Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-09
TIE CHINESE QUESTION.
A LIBERAL VIEW TAKEN OF THE
QUESTION.
Making of Hoodlums Peeping at
Two Sides of a VexatiOus Ques-
ton - Some Suggestions.

EDS. REcoRD-UNIoN When reasoning
from another standpoint and some expert
ence on both sides of the Atlantic, l can
not fully agree with your article headed
The Dynamite Scare in San Francisco"
in your issue Of December 18th. Why the
German socialist should be made more
heinous and offensive than the communist,
who, not only by words, but by deeds, has
shown the world what he is capable of
carrying into execution when he represents
the guiding force, is more than | can
fathom. Judging from an impartial stand
point, very little distinction can be made
as regards nationality, since all advocate
destruction OF HE and property i'll order TO
carry out the ideas entertained and hoped
to be the best for the welfare of a nation.
Great plots, however, are generally Matched
in secresy, and not quite as openly as in
the San Francisco affair
1t must be distinctly understood that
this article is not written in favor of any
particular nation, clique, party or grada-
ton IN society, nor for any special locality,
for much of 1t concerns not only California,
but pretty much any State of this great re-
public. We must look at our troubles as
we find them, and what we ourselves toll
crate: Apply this to political, temperance,
social and commercial privileges, il is
nearly all our own creation or, if not, we
tolerate it. Gradually the inconvenience
has got a foothold, become strong: now
destroy or eliminate it. That the people
have right to do it ought not to be cues
toned, providing it does not come in con-
tact with civilization. Force may be APP
piled when the Government of State or
the country sanctions it,
In regard to your socialist, he is to be
found in every large city Of Europe and
the United States of America, where ex-
treme wealth and extreme poverty are ever
found in close proximity He may be a
pure native of this country, whose an
cestors came from England or Holland.
and yet think that we tolerate Kings and
Emperors here; or men as private citizens
with their immense riches can claim greater
rights and privileges than. many a poten-
tate of the older countries, and that some
of these representatives WELD a greater
force, influencing the happiness or unhap-
piness, or the welfare of human beings far
more than a King. 1t shall be shown in
what manner in this article.
Here in California at present It is the
Chinaman who is the main cause of all our
stagnation in business and financial
trouble, and yet the people of this State or
coast are the main cause that the China
man has become more numerous. Don't
deceive yourself When the last Mongol
has been driven off there still will be men
out of employment, brought about by va
rious causes. 1t must seem unjust to any
one who has the power of reasoning to
make the Chinese responsible for almost
everything, and to treat them on the streets
as of late they have been treated. If the
Chnaman made one so-called hoodlum
the parents helped to make nine, and the
little boy who stones the Chinaman on the
street, and is not curbed by his parents, has
most positively laid the foundation for a
very lively hoodlum in the future
Can any one with common sense blame
any human being when his or her condi-
ton is supposed TO be bettered by emigrat-
ing to another country open to them? Man
is like bee when the material for honey
is more abundant at distance than near,
they traverse the air further to get their
supply, and the Chinaman does no more
And, by the way, have not many who rail
against him so much done the very same
thing?
You invited him. for no one in the earlier
the labor of the yellow man. 1t frequently
happened that the domestic of our own
race changed from servant to mistress, and
the Chinaman had to be reinstalled Then
is there not an unreasonable prejudice ex-
listing among almost all American-born to
serve others as domeStics? But. remem-
Der, while this planet is inhabited by
human beings, no matter in what direction
civilization may advance, we still are COM
PEELED to eat and drink, and that signifies
preparation of food-some one has to do it,
be he or she white, black Or yellow. There
was also q prejudice existing and enter
tanned by the opposite sex to performing any
labor publicly, excepting the teaching of
schools. A sort of disgrace was attached
even to being employed at store although
the brother of the girl may have performed
almost any kind of labor, excepting wash
ing dishes. But all this has changed. The
girls are mole numerous; but, most of all,
woman, thank God, is given some chance
to work if she wants to, as in other coun-
tries, and it is for her benefit in the end.
By gradually monopolizing various in
dustries, which in other countries are per-
formed by women, the Chlnaman wedged
himself in, so it is at present difficult to dis
lodge him at once without inflicting fnan-
cial loss to his employers.
In the mean time the ignorant hea-
then ~. as he is frequently termed, be-
came manufacturing force himself, and
what he produces he is enabled, for
reasons well known, to furnish at greatly
reduced rates. AS the inclination to buv
cheap is almost as great as the law of
gravitation, the Chinaman has the advan-
tage. At present ne makes your shirts,
boots shoes, wearing apparel of every de-
hot t1l-
that none of the manufactured goods are
used or placed upon his own person that
the raw material must come from his own
people is a matter OF course. Whenever
and wherever he can he takes all the money
from the white man and only returns what
he is forced TO return. When he cooks
your meals, a la American, he may prob
ably when his work is completed, be seen
in his own sphere, using chop-sticks and
his own style of food In fact, all his pro-
ductions for the white man does not in
duce him to adopt his style of civilization
He mixes no more with the white man,
from social standpoint, than mercury or
water. or oil and water. This alone ought
to be sufficient to convince any intelligent
person that this nation has nothing to gain
but much to loose, financially and morally,
by the greater introduction ofthis race who
are so numerous that thus far we have but
a drop of the bucket of Chinadom
To be Just, however, as civilized nation
should be, it will not do TO ignore the labor
performed by the Chinese. The man who
cries now it were better had no China
men ever done any labor here, is
about as unreasonable as the man
who will have it that it were bet
ter had no gold been discovered in this
State. The question is, Who would have
been insane enough to traverse thousands
of miles by water and land to come to
comparatively unknown land? Many in
dustries were started by the aid of China
cheap labor, for we had to compete with
the cheaper labor of the Eastern States and
Europe, which, unfortunately is still the
case. But having gained sufficient expe-
rience by this time, it ought to satisfy any
one judging impartial that the white race
must eventually be driven to the wall :"
by the unseen numbers in the background,
as well as their standard of civilization.
That we have right to remove them from
our midst is a fair question: that we NAV