The Indianapolis journal., 1885-06-08
THE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.
Their immortality and Filthy Habits Grapl
ica!ly PORTRAYED.

Interview in st. Louis Globe Democrat.
II judge that this is only the beginning of the
trouble" said Californian at the Southern
yesterday, referring to the murder of Louis
Johnson.
''How is that2 Will not the verdict scare off
any further murderous action on the part of the
Chineses"
':Scare nothing! Do you think the execution
of two or three, more or less, of their country
men will frghten the restg Every man believes
that the seeds of death are in every one but
himself, and these yellow rascals are no
exception to the rule. They are the
most vindictive, revengeful race on the
face Of the globe with code Of so-called moral
ity that does not hesitate at murder or any
other crime Talk about red Indian! | never
saw an Indian whose good graces you could not
perpetually secure with pint of bad whisky,
while a Chinaman, though accepting your gifts
with smiling face, will nurse real or supposed
injury for years and beggar himself for re-
venge."
"Do they act that way on the Pacific coastF'
was asked
Act that way!" he shouted, growing red with
excitement and indignation. In San Francisco
we have about 400 police, costing the city in the
neighborhood of So 600 a month for salaries
alone. But for the Chinese, the force could
probably be safely reduced to 800. There
is q clear 100 men, costing the taxpayers
nearly $l25. 5.000 solely on account of
the Chinese. In law cases they are totally
unreliable caring as little for an oath as dofor
the Nicene creed. Why have seen them come
into a courtr ard endeavor to swear away
the life of man charged with murder, when
they knew that he was in the next county when
the deed was committed, and was as ignorant of
the act a babe unborn; this to save the life of
one OF their cousins Tney will surely but
slowly purchase property, bit by Bit in the very
center or the business portion of town. render
ing the neighboring property uninhabitable by
white people, until they have secured before
you are aware of it, the mott desirable parts of
the city. Let me say that after house has been
occupied by Chinese the only way to purify it is
to burn it down."
'You seem to be very bitter on the subiect2"
'Oh, you think am o sort of Denis Kear-
ney. Well, do you know, he voiced in an ag-
gravated way the sentiments of the loyal people
of the Pacific coasW You people back here have
no true conception of this question. You think
that the lawless element, the hoodlums of the
coast, are the only ones who are shouting that
the Chinese must 60. 1t is not so. That cry
comes from the heart of every patriotic. home
loving, true American on the coast. You send
such men as Henry Ward Beecher out to us
They are wined and dined by the swell Chinese
taken through the better parts of the Chinese
quarters, convinced that they have seen every
phase of Chinese life in the country, and then go
back and report about the little brown man, his
patience, his industry and how he is upjusty
prosecuted. Bah, it makes me i'll" Biting his cigar
savagely and warming up to his subject the Cali
fornian continued: And you have got to look
out for these things in the near future and take
advantage of the example of Fan Francisco be-
fore 1t is too late. We have $4,000 Cinnamon
there, and know whereof we speak New York
has something Of dose and is beginning TO real
ize the danger that threatens her. These fellows
will creel in and paralyze manufacture and
trade. corrupt the morality of your young peo-
Pile, and endanger life with loathsome and epi
demic disease"
How ruin trader was asked
''They are the best imtators in the world, and
can work alongside your best workmen, produce