Smyrna times., 1886-10-06
Foi Tic SmWRd TImeS
The Chinese Question Again.

I.HtIH n. iticE ST. AtCitUtts fOf September.
Fot Tic Sn'yrnl Times
The Chinese Question Again.
MIR EDITOR i regret exceedingly
that the report of what came under my
personal observation, together with in
formation from the citizens of San
Francisco should have weighed so
heavy upon the plastic brow of our
worthy divine from East Boston. He
certainly feels aggrieved at the way
we spoke of his Oriental, ALmOnd- Eyed,
Pig Tailed Pets, who. by their advent
into the State of California, have de-
graded labor to an extent of absolute
paupersm. We desire it distinctly
understood by the readers Of the TINES
that we DO not coVet cheap nOtoriety
by responding 10 the gentleman from
the" Hub" but in order to set our
selves right, since he assumes to cali
US liars, we appeal to the public scnti-
ment of at least a half million Of as
truthful and good citizens as there are
in the world-thOse on the Pacific
Coast-tO substant.Rte the truth of our
statement. We were shown through
at least one hundred of those houses
inhabited by Chinese, where the whole
earth was excavated and partitioned
off with as many apartments under
ground as above-literally filled with
the lecherous, lOathsome malefactors,
until we were compelled to retire on
account of the filthy stencil from their
opium pipes. Their abOminable prac-
tices are too revolving to make men
ton of here. Mr.. Baldwin asserts that
the " fruit growers declare that they
cannot get along without the Chinese"
This is easily accounted for. They
have to have some one to work
While the missionary is parading the
land of the heather to bring him to a
Christian standpoint at the expense of
their impoverished treasury, the same
heathen is cnriching himself by com
ing to California, where the missionary
himself should be engaged III a work
more profitable to himself and man.
| kind. China is one of the most denselV
populated countries on the globe, and
as far back as we have any record in
history of that race we have heard
them dcnOminated as hedtbens. If
they are heathens, certainly it speaks
but little in favor of our intelligent
Christians who have labored so zeal
ously all these centuries for their civil
ization We were informed by num-
Der Of citizens in California that there
existed among the Chinese Il society
known as the High Binders who are
nearly all regarded as refugees from
| justice and who are entirely void of
any conscientious scruples in regard to
/ crime.
Mr.. Baldwin tells us that the credit
/ is due to Chinese reclaiming the tule
lands and converting them into arabic
! land to Il great value, &c. Has the
same thing not been done in other
parts of the country where there are
no Chinese? as, for instance, Kansas,
where native American labor is EN-
ployed.
Wecame to Las Vegas seven years ago
where there were not twenty Amerl-
cans in the county of San Miguel, and
the population of our town was
scarcely two thousand. To-day we
have population of eight thousand.
The assessed valuation of the taxable
property in our county is S9,376,131.
Our county debt is less than S95. 900.
We have no Cinnamon except about
dozen who are engaged in the laundry
business. They have made no public
Improvements and every dollar they
earn they send to China except barely
enough to meet the demands of nature.
With all due respect to the opinions of
our worthy friend from Boston, we
can but reiterate and strictly adhere to
our views expressed in the letter re-
/ - in ha
TIMES, September 1st, 1886, that that
element is an abominable curse to any
civilized country in the world. And
while it is a conceded fact that our
country is characterized universally as
an asylum for the oppressed of all
other nations of the earth, yet it never
was intended for Il place of refuge for
the criminals of other countries, who
have focked by thousands to this
country and ensconced themselves
upon the charities of a noble people
who have braved the perils of a pio-
neer life from the banks of the Missouri
to the coast, encOuntering the savage
Indian, the treacherous Mormon, and
finally to be met by an influx of degen-
Grated humanity to contaminate the
best country in the known world, which
cost so much suffering from hardship
and toll since the memorable daVs of
1S49, when men marched two thousand
miles to reach that land of gold with
ready hands and willing hearts to ac-
cept the consequences incident to a
prOspectOr's life in order that the be-
, loved ones at home might be bene-
: fitted.
In conclusion I will state for the
: information of our friend that we came
/ West to grow up with the country at
the suggestion of the venerable Horace
Greedy, and we are supposed to know
what is beneficial as we'll as what is
detrimental to our interests. We have
! no objection to any good person coming
to this country for the purpose of i'm
e proving the morals of John Chinaman
but we would much prefer to see them
all depart in peace on their return to
China, there to remain while time and
tide roll their solemn rounds, where
they can avail themselves of the bene-
fits derived from the teachings of the
good Christian missionaries, never
: again to be permitted by their unnat-
ural footprints to pollute the sacred
soil of the Golden State of California
l agree with my friends Baldwin, Bee.
cher, WinhOw, Sam Small, Jones, et
GL., that there remains yet much to bC
, done, but unless it be done speedily
the opportunity may flee, as has beer
well said by distinguished poet:
Full many gem of purest ray serene
The deep unfathOmed caves Of ocean bear;
Full manya flower is born 20 blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air"
J. w. BARNEY.
East Las Vegas, N. NJ, Sept. %, 1886
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