Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-19
COMPETING CHINA
SOMETHING OF A DOSE FOR
FREE COMPETlTlONISTS.
An Ameficanizrd Chinaman Talks
Business-A Fine Prospect for
the Lille of Trade Am
Invitation TO Invite.
Omen the Doors!

As long as it was onl ly the labor
ing classes that seemed to be specI-
ally affected by Chinese immigra-
ton, the capitalist class were gener-
ally indifferent on the question of
unrestricted immigration, and many
took advantage of the " "cheapness
of Chinese labor to enhance their
chances Of profit to the consterna-
tiol Of the workers, who were
brought INTO direct competition with
the Celestials. But the Chinese are
developing an aptitude for almost
anything that will advance their m
terests, and the prospects are that
our bourgeois protiteers will have
such a dose of their own fayorite
medicine that will set them to
thinking serious ly upon economies
The antl-Chinese laws were the first
indications of a panic, and they
were only enacted after much pres
sure brought to bear upon Con-
gress.
But here comes a bright young
Chinaman, clothed in the garb of a
Caucasian, speaking his tongue and
protesting even his religion, who
boldly administers the competitive
idea to an audience of New Workers
in a lecture at the Broadway Taber-
nacle, which our readers will no
doubt find entertaining reading.
The young Chinaman has adopted
the name of Guy Maine in lieu of
his Chinese name, and he is said to
have used excellent English in ex-
pressing his views. Among other
things he said:
"Our impression of the first Europe
ans we saw in China was no better than
yours of us. Their white skins, short
hair and straight noses did not conform
to our ideas of beauty, and they were
pointed out as white devils.
THE object Of my lecture is TO prove
to you that although the laws for the
exclusion of Cinnamon from this coun-
try have come from an almost universal
demand, the policy is a mistake. The
Celestials are fully the equals in intelli
gence of any people in the world. Our
diplomats are watching the action of
this country with an alert gaze, and be-
fore long they will give the people of the
United States some difficult cOnundrums
to solve. Even now railroads and tele-
graphs are being built in China which
form the nucleus Of vast system which
will cover the empire. Once let our
products get freely to the seacoast, and
that beehive of industry, with its 4OO,-
100000 people, will enter into CONNER
cial competition for the markets of the
world. You may exclude our people,
but a dollar is dollar all the world
around, and nothing which you can do
will prevent your capital being carried
into the market where the most can be
had for the money. Then you will have
to enter into real competition with Chi
nese cheap labor. Besides this, our dip
lomats have already got their eyes fixed
on Canada and Mexico and other Coun
tries with which you have commercial
treaties of the most liberal kind What
do YOU think will be the effect of their
free immigration into these countries? I?
Instead of your supplying their markets
with the product of your factories, their
skill, frugality and industry will enable
those countries to send goods into your
own markets. By changing your policy
you can secure the good of this your
selves. Even now there are thousands
of Cinnamon who await the oppo; tun-
ity to identify themselves with your
country and its Institutions.
Throw your doors open. Say to the
Chinaman: Here is room for all, but
none may hold himself apart from the
people. Abandon your peculiar garb,
your pigtails and your customs, Come
into the schools and the churches and
become citizens, and there shall be no
line between white, black, brown or yel-
low. The only line shall be between ig-
norance and vice on the one hand, and
intelligence and virtue on the other. If
this were done there are 10000 China
men in this country who would abandon
their crowded tenements, cut off their
pigtails, and throw away the garb that
keeps them apart from the community
"When the people of Europe We're
roaming the forests clothed in skins the
Chinese were wearing silks and satins
and housed in palaces. Now that the
gates are opened and the influence of
western advancement has taken hold in