Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-12-04
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The uniform practice Of your valuable
and popular payer to de justice and give
fair play TO all parties, on every ques-
zion that has come under discussion IN
this community. has made IL the hon
ored and respected paper Of the people
and secured for it circulation FAR IN
advance of all ofhers IN the Territory;
aHa / believe it has a wider circulation
than even you are aware of. SIS several
copies are seat TO England, lrslsnd ana
Scotland every week through our post
Office At Redm ond. Ii u these consld-
sratlons which induce me to ssk for
place IL your highly esteemed paper 'ot
q few remarks on the question now aei-
Eating the minds Of tie people OF this
coast-the Chinese question
In the first place, l think there nave
been many things sand and done on DOH
sides that w0ald be better left unsaid
and undone In your report OF the pro
ceedines of the citizens meeting, held
AZ the Opera House Nov. 9Th, Judge
Blrke is made TO ssy that be can have
patience With the EhEllsaunan, the Gef
man or the Frenahman, when be sReers
AZ this Government, bat none for the
freshman, &c. This Is, in my estimation
IN unjust, unjustifisole and ansalled for
impu tation on the loyalty of those peo-
ole, and calculated to create q false Im-
preston in the minds of those Who Will
read il thousands of miles away, and
who know nothing of the circumstances.
What inference can be drawn from such
LANGUAGE? The conclusion must be that
these people must be IN open rebellion
against the American Government. Is
such the case: No. On the contrary,
there ~ not a citizen of either natisn-
sIity who las raised a hand or voice
against The Government or its laws dsr-
ing this excitement. On the contrary.
there is not one of them who would not
be willing TO risk his lIfe-nay, to sacri-
fee bis life-snd all that he holds dear
for the preservation of his adopted
country, If occasion required it. OF
this they have given abundant proof 10
the past.
Again: the Judge says they (the Chi
naRen) are here under treaty stipula-
ton, when il is q notorious fact that
MANY of them are here in positive VIC
alton of our laws. 1t is true, We have
commercial treaties with China. 1t Is
also true that our Government Is bound
20 protect the Chinamsn or any other
human being who may come amongst
Us from violence or rapine, even though
be we're a Fugitive from justice. But
there are no treaties between the ma
tions that will tolerate the Chinese to
keep a constant and perpetual nuisance
in every city. town and hamlet through
out this country; aHuisance that threat
ems the foundation of our moral, social
and political institutions.
This Chinese question involves more
serious consequences than the mere
question of the present bread and butter
OF our working people; for although
they are here like the vultures famed
ia fable, that lowered over the feast OF
the Troians to plumber their tables) to
rob our children of the bread of life,
and, like the valtures, wherever they 60
they leave the stencil Of the carrion be-
hind them. Yet the evils which they
create are insignificant to what it will
be if they are suffered to continue in the
| future as they have been in the past, be-
o. use we have now but the vanguard of
a mighty horde sent in advance, AS the
Midisnites of old, when they wished to
destroy the armies of Israel, sent their
bariots in advance to corrupt them. So
il is with the Chinese; We have their
harlots amongst Us fer the purpose of
corruption, and their mode of corrup-
ton is not confined to their opium dives
and hellish deDs, nor are their harlots
confined to gender. Their male harlots
\ by the servility Of their nature and offer
of cheap labor, have wormed themselves
into the homes of our rich citizens and
SO corrupted them by tempting their
sordid cupidity that they seem willing
to sacrifice the most sacred obligations
of brotherhood and patriotism to crafty
their selfish ambition.
Let rs take retrospective view of the
past few years and examine the events
that have led to the present state OF
affairs; then we may be able to judge
of what the future will be. We have
seen the public domain, that should b.
diy reserved for hornes for our cit
liens, by the connivanoe of corrupt Off.
Gals oonfiscsted and stslen by soullsst
corporations and native and alien CAPT
tallsts. We have seen a system of po
litieal economy practised that enabled a
few to amass such colossal fortunes in
half lifetime as generations and cen
turtles had never done before. We SEE
almost the entire currency of the conn
try controlled by few individuals
thereby enabling them to control the
Government and defy it, and to stop a
their pleasure the industries of thu
country. while the bens and sinew tina
produced all this wealth are left idle
and hungry, or wander as tramp,
through the land. New, il this stat,
of affairs should continue twenty nv,
years more, and the Chinese allowed
full and free emigration, with protection
and encouragement, they will not mis-
one hundred million. vRich will swarm
on this coast like the locusts of Egypt
Then We may see our country dottet
not With the happy homes of American
freemen. bat with the hosts of cooli'
serfs, with all their cOncomitant attach
ments of dives and dens and gambling
bells. Then China gardens, China msr
chants, China manufactures, China ar
tizans, China doctors and China lawyer
will monopolize all the avenues of in
dustry throughout the land. Then vi
will have land Of landlord and tenant
land of master and slave; then good
bye to the proud dignity of American
citizenship; then our daughters, lik,
the daughter Of Jephtha on the noun
tains Of Israel, may sit on the shores Of
our beautiful Sound and mourn over tn,
desolatiou of the land, or plunge II
despair into that gulf Of destruction
then our sons will have to stoop to til,
ssrvility and degradation Of the China
man to exc out q pitiful existence o.
take to the road IS highwaymen o.
tramps.
Ii may not be out Of place right her,
TO call to memory the fate of other ma
lions, that We may see what led to thei
downfall and profit by their experience
Let Us look at ancient Rome, once tn,
conquering mistress Of the world. He
proud eagles dreoped and died, and nov
there is nothing of her left but th,
beautiful plumsRe of her past glory
And ancient Greece, the sublime. grans
and beautiful; she. too, has passed ava,
and left nothing but the grandeur o
her views. And ancient Egypt. once tn,
seat OF science, literature and art; o
her there ia nothing left but the mys
teries of her pyramids. What led to th,
ruin Of these great nations? The accu
mutation Of great wealth and power IL
the hands Of the few that stimulated
sordid ambition and made them mimi