Morning journal and courier., 1882-03-03
5Suurnal arr0 Courier.
Friday Morning, March 3. 1882.
SENATOR HoAR ON THE CHINESE

QUESTION.
 Senator Hoar's speech on the bill to pro- hibit Chinese immigration deserves the at tention of all interested in this important matter. In it he proved by irrefutable ar garments that the bill is inconsistent with the theories of personal equality and individual rights proclaimed in the Declaration of h. dependence, and asserted in the national and State constitutions. and especially hostile to 1 the spirit of the constitution of California !; that it is not warranted by the treaty on which it professes to be based that it leaves questions of human rights and personal Iib- ertyto be determined by subordinate customs officers without trial, and that the facts on which the demand for this extraordinary leg islation is based afford no excuse for the pan ic which has seized the people of the Pacific coast
 In the course of his speech Senator Hoar exclaimed, 'What has happened within thir teen years that the great republic should strike it's flag? Only 42,oOO Chinese have been added to our population in that time. There are but 1O5, GOO of them here all told the fve-hundredth part of the whole popula- tion." Citing statistics to show rapid de- crease of the immigration for the last half of the decade, and that this diminution became greater when compared with the rapidly in creasing numbers from other countries, Mir. Hoar said that in 1880, in a total immigra- ton of 593, ,OOO, there were but 582 Chinese and in 1881 there were 10000 in 72O, 1000, while in the same year 10000 Chinese went back. The pure blooded gypsies roaming through this country are numerous as the Chinese, all of whom, if gathered in one place, would not exceed the population of the sixteenth city of the country. What an in- to ask leave of China to keep out her people because this little handful of almond eyed Asiatics threaten to destroy our beasted civ ilization. The advocates of this legislation he said invoked the old race prejudice which had so often played it's hateful and bloody part in history and asserted that as the China man worked and lived cheap he injured the American laborer with whom he competed. He answered this by an argument to show that the outcry against the Chinese was the same which had been made in the past against the Irishman, the negro, the Indian and the Jew, and that each of these races in turn had vindicated it's capacity for freedom, and subdued, over a larger part of the world, the prejudice which it had encoun- tered To the argument that the Chinese will not assimilate with us he replied that our treatment of them has made this impossi- ble. After illustrating the treatment of the Chinese in California and showing that the tales concerning the cheapness of Chinese wages and living had been greatly exagger- ated, Mir. Hoar concluded byasserting that the right of every human being to go wher- ever on the surface of the earth he may get an honest living, without interference by gov ernment, came from the same authority as the golden rule and the sermon on the mount, and that that authority would make it safe for the government and the people which obey his law. Mot by injustice, ex- clusioR or caste, but by reverence for the in- dividual soul, can we aid in the great object of Gods moral government on earth, the rescue of humanity from degradation. It is not by Chinese policies that China is to be civilized"