The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-03-30

By the census Of 1880 the number
of Chinese in this country W 1O5.On
one fve-hundredth part Of the whole
population. The Chinese are the
most easily governed race in the
world. Yet every Chinaman in
America has four hundred and ninety.
nine Americans to control him. de-
sire to read letter written me by Ed
ward Cunningham, Esq, Of Milton,
Massachusetts,, a high authority, which
is full of information on this as on
other points connected with our Chi
nese policies:
Nn EAST MILTON; January 25; 1881.
would take 1he trouble to read the letter If wrote
something ase denbt snft IT, bu viii
write The letter as you probably have open fire.
cannot myself see why the United States had need
Immigration necessary; but as that seems to be
taken for granted IT Is only open to object the way
Any one acauaiated: with the course of the long
and ENJOYS ow covering nearly forg Hsar
%ond % , say am SIRE that that we wanted could have
tall of concessions On part.
sioners wonld heard of at once II they had laked
With any re-ident or wrll-inormrd person on Chinese
China is filled with secret societies they are al
| NdN DrlhS Dy tne government and always
preached business dplo%atc Way Iae Feeling Ing
surface. IfIhey had said that the habit Of the Chi
and especially The existencr Of nceess
nRss 9n.n IT IN h for . %
should h.Es especial regulations they would have
ing whether the regulaiOns were ''restric-
But. granting that they know too much for this did
commissioners ever give themselves entirely away
for somathng About Abe MeS
they no.orionsy did d. nn1 care two cents They have
not now They hate it when il is To- countries from
"aay this he c"
IN R s res n"sn
aud leave Americans out in the cold IN every
caaSr Opium % ts hgh val ard r 'af se
drr margin r OF pf o" on }, Is Sondnc!ed is al
comneree to the nations oursdro of ENGLAND aud Chi
remittance from nort 10 another: and were new
a s1 NJ opssed too ss for h
opium would. l have 20 doubt prevent Americans
asssi,y fs&i%lsy fG s!1 nss
ps P9i' aS ths
with OPP open EYES plsced ls I'd. US a. disadvantage @
nositive aud sensible. since American vessels
Chnt e in trade mhe as oneas To-
being opened English and has been brag
and concession. though due solely to the English.
Apparently it is now thought too good for aud is
The article the of the defendant ifit have
tr.atie> wsIe intended 70 he so Interpreted. hut also
b n ad y Hhiy hi rather
because while the negntiators could d-mand that
% "sHd be
tor you'd meyer get anything from Chinese btor
5" ry It tESpssies nf,eI
lished by convention to Institute rnixrd
sr " orea Snsai ann h chmer 6"Tns }E" sS So to-
gal laws forms of invIahle rule, and the English
fact foreign courts where justice and no, Injustice
the lowest poiut possible where Chinese officials
ment. Taxing the Whole hing It looks Ii as + pompSs pes
! Political c"nsidrratio::s demanded that something
should be done abont Chinese immigrsiion. and 81,
Irrseotar II Mr. swift wanted to show how raw Amerl
sSeryrnlng is as p"mpous as possible Ponp without
As for opium. when one knows that China raises
d"nhr the 3pium she imports: unchecked by the
much as She sends to china the sidu~ being con-
sumcd in India the straits. and adjacent countries
MAJ that no one has The ghost of for all those
r slap BrItisher h. hey ns to set at its prop
F ssd yn rs the nnG sGymhy M wny on Gha her
But The whole thing Is to mean and disgust
ing; that half wish that all relations with China,
m aGna here would hI mo s Bun a
ih-y should NOT come because onr republic Of work
thrift. is too shameful for cons Iteration.
rr is hn, nnd q" roysrnnr there No ,b in
ment at Shanghai we had (and they have) Il Chi
nese population of about seventy Thousand living
der municipal government administered h, a
council composed of residents and backed by the
consular body. the police being. If rPcollect
rightly, under one hundred They are kent I'm
perfect order and the structure of houses and the
dranage made part rmun c pal affairs. In Hong
Kong n similar population. only much more turbn-
lent owing IL the of considerable piratcal
population, is equally easily governed.
Yours. very truly.
EDWARD CUNNINGHAM.
PSI wrote 4 letter published in the Nation of
January 90 which perhaps gives ottr points, and
at all events more concise than this.
The immigration also was constant
ly decreasing for the last half of the
decade. The Bureau of Statistics
gives the numbers as follows, (for the
first eight wears the figures are those