Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-07-09

the HERALD.
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Prof. GILMAN on Chinese im"'-
grafton.
The last issue OF the North Amert-
can Reuielo contains a very Thought
full article upon "Chinese lmmigfa'
tionp from the pen oi Prof. +. W.
Gillian. This accomplished gentle
man has not adopted the ad captain
dunn style oil argument which signal
ICES so many Eastern writer's IN treat
ing of this subject. lie sees very
grave danger to California and to the
United States in the unchecked IN
cursion Of the Monaghan into this
country, While he thinks that tn
.'sand Lott ought not to be allowed
10 dominate the whole question, he
nevertheless recognizes the gravity
OF an evil Of most portentous dimen-
sions. As TO the magnitude Of the
threatened immigration Prof. Gillian
INDUCES in po misconceptions. lie
remarks truly that there are bOO,Ooo
Cinnamon in the Malay Archipelago
and l 800, 900 in siam. Singapore is the
distributing point, whence vast mum
bers annually 80 into the adjacent
countries. The immigration in 1857
was JOG, 900; in 1888, 10000 and an
increase was expected the following
year. Singapore is itself oyerrun
with them, and illustrates their
shrewdness in seizing upon trade CEN
tiers. Situated ON the straits oi Ma
lacca, ut the extremity Of the Malay
peninsula, the touching point Tor
every east-bound steamship, ana
back, IL has risen TO great impor-
lance. The Chinese have swarmed
into 1t.
ION my first visit to Singapore, IN
1871 writes Baron Won H1bner,
'the population consisted OF 100 white
families. 10000 Malays, and II few
thousand Chinese. On my return
there, in the beginning Of 1884, the
population stood 100 white families,
10000 Malays and $4,000 Chinese. A
new Chinese town had sprung up,
with magnificent stores and beautiful
residences and pagodas. | imagined
that was transported to Canton
Since 1860, 10000 have entered
Chill and Peru---an immense number
when one considers the small Euro
pean population. There are 1000
in Cuba. They are pressing into the
Sandwich Islands. There are $1,000
in Australia, and more than three
times this number in the United
States-3O, 900 being in San Francis
co, where they constitute one-seventh
OF the population, and one-iourth oil
the laboring class and, spite Of pro-
hibitory laws, they steadily increase,
in these countries, in numbers and
influence, finding way to US through
Mexico and British Columbia.
While there may have been at times
some exaggeration from the rostrum
as to the evils OF this inrushing Mon
golian horde, il is, after all, pretty
hard to exaggerate in such matter.
Prof. Gillian has devoted thought
full eye to the proposition and he finds
that rs far as Chinese immigration is
transient merely, il may exist to such
a degree as to justify exclusion on this
account alone. Ii tho Chinaman
comes only to accumulate and trans
fer, we may be disastrously bled. The
scale OF wages and living is so low in
China, that what We regard as a
small sum makes fortune there
and the impulse Of the poor Chinese,
whose lot in their own land is often
extremely hard, to go abroad where
wages are high, and return with the
few thousands that bring ailluence
and ease, il powerful. Vast numbers
are acting on this impulse. The Chi
nese in Australia return annually to
China, in gold-dust alone, quarter
Of million Of dollars. A statementap-
pears that the remittance from Cali
fornia last year was sl5,00o,0O0, and
that the sum total for twenty-five
yeats has been little short OF $780,
10000. Intrinsically, it il the curse
Of Irish landlordism; since the pith
of the matter is the expectation OF
profits, and it is immaterial whether
the drain be through lord or laborer.
The Professor, having approached
this very complex problem in an hon
est spirit Of inquiry, is not afraid to
recapitulate the hard and atrocious
features OF the Chinese invasion of
California. Thus he shows that in
San Francisco in twelve blocks are
crowded, in indescribable filth,
10000 men and 1886 women, OF the
latter 81 being legitimate wives, 567
professional prostitutes, the residue
either concubines or women OF doubt
ful character; that, beds being I'M
known, they sleep in hunks, with two
in a bunk, "relays" in daytime, and
rolls of bedding for sleeping ON floors,
women and children being stuck in out
of-the-way corners that there are $50
gambling dives, the approaches to
which are generally so barricaded as
60 defy police detection; that, while
there is an "opium layout" in nearly
every sleeping-room, the public re-
sorts are &c, with $40 hunks; that
there are 35 dens OF white prostitu-
ton, generally patronized by Chinese,
and 80 OF Chinese prostitution,
patronized generally by whites that
among the latter especially the rates
are extremely low, and that white
boys, as young as even s or 10, are
often enticed into them, that there
is no city in the world where SO many
children are afflicted with secret dis
eases as in San Francisco, and that
nine-tenths OF it is traceable to the
excessively cheap prostitution OF
chinatown" that the Chinese
prostitutes are regularly bought and