Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-10-09
The Daily Intelligencer.
The Rufeted Chinese.

The Buheted Chinese.
The latest developments Of the Chinese
business are that Chinaman has been
nsturalized by the Luzsrne county court
and that four Cinnamon have been
ssoppsd at the Suspension. Bridge who
ware travelling by the Grand Trunk rail-
rad from Chicago with through tickets
8, points in the United States. The
secretary OF the treasury was telegraphed
10 for instructions. Assistant Secretary
Maynard replied that the department
has no authority to admit Chinese into
the country, whether on through tickets
from Chicago or Pekin.
These Chinese gentlemen who started
out from Chicago for another city in the
United States and unfortunately got into
. far country on the way, are entitled to
our sympathy, and they have itin abund.
Ance. But this does not get them back
Into the country nor does 1t pay the
nifty dollars that Canada will ask from
them II they propose to stay there. Prob.
ably they will rest tonight in a Canada
Jail, instead Of in the bosoms Of the
families that they were seeking all be.
cause they took their ticketfrom Chicago
BY the Grand Trunk instead of the New
York Central or Pennsylvania lines and
perhaps they deserve their fate for
patronizipg Canadian railroad.
This incident does not in sober truth
speak well for the good form of the Chi
nese exclusion law. 1t is plain that Con-
gress finds 1t very difficult to pass law
correcting the evil of indiscriminate inn
migration without making 1t absurd in
its operation. The law which prohibits
importations of laborers by contract was
passed to prevent the bringing in OF
large bodies of foreign workmen, as
had been the practice Of large EN-
ployers of labor when they had
trouble with their workmen. Itoperates,
however, to prevent the hiring Of
preachers, skilled workmen, domestic
servants, and other classes Of labor that
it is desirable to import, and that the law
was never intended to keep out. So the
evil Of immigration of great bodies of
Chinese laborers was TO be corrected /;
and the law which undertakes TO do It,
keeps out Of the country those who in
nocently pass out of its borders over
night while travelling between its cities.
Whether Chinese now here may be
naturalized is not very vital question
since the gates have been shut down on
therace. The Republican journals eagerly
Tolnt to law Of Congress forbidding
chs naturalization Of Chinese, passed by
their party few years ago and Of which
they seem to feel very proud. But
what there is in the Chinese
blood that should cause the Republican
heart to reject it in citizenship
when it so eagerly embraces the African
blood, in social and political equality, we
are unable to see. For many years the
declaration that all men were created
equal has been the Republican knock
down argument to secure the negro
In the privileges of our citizenship.
But when the Chinese come up smiling
to receive the same treatment Of his
manhood, he Is stood aside by the Re-
publican howlers for thepolitical equality
OF man; and they have no reason taSuglve
why. The sober truth, of c cs4lSe, IS that
they aEpect> >t9 make votes out of the
96dice Of the voters against the Chinese
lAborer, that prejudice being based on the
cheapness Of his labor. The Chinaman
does not eat hog and hominy like the ne
gro, or drink whisky, but exists on rice !;
and because he lives SO cheaply, he loses
his divine right to political equality with
the white and black Republicans. Though
his civilization Is older than ours, and his
intelligence and industry as great, he can
not come in on an equal political plane
with the negro fresh from Africa
who neither reads nor understands.
It Is well. We have no objection tC
make to the Chinese exclusion. But the
logic Of that measure calls for negro
Hungarian and Hottentot exclusion. II
aalls for q ban upon the further mixing
q mp With our race of inferior races and
the inferior members Of other races. AnG
our treatment of the Chinese knocks
sshigher than kite I" the Republi
can Interpretation of the declaration o
our independence that all men are bori
free and equal.