Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-12

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would be sufficient to convince the practical
statesman of the necessity Of doing 50 a. speed
liy as possible to do it lawfully.
Any other notion, il would seem, can exist
only in tae mind of the msrest doctfinaire,
VINO without experience or the capacity of
protting by experience, imagincs that the world
can be governed by some fixed rule of thumb
contained IN Ms own narrow bral8.
But there are other and higher considerations
involved in the Chinese question than that of
mere industriak progress or material develop
ment, ana to these we invite the attention OF
every American citizen who places his country
money profit
We assure our feIlow countrymen Fast. that
the dominance, If not the existence, of the Eu-
ropean race i'll this part of the world is IA jeop-
ardy.
We call their attention to the fact that the
Malayan ienlnsula, as well rs other eouairies
bordering upon Chingan the China seas, have
already been overrun by the Chinese end tiiat
me Malayan, one of the great races or types of
TO make place for theuss
That the islands of the Pacific are undergoing,
tne same process, and tlst this coast is now at
unless speedily relieved by rescue that on The
entire Pacific coast therh are ut tn.s :tme lesss
than l0O0 GOO people. of all races inhaDItinr a
territorial area designed by natare to aoeomIno-
cate population of at least $4,000 600 which
ao,Douu0 VIII be here in u period of time so
bf1ef, that 1t Is but passing nement in the life
time OF a nation.
tically unoccupied, and within the lifetime of
the present generation, the tyne of human spe-
eies that is to occupy this side Of the American
continent Is To be determined for all time
Whether the Pacific States are to be the home
OF 80 g1O,O0O free citizens OF the race that prO-
dueed columbus and Washington. LAFAYETTE
and Montgomery, Won Steuben and Andrew
jackson. or of 30.G0o,000 OF Mongolians from
eastern Asia. or, perhaps even worse. OF. 20 00a :
GOO mixed and mongrel halfbreeds, possessing
none OF the virtues OF either and all the vices
OF both, is to be settled finally and irrevocablv
That in the life and death Struggle now going
on for the possession of the western shores IF
the American continent the Chinese ha ad.
van;ages that must secure to them. If not a com
plete victory, at least drawn battle in n divis
ION of occupancy with Us.
10 begin with, they have hive OF 5000 600
TO draw IRON, with only one ocean to cross
which dividing water modern science and can,
casian ingenuity has reduced 10 the dimensions
OF the merest ferry, and they have behind them
an an impulslve force OF hunger unknown to any
European people.
But this is by 10 means the most important
advantage they have. They have an i'm nortant
| aIly III the cupidity of our own people, who too
often think th9t cheap labor and the money
profit to be gained by ii is of more value than
/ the happiness and permanance of their own
country and kindred.
For, let men Ssy what they nlease ahol1t tho
| inherent and inalienable right of expatria-
ton and immigration, about America being
me me re1nge OF the oppressed of all nations at
mon anxious to sell a nations birthright for
/ money profit in some form
The people of the Pacific make no Drstense to
! an exceptionally high standard of public vir-
/ tue but they are not willing to admit that the
accumulation OF wealth, public or private is
! the chief end and purpose of organized society.
The leading purpose of the first colonists from
europe was rot the acquisition of wealth. and
il we cannot equal them in unselfishuess we
can at least honor their memory by making nm
| effort to preserve that which we have received
| from them.
Among our other duties as American citizens
we hold ourselves to be the trustees of posterity
We are keeping the soil of this fair land for the
SoU9ogU Americans OF our own race and kin
| dred who are to come after us. To barter away
their places while they are yet unborn is a gross
violation OF duty. To do so under the pretense
| of humanity, morality or national generosity is
to add the sin of hypocrisy TO that which, with
| out it, would be a great pubic crime.
Our common ancestors came to the American
| continent to found State. The greatness of u
nation does not lie in its money or in its mate
| rial prosperity. but in its men and women: and
not in their number, but in their quality in
their virtue, honor, integrity, truth, and above
all things, i'll their courage and manhood.
To a nation that is to remain free the capacity
! to fight Is indispensable. 1t is not enough that
| it be able to trade and barter or to work and
produce; it must be able to fight and defend
! what it has.
! The nation that cannot defend itself against
! all comers will find that its days are numbered
! and this IS as true in The nineteenth century as
| in any other age OF the world
| The strong nations OF the earth are now. MS
| they always have been, the most thoroughly
| homogeneous nations. that is to saw the most
nearly of one race, language and manners.
