The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-29

i eye. It was introduced into China in 1914 as
mark OF acceptance and subsection to the
Tartar rule, and enforced by the favor of the
courts to all lltigants who wore the cue, and
by rejecting in the literary examinations all
candidates that appeared without 1t, and even
by death IN some cases, until at length the
mark of distinction became the badge of hon.
or and now every Celestial carries this flag of
his country on his outer wall, which Is no less
dear than his own head. But the Hoodlums
and others say that Johns cue is for other
purposes, the most important Of which is,
when he shuffles off this mortal coil, and,
travelling to the great beyond, he stops tor re-
freshments on this side of the dark river,
where he meets the Boss Joss, who collects
the entrance fee and deprives John of what
roast pig, tea and other refreshments he has
left, takes hold of him by the cue and, like a
boy with sling, whirls him round a few
times, then lets go and John lands on the op.
posite shore in The heavenly portion of the
tlowery kingdom.
Give the Cinnamon all the room in Gods
kingdom, and with all that they will herd to-
| gether and live like rats IN sewer The
streets, alleys, byways and lanes of Chinatown
are theirs and swarm with their human or in
human inhabitants. more numerous than rats
and vermin. They not only live and travel
underground, but on roofs. Cellars and lofts
seem equally good for their lodgings, factories
and shops A hole in the ground or Shelf
with bed that a pig would look with con-
tempt on on account of its filth Is just their
beaux.ideal Of a roost. Their doors open into
courts that reek IN filth, or lead where death
dealing vapors ooze through boards, where
beneath pools and watts OF the vllest nature are
allowed to settle and remain. But the China
man seems to thrive best where it Is the dark
est and most dismal, and where the sunlight
never enters nor breath Of fresh air ever
blows. People in the east have no idea of the
Chinese, can form no conception OF how they
live or what they are, and few even in San
Francisco know the real situation Of things.
write OF nothing only what | have seen my
self and what my own observations discover.
ed. l have seen IN my tour" through China
town the most horrible and damnable sights
that man could look upon, and were l to pic
ture them in this article the readers of the
TRADER would not believe them. l have seen
in two Easements below the sidewalk, in a
room less than twelve feet square and not six
feet high, at least dozen Cinnamon, in which
they cooked, ate and slept, and had their water
closet! And this is only an instance of hun
dreds of the same nature, and many of them
are much worse. Henry Ward Beecher asserts
that "the German could live on what the Yam
kee threw away the Jew on what the German
threw away, and the Chinaman on what the
Jew threw away; that they are types Of pa
tent industry and persistency in living, and
can do more and live on less than any one
else!" These are utterances of the preacher
who a few weeks since lectured before an OF
tawa audience, composed of the very same
which he considers worse ele.
ments than the heathens. But what could one
expect from HIM who not long ago declared
that a man ought to live on dollar a day."
while he, the living apostle of hypocrisy, rev
els IN his thousands, the profits of his clown.
lsh sermons and miasmatic lectures? He hates
Catholics and the Irish, despises Jews, only
tolerates Germans, and finds nothing congenIal
to the grossness of his soul until his spirit
mingles IN sympathy with the polygamous,
fostering, !eprous Chinese. If he had been a
close observer when he took IN Chinatown he
would have seen, as did. and as everybody
else that took the trouble to EXAMINE that the
Chlnaman can do more than live on what the
] ew threw away-that he will live today on
what he ate yesterday, to say nothing OF his
many other filthy acts and doIngs. But can
otdepIct or enumerate in this article the many
disgusting vices of the heather Chinese. Vlr-
tues, they have none. Suffice to say that
went to California with the opinion that Chi
naman had just as good right to come to
this country as any other man, and to live,
move and have his being just as he pleased
and as suited his fancy; but after careful
study of the beast, and observing his methods,
came away more Man conoinced that China
was the place for the Chinese and that the
people of the Pacific coast had good cause tor
heir grievances which sooner or later they
must rid themselves of, and if not by govern
ment aid, then they will take the law in their
own hands and make California so hot for the
Chinese that hell itself will be a Paradise com.
pared to it. It's got to come, and the Califor-
mans are almost unit In the cause.
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