Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-13

brlieved was TO cement between I'll
elder and the later government All
their peoples an Intercourse OF mi
tual benefits.
This recital dissipates the easter
scandal of our race prejudice. w
had none. Aud if to-day we desire {
restrict Chinese immigration, 1T
the result OF convictions born of es
perience. Thirty-thrce years of OF
servatlon have brought our con-
munlty 10 one conclusion: We ar
united in the opinion that we can ma
endure this competitive struggle viii
Chinese labor. and live. There ia O,
this coast no single individual. ma
or woman, intelligent. disimterested
unprcjudiced amt observant. VIII,
does not think that the welfare of ,b
community is involved in restrictiu,
the immigration of Chinese laborers
| We ASK eastern men, III CONSIDERING
this fact, to remember who We are
ana To reflect that we are of New
England and eastern birth, We ASK
them to recall the fact that We are ~
the average standard OF eastern an,
European Intelligence, and tha
we have lived with this question irsn
It's first germ upon our coast, and
watched its growth, and development,
uhtii to-day. We beg them TO regard
us as loyal to the country, its clviIiza.
tion, aud its laws. We assure them
that We are not Indifferent to th.
teachings Of Christ, nor do we lack
respect for His sublime moral code.
Aud when we say to the people of the
east; when we unite i'll saying; when
one a,ld all of our most honored clergy
unite with us worlds people whei,
our business men, our profe ssioual
men. our laborers, our artisans, our
Journalists. our statesmen, our poll
tlclans, our thinkers, our men of leis.
ure, our men of property, and our
foreign and native-born citizens: when
an OF US unite in declaring that in
this question ia involved our welfare
our lives. our future, our property.
our homes, our liberties, and our civ
iilzatleh; when we declare to our
eastern countrymen that we can not
ehaure this competitive struggle with
Aslatlcs and live. have we not right
to expect from them fair hearing !?
Have We not right to demand OF
them that our views should prevail.
and that i'll making laws they should
take from us their opinions upon a
question OF which they are necessari-
ly uniformed Have we not a right
to assume that wo know more UPON
TINS subject than they Can knew Is
IL lar or deceut for them to say that
1T is for our benefit and our interest
that they deny us the laws we de.
mand! Is it modest for them to as.
sumo that thay are guided by high
cr or better humanity than we pos.
sess. and that they are controlled nv
and moral standard to
which we have not reached? IL If
honorable for them to impugn our
motives and stigmatIze our opposi-
'lon to Chinese as un-American and
IN violation OF the generous traditions
'i our government? To this add the
offensive and scamdalous declaration
that We are hoOdlums and idlers that
we are inspired by the Irish to assault
,he Chinese; that all this is dsma-
soguery aud that, il we should do
'ur uuty,We would suDmit 20 the conn
)etltlve struggle, and win our victory
'y greater labor and greater econo-
mics than the Chinese can practice. If
ne Chlnese possessed all'the virtues
II the best specimens of New Eng
and growth, and if they were in
'Vcry-sense our superiOrs, we couId
'ot prosper in rivalry with them. Let
Is admit that they are the superior
ace, and still the question is not
olved. If there came TO us from the |
ast an immigration of adult mlIo
who came not to stay; if they
ame in numbers equal to our ros,-
lent workers; if they lived "a the
jhihese live, and sent all their earn
hgs' save that required for their
upport. back to New England; if
hey imported from New England
heir food and their clothing-in such
ase as this could California prosper?
very intelligent thinker knows the
VII that would result to this city and
tate from such u condition of things.
my tyro i'll the study of political
economy knows what we would su,-
'r, aud that every industry would
'nguish to the death. Let our east
rn friends, then, conceive cur coudi-
on Ill San Francisco when we saw to
lem that one-tifth of the inhabitants
our city are Chinese that one-haIf
our male adult population are
hlhese; that there are two Chinese
'eorers for every white laborer;
lat nifty OF these can live in tene.
lent where a white family of five
ould he ill accommodated; that
lelr 1000 is tea, rice, dried fish and
esslcated vegetables, all of which
e imported from China; that thew :
nport and make their own clothes ,
"a, ia' they nave no wives to support,
III no children to. educate that they +
ave developed no new industry in :
II state that they ars leeches, drain
Z our resources and sending our
.ry hie-blood out of the country; ,
at !hey pay no taxes. perform no
iolic uut1es,can not become soldiers, .
serve upon the posse cOnlitatus f
at they perform none OF the fuuc-
ohs 81 citizenship, and are capAbls
perfornilng g no duty incident there-
'hat thelr criminals, their pau
rs, their opium-eaters, and their
wa women are out Of proportion
thelf numbers and that our prisons 6
oVernowihg with them, our in :.
ne asylums, almshouscs, and pesl. .
uses are crowded with them. !
MS Is our condition to-day, and =
IL month there came 10 MS fur ,hnu.
nj and eighty. This month win in. 81
Ease that number. At Hong Kong 81
seventeen ships loading with Chi. v
10 '"r this coast. Fifty thousand u
hoCked for Immigration. They o.
not go east. They stay here. Are ie
10 be iaunied with the fact thaI u
country of fifty million lnhabi- nj
us there are less than half a mil
u chinese! Are we to be denounced ~
IN cowardlcc because we fear ms u
aston, hen it ia known thatall the 10
tes and territories now affi,ctnI h'
IN the presence of Chinese cont,,n III
y something like one and unr-,,nli er
lions OF people? The Chiursa of
! not seek competition with the I'll
20 population east of the Rocky W
uh'alns so long as they can tiu,I LII
III upon this side; aud before they
ohle an lnronvcnlrnce 20 New I'll
s'ahd and the east, they Will have %r
roSe" us aud driven us from the all
u. Are We to tc tainted will ru
Dinylng Chinese because 81 tau, I'll