Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-05

spend their money where they earn il who
ieel as II anchored to this country, partakers
OF its liberties, and ready to support the
government in time of danger, as so many OF
our adopted citizens did during the late re-
oellloH. The Chinese who come here do not
MI the place OF consumers; they are only
producers.
A thousand dollars disbursed any Saturday
night by any manufacturer among a hundred
men, would within week find its way into
the ordinary channel Of business, small per
cent. very likely would appear in INSTALL
ments paid on small purchases of real estate.
Were the same amount paid for Chinese
labor at least eighty five per cent. would go
to China. They never patronize any but
their own II they can avoid IT. The natural
consumers are unable TO purchase through
lack of means. Cheap labor is all very we'll
If the means OF subsistence IS cheapened in
proportion; but We all know that is not the
case, and when we deprive the native or for
eign born citizen of America, the chance 10
earn homes and provi lie for the wants of their
families, by forcing them to work in compe-
uton with race OF people who are content
10 1--we on food we would not, could not
swallow Except urged by the agony of star
walton j sleeping in dens, or burrowing IN.
der sidewalks where never a ray of sunshine
tive sewers, or the contents of vaults make
stencil that would invite disease ana death,
we become robbers and murderers. Its no
slight offence 10 rob fellow creature OF all
the pleasures of life, 10 make existence a
curse and drive an honest and industrious
person to despair and suicide, children TO a
lie oil crime, or woman to life OF sin aud
and shame.
This competition is inevitably destructive
to American laborers by forcing them down
e the habits and niggardy ways of the
Chlnese and that involves similar degrade
ton and immortality, from this filthy, uncivii-
lzed, unchristian manner of living which is
unavailable without you can show the white
laoorer how to make a dime cover a dollar
spot in providing for the necessities of his
family. Chinese immigration has struck
fearful blow al the principle of labor by
making manual labor dishonorable and the
white laborer will soon occupy the position
OF what was formerly called "poor white
trash" in the Southern States. He is on the
downward grade and his children will grow
up to prefer villainy and crime to honest
toll, and will produce Its legitimate fruits in
communism and incendiarism.
Bysrd Taylor In his Travels in India,
China, and Japan, says at is his deliberate
opinion that the Chinese are, morally, the
most debased people on the face of the earth.
Forms of vice which in other countries are
barely named, are in China SO common, that
they excite no comment among the natives"
they constitute the surface level, and below
them are deeps on deeps of depravity SO
shocking and horrible that their character
cannot be even limited. There are some
dark shadows in human nature we naturally
shrink from penetrating, and | made no at.
tempt to collec. information of this kind /; but
there was enough in the things which |
could not avoid seeing and hearlng-brought
almost daily to the notice Of every foreign
resident-to inspire me with a strong aver
sion 10 the Chinese race. Their touch is
pollution, and harsh as the opinion may seem
"JaStice TO our owB race demands that then
should not be d}loued TO settle on orr soil. %
Science may have lost something, but man
kind has gained, by the exclusion policy
which has governed China for the past cen
turtles"
This is the kind Of people that many per-
sons are so well persuaded are such an
abused class in California, and should be en-
couraged to come that they may be converted
to christianity.
admit their need Of conversion but there
are 100000, 900 ofChinese aud only 40, 900, 900
of our people. Already the Chinese in Cali.
fornia equal the registered voters of the state
and after twenty years of missionary work
on the Pacific coast among the Chinese,
what is the result? viii give few facts
from the testimony of Rev A. W. LOOMS,
connected with the Presbyterian mission for
twenty years. He says: We have received
eighty misunderstanding those who have
been dismissed, and we have sixty three.
Lee Chaum Ga converted Chinaman), mem.
Der in good standing of the First Congrega.
tional church, in Oakland, California, testi-
fed before the State Senate Committee that,
"there were about three hundred and sixty
called christian Chinese on the coast. OF
these the genuine christian would number
about two hundred"
The Rev. S. V. BlaKesle lee in his address
before the General Association of Congrega.
tona Misisters of California on the Chinese
question made this assertion:
Moreover. converts are not all o. one side for an
abie deacon in a leading Congregational church in
san Francisco, has written mo, that where Ameri'
cans haye converted one China to Christianity
the Chinese, he believes, have converted ten Amsri-
cans to real heathenism. Their dens of infamy and
OF gambling, and Of opium numerous in our
cities and couatry towns, and various efforts are
made for filing them with victims, saw when
waking Chinese street in open day, at distance
from any American houses. in Nevada City, seven
boys under ten years of age, il of their women
houses"
The testimony given by prominent aud
reliable physicians of San Francisco, as to
the effect of these houses on the morals oil
boys from ten to fifteen years and older is
perfectly appalling, and The testimony of the
Superintendent of the Industrial school, and
old reliable members of the police confirm
their statements.
The Chinese women are imported there
and sold according to age and beauty, like
cattle. There is sort of paper signed TO
cover up the transaction, where the woman
agrees to serve in this way to pay tor her
passage to America, but they are slaves, and
its almost certain death for them to try 10
escape. The Rev. Otis Gibson, the Metho-
dist missionary, has succeeded in helping a
few who managed TO elude the vigilance of
their owners and found an asylum in the Chi
nese Mission. When a woman esca pes, she
is often arrested on some complaint for pre-
tended crime. A Gilman does not let a
woman escape who cost four or FIVE hundred
dollars, If false swearing will prevent.
Lee Chaum and several members of the
police testified TO the fact of rewards being
posted up in the streets of Chinatown, writ
ten In the Chinese language for the killing
of Cinnamon who had done something OBJ
noxlous 10 their Chinese rules. When Lee
Chaum was asked "if the Chinaman for
whose death the reward was offered was
usually killed" he replied, eThey pop 1T TO
him every time" Matt Karcher, chief of
police in Sacramento, testified to the killing
of Chinese interpreter in half hour after
leaving the court ruom. He was shot in the
back and horribly mutiated.
Several cases were reported where China
men said they would be killed if they testi-
fed, and there is great difficulty in getting
any testimony from them that is reliable. Il
in secret the Chinese determine 10 convict
Chinaman or to acquit him, that judgment is
carried out in Our courts. II he has money
enough to pay the relatives of the murdered
man what the secret tribunal decides he shall
pay, he is acquitted, if not he is convicted.
Elk chief of police Ellis, of San Francisco,
testified, sin great many ccses | believe
they have convicted innocent men through
peIuIed evidence"
have written much more than | intended
when | commenced this article, but | hope
it mas help some TO better uuderst anding
of the Chinese problem. III. A. S.
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