Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-08-21
Talmage on tine Chinese.

Talnage on tine Chinese.
 Rev. T. De Witt Talmage lectured at the Grand Opera House last even ing upon the Chinese Question" ." The audience was large, the lower portion of the house being crowd.d and the galleries we'll filled. NIT. Talmage was greeted with applause, and at once began his lecture.
 The labor phrase of the Chinese question the lecturer said he would leave to the politician. Bu, he held that politicians will never cure the evil. It seems that San Francisco has already suffered from too much poll. tics. Bitter partisan fights have put back the city ten years. If the Lord would only send an epidemic that would kill off all your distu bers they would be the most profitable funerals ever known in San Francisco. But these men will not die. Anything pickled in whisky lasts a great while. The political parties will never do anything to help you. Both parties placed an anti-ChInese plank In their platform tO catch votes. Whichever of the political parties gets control of the country neither will solve your Chinese question. Again. the exist. ing wickedness in Chinatown wil, not be reformed with brickbats. It is no good to kill them The most useless thing on earth is dead man. Vio- fence will never cure any of the exist ing evils of Chinatown The vote is mightler than the club. Anything that treats the Chinaman as a brute will pull down Christendom and trail the Bible in the dust. Any man. woman or child that gives one penny to any of the great societies for the reformation of the Chinese does moe good than 10000 orators ranting for lO'OOO years. If the people would come together in churches and public . halls and demand that Chinatown be purified It will cease to be a blot upon the city. Take the police and 800 special officers, drill them, and at II o'clock at night march them down on Chinstown, and in one night break up every borthel and fostering sink of lniqulty Tn that hell of mis cry. Lock up The Chinese prostitutes in one jail and the brutal whites found ;n their dens in another. What is wanted is a Stonewall Jackson raId through Chi uaiown. Give me your police and 5OO true men sworn in as specials, said the lecturer, and in two nights l will close up every dive in your city. Yet this sore lives, a bane to your beautiful homes and an insult to God lt is absurd to stop and say what you want Congress to do when there is SO much for yourselves to do right under your noses "
 Municipal authorities are passive be cause the citizens also are. If Con- gresS should keep them from coming here for a thousand years, it would not cleanse the pool of iniquity that is here. Chinatown, purified, then send your broOms and fumigatOrs through those parts of your city haunted by American pollution and squallor. h. iquity. white, is no better than ini- quity copper, yellow or black. Hay- ing arrested the female transgressOrs, then you must turn your attention to those men who patJonize them. If you give ten blows tO woman, give fifty Co the brute who calls himself a man. Rise up. San Franciscians. and show to the world what you can do, Make Chinatown cleanse itself, or rout it out by law. The lecturer aid not believe in having the work half done. but urged that the puriticati0n be carried to the gates of immoral uppertendom" With regard to the aspect of Chinatown, its wiCkedness and sduallor, Mir. Talmage said that they were nothing compared with similar sights in New York. Said he; .. In the Sixth. Eleventh, Fourteenth and Seventeenth wards of New York are scenes of crime and poverty that make Chinatown tame in comparison. TheItenement-house of New York is inc ante-chamber of hell. A hundred families in one house die by inches ' The lecturer did not think there would be any danger of the Asiatic dominating the American. The An p}o-Saxons will continue to hold their place in the world.
 The lecturer said: This race OWES no more than one-eighth of the face of the earth. Don't make yourself ab- surd by saying that this race or that race IS going to overrun the earth As to the larger question of Chinese i'm migration, let me encourage you that inc God of nations will regulate it. The Chinese question is going to be settled.
 This evening NIT. Talmage will lect- ire in Oakland on " The Bright Side of Things, Bulletin.