The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1884-08-23
Chinese Prohibition q Failure.

tOngrc~S hau tncctuaIl\ stppptV inc
inlluN of MongolS into the United States,
and that he Oriental> were going nome
as fast a, they could. This important
statement is llatly cuutradictcd by MIR.
Dwight :. Dow. Of No. - StuN Nvrsaut
street. who recently travelled through
the districts affected by the evil, oi
Chinese immigration.
This statement. SAID Mr.. Dow to n
HraH reporter Yesterday, "is ab>o-
lutcly false The thinc-r population OF
the United States j. increasing rapidly,
even at present. despite the law against
the immigration OF Mougoiau>. They
are not going back at all, except in the
individual instances whore Chinese he
come rich enough to 70 back and enjoy
the Injuries that their native tastes
crave for. Twas in Puget sound two
weeks ago. Several day before Yr>-
sci had arrived at Victoria. British Col
umbia with four thousand Cinnamon
on board The local nuthortic, re-
fused to allow them To be landed, bat
the Cinnamon insisted ON coming ashore.
Then the local authorities APP
] pcard to the General Govern
ment to stop them aud compel
the owners OF the steamship to tax" the
dctc>tcd immigrants clscw where. The
Government replied that it was the duty
of the local officials To have given notice
of their objection, in China before the
vessel sailed for British Columbia. The
result was that the four thousand hina-
men landed. was Informed that they
made their way over the borders into
the United States in two or three DAYS.
Some went into California and some into
Oregon, | lived in Sacramento, Cal,
ten years ago. and passed It portion OF
last winter there. There are ten China
men in that city to one formerly. 1t Is
the mrrcst nonsense to >aV that Chinese
immigration 10 this country has ceased.
The fact Is that it has increased in
greater proportion since the passage of
the Anti-Chincse bill than it did before.
these foreigners have literally ruined
the Pacific Coast a. Il place ot residence
for white men. They have taken pos
session of an entire street in Portland.
Ore can take you for a halt hour
walk through a section of that city and
in that time YOU viii meet none but
Cinnamon. On the sidewalks the smell
oi opium Is constant. ii you think the
Chinese intend to 90 back tu China YOU
ought to 90 to Portland and Use your
ewes and ears The biggest buildings
in course Of construction there are for
them They take ont twenty year leases
for the property. paving rents which
amount 10 ten per cent upon the orig
inal cost of the buildings Noune Wuuld
erect house for a Chuamau upon any
other terms
'lt is easy to understand the
evils OF Chinese immigration by
observation in that part Of the
country The Chinese are like the
mjll.r> in beehive. They consume bur
ito not produce. They hoard away all
the money they get and never let cent
of il 90 back tn American, for any pur-
pose if they can help it. They won [
even pa, our rice. hut insist on imuort-
inr rice from Chiun. So ,trour are their
prriudirc- nrain>, tine soil
..But how dn thr. Chimes. mouaor tn
steal o,rr III. border, from British
COLUMBIAN"
"Whn i. tn sion them? W. have an
rnnrmons frontier. and they nr,. .ll. lr io
lnll,h onr lav 10 >cnru uufil we take
strong measure, TO enforce it. The
ur,ui. nf fine E,.t donot seem ~ ,i,rrr-
cjat,. the rrrat DANCER that i hnI,"iuu
over tbe country IN his uue,'ion,
China I'm. = population of nearly four
hundred miliinn, These penple are
jookino for :, land in which 10 >ub-i,t.
Euron,, i, oyrrrrow,rd and thry nnt,u-
olIv urn ,bril, r.n> tn America If
China .hould conrlud.to.enJ'n hundred
million nf brr, ,,no,Ip to is thrr,. /. not
rnnm onnngb c,rn in nur nr,,t hack
,.rJ ,n arcnn,mnJ,t. th,m If ,bn
ihinns. conn. il, hulk ~. are zone iu,i
were gono ~ hen they prrmi,tod the pale
face. To land "
But strictly enforced laws will
/ check these evil, will they not?"