Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-28
THE WORLD MOVES.

Verify the world does moves. Here is
the most rabid and uncompromising of all
pro-Chirese papers in the Union. the New
York Erening Post itself, in its own proper
person, with all its past record before it
sounding the note of alarm in the metrop.
oils of the Nation, that the Chinese occu.
pancy of certain quarters in that city is
becoming a nuisance. We are amazed
astounded, almost incapable of expression
in the face of this revelation. Here is q
Journal Of commanding influence, and that
for scholarly ability and profound learning
stands second to none in the country; that
for rabid, positive and apparently unre-
lenting pro-Chinese views has become
notorious, suddenly confessing that the
occupancy of residences by Chinese-pre-
cisely as Caiifornians have testified for
years-in the great city of New York act
ually depreciates property values, practi-
caily confscates the realty to the uses of
the Chinese on their own terms, and is a
menace to the best interests of landlords.
Hear it (the italics are ours):
The whites inability to rent a tenement
brings to the fore a question that might well be
considered by the owners OF property to rent
IN this city-are the Chinese desirable tenants ?
aud other cities on ihs Pdctf. slope and tn1s de-
clded IN The negatiSe, When once they have Oc-
cupied building it is difficult 10 rent il TO peo-
pie OF another race. The Chinese colony as il
is Just tegInning in New York city. has been
shown in cities and towns of the West to be
properly comparable with a malignant ulcer.
The Chinese colony eats its way into the body
polite, and is as destructive OF real tate inter
estS as the ulcer is destructive of the living
tissues. Chinese tenantry grows like weed. +.
Rent cne building to 3 Chinaman, and 1t is but
a short period ere the buildings on each side
are also occupied by Chinese. Mott street and
its enviroDing thoroughfares form local illustrG-
tion OF how the Chinese colony will grow. Yet
1t is but q weak example compared with those
that San Francisco furnishes Once a China
man gets foothold in any quarter, thereafter
everything decent is swept away before him.
never to return. unless something approaching
a revolutionary movement arises to overthrow
the destroyer. This is due to the fact that the
Celestial is a very undesirable neighbor. He is
probably the meanest and dirtiest liver, as
rule, that this country nourishes.
The Chinese have secured foothold in New
York, lit becomes firmer, IL the increase in
Chinese population continues at the ratio OF Is
per cent, as IL has in the past year. despite the
erty values? That is a question that ought to
trouble landlords. Should the Cinnamon in
crease and should they pursue, with regard TO
other property, taotic5 similar to those adopted
in the boycott case, the landlords would be en-
tirely at their mercy. In fact they are at their
mercy now, so far as Mott street is concerned.
They might drive tho Chinese out by a con-
certed effort, but in order to secure Caucasian
tenants in the vacant places they would be
obliged to renovste thoroughly, even should
they not be compelled TO tear down and rebuild
the entire dis riet.
Heaven defend us, but as we read be-
tween the above lines we are daft, or this
same Epeniag Posi- Of New York only few
short months ago was denouncing Califor-
mans as hoodlums and law-breakers, op-
ponents of the American idea, foes to
human liberty and the enemies of man
kind, because they demanded the restric-
tion of Chinese immigration. We were
told that if we chose to do SO we could en-
force the laws and compel the Chinese
residents Of our cities and towns to live
decently, and to observe the municipal and
other sanitary regulations; that we did not
do so because we preferred their flth in
support Of unnatural and indefensible as
sault upon "ths little brown man." that If