The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-14
The Chinese Bin Passes the
Senate.

The bill which has been pending in the
Senate restricting Chinese immigration
finally passed that body on Friday last
by a v ote of 30 to Is. The bill contains
provision prohibiting any U. S. Court
from naturalizing Chinese applicant for
citizenship. Senator Jones, of Nevada,
made . carefully prepared speech in favor
of the bill, in the course of which, enlarg-
ing upon the consideration that the intel
ligence or creative genius of the country
in overcoming obstacles, not its material
resources, constitutes its wealth, said that
the low wages of the Chinese, while ben
eftting individual employers, would ulti-
mately impoverish the country by remov-
ing the stimulant to create labor-saving
machinery and like inventions.
We quote from the telegraph report:
The Senator spoke of THAT be called the dearth
Of intellectual activity in the South in every de-
partment but one, that of politics. This was be-
cause of the presence of servile race there.
The absence of Southern names in the patent
UAuCC 10 al llluetIdblOQ. we WOUlQ mol welcome
Africans here. Their presence was not bless
ing to US, but an impeachment in our way The
relations of the white and colored races of the
South were now no nearer adjustment than they
were years ago. He would prophecy that the
African race would never be permitted to domi-
nate any State of the South. The experiment
to that end had been dismal failure, and failure,
not because we have not tried to make it succeed,
but because laws away above human laws have
placed one race superior and far above the other
The votes of the ignorant class might prepon-
derate, but intellect not numbers is the superior
force of this world. We clothed the African in
Union Blue, and the belief that he was one day
to be free was candle light in bis SOUL but it is
one thing to aspire to be free and another thing
to have the intelligence and sterling qualities of
character to maintain free government The
speaker here expressed his belief that if left
alone to maintain government the negro would
gradually retrograde and 60 back to the methods
of his ancestors. "Thls," he added, may be
heresy, but | believe it to be the truth IT, when
the first ship-load of African slaves came to
this country, the belief had spread that they
would be the cause of political agitation aud
civil war, and the future had been foreseen,
would they have been allowed to land? How
much of this country would now be worth pre-
serving If the North had been covered by Afri-
cans, as is South Carolina to-day? In view of
their on-asslmiatng characteristics the wsesl
policy would have been to exclude them at the
outset. So We say of the Chinese today. he
exclaimed. and for the greater reason because
their skill makes them more formidable COM
petitors than negroes. Subtle and adept in ma
nipulation, the Chnaman can be put into almost
any kind of factory. His race is as obnoxious
to US and as impossible for us to assmate as the
negro race His race has ouilived every other
because ii is homogeneous, and Tor that reason
alone. II has imposed its religion and pecul-
iarities upon its conquerors and still lived. If
immigration is not checked when it is within
manageable limits it will be too late to check it,
What do we find in the condition of the Indians
or Africans to induce us TO admit another race
in our midst. 1t is because the Pacific coast
favors our civilization, not that of another race.
that they discourage the coming of these people.
They believe in the homcgeneity of our race and
that upon this depends the progress of our in
situations and everything on which we build our
hopes"