of. and will,
unless history is deceptive guide, swarm
/ over to America, and at last be found here
/ in such hordes as to
DEFY Us
! Upon our own soil. It is said if America
cannot stand up against Chinese immigration
/ she ought to so to the wall Such a senti-
ment concerning, and in judgment of Ameri-
can civilization. he utterly abhorred. He
I quoted the number OF Chinese in China, the
wages received there ard here, and claimed
| that China can better afford to ship millions
! Of Chinese here than To maintain them in
pauperism at home. History shows they
never give over an effort to COLOMBO country.
They persisted three hundred years IN the
effort tn cOlonize the Philippine Islands. and
despite laws, DEGREES, massacres and hangings
by the thousand un4er royal decree, at last
have succeeded in Selling the country He
sketehed the immigration of Irish, Germans,
Danes, Swedes and Others, and showed how
they become of US, pointed out the difference
between these and the Chinese, and applied
the result as an answer to the Eastern question
and sheer, Cant you compete with these
miserable Chinamen?" He said
NEW CHURCH
Had arisen here, and it had l54, 900 members,
and only 500 at the last election voted against
this Church of self-protection. he recited
that Chinese express company is bidding
away the business of the old companies; the
Chinese banks run the bid for transferring
gold from California to the East, and now a
Chinese steamship company is organized that
will run off all opposition by people of our
own race. He declared that we must Chris
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