Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-03-23
THE MEEK M0NG0L.
His Evil Influence Upon This Coun,
try Depicted by Senator
Jones,
Effects Of Chinese Competitions
Africans and hsiastics
Compared.


When the Chinese immigration bill
was taken up in the senate, Mr.. Jones,
of Nevada, said he rose to give few OF
the considerations that had impelled the
people of the Pacific coast to abjure
their brethren of other states to come
to their assistance in resisting the tidal
wave of barbarism which WAS sub
merging one after another of their in.
terests and driving them from employ.
men.. Such had been the advance Of
public sentiment on the question since
ten years ago, when the people Of the
Pacific coast he'd scarcely a following
in any portion Of the country, that he
had been content to remain silent and
hear their position defended by those
in the chamber, who, few years ago,
were opposed to it. He had spoken at
length on the fifteen-passenger bill sev-
elal years ago, and in the present dis
cussion he had not heard, up to this
hour, single good reason against the
bill. The senator from Massachusetts,
(Mr. HUa) had stated as proposition
universally admitted, and one that
could not he denied, that the people of
this country had
NO RIGHT TO PREVENT
the coming Of individuals Of other ma.
tOns or their admission into our society.
The statement has been so confidently
asserted that he (Mr. jones' had expect.
ed to find some authority, or moral or
political law, OIL the law of immigration,
which maintained the proposition. He
had made careful investigation, and
had failed to find any. The senator
quoted the authors of the Declaration of
Independence as authority, because Of
their Affirmation that all men are ere.
ated equal and have inaienable rights
Of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness;
yet when this affirmation was made
our country had at least six hundred
thousand slaves. If it had been intend
I'd that this affirmation should have
the wide significance now claimed for
it, the fOundres Of the government
would have freed those slaves. 1t
might be answered that this would
have been unjust to the slave-Owners;
but the facts are that they not only did
not do this, but they extended for
twenty years the period within which
the selling of negroes should continue.
Further, as to another class of men
coming from abroad, they made no pro.
vision for their becoming citizens,
but, on the contrary, improved cOndi-
tions upon their becoming such. The
senator had also
DRAWN UPON TIE HOLY SCRIPTURES
to sustain his assumption that God
made of one blood all nations of the
earth, and that consequently they had
the right to intermingle, each with the
other, without the consent of either.
But the only scriptural text on the
point was one which the Catholic
church from the time of st. jerome TO
this day had translated to read, not
that God made of one blood, but that
lie made of one all the nations of the
earth. A like translation had been
male by the recent commission to re-
wise the scripture.
Mr.. Jones then read from the writ
ings of Benjamin Franklin, who, he
thought, as one of the singers of the
Declaration of Independence, was bet
ter authority on the point than either
of the Massachusetts, senators. The
extract here read asserted not only the
right, but the duty, OF excluding the
black race, in order that our own civil
ization might he kept pure and our as
sOciations underliled, and intimated
that the best interests of both races,
would be conserved by their being
kept scperate. BY the same right that
we exclude from our shores people
whose presence we believe would be
injurious to our welfare, we prohibit
inCurSOns by white men on our Indian
reservations. The reason in the latter
instance is that it is better for red men
and white that the two should he kept
seperatp. The most eminent authOri-
ties on public law were unanimous
that upon this question no nation
could afford to indulge in
THE INSTINCTS OF BENEvoLENCE,
but that its entire legislation must be
based upon the consideration of the
good of its own people. In all this dis
cussion the real injuries which the in
tux Of Chinese had inflicted had not
been stated. The general proposition
had been stated in imputation, that
this noble race Of ours, with all its civ
ilization, was afraid of competition
with the ignoble Chinese. What were
the real facts about the Chinese immi.
grafton and what the real fear of the
white MANI He thought he could bet
ter illustrate it in the concrete. He
rpcollected a statement made to him in
Virginia City, New, by workman in
a mine, who labOred thousand feet
under ground. That man stated that
upon his wages of "a day he was
able to support his wife and four chill
dren and provide the bare nCcessarics
which his and their social position de-
manded. They needed to have the
same variety of food which his ances-
tors had, to be clad properly, and his
children educated. While his Occupa,
tion was not cheerful one, he went
to it with light heart, in hopeful an
ticlpation that his boys and girls would
one day enjoy advantages of which he
had been deprived, and become useful
members of society. How was it with
the Chinamanp Ordinarily he has
neither wife nor children. Ii he has a
family he tells his employer that
HIS WIFE is HIS DOG
and slave, and when his children are
scarcely past pulling infancy he makes
them earn their living. Forty or fifty
of his kind live in a room which would
not suffice for more than three or four
white men. He can do as much work
as his white competitor in mines or
elsewhere. The laborer complained
that the Chinaman would very soon
Oust him from his employment, and in
quired where he should 60. Philan
thropists of the eastern states told him
to 60 somewhere else, and when he
moves on another Chinaman, like a
policeman in "Bleak House," was al
his heels to tell him to "keep moving
on" Without having contributed any
thino IN huild;nu m ni,r industri thr