The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-03-23
IN. 7. Independent.1
The Anti.ChineSe Bill.

The timid people of California and
OF the other Pacific states, including
one Denis Kearney and his ''sand-lot"
followers, who for years have been
in state of CONSERVATION, not to say
torturing anguish, lest the great En-
pire of China should empty its whole
population into this country, ought to
take some comfort from the fact that
the Senate of the United States, rep
resenting population Of fifty millions.
has before it bill to save the Ameri-
can people from being overrun by
these Chinese hordes. Should the bill
become a,law, which seems not un-
likely, then all things will be safe for
thefhext twenty years, and this will be
practically sufficient for most Of those
who are now living.
The provision Of this bill which is
specially adapted to cheer up these de-
pressed and disquieted souls, and make
the future look hopeful and lovely. is
the one that right out in plain. words
without any disguise or ambiguity,
says, in the name and by the authori-
ty of the people Of the United States
that not another Chinese laborer for
the next twenty years shall be permit
ted to land on our shores, and that the
bringing of such laborers into the
country by shipmasters shall be
penal offense, punishable by fine and
Imprisonment. Irishmen, Scotchmen,
Engishmen, Frenchmen, Germans,
Russians, Turks. even the Hottentots
and Bushmen of Africa may come by
shiploads; but not single Chinese
faborer-no, not one. Chinese labor
efs who are here under the stipulations
Of treaty may stay here, if they
choose, and, if they choose to depart
then they may return, provided they
register their names and full descrip-
tion OF their persons at some custom
house, before their departure, so that,
it they should take it into their heads
to come back to ''this land Of the free
and home Of the brave" this generous
and open-hearted asylum for all ma
tions,' they may be duly id ntifed on
their return. So, also, Chinese stu
dents, merchants. and travellers may
come and cast a side glance at this no.
BILE country, study here, if they so de-
sire. and make money here by trade,
if they can; but if man happens to
be Chinese laborer, living by the
sweat Of his brow and the strength of
his arm, then, according to this bill.
the United States will for the next
twenty years have no door open for
him. No shipmaster can with impu-
nifty bring him here.
The two facts upon which this pro-
posed exclusion is founded are these:
first, the fact that the man is a China
man; secondly, the fact that he is a
laborer. The bill, the 'efore, is fraught
with the double iniquity of being a
prescription on the ground of race and
a prescription on the ground of labor
as an employment. In both aspects it
is anti-American, mean, contemplate,
and to the last degree intolerable,
The enactment of such a law would
furnish suitable occasion for pro-
claiming a day Of fasting and prayer,
that God would save the people from
their own delusions. It is not many
years since the Negro-hating and the
Negro-enslaving spirit was one of the
great sins Of this land, md dearly in
blood and treasure did the people pay
for the wrong. This anti-Chinese fu-
ror, that has swept over California
and, to some extent, over the other
Pacific states has no just basis In facts,
whether we look at the number of
Cinnamon in this country, or at their
character, or at the consequences OF
unrestricted Chinese immigration, in
common with that of all the other
races of the earth. It is no better and
no worse to hate Chinaman than it
is to hate Negro or an Irishman, and
this country ought to be just as free
and hospitable to the former as it is
to either of the latter. That such a
senseless and wholly unnecessary fuss
should have been made over the pres
ence of about hundred thousand
Chinese in a population Of fifty mil
lions, and that any senator should in
troduce or advocate a bill of exclusion
with respect to laborers Of this race
is matter Of profound astonishment
We thank thank Senator Hoar, o1
Massachusetts,, for the manly and
burning words with which he denoun-
ced this Infamous bill. 1t proposes to
give the sanction Of law to what
would be in conflict with the genius ol
our institutions and in flat contradic.
tion of our antecedents for nearly {
century in respect to all, Of whatever
cline or race, who may desire to come
here and make this land their home
It is an insult to China, as well as al
outrage to the general sense Of tn,
American people. The bill ought tt
be kicked under the table.
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