Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-18
WEDNEsDAr. SEPT. IS. 1859.
OAina to Become Beliigsrent.

OAina to Become Belligerent.
The American Bishop from China, who
has been stirring up the people of
Chicago on the Chinese exclusion ques-
tion, gets off great deal Of nonsense on
the subject. He says that in ten years
we will pay in American blood for shut.
ting the Chinese out of our country. In
other words, he declares that our refusal
10 let the Mongolians overrun the United
States to the injury Of white labor, will
lead to war, for which the Chinese are
now preparing by building ironclads and
perfecting themselves In the use of mod
srn arms. They are now, says this
clerical alarmist, putting their house in
order, but they will be ready to come
ever here and chastise us in about ten
years. That settles it. The English
lesson they received when the British
Government forced open their ports with
cannon and compelled them at the point
Of the bayonet to admit opium as free
article Of commerce. they will apply to
the United States to force US to give
their people free entry into our country.
The prospect is, indeed, bad enough.
We already tremble in our boots
ct the awful picture of retaliation the
good Bishop draws. But let US see how
it would be ten years from now, when
the Chinese will have, according to him,
. good ready on, if, instead of excluding
the Mongolians, we we're to give them
free ingress into our country. At the
rate they were coming when the Ex-
clusion act was passed, we would have
several millions of Chinese in the United
States ct the end of another decade. 1t
b needless to say that before
that time there would have risen
more than one casus beli, other
than exclusion, which would give
the Chinese Government pretext for 60.
ing to war with us. The irrepressible
conflict meantime between white and
Mongolian labor would have unquestion.
ably resulted in fatal collisions between
tho clashing races. China being ready to
avenge her fancied wrongs by force of
arms would, of course, open hostilities,
and in that event how much worse off
would we be then than if we had closed
our doors to them by law for the inter-
vening ten years, ss we have done
The enemy would have millions of sub.
jects and allies in the bosom of our
country, all Of whom would be active
and potent auxiliaries of the invaders. II
the passage of an act, which we had a
perfect right under the law of nations to
pass and enforce, would be considered q
cause of war by the Chinese, then they
would not hesitate to find pretexts, in
hundreds of facts that would unavoidably
arise, to open the conflict. So it is Just
- we'll that We should continue to keep
the Chinese out. We would have war at
the end of ten years in any event, and
our chances would be better to win with
the Chinese outside than in.
Well, there is no telling what ten years
may bring forth. In that time the
Chinese may have made great advances
In the art of war, and may have q for
midable navy. The presumption is that
the United States will have navy her
self ct that time. If, with the advantage
Of three Thousand miles of water between
our coast and China, we permit the Chi.
nese to come here and chaw us up, we
shall probably deserve it. But if in the
race war that may be impending
it is given to Americans to cham.
pion the cause of the Caucasian
race, and hold the gateway oi
civilization against an irruption
of Asiatic barbarians, we have little fea,
of the result. John Sobieski once saved
Western Europe from the Turks, and
drove their invading hordes back from
the gates of Vienna in irremediable dis
aster. That was where no vast waste si
water intervened to handicap the task
OF the savage invaders. If with our
natural advantages the Americans cam
not welcome China in the year 1900 as
the Poles and q few Germans under
Sobieski welcomed the hostile hordes Of
the Turcoman empire in 1888 we shall
deserve the fate which this feeble Bishop
80 manifestly fears is in store for us.