Smyrna times., 1886-10-20
F0r the smyrna TiDles
The Chinese Question Once More.

IEIGLiDAC hIC4tst III GLtLlg W AtO A4e1tl SNstAN
to make q more or less extended stay
in California. His last communication
shows that ne has been there long
enough to adopt the manners of a GER
tain far-too-numerOus class there. It
is a very common, very cheap, and very
mean thing, for people of this class,
when lover of fairness and deCency
has any good words to say for the Chi
nese, to retort by calling the Chinese
his Oriental, Almond Eyed, Pig Tailed
Pets" They always attempt to make
up for their lack Of arguments and Of
facts by The use of epithets; but intclli-
gent Eastern communities are not to be
hoodwinked in that way. | did not
call your correspondent liar, as he in
Inmates but gave him credit for being
deceived into making the statements he
did. If he was not deceived, as / still
prefer to believe, then it remains for
him to show that his statement that
there were 100000 Cinnamon in San
Francisco last Summer, is true, in spite
of the statistics which show that there
never have been moro thOn p 600
there.
His last communication shows how
completely hefhas fallen into the Cal
ifornia habit Of exaggeratiop, to draw
it mildly. Take his statement that the
Chinese have degraded labor to an
extent Of absolute pauperism." Now,
Mr. Barney must know, if he knows
anything, that higher wages are paid
to-day in California for all kinds of
labor than are paid anywhere east of
the Rocky Mountains, and that decent
white laborers, who will keep sober
and do their work have plenty of en-
ployment at remuneratiVe wages.
This habit is further shown in his
statement, Eve were shown through at
least one hundred of those houses in
habited by the Chinese, where the
whole earth was excavated, and par
titiOncd off with as many apartments
under ground as above" 1t would
have taken the party at least five min
utes to go through house of that kind
and examine its subterrancan recesses
and your correspondent is therefore
asking us to believe that they spent
over eight hours of their precious time
in going through such dens. 1t is q
selEevident absurdity and, as mat
ter of fact, there are not now, and
never have been, hundred such Chi.
nesc houses with the kind of subterra
mean excavations he describes in Sar
Francisco.
This exaggerative habit further show,
itself in the words lecherOus, lOath-
some maleiactors." How does he
know that all the men he saw were
lecherous ?" What right has he tt
call them malefactOrs ?" My own
observation has been that the men who
handy this epithet " lecherous,
against the Chinese are generally lech-
erOus themselves; and it was not al
uncommon thing in San Francisco t
find men Of family, who had other fam
lilies in the East, and other men whC
had more than one establishment il
San Francisco. My experience il
helping to hunt up the title of sOmt
property which was to be purchaseC
for our mission there brought me into
contact with people of very lOos
morals-but they were not Chimes
people. If these Cinnamon are so uni
! Vcrsally malefactOrs, in a cOmmunit,
unfriendly to them, how is it they keel
out of prison so well? Mr.. Barney, 0
course, knows that a small per centag,
| of the Chinese, in proportion to thei
numbers are in Jail. He know
that the San Francisco City an,
County Hospital had in one year / ,30$
IrIshmen to 68 Cinnamon; and that tn
almshouse had 1877 Irishmen and not
single Chinaman
DR.. Gibson, who has as much know
edge of California as any man, an,
more knowledge of the chinese
than most men, says: In som
parts of this Chinatown through whicl
we have passed are underground eel
lars, where the poorest and vilest CHI
nese lodge, presenting a most wretche
and revolving sight. One special pc
licemen,' for consideration, are al
ways ready to take visitors throug
these dens, to show them the Chinese a
they arep These good visitors e
away and write up the Chinese i
America, giving as historical facts th
impressions received from such a nigh
adventure, together with the statement
of unprincipled, corrupt men. / pre-
test against this method of studyin
the Chinese question. Suppose th
tables turned, and curious Chiname
escorted by some kind and intelligeI
policeman, should make a raid upo
American bedrooms, about twelve
one o'clock at night, solely for the d.
/, lectatiOn of the Cinnamon, and so thi
: some Chinese correspondent coul
write sensational letters to the Peki
I Gazette. How would the shoe fit O
that foot? One might as we'll wri
up The Americans as they are from
visit to Five Points, in New York.
And this is what Dewitt Talmag
I after being taken through the san
places visited by your correspondent
says: / saw the worst, and it is ba
. enough; filthy enough and dreadf
enough, but l tell you, as I told Il
people of San Francisco in their gran
opera house, that underground Ne
York life is fifty per cent. worse tina
Chinatown"
Your correspondent tells us that
Las Vegas they have only about
dozen Cinnamon, and they are engage
in the laundry business. He sa,
"they have made no public improv
ments." How many public improv
ments did he expect these dozen laul
drymen to make? If any have be-
made by taxation since they were the
they have paid their full share of Il
tax. And so far from the Chinamr
sending to China every dollar they ca
except barely enough to meet the d
; mands of nature, the facts are as f
lows: The Cinnamon of Californ
earn not less than S13, ,500,00 annual
and their savings out of these gro
earnings are not more than $4,000
so that at least $10,800,OOO remain
!. this country.
Then take these items for a sins
u year.
Duties paid by Chinese importers.S 50O,t
Freight money ships from China. 1901
neau IhA............ .......................... ~
DOuL ulfc............... ..................... a,
Rent for stores and storage. ......... 370,l
n Licenses, taxes, sc. in the State. 2. l64,