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

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To give another example of the strength OF
homogeneity, we point to Chile, which country
within the last two or three years has conquered
both Bolivia and Peru. Anyone might have
foretold in advance what would have been the
outcome of a war between those countries.
Chile is the nearest to pure-blooded people OF
all the nations of South America. Peru is an
other Mexico, If not even more mixed and mon
grelized than Mexico. What possible sympathy
could the Indians and half breeds of Peru have
with the pure Spaniards of that country. to give
them any heart in a war of defense? What do
they care who shall be their masters?
While that war was going on, we here on the
Pacific had reason to fear a complication might
arise in which we would be attacked by Chile
and we were not free from uneasiness. We tele-
graphed East for more cannon for our forts
But what good are cannon with no men behind
themg fifty per cent. of the able-bodied males
on this coast of the age for bearing arms are
alien Chinese. Do you imagine they would care
very much whether the Chilean or the Ameri
cans are masters of California or would burn
much gunpowder TO prevent a change of rulers?
Is that a condition for true American to be
proud of?
The growth and development of the sham
sentimentaiity about the right of free emgra-
tion to this country has always had Mammon as
its chief underlying motive. The money-seek-
ing sentimentalist has recognized the obvious
TACT that the increase OF population has in
creased the value of property, and made bust
ness lively. and there he has seen his profit.
If it were once demonstrated that the coming
hlther of any number OF the best people in the
worid-English, Irish, Scotch or German-re-
duced the market value of property 10 per
centum, or regularly made business dull that
very day the last whisper about the inherent
right and inalienable right of emigration and
about this country being the home of liberty
and the refuge of the oppressed of all nations
would be hushed forever, and in a week the
country would be in arms to keep the intruders
out
Manmon, masquerading in the disguise of
humanity. patriotism and national generosity
worked its way into our diplomatic service aud
gave us the Burlingame treaty
We charge that Arson Burlingame deliber-
ateiy sold his country's birthright tor Chinese
money.
And We state the facts. Burlingame was
american Minister at Pekin While there he
found out what is well known to everybody
familiar with China, that the Chinese have
always been angry and dissatisfied with the
concessions extorted from them by England,
anu partlculariy by the opium traffic and the
extra territorial rights, by which foreigners are
exempt from the jurisdiction of the Chinese
Courts, ana other concessions all odious and
raspins almost beyond endurance to the Chi
nese.
Burlingame ss-v here a chance by throwing
of his American nationality and turning China
man. TO make some money. and he seized it.
He convinced Tsung-li- Yamen that if they
would make him Chinese ambassador with
general rowing commission, he could get the
United States to back him up with moral and,
Il necessary, with physical force. and that thus
he could frighten and bully Great Britain into
China.
He got contrect to get rid of the opium
trafc, and the extra territorial titles by n diplo-
matte negotiation with England. For this service
he was to have a large sum of money-report
says hundred thousand taels cash in hand,
success 1t is shameful and humiliating fact
to confess that the Minister of no other power
on the globe would have dared to cast off ms
connection with his own country, and thus
taken foreign service. Any European power
would have treated him as disgraced man for
doing 1t. China would have cut off his
head With numerous suite of Chinese of
ncials Mr.. Burlingame started for Europe in
1865 by the way of Washington. London, the
| real objective point of his diplomatic expedi-
ton. was purposely and cunnipglv left till the
last.
He knew well enough that the English for
eign Office would detect the Yankee renegade
under the disguise of the Chinese Mandarin
and that he might have difficulty in getting in
at the front door, much less to be received as
representing China in any diplomatic capacity
He went to Washington, not because il was
necessary to make a treaty with the United
States for there was not the slightest necessity
either for China or for US that such thing
should be done We were not forcing opium
upon China. We had not extorted the extra
territorial rights from her. We had never so
much as pointed a gun at her. 1t was not
necessary, so far as immigration was concerned,
for the law permitted them to come at will
Bnr!lnsame went to Washington to get recog-
milton and prestige tor European uses.
