The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1882-04-20
A WoI1an's View Of the Heather Chinee.
| AN APPEAL TO THE EAST. THE CHINESE FROM
| A CALIFORNIA STANDPOINT. A BRIGHT AND
| BREEZY LETTER.

AN APPEAL TO THE EAST. THE CHINESE FROM
| A CALIFORNIA STANDPOINT. BRIGHT AND
! BREEZY LETTER.
| VALLEJO CALIFORNIA, April Sth, 1882.
| EDITOR JOURNAL; Years ago, when | was a
young school girl in dear old Belfast, used to read
with pride that the sons and daughters of New
England made their mark wherever they went;
that they carried with them to the fields of Caior
mia, the mines of Nevada, and the forests of Ore
gon the noble principles, the high of honor,
| the broad humanity, that are New Englands boast.
| Yet, to-day though these same sons and daughters
are counted on the Pacific Coast by many thousands
and though they turn appealingly to their common
| Mother and say: "Come over into Macedonia and
| help u.s. Believe when tell you of the evils
that we see and feel" New England turns collly
away and says 81 know you not, Let us welcome
to country the honest, simple frugal industri-
| Gus Cinnamon, and let the rulianly, prodigal
hordes Of hoodums and sandotters who inhabit
the Pacific Coast starve, if they do not see fit to
! initiate the virtues of these celestial paragonst'
| There never greater mistake The people
who cry from the Pacific Coast for help are not
hoodlums; they are not, alone, the working men
and working women from whose mouths the Chi
nese are taking the daily bread. They are the
wealthy class, the professional class, the refined,
| pie whose humanity is as much higher than the
blind, cheap, Eastern sentimcntaliSm on this pucs
| ton, as the Heavens are higher than the earth.
1t is the voice of the entire people, irrespective of
party, creed, caste, eloquent in their dire
tremity. 1t meets responsive echo in the halls Of
| Congress, but when our hearts swell high with the
| hope of relief the man whom Fate hoated into
the Presidential chair upon Nation, tears, hacked
| hy Ipnn IN ;b,.,,,
dashes our hopes to the ground.
| Victoria, Queen of Great Britain Ireland and
Empress of India, in all her long reign has never
| presumed to set her will against that of Parlia-
ment by the exercise of the veto which her royal
| prerogatiye But then, Great Britain is a Mon.
archy, relic Of the Dark Ages. while our country
is free and enlightened Republic lforsooth )
where slavery has only lately been wiped out,
| where the fostering curse OF Mormonism lourshes,
where scrfs and barbarians are welcomed in count
| less throngs to remain serfs and barbardns still
Henry Ward Beccher thinks it is the will of God
that the Chinese should come over and be convert
ed Converted to what? TO Henry Ward Beech
er's religion? 1t would be difficult to find out " hat
| that is Chinese converts to Christianity are 'few
| and far between" Probably those for whom even
| the Philanhropi,ts would be willing to vouch as
| the real article, could be counted on the fingers of
one hand and am afraid mosi Californians would
be doubtful of believing even those few under oath.
| To risk the future Of the Nation for the sake of
| having, in the course of quarter of century, a
| dozen Cinnamon for some selfish purpose of their
| own go through the form Of baptism, is rather a
| costly experiment. 1t will take more Of the Grace
| of God than there is in the whole ned States at
| present. Henry Ward Reecher not excepted, to
! make a perceptiblc impression upon the followers
| of Confucius. The Chinese look upon Us and our
! religion with the greatest contempt T', conccit
| is an impcnetrable armor.
| In California the Chinese question is no party
| question Republicans ami Democrats stand Shout
der to shoulder in the common cause. Shame that
on the Atlantic Coast, the Republican party should
| become the nursing mother OF this foul monster
which menares Us, the grant old Republican party
| that freed the slaves, that saved the Union; the
| friend Of education and progress that it should
lend itself to this thing oh shame,
There is altogether 4 mistaken notion ~ to the
| treatment of Chinese on the Pacific Coast. The
| idea that carving up Chinaman before breakfast
| Is common pastine, is ridicuouslv false The
Cinnamon arc a. safe here as they would tie in New
England; safer, fancy, Judging from thcr eNrcr.
