Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-05

WHILE a Democratic ascendaney IL
desirable ON many grounds 1t is par
ticularly so from the point Of view Of the
Chinese question. The attempts which
are now being made TO refine away the
Chinese Restriction Act through the de-
eisions Of Republican courts will increase
alarminglyiunumber and audacity unless
the people show in a decisive manner
that the Mongolian must stay out of the
United States. In California we have
but just begun to reap the benefits of a
cessation Of Chinese immigration when
the old evil threatens TO be revived. II
II shall be established by the Court OF
last resort that the law only applies TO
subjects of the Chinese Emperor, and
that all Mongolians who do not acknowl-
edge allegiance to the Brother Of the
Sun and Uncle Of the Moon pay come to
this country as before, the restriction
law is not worth the paper it is written
on. Unfortunately the Chinese have
not resorted to the cities OF the East In
numbers sufficiently large to make their
presence felt as an intolerable nuisance
II all the more bchoovos the people Of
this Coast never TO censc the agitation
until IL becomes an ingrained feature Of
our institutions that the Mongoiian
must not come to the United States.
We notice that Cinnamon are popping
up quite frequently in the Courts in the
Eastern States and demanding natural
izatiou papers, and that their demands
are always complied with. There is no
doubt whatever that the Republican
leaders curse themselves for their com
pliance with the popular demand OF
this Coast, compliance, by the way, in
which only mere fraction of them
Joined. But small in number as they
were, we could not have carried the
restriction law without their aid, nota-
bly, that of Arthur II the act shall
prove to have been. after all, a delusion
and snare, as seems likely to be the
case, we shall need all our efforts to
prevent its present notification and
early repeal. For the verbiagc OF this
act Senator Miller ia responsible. The
fraudulent Hayes put his veto on the
original act on the ground that ityiolated
treaty which the United States had
made with China; and he contend
ed, with some plausibility, that
Congress could not nullify treaty
giving China all the rights of the most
favored nations without the consent of
that power. However, the special Com
missioners empowered to negotiate a
supplemental treaty with China accom-
plished the task which had been en-
trusted to them, and as it was not pre-
tended that we were hampered by any
treaties with Mongolians not subjects of
the Emperor of China, it was an mex.
tusuDlo OllilssiVh uI'li 'hS f"tt " WV
Republican Senator who drafted the bill
not to have excluded all Cinnamon and
Mongolians of whatever country-a
coolie being ccolie from what point
soever he may hail. In addition to a
threatened notification of the restric-
ton law, we are also liable to be inun-
dated with Chinese from the British pos
sessions to the North and the Mexican
possessions to the South of us, To still
further complicate the situation there is
an apparent willingness on the part OF
Republican courts in the East to hold
that coolies in Cuba and South America
can Cross the United States in order to
return home-an agreeable fiction by
which this country could be flooded
with Cinnamon via Panama and Ha-
vana. All the signs indicate that the
Chinese issue is by no means dead-that
it is not even sleeping. As the case
stands now, unless the agitation is main
tanned and energized, the curse of Chi
nese immigration is neither scotched
nor killed.