Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-06
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CuIyEsE IN the EAST.
Slowly bot surely, Just as the tide
,reeps up, are the people of the great
,ities of the East awakening to the fact
hat the presence of Chinese among
hem IL q social svil, second to none
hat oan bs imagined. From New York
from Philadelphia, from Chicago. in
hort from every city into which this
race has penetrated, bearing with
Them their burden of moral and physi-
BAL lsprosy, comes the news over the
wires of the raiding OF opium cens, ana
The discovery Of stupefed lads and girls
therein. The people Of the East have
been slow 70 learn that this race con-
industrious, and ordinarily
psacssbls, are not desirable addition
20 the population Of any city or country.
Not until their advent, was scch place
n an opium den known; nov where
ever . handful of Chinese are gathered
together, there Ia TO be found this type
of Oriental dissipation and pitfali for
the rising generation. There seems to
be suoh peculiar fascination In the IN
diligence OF opium smoking that but
few having once acquired the habit,
have power of will sufficient 10 refrain
from it, use. Il Is in the first instance
generally the result of idle curiosity
INDUCED in merely 70 observe and ex-
psrience the effect Of an unknown drug
But It Ia playing with fire, and there is
hardly village on the Pacific Coast
that cannot In the ruin of some bright
youth, lear testimony to its relentless
bold upon Its victims. IL was not alone
upon the ground Of Chinese conpeti
ton with our American white labor
that the protest of the Pacific Coast
against the farther importation of these
Onsntals 70 our shores was based, bu'
70 this was added an aggregate OF per
sonal experience and observation which
made the vote In the Pacific States, II
favor Of restricting and forbidding the
further influx of these heathens to oul
land almost unanimous. The Chimes
Minister at Washington, is reported II
have recently said that demand to
the repeal of the "Anti-Importatioi
Law" would come from the American
people before the ten years Limitation
has expired. and that 1t would first b.
heard on the Pacific Coast. He base
his opinion on the assumption that tn
services of the race are indispensable
that we cannot get along without them
We do not believe it. Within the mex
ten years this western land will teen
with industrious laborers from our owl
people In the East, men who with wive
and little ones have crossed the cont
nsnt In search of land and work an
homes. OF this class, the country is i
000Vs AAA tu0 RtUo0oAo Va sASh A"Se
20 10 swell the riches Of our countr,
Their surplus earnings are reinveste
here, and their children grow up faith
ful, loyal, intelligent citizons Of th
land Of their yosth. Il never can B
good policy TO bring this class of vii
ing workers, these men with homes al
families into competition with foreig
raoe, whose presence Ii o social ours
and who arc by heredity, untitled to b,
como citizens and heads Of families
land they visit, only to strip it like
swarm Of locusts. There will new
come time, upon this Coast at leas
when fair expression Of the popul'
wish will DO In favor of Chinese imm
grafton; and while with pro- Chinese a,
voostes, We may grant that certain pul
lilo works have been more rapidly az
vanced by reason Of their presence;
may now be truthfully replied that Ii
pressing need-if need 1t ever was--e
utilizing this heather horde ia fast b
coming lsss, and will, lorg ere the d,
cads expires, cease 10 exist.