The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-13

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in far as they or any Of them provide
! for. recognize or permit the carriage OF
Chineee to the United States, and in sc
far as they or any of them inhabit the
! United States from absolutely prohibit
States and repeating all acts oil
Congress, in so far as they, or any o.
/ them. recognize or permit Chinese tc
como to the United States, and abso-
luteIy prohibiting the coming of Chinese
to the United States, excepting only
diplomatic, consular and other officers
and prohibiting the landing of any
| Chinese therein, excepting only such
! diplom attic and other officers. 1
Mitchell addressed the Senate in
support of the bill. He described the
Chinese as menacing the occupation OF
this country as locusts occupied Egypt.
He spoke of them as having established
within the United States, in violation
of fundamental law, in defiance of mu-
nieipal regulations, in direct antogon-
ism to justice and order and decency,
a system of human bondage, more de-
grading, more polluting and more de.
structive. morally, socially, politically
and physically, than ever has been that
of African slavery in her palmiest days.
The Chinese were gradually possessing
themselves of this country, bringing
with them their system of laws, their
imperial customs, their own peculiar
views. their own pagan institutions.
They had already established In this
country an Emporium in in1perio, with
them perjurypwas crowniBg viTtu3
while hypocrfcy, deception and fraud
were instruments of constant employ
ment, and yet the people were told from
year to year in Congress and elsewhere,
they we're powerless to put an end to
that prodigious evil, because it would
be necessary to modify treaty stipula-
tons with the Chinese. Rather
than submit to Suc1 an. oriental
pestilence, it would be Better that every.
line of treaty stipulation with the Chi
nese empire, which obstructed its pre-
ventton should be swept away. In the
city of New York there were 2,175
Chinese laundries, to say nothing of
innumerable opium JOINTS, gambling
bells, and other, sinksof vice and, in
iquity. There were nearly as many in
the city of Brooklyn, and the Chinese
took from those two cities at least
81 600, 0G0 annually. There were be-
tween 100000 and 300, 600 Chinese in the
United States, probably 100000 being in
the State of California, and hun
dreds of thousands more would
come by way of Canada or
the Canadian Pacific line of steamers
and railroad. They would flow in like
water from a sieve. Agail St such an
invasion, what would arestriction Of the
existing acts of Congress, as construed
by federal courts, amount to. The voice
of the people of the Pacific Coast, ir-
respective of party, creed or sex, was
unanimously in favor of an absolute
exclusion of Chinese immigration, but
that voice has been in a great measure
stif1ed and repressed in Congress. There
was but one opinion or the Pacific
Coast in relation to thissmatter, and
that opinion was that the real remedy
for the evil was the one proposed in the
bill which he had introduced. 1t was
the absolute duty of the United States
to strike down, at once and forever,
every barrier in the existing treaties
which interfered in the slightest degree
with an absolute exclusion of Chinese
in future. tgs, r-Ptsry t5y
Stewart spoke on the same side of
the subject. Wherever the Chinese
went on the Pacific Coast, American
civization stepped. because there could
be no such thing with them as schools
and churches. 4 If the doors were
opened to- Chinese immigration, the
Chinese would supplant the people of
this country. he had asked General
Grant, on his Qeturn from his tour
around the world, what was the most
remarkable thing he had seen in his
travels, and General Grants answer
was that the most remarkable thing he
had seen was that, wherever Cinnamon
had come in contact with the Jews IN
trading, the Cinnamon had driven out
the Jews. He did not quote
this in disparagement of the
Jews, whose superiority he admired,
but as an illustration of the alb
sorbing powers of the Chinese.
He had offered resolution, requesting
the President to negotiate treaty with
the Chinese Empire, excluding China-
men altogether, except diplomatic
trade, but it would be necessary also to
have treaties with Great Britain and
Mexico, to prevent those powers from
opening their doors and allowing the
Chinese to come into the United States.
If such treaties could not be negotiated,
he would be in favor of Mitohells bill.
He moved reference of the bill and of
his resolution to the committee on for
eign relations. They were so referred.
The message of the President regard
ing the invitation of the, French gov.
eminent to participate in the interpa-
tonal exposition at Paris, in 1889, was
presented, and referred to the commit
tee on foreign relations. 49,
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned.