Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-10-17
TEE csssEsE PResLxx.

TEE C0f&kek R8eeAA.
Esv. ". C. Faleonsr. DID,. has writ !
en- The follo=ins very sensible article
10 Tss Tafsrsor, tbs grest Prese sserian
paper Of CnicaeC:
Ii sill no. DO 90 con.o1nd the opposi-
tiou Of tie CHRISTIAN ministers and lay
men OF ths Paclac coast 10 the Chinese
VIII the cau.Inz comD6nism OF the
- sxpd!os orator. Is IL bad logic 30
conclude thzt because bed man agrees
With q good man on q given point, the
good NAN 10 wrong. TIE fact Is that
tas secular and reiiRisas press of Cali
fornis u, xithoot exception, % far az l
could teayu. IN favor Of the Restriction
Act" We IN the east have not bad
forced upon "a the reasons that in1s
euce ths q. Wsare apt TO De iucitsr
10 famine. riot or heresy while !. - con
aned 70 rse far aSay or obscure iace-
lie terrible tsets of t5ls case are night
at the d0or OF the good people OF the
Psesfie ocass. We sec tut q copparn-
tiyeIy few harmless coolies 10 our cities.
= nd are apt 10 lodge by What ve expe-
rIence. Wien earnest and eempeisnt
men, such IS Drs- Snesrer and Ale1au-
der, protested 10 the last General As
sembly against the resolutions intro
duced On TIE 50 Jet, We had difficulty
in appEecisting their esrnesiness. Some
vent home from the Assembly TO con
tinue their argument from theory and
seutimsut, regardless of the facts.
OTHERS went home determined TO get
the facts and weigh them. What are
the fsctsf
The Chinese constitute one-sixth Of
the population OF California aud about
one ninth of the population OF Sau
Francisco, and pay less than one four
hundrsdth of the taxes. In twelve
blocks Of the very best business part
of tbs city live, eat. sleep and do busi-
ness over SO, coo Chinese; OF these about
1870 are women, - children. OF these
women 81 are wives; of these children
80 are legitimate: the rest are concubines
aad prostitutes With their children. Of
the filth and stencil implied in this
yermin-lIfe | need not speak to white
man.
The immortality, accompanied bv
Ioaths ONE diseases, fostered by these
social conditions IL something appall-
ing-utterly different from and beyond
anyihing knoSn In the worst parts OF
our eastern cities. Were these results
confined to the Chinese and their of
spring, il would be bad enough; bat
80 open and cheap are the opportunities
for social vice aud crime that alarming
numbers of white boys and men. for
getting the lessons of Caucasian man
hood, are led to share disease and pagan
mo. atty in their most revolving forms.
/ he Chinese as a class, adhering to their
own laws and customs, have no regard
for our laws and customs. They are
by our ideas OF virtue and
decency.
Having no regard for the oaths. they
resort to unblushing and unparalleled
perjury to defeat isstice In our courts.
then we remember how difficult II Is
in our eastern towns and cities to en-
force certain ordinances, We need not
be- surprised that tue authorities of
San Francisco are unable successfully
to cope With the above elements and
Gambling Is passion
With these people. and within those
twelve blocks are over one hundred
aud fifty gambling dsus, many OF them
scared with iron doors and bars, and
their approaches watched by their own
friends.
Nor did these Chinese leave their
Plagiarism behind them. Those $1,000
support "a many joss houses as YOU will
find churches among as many white
people. 10 IL mistake TO suppose these
people are not Influenced by these Pagan
slIars and idols. They are, especially
in the relation of conscience to crime
and vice. Fhe sale of indulRences,"
against which Luiher thundered, were
nothing compared With the horrible In
dulgences OF these PaRans on American
soil. More than one joss house in San
Francisco initiates the ancient absmins-
tons of Corinth.
Some of our secular papers love to
point to what they call "ldolatry in
contact with Christianity" on our coast.
The statement as made is utterly falia-
cious; for. once that these people came
IN contact with a Christian or Christian
institution, they meet gamblers, liars.
adSenturers, unc.esn and profane men
and women. and scoandr-ls, political
and commercial, a thousand times.
The testimony of our worthy mission
aries of different denominations is to the
point on this subject. A few years age
We talked abous the good providence
that brought these people to eur shsres
TO learn Christianity and iDbibe the
spirit of our institu,iops, that they
might returc to their native land as lay
missionaries. We cent missionaries and
Christian agencies among them. and no
fair mind can deny that the results have
been and are good and evsn grand, CON
sidering the difficulties of the situation.
These missionaries are upkeld by the
Christians and churches of the coast,
and all that can be done for the welfare
of these Chinese tue churches and min
listers of the coast are doing. They do
not indulge in hate or injury to the
Chinese, nor approve of harsh measures.
but what is the testimony as TO the ad
vantaecs of the situation for missionary
work. Unanimously. 80 far as could
learn, that the work was attended With
many difficulties unknown 10 the mis-
sianary in Chins. The mind OF the
Chinese IN America 10 not as open to the
gospel as 1t IL in bis native home. Here
he 10 an adventurer, seeking only to
make money, and his American sur
rsundiu q, as described above, are nearly
all unfavorable TO Christian effort.
Grant. then, that much. very much,
good result; no man oau fail 90 see
with an eye the much greater evil result
Of Chinese life and labor on the Pacific
coast.
Grant the duty Of trying 10 reach
these individual Chinese With the COS
pei. the hope Of using them for larger |
Christian results In China is shadow in |
the extreme. But the religious element |
OF the 81 u4tion II BY no useans all that |