Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-04
THE VIEWS OF A PRACTICAL MAN

in this issue in the inside columns,
of q conversation held by i rep
resentative of the REcoRD-U MON
with an intelligent and practical observer
some years resident in the Empire Of
China. /! throws 4 strong light, and in
some respects new one, upon the system
of Chinese slavery. 1t reveals in brief,
clear terms the whole field of Chinese
patriarchism than which no masterhood is
more absolute, no tyranny more cruel, no
despotism more unrelenting. 1t depicts in
strong terms the unavoidable results of
this system, infanticide, prostitution and
slavery, than which latter no other is more
tar-reaching. While it recalls well-known
facts regarding the system Of Chinese serv-
itude and. human chattelisrn, it recounts
other facts and cites authorities that should
occasion Eastern friends 10 call halt
in their sentimentalism, for the pur-
pose Of serious inquiry whether indeed the
permanent introduction of Chinese civili-
zation in any form, or by any of its repre-
sentatives, is consistent with the scheme of
American society or institutions, or COM
patable with republican forms Of govern
ment. The conversation to which we
call attention should receive widespread
circulation, since the views and experience
OF a close observer Of broad intelli-
gence have 2 force and weight with the
masses of the people in the telling, that
cannot be given TO the generalized essay
or the laborcd treatise.
\ SAX FRANCISCO journal enlargcs
upon the spread of the Chinese lottery
system in that city, and the increase of the
vice Of gambling in these lotteries. How
Absurd to rail at the Chinese policy shop,
when more than one Of the leading papers
OF the metropolis receives and publishes lot
terry advertisements for American concerns
that deal in hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars, where the Chinese lottery agent han
dies dimes These same papers, 50 alarmed
at the spread of the lottery gambling
vice, are silent as the grave npon the part
they play in fostering this vicious taste
Every week or SO they publish glowing ac-
counts of the luck of some one who has
drawn high prize in an American lottery,
and by their rose-colored recitals inhame
hundreds with the desire to dabble in the
forbidden pool. They follow up these
paid articles with column after column
Of the results of monthly drawings, and
yet pirate about the growth of the vice of
lottery gaming Decency and consistency,
even rank hypocrisy, stand blushing and
shame-faced. before such copper-fastened
etfrontery. When such journals know
that numbers of the school teachers and
pupils in San Francisco, apprentices at the
bench, clerks behind the counters, laborers
in the streets and business men in the
counting-rooms of San Francisco, are daily
buying and selling lottery tickets in Amer
lean schemes, induced thereto by the pub
lished articles of such of the San Fran
cisco press as sell their columns for coin,
as well as the secret circulars of the
agencies ii becomes the sublimity Of
cheek and brazen impudence to rebuke the
Chinese dabblers in ten-cent lottery tickets.
We are possessed of evidences of the ex-
tent Of the lottery craze among San Fran
ciscans, which are amazing in their pro-
portions.