The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-04-21
A CALIFORNIA VIEW OF. THE
CHINESE QUESTION.

A CALIFORNIA VIEW OF THE
CHINESE QUESTION.
Mr.. EDITOR: My husband read the
letter of your Washington correspond
ent OF the TELEGRAPH of March 18th,
IN the hearing of several intelligent
gentlemen, and they took exceptions to
almost every opinion of the writer on
the subject of Chinese immigration.
My brother, Seth Rowland, has lived
in California nearly 80 years, and
knows whereof he speaks. and was
never considered "narroY-minded.
He don't think he will ever hire a
Chlnaman again; they do not give sat
isfaction. The other gentlemen may
hire them again, but they despise them,
because imam is bound to get his
work done the cheapest way he can"
Your correspondent may seem all right
in theory, but it looks as if those who
witness all the bearings Of this Mon
golian element in our midst ought to be
better able to Judge of its practicability.
Mr.. f. says: +" With the exception of
the Chinese, the United States opens
the door to all other nations and tribes
of people; why this discrimination ?"
Truly this Yankee nation is made up
of foreigners, and the descendants of
foreigners. But the Europeans cut
loose from old associations and make
homes in the land of the free, and be-
come loyal subjects Of our government,
while here we have $4,000 who do
not wish to become citizens. q will
send an item cut from paper to prove
Ibis statement.) They come to earn
money to send across the ocean to NIL
the Golfers of a foreign power. The
poor negro slaves labor went to enrich
our own people. Our nations expert
ence with one colored race, brought
mere for laborers, ought to suffice. If
" Chinese labor, brought into compe-
tition with our own laborers, degrades
the latter" ought Uncle Sam to sit
around with his hands in his pockets
and see our own citizens turned into
trdmpS by these aliens? It is affirmed
that a Chinaman can lay up money with
wages at 80 cts. a day, where a white
man can not on $1.00 day, and that
one pound Of rice is all Chinaman re-
quires to eat in two days. The money
required to buy substantial suit of
clothes would pay for enough blue
drilling to clothe half a dozen Asiatics.
A good many of our laboring people
have families to support, and if they
have full grown daughters who might
help by earning their own clothes,
they may not be permitted to do so,
for parents do not wish their daughters
"put down upon the level of the
Chinese" by hiring out to do house
work. The daughters must dwaddle at
home, and those who need help, though
preferring girls, must be contented with
Chinese help. / have been told that
as house servants they take good care
of small boys, but it is not prudent to
leave little girl with them, as they
nave no respect for females. They
would like to put in practice a certain
Chinese regulation by which they kill
the female infants of particular cast.
They were foiled in one such attempt
i'll Chico by the resistance of the infants
mother, who called for help, and some
Of our citizens drove the "heathan
Chinese" away. 1t is believed they
murder each other in cold blood, and
the criminal is not brought to justice
unless some white person discovers a
crime has been perpetrated. One who
ought to know says: The Chinese will
work if we'll watched, otherwise will
shirk, >" allie sameie as Mclean man., .
suppose. "That they are saving of
their earnings until they have saved
enough to purchase their freedom or
pay their Indebtedness to those who
sent them here, and after that obliga-
ton is cancelled they are idle, as well
as vicious, dishonest and turbulent
and fonder of gambling than our own
laborers." That is putting the Chinese
in the superlative degree as gamblers.
Sumo think the Chinese Government
wish to got a fnnthnld in this country.
The Pacific coast has but little protec-
ton but that provided by nature. 1t
is said that San Francisco, with all it's
natural advantages, would fall an easy
prey to a naval force.
Two years ago, when the census was
taken, there were over $4,000 in pop
ulation of 964,eS6, and it is claimed
that $4,000 have arrived since that
period. $4,000 may look small COM
pared with the whole number, but it
should be remembered that over 3 are
females, over $4,000 are Indians and
other colored people, and of the white
males a goodly number are boys, or old
and infm men, while the Chinese are
mostly able bodied men. AS precau-
tionary measure, don't you think it is
we'll to stop the Chinese immigration ?
1t may be asserted that in those dis
tricts where they irrigate the land it
becomes SO sickly that none but China
laborers can be employed. Very true.
IL is said of the people who lived on
Deer Creek-ten miles from here 20
years ago but few remain. Those who
did not leave because of the irrigation
have died, with few exceptions, and
those who still live look more like
ghosts than flesh and blood men. If
they continue 30 extend this system of
irrigation it may be found necessary
to annex California to China before
many generations.
We had nice time for shearing,
finished last week. We have chickens
six weeks old, and wild flowers in
abundance. Very respectfully,
Mrs. JOHN SAUBER.
CANA, BUTTE Co., CAL, April 5th 1882.