Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-01
SHIP THEM HOME.
The Latest Proposition Promulgated b

the GOVERNOR.
A news atherer of the REooRp-USroS
yesterday found Governor Stoneman wrest.
ling with formidable financial question.
He said: Il am figuring out a scheme
whereby can save the State cool million
of dollars, and at the same time forever rid
ourselves of four hundred Chinese"
Such a statement naturally interested
the plumbago wrestler, and he Immediately
besought his Excellency to unfold the plan
that was to be of such financial Importance
TO the State and which was to rid our
shores of so large a number of the " little
brown men"
"All right" said the Governor: are
you pretty good at figures p"
" studied arithmetic little bit when I
was boy" bashfully replied the guileless
scribbler.
Well, put down on your notebook 200.
That represents the number of Cinnamon
in our insane asylums. Multiply that by
IA, the average life of an insane Monaghan.
and what is your product?'
The interviewer replied, Twenty eight
hundred, your Excellency.'
Right" said the Governor. 4" Now
multiply that by $3.50, the average cost per
annum of maintaining one of those insane
Mongolians, and you will have what those
2O0 will actually cost the State of Califor-
MAJ
Well said the reporter, =" find as a
result OF my computation that the expense
will be $9S0,000"
Exactly So" said the Governor. " AL
most million dollars TO be raised by tax
alton to support those foreign imbeciles
and madmen. Now, how are we TO get rid
OF them, and how are we to save the State
TINS large amount OF money? No ship will
take them; we cannot compel them to do
so. | think, however, | can suggest a
remedy that will solve the problem effect
1ally, within the law, and in a manner
that no one could offer any objection We
have another State institution that has
few hundred of those people confined
therein who are not insane. Now, what
do you think of this proposition
Pardon those criminals upon the basis
that each Chlnaman pardoned from the
Stale Prison be conditioned to Immediately
leave the State, upon the Chinese steamer,
never to return, and to take in his special
charge one of the Chinese inmates of an
insane asylum. The State would have to
provide the passage money for both which
would amount to, say $50. The State in
this way could be ridded of 200 conyiets
and 200 insane persons, for the small sum
Va TitfSSOs w WOulQ De
issued, neither of the undesirable classes
would ever return TO our shores, and the
State OF California would save over mill
ion dollars by the transaction, for the con-
victs as well as insane persons are an ex-
pense to the State
The reporter admitted that the proposi
ton looked plausible upon its face, but as
the figures represented a sum of money so
much in excess of that handled by the
average newspaper man, he could not grasp
the financial part of it with avidity.
Well" replied the Governor, as he
lighted a cigar which he had Just taken
from a box bearing the white labor
stamp, passing one to the reporter, - it
will work, my dear boy; the only thing
is to provide for the passage money and
then get the Governor to pardon them
don't know how easily the first can be
secured, but l am sure there will not be
much trouble about bringing about the
latter proposition"