fence in North Adams Mass. We are troubled at
the number OF them here; we are in sore distress
at the thought of the countless numbers that NAV
yet come, but we are a law abiding people. and
work no harm TO those among us. The Eastern
! people caught the echoes from the sand lots, where
! Dennis kearney and that degenerate son of Maine,
|. ;. kaoch, raved and ranted to their handful of
| demagogues and ''sore-heads,' and hv them they
| judged the people of California. But Dennis Near
ney and !. ;. kaloch and tlicir ik MOI repre-
scented the people of California than the mob who
| burned orphan asylums and hung colored men III
New York city in 1853; the people of the
! State of New York
| There is here, as everywhere else. awles@ ele-
ment, Probably the ay erage hoodlum Of alirornia
| Is no better, and no worse, and no more abundant
| than the rowdy Of the East. OF course Chinaner,
| as we'll rs white men, occasionally maltroated
by them. But if you think these very harmless N
Chinese are not capable of keeping up their y erac
Of offences against the law, the records Of the Police
| Courts will tell YOU different story.
| am not babbling what have heart from others
have lived in California for nearly fifteen years.
have resided in san Francisco and other uf its
principal towns and cities, and | speak of that
which know. The Chinese question has no bright
side Wherever in town the Chinese take up their
habitation, the effect is like that of ne deadly pu-
CIVILIZATION shrnkS back, property diminishes in
value, 1itn and immortality reign supreme. The
people of New England think the Chinese are neat.
Neat heavens wish some of those who think 80
could be set down for a few minutes in the "China-
town" OF any city on the Pacific Coast. one snh
OF the atmosphere from ii Chinese den would he
more convincing than the eloquence of the entire
California representation in Congress. one glance
't Chlnese lcpcr with his horribly distigurel fea-
lures anu rottlnS limbs one glimpse of the Chinese
prostitutes with their Scared and painted faces as
they leer through their wicket, at the passcr>-bv
would speak volumes of the danger and degretia
ton that menace this nation
Excepting half dozen wives of Chinese mer-
chants in San Francisco, who are kept as CLOSELY
Gagged as the lions in Woodward's Gardens. there
are no Chinese women on the Pacific Coast save
the vile creatures have mentioned, and these are
bought and sold as slaves
me Chinese have no regard for our laws save TO
avoid their penalties They have their own secret
tribunals, In which they settle offences in heiroWn
way even to intlictng the death penalty Their
word Is not of the slightest value. The heNihfIity
OF lhelr consclences IN this respect is the torment
OF an onr courts of justice. They win swear to
anything amt everything that suits their purpose.
ihey are the biggest thieves in existence The
mousse servants Will rob you under your very nose
all the while wearing that smile, 50 chilllike ana
bland, which has great Il charm for New Eng
lond philanthropists
Industrious: So they are! in that stern. bitter
groove, the result of ages of depreciation and OBJ
preston. Beasts of burden they live and beasts
Of burden they will die
APT: Indeed they are, They have not a particle
of originality, but their initiative powers are won
derful Seeking 10 learn trade, they soon have it
at their command. Then they Immediately Set mn
for themselves, and undcrbid the master who
taught them.
Frugal: "Aye, there's the rub" Fru4ality is
not the word. Our backwoods forcfathcrs were
frugal They who changed the forests into smiling
helds, who built their little homes who lived plain
~ but comfortably who brought up their children
TO be honest earnest, God fearing people The
mass of our white laborers to-day are frugal
Would you condemn them to handful of rice ana
some scraps of pork rind for 4 meal their hed a
shelf against the wall in Il room where a score of
other reeking, seething human beings are packed
like sariines in box; their clothing coarse cotton
and INF onI,,, VII,