The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-03-18
TIE CASE AGAINST THE CHINESE

people OF the Pacific States, and upon
which they are likely to be united,
sooner or later, regardless of party dis
tinction. The newspapers of Califor-
MIA are making strong appeals to Con-
greas to place limitation at once upon
Chinese immigration, and it is claimed
that unless this is done 10000 Chinese
will be landed at San Francisco within
the next eight months. In another
column will be found Geographic
synopsis of speech recently delivered
In the United States Senate by Senator
Jones, of Nevada, In opposition to
Chinese immigration. The Senator's
opposition appears to be based upon the
failure of Negro sufktage-about which
the Southern people are fully informed
but Ithe Senator's real animosity is
toward the Chinese.
This subject Is, as we have said, but
little understood at the South, and for
that reason should be Investigated.
The United States Consul at Hong
Kong made 1t a study some years ago,
and advised the general government
of the result of his labors.
ssRules that will do elsewhere in the
world,'' said Mr.. Baily, "when appli-
ed In considering questions of immi-
grafton have no application to Chinese
immigration to the United States. I'm
migrants to America from other parts of
the world 60 of their own violation,
free and voluntary. Emigration from
China to all parts OF the world is an
organized business or trade, in which
men Of large capital and hongs Of great
wealth engage as a regular traffic, by
which men are bought and sold at so
much per head, precisely as 80 much
merchandise is handled, at its market
values The cody of China Is bought
by the rich trader to serve his pur-
chaser at low wages for a series of years
In foreign country, under contract
for the faithful performance of which
In many instances he gives mortgage
ON his wife and children, with stipu-
lation that at the end of his term OIL
service he is to be brought back to
China by his purchaser. This contract
is sold to the dealer through his agents
In the United States and elsewhere at a
large advance, and Is a source of great
profit to the capitalists who have the
means to buy and sell these men.
"This contract in the United States
is no doubt null and void, but never
theless the cody will comply strictly
with all its terms, q copy Of which in
Chinese Characters Is always in his pos
session, and this he will do because his
purchaser holds his household lu,'es
In the land to which he always hopes
and expects to return in pledge for the
faithful performance of his bonds.
The central idea of Chinaman's reli-
gion, il he has any religion at all, is
that of the worship of the tombs of
his ancestors. The superstitions of
Fung-Shusy dominate him wherever
he may be in the world. Tho subtitle
mysticisms of China, so strangely gov
erning all its people in their social,
political, and quasi religious life, are as
a hook in his nose, by which his pur-
chaser controls him at all times and
places and thus this relation of mas
ter and quasi slave no matter how
many miles apart, is welded by the
mystical links of religious supersti-
tions, family ties, and rights of ances-
trail tombs, which control and regulate
the reciprocal duties of trader and
cody in the homeland"
The means of obtaining coolies, said
Mr.. Baily, are as various as the inge-
nuity of man can devise and as corrupt
AS the incentive to large gains can
stimulate and invent. Men and boys
are decoyed by all sorts OF tricks, OPT
ates, and illusory promises into the
haunts of traders. Once in the clutches
of these men-dealers, by a system of
treachery and terrorism connived Mt by
the local Chinese authorities, whose
chief business in life Is to sssqueeze"
the people, the stupeted cody is over
awed into making contract under
soch Chinese influences and surround |
inss as to give 1t a sacredness of char
scter nowhere else known in the world.