Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-05
I'M QUARTERS.
ngressmen Make q Trip through them
and are shocked.

WAsHINGTON, April 2S.-"No other city
in the United States would tolerete China
town for twenty-four hours. If China.
town were dropped down on Boston Com.
mons the people would hlod their noses
and run" Such ia the emphatic language
which Representative Millikin, of Maine.
puts his concluions after a visit to the
celebrated Chinese quarter in San Francis.
co. Mr.. Milikin was q member of the
Congressional Committee appointed to &C.
company the rem aims of the late Senator
Miller to California. While in San Fran
cisco Represent ,tives Millikin, Spriggs, of
New York; Hepburn, OF Iowa; Laffoon, of
Kentucky, and Morgan, OF Mississippi,
with two detectives who were familiar with
Chinatown, and several San Francisco
gentlemen, made a tour of the Chinese
quarter and examined it thoroughly. The
result was a unanimous verdict by the Con-
gressmen that Chinatown was a great
ulcer on the beautiful city OF the Golden
Gate, and q unanimous conclusion, not
that the Chinese must 90, but that no
more Chinese must come.
IN THE HEART OF San FRANCISCO.
Mr.. Millikin said to-day to a Daily News
correspondent: chinatown occupies four
blocks in the heart Of the city. You break
off abruptly from the rest OF the city when
you go into this quarter. You see none
but Chinese. They are as separated from
the whites, except for the police and occa-
sional visitors like ourselves. as though
they were still in the heart of the Celestial
Empire. The Chinese are inveterate gam
blers and their gamingshops arethick along
the streets. You see crowds Of men, a very
few women and almost no children. !
don't think l saw a dozen children in Chi
natown. There are no family or ~organiza-
lions among these people, and the Chinese
women who confine their relations to men
OF their own race are not looked upon as
bad women by the Chinese.
I'VE went down into the Chinese lens
three stories under ground. In these dives, !
which are reached by narrow. dark, filthy
passages, we found crowd of Cinnamon
smoking opium. The stencil was almost
unbearable to American n~ostrils. | believe 4
Chinatown would cause a pestilence in |
almost any American city except San
Francisco, where the winds from the ocean
sweep across the city every day at certain
hours and cleanse out the poisonous at
mosphere.
A BLOT n scoURGE.
While the Chinese are reported to lie !
good servants, and on the whole peaceable |
people, their filthy habits and their grossly
immoral practices make them a blot and |
a seourge to the city of San Francisco.
They have no familie. or homes like other |
people. They buy their clothing in China, |
they send their money to China, they ha we |
the bones of their dead taken to China for
burial, and in no way do they assimilate
with American civilization"
What remedy would you suggest for
this state of things?" was asked.
Chinese immigration should at once be |
utterly prohibited" was the reply, mot
only On account OF the evils I have men |
toned, but because the coming of these |
people tends to cheaper and degrade labor. |
II they were scattered throughout the |
country so thickly" az in California |
their competition would cause the |
rum Of our native American laborine
classes. I stated in a speech while in San |
Francisco that l thought the Chinese who |
have already come to this country should
be fairly and decently treated, but that
believed the East would stand BY the
Pacific Coast in the passage of laws to ex-
clude any further Chinese immigration, |
The respectable and intelligent people of
San Francisco do not approve of driving
the Chinese out by violence or unla wful
means, or OF threatening or abusing, or
or killing tn Sc already here.
They regard the Chinese as an incubus on
San Francisco, and object to anything that
will increase the size OF that incubus. So
lew Chinese children are born in this
that, If immigration is stopped,
these people will gradually die out. And
the Californians regard 40 the easiest
method Of getting rid Of them" |,