St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-10-30

Eytrac, S from the remarks OF Senator
Sargent, of talifornIa. on the bill 10
restrict the immigration of Chinese to
the United States, in the Senate, reb-
ruary -, 1879.
There is in San Francisco at the
present mumenta city wiihl1 city
a section cut ont OF PekiLg or any
other Chlsese city that may be men
toned, az Emporium imperio. There
ia population concentrated III diff
ferent blocks and squares of some
4U, 900, varying at different tunes
III the year. Al great expense our
people have been able to preserve
something like cleanliness iii that
quarter. Left to itself, 1t becomes
50 filthy that no white man can
stand the stencil. White people
flee from the contact OF that neigh
borhood, and property all around /,
depreciates. There Is Il strange
people til re. \ newspaper or n
uooH never penasrates WITHIN ITS
precincts. They sp'.;lk II foreign
and lmpenetrab!e tongue. Tney
are governed by their Own tribunals,
which lntilct penalties for the trans
gre>sion of their laws-luws fra
quemtly in violation OF the munich
pal laws, eve to tue extent of death !;
and upon that the testimony Is uni
form of our judges, our prosecuting
officers, our clergy, and others. VIII"
who have had occasion to investI-
gate the matter.
This CHINA city needs but to grow
to fill mp and supplant the who'll,
American city, and what is to pre-
vent 1t? Its demzens ATE very
slight fragment of the 100000, O03
people behind them. pushed by fam
Inc outwardly, seizin9 every oppor-
tuuity to come to California, where.
under any circumstances Whatever.
even of Oppression, their lot is bet
ter than that III their own country.
In that quarter of the city and 1t
nearly quarter of the city
there ere nrsts of contaSIon which
the utmost vigilance of our htaltl.
officers hardly breaks MP. We ca
trace tn them two or three epidemic,
If smallpox aud. AS WAS t,>tihe'i
by DIR. Meares, the health offcer,
before the inint commission of Com
gress. on one of these occ;tssion>
-veryb, 'dy who would take The
smallpox had it; hundreds died III
our pest-houses. Lei rosy is found
there, aud have i'll my uiind n
friend OF milne Who employed
Chinese in his family. and | suppose
caught the contasiop III that way
who died OF that horrible disease-a
business man, re tieman. Lrp-
rosy among Chinese themselves
is qnite common, SD that we hav'
been Compelled to dcrort them back
To China, finding them Ill their
haunts us we find smallpox patients
IN the last extremity of misery ami
hid away under some stair
way, put away to die, perhaps pm
into the streets to die by nnfet hug
associates.
This vast horde Of people bring o
families; Il family Is an exception |
among them; probably not more
than Il dozen or TWO III San Fran
cisco have families, and those the
very highest merchants. They bring
no women, excep. that out of 100000 |
u 100000 of them in the Stat,
here may be 6000 women, held in
the most abject bondage aud brought |
Tor the purposes OF prostitution. |
| quote the testimony Of Rev Mr. |
j bison, Chinese missionary
very earnest f.irnd of the Chinese,
Is everybody WHO knows him will
ldmit-on this point, because it is
l very important one. He says:
More than nine tenths have been
sold into hopeless bondage worse
han death. The women are Dough,
n China and shipped across the
ocean to this Christian land. to be-
'old again to munster to the lusts
If wicked men for the profit of their
more wicked masters,
Now what are the morals of
40, 900 men without families =? ]
,annot discuss III this presence Il
question like that LII Senators have
my curiosity on it let them read
works "n China. They are guilty
If hideous iInmoralities where they
ire, SO tina. they become offensive
o any community where they ~. !
will read short extrace from Bay
!rd Taylnr in his work nf .India