The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-27
The Curse OF California.

During late election in California
there were but 500 votes in favor of this
obstinate invasion of pig.tails out of n
population Of 100000. Who were those
who favored the Chincs., They were
almost exclusively the keepers and in.
mates of brothels and houses of assigna.
tion, who find the degraded Asiatics very
useful in plying their infamous business.
DO the people Of the Eastern States who
cry aloud for the suppression Of the
polygamy forget that the rich Chinese
In California not only have numerous
wives, but sell and trade them of for
money publicly every day? The Eastern
papers which favor the Chinese (no Pa.
cific coast paper dare do SOY seem to
think that John Chinaman is an inno-
cent, pacific animal, sober, Industrious
aud saving. But they seem to forget the
savings of $20,000,00O annually are
SHIPPED back to China--not n penny of it
is spent in America. They say that few
or none of them are in the State prison,
whereas there are two to one of them at
st. Quinton and Folsom penitentiaries,
compared with those of any other na.
tionaiity, considering .hc;- numbers.
Besides, when they commit capital
crimes, as when they murdered Mr..
Severance, Mt San Rafael, they commit
suicide when detected.
When they murder one another, MS
they do almost daily, they bary their
dead in their cellars or fling them into
the bay. They are all gamblers aud
murder one another over their dice and
nothing is ever heard officially of their
guilt. They practice aud propagate
among young white people crimes that
arc almost unmentionable, such as sod.
omy, etc. Even Gen. Grant, whom now
the Chinese regard rs the emperor of
America, before he visited China, where
his trunks were filled with Chinese gold,
diamonds and other loot, said that 9'the
Chinese were the ruin Of the American
youth whom they enticed into their o.
cent brothels" and opium dens, spread.
ing ncurablc venercal, according to DR..
Tolan's testimony, among children from
i've to ten years of age. They are, be-
sides, counterfeiters an debascrs of the
National coin and def" uders of the rev.
enue, paying large sums to officers for
the impunity they enjoy in their nefari-
Gus traffic.
We are told they don't get drunk"
That is false. They do get drunk, and
it they don't drink much whisky the
reason IL that they are too miserly TO pay
for the drinks. But if they can steal the
'fire-water" they will readily get drunk
as they do on opium. What nice citizens
they would make is proved by the fact
that Parson Gibson, an Englishman,
when he makes Chinese convert, finds
he is ready to change his creed from one
sect to another for an advance of ono
cent day more than he gets from his
Christian employer. They have been
known to say, "Givc me one dollar a
month more and l will ,ovee Jesus
muchee more"
In word, they have introduced vices
hitherto unknown and unhcard of among
the white youth Of the Pacific slope.
These forsooth are the people, Gods
own people," az Beecher calls them,
which the gold of the "six companies
the contractors for Chinese coolies, are
introducing in our midst in spite of leg
islation.
spent twelve years on the coast of
the Pacific, and my impression is that If
this inroad is not stopped, in five years
the whites must move off from those
parts which the Chinese will exclusively
occupy.
Already the "curse is upon her." and
San Francisco, which, three years ago,
had 10000 inhabitants, is to-day re- re.
duced to 255,000 people They say gold
rules the earth, and if This is true, Cali
fornia and adjacent States and Territories
will groan for ages unde- the curse Of
Chinese immigration - Correspondence ".
y. Standard.