Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-09-21
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
Dc Witt falmage on the Chinese.

last night. took for bis text Luke Z. ~
"wbo Is my nsighbor 2" The building
was orammsd. he said /: While he was
in California, In August, he was escorted
by ave San Frsnciscans OF high social
standing through the Chinese quarter in
that city. who set the most rspulsivs
features Of the same before him, for
they were all hostile to Chinese immi-
grafton; but when he subsequently, adj
dressed San Francisco in the Grand
Opera House hs told her frankly that
underground New York 10 fifty per cent.
more unssvory, hsinous 81 the Chinese
quarter Of Ban Francisco 10; and that
the 800 police officers In that city may,
II San Francisco wills It, eItirpats the
evils there In . single night. Tslmage
then met and rsfuted, In his own way.
oil the arguments against Chinese immi.
grafton. Il 10 objected that the Chinese
don't spend their money where they
make It. reply that In San Francisco
the Chinese pay $4,000. 900 In taxes
annually. and are yet Afforded none OF
the benefits OF the city government. and
that they pay 81 00. 900 annually to
the State Of California and to the United
States Government-an annual tar Of
$500, 900. II they sent home all their
earnings In the United States, could You
blame themi How much money would
You leave In Q country in which you
were liable at any moment to be extirpa.
ted, and In which you were not allowed
To voter There are thousands Of English
and American merchants In China.
Where do they send their money! We
have been complimenttng Irish and
German servants for sending their frugal
savings homo to their aged parents. The
parents Of many OF these Chinese are
serfs. The IONS send their earnings
homo to libsrats their parents from
bondage. They have such severe econo-
mics, It 10 said. That Is the sin which
you cannot charge against the American
people. They are OF Q lower order OF
civilization. They work all the time and
Day their debts. That, In America, will
never do. The Chinese are PaRans, and
wear Q peculiar diess. Il It the cue you
object tor George Washington, Ben
Franklin and John Hancock wore II.
The American costume often more than
eolipses the Chinese In wearing apparel.
Have you forgotten the crinolins mon
strosities Of a year aso2 Think OF this
and be lsnisnt ss to Monaghan eccen.
t~ricities Of dress. We are finding out now
that mans religious belief 10 to DO inter.
fersd with In this country. We have 1t
incorporated In the platforms OF both
political parties. I was not surprised at
anding IL In the platform OF the Dem
ocratio party, because The Democrats
have always considered the question OF
color and race o reasonable question;
but when I saw the Republican party.
which had fought four terrible years Of
war for the sake Of establishing the
principles that all oolors and races are
equal before God. and then remembered
that they had paid 600. 600 precious
human lives a. Q purchase Of that prin-
eiple, and then had surrendered from
the yellow man what they had de-
mandsd for the black man, / was amazed
and I wondered whether the scepter had
departed. II our government 10 to con-
tinue to stand. II will be because 1t de-
tends alike the joss-houses OF the Chi
ness, the temples Of the Roman Catho.
lies, the Westinghouse Of Quakers and
the churches OF the Prssbyterisps. III
am to choose between Q religion which
insults and stones q man because Of the
color Of his skin and the length OF his
hair, and industry and economy OF his
habits on the one hand. and the pagan
ism which patiently and hsroically bears
all this. toiliug right on until death
comes-if I must choose between such
religion and paganism-Rive me the pa.
ganism. In closing Talmage said this
10 o question higher than your City Hall.
higher than the heather goddess on the
Capitol in Washington City. 30 high that
II 10 on o level with the throne Of God,
and the same power that controls the
tides Of tho Atlantic and the Pacific
oceans will control the tide Of human
navigation. II God says Come" they
will come. II he says 60" they will
20. Do not be nervous and build Q
high, strong wall that shall keep the
Chinese out while you let others In.
Such q wall Gods earthquakes would
shake Il from beneath. and Gods thuu.
derbolt's Of wrath would strike II from
above, and Il would rock and heavs. and
fall on the demagogues who constructed
Il, and the nation that favored II and
the Christianity that was too oowsrdly
TO denouncs Il. and God would say, 81
built that American temple for civil and
religious liberty; ! founded 1t In the
blood OF the revolutionary fathers-ths
archives Of the temple went up on The
shoulders OF men who died for their
principles. It's bsptismsl fonts were
allied with the tears OF exilss who had
come here for refuge. The sword Of .
patriotic ancestry was the trowsl which
mortised' it, foundations; but you have
sacrificed on It's sacred altars the swine
OF passion and bato. It's columns have
been dsisced by unholy hands, and the
temple must como down-column and
capitol, arch and dome, and In some
other land and among Q more generous
people, and In o brighter age Of the
world, I will demonstrate before earth
and heaven how I would have all men
equal and Free" The closing hymn
was Jesus shall reign wherever the q
doth his successive journeys rum