The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-10
THE CHINESE.

The HERALD has been charged witt
being an advocate of Chinese immigra
tiDn. TEE HERALD is as much opposed
lite the coming ofChinese to America a:
tsRy journal can Re. 1t believes that the
Mongolians should be kept out of thi,
country; they are not good for the
Ioountry, and therefore must be Injur-
iOns: they bring nothing and take away
aR they earn; they have nothing i'll
rcemmon with Americans; they care
netting Ger our institutions, which
i'they cannot or will not even under
stand; our theory of government is
either beyond their comprehension or
they do net care to familiarize them
selves with it. and profit by it; there is
but one object. one purpose with the
Chinaman who comes to the United
States. and that is to get enough money
to'enabie him to live comfortably in his
own country; when he achieves that
object he is off for home, and America
is the better for his going.
But while THE HERALD says this
about the Chinese, it believes in
being consistent. While Chinese
are allowed to come they must be pro-
tected in theirrights as human beings,
or our government brings upon itself
shame and disgrace. While other who
are no better are permitted to cosue to
America, and work, the CHINESE ought
not TO be restricted: Ugly and offs nsive
as the Chinese are. and wanting in
sympathy with the Institutions and
theory of the republic as they enaY be,
they are preferable in every respect to
many of the immigrants who come
from Europe. They howl about the filth
of the Chinese quarter of San FrancI SEQ.
yet it does not compare in iouIness TO
the low Italian quarter of New York;
the Chinese live like cattle in San Frln-
cisco, but the Bohemians exist like pigs
in the coal regions OF Pennsylvania:
horrible crime is now and then commit
ted by Chinese in the vest, but the
MongeEans have never been able to
excel in the enormity Of their crimes
the deeds done IN the Low foreign quar-
tiers of our great cities. If the
Chinese contribute little or moth
ing towards the support of gov
eminent, of schools, of churches
and Of public and private benevolent
institutions, they cost the State little
for quell ng their riots, suppressing
their mobs, and furnishing their crimi-
nails; if they work for low wages, they
do not spend their money for whisky, |
and waste their earnings in drunk.n
carousals. They live economically,
work hard and faithfully. respect the
rights of others, pay their. debts.and are
examples OF industry and frugaIity, all |
of which are virtues, and of the vices
they have fever than the men zho are
eternally denouncing them and de-
that they be driven out. THE
HERALD does not Ike the Chinese. but
it dislikes them less than it does some
other foreigners who are CONSPICUOUS in
all anti-ChInese movements.
If the time has come-and VIC believe
it has-for Withdrawing the invitation
that has stood ior century, requesting
everybody to come to America
and join in the benefits and
blessings OF a free government, then let
some of the bars be put up, and immi-
grafton permitted only to the better
and more desirable class. But while WEI
still hold wide the gates for the entry of
The rabble from the slums of Europe,
and make ne objection to the coming
and the staying OF the ignorant, the
drunken. the -depraved. the ill-bred and /
The loafer hordes OF the old world, and
afford them protection in whatever they
may do that is within the law, and
Wink at mach they do that is against
he statutes, .good order and decencyr
Ell as be consistent and impartial, and
.reat the Chinese as they deserve.
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