Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-11
TIE CHINESE BILL.

EDS. RECORD UNION /: The Chinese bill
has passed the Senate, and will no doubt be-
come law. Let US duly appreciate the SER
vices of those in and out of Congress who
have reached this result, but let us not ex-
pect too much from this law. Will it injure
thing it will do, and that is, it will stop the
Chinese from coming to California in vessels
direct from China; bat will or can it keep
them from coming here indirectly from Mex
leo and from the British Possessions? Will
not Guaymas now become the port on the
American coast to which the immigrant ships
will run, and will net new immigrants swarm
across our whole southern borders If the
notion is we'll founded, that the Indian, who is
crossed in the Mexican with the Castilian blood,
is only wild Chinaman, the present Chinese
race would find in the Mexican blood kipship
and both political and domestic sympathy and
invited amalgamation. However that may
be, Mexico wants laborers to develop her
mines and delta lands. Have we not made
line of steamships with Guaymas more GER
tain. and thrown into its treasury all the
profits of Chinese importations, without keep
ing the new Chinaman from our coast any
more than before? VIII not the exclusion Of
the Chinese Mongolianize Mexico, and not save
us? The Chinese have taken possession by
colonization of the Polynesian Islands, and
are intermarrying with the natives. Will
they rot now commence their campaign
of labor up and down the entire
Pacific coast, from Cape Horn to
Alaska? What is to keep them from it?
The British Possessions does no. repel them.
They can come from Hoagkong. British
port, to Victoria, or any other British port
on this continent.
But one result we must expect from the
exclusion of the Chinese, aud that is the
cheapening of laAer. The presence of the
Asiatic here has kept away the more numer-
GUS European competitor, who will now
come here. The competition of European
labor will now begin here, and lower
wages here as it has in the East, where
there are almost no Chinese at all. If
we could get rid Of the Asiatic, in
fact, we would not only have cheaper labor
in the greater competition of Europeans, but
we would get material for citizens and people
homogeneous with us in race, customs and
interests. This is the gain. 1t is, we re-
peat. doubtful whether we can keep the
Asiatic from invading us through Mexico on
the south, and the British Possessions on the
north but if we succeed in the entire exclu-
sion OF newcomers, and have opened the
way for large European population, We
shall lose much of the shipping now engaged
in the China trade, but we gain valuable
population. But can we keep out the China
man? Steam is moving the population of
the world round in surprising way; chang
ing its centers, and working up its equili-
BRUINS, in spite of the prejudice of race.
Overcrowded nations must live. Despair at
home will make them brave and aggressive
abroad. In word, have we seen all through
this problem of race, and are we surely NOV
ing on the lines of our own interests At
best. however, we must put the logic of e1-
perience against the logic of theory, and try
what we have begun. w. 81. P.