Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-10

IN China before any proposing cmigrant
goes out, In order to exclude from emil
grafton any persons of such disfavored
classes, and she will see the reason OF
this proposal also and agree 20 1t.
DO WE WANT CHINESE FREEMEN
This brings us TO what many persons
consider the essential feature OF the whole
question, ais the immigration Of Chinese
freemen desiraDle?n And why not2
Have we not work In all the valleys aud
upon all the hillsldes OF our vast domain
for honest freemen to do? And wherein
consists the danger TO the public welfare
from the presence Of freemen? To-day
California owes large part Of her mate
rial prosperity to the presence Of Chinese.
The laborer OF European stock says;
"No, we do not want them, they cheaper
labor and degrade it.n But, as matter
Of fact, labor Is much higher In California
than elsewhere in our land, and
the white man, instead OF being
degraded by the presence Of
the Chinese, Is given broader
opportunities, Is lifted up and aided by Il.
II is susceptible OF demonstration tnat
when the Chinese in California earn $40,
they give the whites the ability to earn
another $40 in better classes OF work
sill"-to use an expressive phrase-of
Chinese labor. The Cinnamon build
railroads, white men operate them; the
Cinnamon work In wooden mills, white
men superlntend the mills, buy the ma
terials, distribute the products and make
the profits. So II is in any number of
employments. And all the while, as the
grower OF garden truck, as the launderer,
as the house-servant, the Chinese makes
life easier and pleasanter for the more
favored Caucasian.
This argument | have extended else
where ana cannot dwell upon 10 here
That 1t Is sound cannot doubt. 1t has
been proclaimed thousand times by the
most intelligent men of the Pacific coast
and the whole spirit Of the white worker
is indicated by the remark of the Irish
cook who said al get now thirty dollars
a month; II the Chinese were out of the
way, | would get sixty" So she argues,
forgetting that any country must have
basis Of production before wages can be
paid, that the production OF California
has been made largely by these same
Chinese, and that If they are driven out
large number Of these productive enter
prises of the state would fall into decay,
AND general widespread disaster would
result.
NO CHINESE FLOOD POSSIBLE.
A potent factor in the general distrust
of Chinese immigration has been the
fear of an overwhelming Hood of it.
China has its hundreds Of MILLIONS Of
pseoPie, aud unless we shut them out, we
SnNn DC altogether overwhelmed by |
tlem, us what is said. Butts this so? Have
these hundreds of millions proved a |
menace to Europe, to Africa, TO Asia or
TO the islands of the sea? As d matter Of |
TACT China has vast stretches of territory |
which are rs sparsely populated as the |
great plains Of the Rocky Mountains. |
Her own island, Formosa, the Cuba of |
the Asiatlc coast, has only a fringe of |
Chinese population and all the rest Is |
peopled by thrlitless, naked, INDECENT
tribes, who could offer no resistance TO |
the advances Of au aggressive stock. |
There are aboriginal tribes, living in |
trees, right in the heart of the empire it.
self Is IL manly to fear the Chinese
under such circumstances?
THE RIGHT OF II.
But the question Is, after all, moral |
one. Are we prepared to deny that |
; ;S,s who isAe9ee1M has plight to 20
VINO made 1t right for us to saw. ;i w.;
roeoed The Indian of his Inheritance boro
anu now we will hold what we pained h,,
injurious courses against all The wo,idS;,
W, w nv y. makes IL right for any class among
Hs W say You may employ this man
VI Ihat, put never ChlnamauPn Coz
we Iigntiuiiy rob any individual of tha
a p1iniiege 10 offer his labor, or can VOC
rIY.,s 10 oe robbed Of our right 10 e,,'
Ploy whomsoever we Will? " VIZ
~ ICELAND FOR CHINESE deere.
co az u mater OF fact, the Cinnamon have
excent, sIis country IN response to an ]
Tbera ,,,a uenand for their services
fciont wae no other labor Offering In suf
Iitions t,' .' Inc assimilation of con
he East a. lne iaf West to conditions in o
"a cond,,Je e'ates, ana of conditions here '
NO forwa,.a ~ Europe Is constantly 90
hauas for the Asiatic falls oe o wy ue, a
,pentualiy cease. The ratio Of tho C WI
Iose 70 the total population in CaIi,o III 4
I oao TESS IN 1870 than in 1860 ana iaei,
ooV Inah IL was in 1870, II ia n nor,,i ,n II
O 'T1 winch has tendency to eIiminott ui "a
a l., anu could have been safely left to az \
IN sufficient degree. 'ei' u. 10 n,
n. me WISDOM OF NATURA1rz,r,o.,
- ue Word more. What we NAV ~ 49,
,s ~ tS, "ole 70 do under existing laws - i
~ .ho s'ing' What we ought To do is as \
~ rac, ~ may be difficult to extend tha pS S
~ 70 Chinese In California n oa oo iet
hw u um In other states Then 10, N
o Gh, Oh means offer NATURALIZATION ~ "
= -, o.iuese When We can afford th.,,,, ~. ~ ssI
,a 'e nheasure the privilege which a,,o VA
fenS Ihu "a nave IN this country, that ~ ~
No W. us rights at the poIls D.
Il l so, ,arallI we may create n nubIic 9tc
rshIe ~ IN California which will he 10 T Il
Il wben ~ t lne same plan, resting assured IT.
,nc Jnen ovVo Chinese may vote in Ssn III
Nv which 'n ere, VIII arise political % J,
seek V 70 VIII md 1t Of advantage H.
3. II is protect Chmaman. As d 5n
ty To do $40 o' even an object for any nj
err to trpeSjo a, ana each vles with the IS
N, NNNlc 10 the voters who ohnsa coai
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