Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-15
white people that competition with them

INCOiltcI UlttlluK NeUeTul hINUt i'll
San Francisco after his tour around the
world. Whatever may be said of him,
there are few men who ever lived who
saw what was Transporting around them
more clearly than he did. inquired OF
the General what was the most rcmarka-
bic characteristic of all the people he
had met on his travels He said thOt
the superiority Of the Chinese as traders
over all others was astonishing that no
race could compete with them in the
East where they were engaged in bust
ness that even the jew. with his saga
city for trade, was forced to abandon
every field where he came in competition
with the Chinese.
A race OF men Of that kind cannot be
supplantcd. do not relate this anec-
doto in disparagement OF the Jew his
superiority in trade must be admired by
the Gentle, who is compelled to do his
bidding. / DO not want to place my race
in competition not only with the servile
labor OF the cody slave, but with the
overrcaching avarice and patient cum
Ming Of the willy Chinese. The MongO-
lians already occupy two thirds of the
globe, and number two thirds OF the
people.
Wherever they comein peaceable com
petition with tie white race they must
prevail. If we open our country TO
them, with our rate Of wages, our Ia
borers cannot exist. The only way that
the people Of Western Europe can main
tain themselves against ASIA is by supe-
rior physical power and the use OF arms.
They cannot maintain themselves on the
field of industry, they cannot supplant
Asiatics, but Will be supplanted by them
everywhere. That is my experience
from a careful observation OF these peo-
pie for the last forty years.
have offered resolution calling on
the President Of the United States TO
negotiate treaty with China excluding
Chinese altogether, except ambassadors
and diplomatic agents and merchants en-
gagged in foreign trade. / am a little
doubtful about making even that con-
cessiOn.
If a treaty Of that kind cannot be ne
gotiated, ii China refuses to treat, the
resolution will give them notice that We
intend TO lcgislate. There is no use IN
discussing our power to lcgislate without
China's consent we have that power,
and believe it to be an imperative duty
TO lcgislste, and to le9islate eftectually,
so as TO exclude them from coming.
They will come in some way no restrlc-
ton act can keep them out. We must
also make a treaty with Great Britain, so
that the Chinese cannot come into the
United States through British Columbia,
and also one with Mexico, so that they
shall not come into this country from
the South. The United States must take
this matter in hand and preserve this
continent TO white men. We have pos
session, and We ought not to give it up.
We can do it peaceably now.
! can give you an illustration which
every farmer viii understand. You
might as well try to fatten cattle IN
sheep pasture as TO raise white men
where Chinese live. The Chinese will
live while the whites starve, as the sheep
will live while the cattle perish. 1t Is
possible for rs to prevent the calamity
of Chinese immigration without doing
any harm, without having uniriendly re-
latIons with China. We must state to
them frankly the reasons why We can
not live together.
We must tell them that their in
stitutions are so different from our in
stitutions. their habits so different from
our habits, that it is impossible for us to
tolerate them. Every nation and in
diyidual has the right of selt.protection.
Self-dcfence is among the first laws OF
nature and if the Anglo-SaxOn race
does not protect itself from the Chinese
by force, it viii perish by starvation and
become extinct
l had TO conception originally of the
power of the Chinese race to Overrun
and destroy (which is now demonstrated
on the Pacific coast. See the towns they
occupy, see the plague-spcts where tbeJ
are, and behold civilization absolutely
blotted out. Would you subject any
portion Of this country to such degrade
ton? Would you thus give it up?
/ say it is the duty Of Congress to pass
Mt an early day an absolute exclusion act.
shall vote Tor the bill of the Senator
from Oregon We have tried various
means and find that nothing else will do,
and in an emergency like this where
there is SO much at stake it will not do
to parley with the question. We must
act at once. / shall on all proper occa-
sions ask leave of the Senate to press
this matter until we get rid of the Chi
nese, and have them not only excluded
from our ports, but have them prevented
from invading the country through
either British Columbia or Mexico. This
continent must forever remain dedicated
to the Anglo-Saxon race.