And when they are of one race, it is not 50
| material what race, as that they be of pure
race. The purest-blooded man of any race is
the strongest man OF that race.
The largest body of men of single pure race
on the earth to-day. is in China. There are fou,
| hundred and fifty million of them. as like es
one barleycorn is like another. All the white
men on the globe, whenever so carefully count
and fDaxr
divided into a score or more of independent
soyereignties, ten times as many languages and
as for religious sects the boldest statistcan has
not the courage to attempt their enumeration
While we or the European race are divided
into fifty hostile camps, and fight each other
IKE SO many savage Apsches, china is one and
lndlvlslble- They are as united and homoge-
! neous as France
And though the Chinese are as timid as a
flock OF sheep, know nothing of physical science
and its resources, and have none of the arts OF
attack and defense, yet the very inertia of that
huge mass of crystallized hofnogeneity has thus
lar withstood the plundering instincts of the
Western Powers and China remains uncon-
quered.
There they stand, one full third of the human
race, great. inyincible, concrete ethnoloeical
fact. commanding respect and requiring man
kind to pause and consider whether the Chinese
may not yet, without discharging a gun or
drawing sword, gently elbow the rest of the
human family off the planet.
And if they have such force unarmed what
Will they do when they learn, as they will some
/ time, the art of war?
There is no such complete and unanswerable
demonstration of the power of race homogene-
1ty on the globe, as the example of China
All political history shows homogeneity to be
aVast power in State, and that heterogeneityis is
a corresponding source of weakness
The great States of Europe-England France,
Germany and Russis-those powers that domi-
nate the world. are so entirely of one race that
the presence of a black or red or yellow man in
any OF those countries outside the great cities
is "a subject of wonder and astonishment.
And race prejudice or antagonism, that un-
falling concomitant of race contact and fric-
ton, is scarcely known there
No State where the great distinct types of the
human species have been mixed together on
/ the same territory, has ever held power for any
considerable time. And no race of mongres If
such thing is possible, has ever held empire
or even kept its own independence.
In the very dawn of history. the CaTthageni
ans-the dominant class of which were white
men from Syria while the masses were Afri-
cans of various types-encountered the pure
blooded natives of Italy. and went down before
them.
Il is said they succumbed TO the Roman
sword They were conquered by pure Roman
courage and Roman muscle, cemented into
singleness of purpose by race homogeneity
When later on, through conquest the Roman
Empire had come to consist of the mixed races of
Western Asia, she transferred her capital to the
shores of the Bosphorus, and was in turn over
thrown by the Turks a race of pure fat-faced
Mongolians from east of the Caspian sea-
The once master race of Turks having become
mixed and hybridzed with all the mongrels of
Africa and the East now in the ninteenth CEN
tury find themselves about to be expelled from
Europe lacking strength to hold the place their
pure booded ancestors conquered for them.
The inhabitants of Egypt have always been a
mixed and parti-colored people, and have
always been in slavery to some -blooded
power. Alexander at the head o his Mace
DOMAIN Greeks seized them and founded a
dynasty, which settled down and hyoridized
with the natives with a similar result.
Their next masters Were the Turks and the
English now hold them in stbiection
BY the last census 266, 900 600 of human beings
/ inhabit the peninsula of Hindustan the most
productive spot on the globe. The soil pro-
duces three good crops year.
They possess everything to make happy peo-
pie. ii soil and climate would do it. In the
words of bishop Heber, Every prospect plea ses
| and only man is vile.' For they are cursed
with the evil of heterogeneity in everything.
| In the Indian village The inhabitants
| are often of several different races or
subdivisions of three or four races, DIFF
! fer.ng both in color and physical type,
while their antagonism is intense that
| though born in the same village, they cannot
sleep in the same camp. or eat of the same
! food or drink at the same fountain, least they
/ be defiled and cast out rs unelean by their own
/ people.
/ AS a consequence of these facts and as a
direct and natural result of them. this fair land
, of India with its 265 COO 900 Of mixed and
mingled races, its mongrels and half breeds, is
great slave pen TO Great Britain
One huodred thousand blue eyed, pure
blooded Anglo-Saxons tell this mighty throng
of parti-coored humanity 10 go and they go,
to comesand they come. The English take ad-