He felt it would be a great card if he could
show in Europe that he had been received as
Chinese ambassador by the Government of the
United States.
To have negotiated and signed treaty with
them would seem to make him solid every
where So he set about that at once. He be
gah. as might be expected from man capable
OF such a career, with a misstatement He as
sured the State Department that he had been
sent Oh a special mission connected with the
opening up of China to railroad building, of
which he hoped in time to give our people
monopoly. He knew us to be the children of
Mammon, and took advantage of his knowl-
edge.
Just who suggested those clauses of the Bur-
lingame Treaty about the inherent right of
emigration, we do not know but considering
the state of mind prevailing about the State
Department. at that time it IS probable it came
from our side
But it did not make any difference to Bur-
lingame what the treaty contained so long as it
did not disgrace him with China. What
he wanted was treaty. So he lobbed at
Washington waiting to get the prestige of
American recognition to take with him to Eng
land
AT last he worked the instrument through
which goes into history with his name
across the threshold of any court or foreign
office to say good morning.
For the purpose of obtaining prestige, with
which he might work upon Great Britain in the
interest of China and earn his fee. Mr. Burlin-
game induced his own country TO yield up a
sovereign attribute, never before surrendered
able than all the opium privileges and extra
terTitarialities and trading concessions extorted
from China by English arms in a hundred years
war.
Among them they bartered away as far as it
can be bartered away, the right to determine
who shall come and who shall not come to this
new and growing country of ours, live on its
soil enjoy its privileges, and mingle freely with
All that the carly colonists had earned by
their toll and suffering, all our revolutionary
heroes had purchased with their blood, the
land that has been wrested from savage nature
and savage men, by the courage of our race
was thrown open 10 four hundred and fifty mill
ion Chinese to run over it, to take it, TO enjoy it,
as freely as We i'll order that Mr.. Burlingame
cou earn hundred thousand taels in Chinese
silver.
He did not even reserve the right for the
cheated Americans. when squeezed out of their
own country, to seek refuge in China, for our
residence there remains strictly limited to
some fifteen or twenty seaports, named long be-
fore in older treaties.e In the history of the
world no such fraud was ever perpetrated upon
a free and sovereign people.
For all this the only equivalent we are sup
posed to get back occurs in the article eight in
the treaty. 1t provides in substance that when
ever China shall build railroads the United
State shall furnish the engineers and China
will pay them their salaries.
Whether these engineers are to drive the loco
motives or do the surveying does not seem abso-
lutely clear. But let i, be what il may China
has within the last year deliberately violated
and broken this treaty by making a new one
with France, in which it is agreed that not
Americans, but Frenchmen, are to not only
engineer the railroads in China, but to construct
and operate them as we'll
That treaty, cheating us out of the mess of
pcttage we were TO have for our birtbright
was concluded in Picking some time in May
and ratified i'll Paris on the 18th of November
1855; and now all that is left to us under the
treaty is an unlimited and inc xhaustible supply
of coolies.
This is the true history ami inwardness of the
Burlingame frosty. Il was conceived in fraud
ana chlcane- 1t was negotiated at Il time when
no treaty was wanted by either country and not
for the purpose named in the treaty II laws
that down to he public aud natural law which
never was, and never in the nature OF things
can be such
IL is an International lie patent on its face
IL never ought to have been entered into II
has been deliberately and solemnly abrogated
In its spirit, If not in the letter by the Chinese
IN giving away to the French the railroad privi-
leSes guaranteed 10 us.
For these reasons it ought to be abroysted and
got out of the way by our own Government
We do not believe it is kept in force BY the
wish OF China, or that they would make any Sc
rious objections to our bringing il to an end
The objection of terminating the Burlincame
Treaty has its stronghold in America and with
the cheap labor interests alone.
The people of this coast are willing TO accent
cheap labor when il comes naturally by eyees-
slve population, as in the growth and develop
ment 1t will come in time. We object to moth
ing that is natural and inevitable. Labor will
be cheap when the country is full of people and
the conditions of life hard Doubling in popu-