The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-19

AOlO, HUI WOulQ IL De desirable D(
Iltlcally, socially or morally that h
should do so. The advent of TIL
chinese partook more of the charac
ter of the peaceful possession of
conquered territory by paid ant
hired armies of submissive labor
erS. owing allegiance solely 10 a for
elgn power, regardless of the future
and prospects of the beautiful terri
tory temporarily occupied bv them
Negro slavery took precisely the
same beginning. The blacks were
at first brought only in small mum.
bers. 1t proved the greatest curse
that had ever blighted this land
Let us learn something from the
history of the past. Every MANNED
soldier, every widow who mourned
her husbands death, repeated the
sad lesson. Let Congress stamp
this threatening danger out of exist
ence before it could grow large
enough to require more serious
measures for its suppression.
Gunther, of Wisconsin, advocated
the passage of the bill, and drew a
strong distinction between immi-
grants from Germany and Ireland,
who came to this country to better
their positions socially, fnanci .lly
and politically, and the immigra-
ton Of Chinese, who came under
contract and were imported for the
sole purpose undertaking Ameri-
can workingmen. He would like
o limit the time of the suspense,
to ten years, but he would VOt- i i
the bill as it stood, for fear TIN. 90.
other restrictive measure wSuld ue
adopted.
Moore, of Tennessee, thought that
it was his patriotic duty to vote
against the Dill. The question of
singing out, by name, and by dis
eliminating against particular ma
ton (and that nation the oldest,
largest, most peaceable and least
meddlesOme of all natiOns) was III
international question Tar reaching
in scope and consequence. 1t was not
the pnrpOFt of the bill, perhaps,
to bring up the question of races,
but it must have that effect. and in
support of that proposition he sent
to the clerks desk and had read ex-
tracts from speech delivered in the
Senate by Senator George, of Mis-
siSsippi, when the bill was pending
in the Senate, and, commenting
upon that speech, he declared that
the conclusion to be deduced from
it was that the reason of the sem
atOr's support of the measure was
that he might, at a later dav, ask
that the friends of the Chinese bill
should return Quid pro quo for his
vote when he should call for them
to test the question of African citi-
zonship ia the United States. In
he said he would not
allow the passionate clamor of
temporarily maddened locality 10
influence his vo = on the bill.
Berry, OF California in advOcat-
ing the passage OF the bill, said that
the measu did not fully meet the
views of the Pacific Coast. nor could
any legislative fOrmalitles under
the treaty accomplish what the peO-
DtC VI Olldt OE-NI1Oii hiItbn W UH lot
the best interests of tie country.
He hal Intended to offer an
providing thar, if any
Chinaman belonging to classes
by the bill should become
/ ldbOrrr. he should forfeit his
lights as such, and that the pres
,nce of such person should be |
leemed violation Of the treaty. |
After 60 .saltatiOn with his friends |
, had ,.ecided not t. offer the
which, t adopted, would
iecessitate the return OF the bill TO
he Senate; but h. wished to call
ttAntiOn 10 the fact that it left il
fith China to say who were privi-
g d persons, and that there was
o remedy provided in case such
rivileged person should, after
.nding on our shores. enter the field
labor. He could not refrain from |,
xpressing the Indignation which
lie people of California felt at the
allure of the treaty. not Only to
revent the Chinese coming to this ]
)untrY, but to open up the way bv /
hich, sooner or later, the country 2
light be relieved from the presence ]
those who were here now. He
len proceeded to describe the CHAR (
ter of Chinese immigrants, con- '
nding that they were nothing but S
ayes; it was a slave class which q
as being shipped to our country; a
10 lowest, vile:t of the C
illions stepped in degradation and q
superstition, was not that class {
hich should be excluded from our I
nd and not permitted to come u
re with a moral contamination a
at meant death? There was tri- f,
mails in California which enforced c
linese laws and went so far as to D
mpel every slave faithfully to Il
I'LL his contract, if he did not he n
as often put to death. u
Page-It is not true that no o.
linaman can leave California T
thout permission oft he Six Com ii
MES. I'll
Berry,-He cannot, in fact, he is b
thing but a chattel. Continuing t.
said that the fundamental propo- "
ion Of the whole question was ii
at Chinese labor could be intro o,
ced without the introduction of r
e Chinese conditions, and he 81
Oted from the testimony taken m
the Morton committee to show II
2 like of degradation and deRase- HI
mt led by the MongOlians. it tC