Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-06
A CHINESE INVASION.
Howard Lane, Of California, Explains
the COuntry's Great Danger.

Fivm the Philadelphis Times.
"Yes," said Howard Lane, Of San Francisco,
yesterday, speaking to some gentlemen at the
Girard, II am q convert to the wave theory, Of
sound, light, heat, electricity, emigration, and
everything else. Ebb and flow, come and go,
succession Of likes and unlikes; that's an in
variable rule. Right here in the United States
we have the most startling illustration Of how
the thing works.
''Ethnologists tell rs that there was an alb
original American who lived forty or fifty thou
sand years ago. Traces of his existence as
civilized human being, well up in arts and me-
chanics and able to do some wonderful things
He lived before the last glacier extended from
the Arctic regions all the way down to the
thirty sixth parallel of north latitude. Before
that glacier everything which could migrate
gradually made its way south to Central Amer
lea; the rest was swept clean to the bed rock,
was forced to begin q northward march to es-
cape the intense heat of the sun unmodifed by
the icy breath that came from the glaciers
broad surface.
"Most OF Asia and Europe had likewise been
buried in ice, and there man followed the ear
what il now Behring's Straits, came down
across Alaska, British Columbia, through Idaho,
Montana, Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Illinois, and left all along this course plenty Of
evidences Of his migration. In the valleys Of
the Missouri and Ohio the hardy Turanian
from the north met the feeble Toltec crawling
up from the south, and literally exterminated
him. The American Indian Is the descendant
Of that Tartar invasion, and for thousands of
years .Lo' occupied the land undisturbed. But
eventually the white wings of Aryan COM
merce brought another race across the ocean
from the east, and in Less than four centuries
wrested almost the whole Of the North Ameri-
can continent from the possession Of its first in
vaders.
LOT late years the first ripple Of q returning
Of our Pacific coast. Another invasion from
the west is impending. The advance guard is
here, numbering nearly 400, 900 in the United
States, $4,000 in Mexico, $4,000 In Central
America and the South American Pacific states,
and so 900 in the British American possessions
This Is q very tidy showing, II you recollect
that fifty years ago there were not q hundred
Chinese in the whole of America, north and
south. 1t must not be forgotten, either, that
these 6S0, 900 are almost wholly men, and would
represent in q community Of families over
5000 900 souls.
Now, there are in China and its dependen-
cies over 420,0O0,000 inhabitants, or rather
more than one-third the whole human race.
Owing TO their seclusion and conservative
nature they are not very formidable people
genious, stolid and nerveless. They are dam
gerous from their very weight Of numbers,
and, like locusts, not Of much account taken
one by one; but when they swarm, as it is
quite evidently within their power to do. the
situation will become serious. say they are
serves they will make as good arms a. ours
and use them as effectively. Do we forget
that Tamerlane was leader Of Just such people,
or that the followers Of Attilla, the Cloths
and Visigoths, the Huns and vandals, were
own cousins to the Chinese, and not even as
at As the latter Of to-day for the role Of in
vader? See, then, the gravity of the situation,
and the terrible mistake we have made
in allowing the Chinese to come among US
in such numbers, and so prepare the way for 3
peaceable occupation or an armed incursion.
When the tide begins to roll eastward, as it IN
evitably must, 1t will mean the grandest and
most determined opposition on the part Of the
Arysn race, or their expulsion and distinction
from the American continent 1t is very true
that none Of US will be 81 live to see more than
this seemingly innocent settlement of Washee-
washee In our midst, but hold that we have q
duty TO perform for our posterity, as serious as
that imposed upon our noble ancestors, who
brsved the deep, drove the red Indian back and
took the land for us. When it comes down
to matter Of right and justice the Cinnamon
have as much right here, by the thousands or
by the millions. as we have; but as matter of
convenience and expediency it behooves us
now that we are hereto stay. and to insure
the welfare and immunity Of those coming
after us.
'You newspaper men ought to take the mat
ter up with more thoroughness and pertinacity
than has yet been shown, and arouse the Amer
lean people to the Importance OF getting to
work right away on the exclusion and expulsion
Of John There is no need of killing the grin
ming heather; but we can starve him out. If
we could persuade ourselves that the saving Of
o few cents on q laundry bill is Of less import
in political economy, and that the future will
be cursed by the errors of the present, we will
have taken u wonderful step in advance.
AT all events, the Chinaman must co.