Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-07

u - DN rec efal itcl lrD> - in'i'.'
u.on II tr ay nniliiied Ivy pon Ter
fornAnce on the part of the v,il
power in behalf of whose subjects i;
has bt ell invoked.
As | diaw towards the conclu- ion
of III, illumination Of our relations
with China, u nay he proper to
S Elk som"w It; of tue objections
nia'te "thr /, T. al of tine BuiiIn,.am
couvc! ii III hy the advocates of the
present >'a,r Of aft ,irs Few If hes"
merit softer discussion; and tuany,
We're It hot iOf the crave import of
he subject, might we'll call fol
mirt!.ful tierlsion 1t IL urged that
WE SHOULD not pro- ose to canccl e
treaty inasmuch as it WAS folcrd
upon China; as if u hlnnder or 1t
crime once comni,tr'! must persisted
i'll while the evil OF it broadens and
deepens until remedy becomes i'm
possible. We are told that Chinese
labor Sin our fields ard shops will
certainly benefit our industry" de
spite the teaching of nearly thirty
Years to the contrary. We are IL
formed, in sentimental phras", tat
" if the higher civilization and Cars
tlan energy Of the American people
of California cannot devise means t.
remove the Ignorance, abate the
pre- ludices, and enliShten the Pagan
ISM of those thus brought to their
doors, it is week indeed" The
sentimentaiist being unmindful of
the historic truth that the higher
civilization, which necessitates COM
fort and luxury of life, inevitably
goes to the wall when brought in
competition with the lower civiiza-
ton which asks for none of these
and Needless also of the furth truth
tuat the real object Of our Christian
energy should be to retain our coun-
try for the Christian civilization of
our own and kindred peoples, and
not TO convert it into colossal
remedial institution for the eradica-
ton of the moral deficiencies of "a
race SO utterly distinct that its fusion
with the Caucasian is impossible.
Proceeding in the same strain, it
is gravely pleaded that our law
should be " formulated in Chinese"
for TIE benefit OF the immigrants,
{" ami that direct oversight 10y res
ponsible officers Ishouid bel main
tanned over this alien population,
which it is the duty of q government
TO do" which would require the al
ditlon to our government OF special
eleemosynary department. We are
also to prevent the extention of
opumsmoking among them" but
are not informed how this very de-
sirable object is to be achieved, the
penalty OF death having been insult
ticient to restrain the Celestials from
this vice in their own country. We
are to " learn thoroughly the work
Ing of their companies and guilds, B"
but are left in darkness as to the
mocius operandi of so doing, and
necessarily SO, for these companies
and guilds have secrecy as deep as
that OF any secret societies in the
world: these associations being one
of the means by which Chinese COM
petition with the white races is adj
vanced and strengthened. We are
to encourage them to bring their
families" but as the advocate of this
encouragement sets forth in an
other part of his statement Il am
quoting from an official report) that
Chinese women refuse to go any
where" it is difficult to perceive in
what way the encouraging process
could bring forth any tangible result.
1t is also said that we are to" Sin
form them upon whatever will help
them to become BETTER and this is
proposed to be accomplished by "ed-
ucatin3 a number of Americans in
the Chinese language for official in
,erpreters aud translators," in other
words, through the agency of le-
gion of pensionaries of the govern
ment. l would not have referred
to this spur of the subject in so long
paragraph were it not that the
sentences quoted are administrations
of what passes for reasoning in the
pro Chinese mind. They are taken
word for word from the public docu-
ment. Forriya Rtlaiions Of The United
States, for the year 1876. Their au-
thor was member of the United
States Legation at Pekin. 1t may
perhaps be worth while to quo Q
still further from the document from
which these extracts are taken. 1t
ascrlbes tn. inflow of Chinese IN Cal
ifornia to the Providence of God, "
forgetful that it had its beginning, as
We nave had occasion to note, in bru-
tai aggressions of which we were
quick to take advantage and in which
to no small extent We shared, upon u
power that had never harmed us, and
that it has reached its present pro-
PORTIONS because we have reckessly
left open the sateways OF our own
land while wantonly reaching forth
to spoil the possessions OF another
One further comment on this Chi
nose encomiast. He asserts that the
repeal of the treaty "wouid have
little or no effect upon the emigra-
ton" and that the Imperial govern
ment can no more control the move
ments of its subjects or keep them
within its territory than the Presi-
dent can restrain those of our citi-
zsns." This is on page 81 of the
volume raferraa tn and ia datrd Pa.
kin, June Both, 1876. On page As,
under date of March Dist of the
same yeaI, another official, the
American Minister, writing from
Hong Kong concerning the treaty
Moulded SIX weeks earlier between
China and Peru, states that "the
great object of Peru in procuring a
treaty was to promote Chinese i'm.
miJration tins had been yirlually