The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-09-02

70, so, 30 cents, and 81 per day. There
are a number Of Immensely wealthy China
men on the coost, who made their money in
this manner.
(But that is better than putting It down
in your stocking and looning It out only at
heavy interest," as have known. But I
forgot myself this is for Hillsboro paper. )
AT Evanston, Wyoming Territory, over
half the town is Chinese visited q joss
house Cor church, which to adequately de-
scribe, would require more space and time
than is at my disposal. It was elaborutely
fixed up, contained carved piece Of fur
niture that seemed a sort Of q cross between
a cabinet and an altar, or the Wonderful
Cumberland clock, and which an attend
ant informed us cost $4,000 in China.
Small cups Of tea we're placed on It, and
the inevitable punk in spiral shape hung
from the ceiling and burned in it's slow but
sure way. The 'priest" or whatever his
office may have been "a deacon, perhaps)
took me behind the cabinet into the sane
tum sauctorum, where there was more tea
presumably for the accommodation Of
thirsty spirits or gods), more burning
punk. some little carved wooden images,
some tom-toms Gmprovised from pieces Of
sheep skin and old kegs), and a collection
Of other trumpery, which the heuthen Gin
his blindness) clothes with religious sancity
and supernatural powers (at least I guess
he does.)
You can't Christianize one out of a thou
sand. They will attend mission schools in
order to learn English, but when they want
to ask favor they kneel before their own
gods, aud when they want to exercise evil
spirits they burn On image Of their own
devil q do not know whether they recog-
nize the same devil we do or whether they
have a devil peculiarly their own.) Neither
have they any appreciation Of the worth Of
American citizenship. Among all the
Chinese ever saw I have found but three
or four who had the courage to go against
Chinese popular superstition for enough to
part with their queues. SOW one Ameri-
canized Celestial in Waco, Texas, two yerrs
ago, who's wife was Of Hiberniau extract
ion. He however, was Thoroughly an Amer.
lean, az he carried the baby and q have
since read) has secured divorce.
In Portland there are 5000 Chinese. Fol
six or seven squares you can walk on one
street and with the aid of very little imagi
nation be, to all appearances, in the Celes
tial empire itself. There are Chimes,
bazaars, meat shops, stores and shops of al
kinds, and what money they spend is spent
with their countrymen merchants and
tradesmen, and they in turn procure nearly
all their goods from China. They buy oi
the whites only what they can't get of eaol
other and yet must have.
would might say something compli
mentary to the Chinese women, but I car
not, Virtue, they have none, and theil
vices are too numerous to mention. They
are bought in China and imported to thil
country for servants-and worse; and sucl
as are found in the West are not an orna
ment even to the worst Of Chinese society
There is no use to try to evade the fac
that this country has a Chinese problem OF
it's hands. The immigration laws are only
partially successful, us they can be SNUG
gled in all along the coast. No one wht
will spend q month on the Pacific coas
ever comes back with a favorable impress
sion Of the Chinese, and if it is not mol
rigidly watched the whites of the Yves
coast will be compelled to do something
terrible. In British Columbia the populao
held mass meetings to express their senti
ments, and in a Victoria daily paper rea,
resolutions setting forth that ''the repeate,
refusaIs Of the Government to take deoisiv
steps in the matter was a severe strain upol
the loyalty of all British subjects" in tina
province.
There is no negro problem before thi
nation. The negro Of to-day is as really al
American as any one can be. His welfar
is our welfare, and his impulses, ideas AM
religions are ours. He shares our misfol
tunes Without amurmur, and our pride an
patriotism as becomes him we'll. The In
dian can also be made a good and usefr
citizen, as a trip through the eastern POI
tions of the Indian Territory will sho,
anyone. But the Chinaman is a heathe
through and through and it will be ages d
ever) before he will become anything elsc
He starves our American laborers and the
takes all his money to China.
These, since time has cooled my prejJ
dices, are my--and all Western peoples
ideas Of the MOngolinn in America.
P. As this might hurt Sam Kee
feelings 1 will ask Os a special favor thl
you don't sell him a paper this week.
, won't do TO hurt any Hillsboro mans fee
ings.
NIB. The Chinese must go-or men
their ways. TRAMP PAINTER.
'Rlght Peart.''
, al was right peart till the rheumatiz sot I'm