The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-09
A CHINESE INVASION.
Howard Laahe, of California, EXPLAINS
the Country's Great Danger.

the Country's Great Danger.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Yes" said Howard Lane of San Fran
cisco yesterday, speaking to some gentle
mel at the Girard, 81 am a convert to the
wave theory, of sound, light, heat, electri-
city, emigration, and everything else. Ebb
and flow, come and go, succession of likes
and unlikes; that's an lnvariable rule
Right here in the United States we have
the most startling illustration of how the
thing works.
"Ethnologists tell us that there was an
aboriginal American who live forty or fifty
thousand, years ago. Traces of his exist
ence as civilized human being, well up in
arts and mechanics and able to do some
wonderful things which we cannot do or
explain, are numerous. 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 mi
CRATE gradually made its way south to Cen
trail America; the rest was swept clean to
the bed rock into the sea. When that age
ended the Toltec was forced TO begin
northward march TO escape the intense heat
of the sun unmodified by the icy breath
that came from the glaciers broad surface.
Most Of Asia and Europe had likewise
been buried in ice, and ere man followed
the earlier retreatlng glacier northwards,
crossed what Is now Behring's Straits,
came down across Alaska, British Colum-
bia. through Idaho, Montana, Dakota, Min
nesOta, 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 Tolt crawling I'D
from the south, and literally exterminated
him. The American Indian is tle descend
ant of that Tartar invasion, and for thou
sands Of years 'Lo occupied the land I'M
disturbed But eventually the white wings
of Aryan commerce brought another rae
across the ocean from the east, and in lie s
than four centuries wreSted alno-t the
whole of the North American continent
from the possession of its first invaders.
"Of late years the first ripple of a return
ing Turanian tide have been washing the
shores of our Pacific coast. Another inva-
sion from the west is impending. The ad-
vance guard is here, numbering nearly
400, 900 in the United States, sc, 900 in Mex
leo, $4,000 in Central America and the
South American Pacific states, and $4,000
in The British American possessions. This
is very tidy showing, if you recollect that
fifty years ago there were not a hundred
Chinese in the whole Of America, north aud
south. 1t must not be forgotten, either
that these $50, 900 are almost wholly men,
and would represent in a community of
NOW, there are in China and its depend
encies over 420, 000, 900 inhabitants, or rather
more than one-third the whole human race
Owing to their seclusion and conservative
nature they are not a very formable people
from military standpoint, but they are in
genious, stolid and nerveless. They are
dangerous from their very weight of num-
bers and like lOcusts, not of much account
taken one by one; but when they swar2,
as it is quite evidently within their cover
to do, the situation will become Sc
rlous. say they are ingenious. In
other words, when occasion serves
they will make as good arms as ours
| and use them as effectively. d. we forget
that Tamerlane was leader of lust such
| people, or that the followers of Attilla, the
GothS and Visig0.1s, the Huns and Van
dals, were own COUSINS to the Chinese. and
not even as fit as the latter OF to-day for
the role of invadersl See, then, the gray
ity Of the situation, andEthe terrible mis-
take we have mad in allowing the Chinese
to come among us in such numbers, and so
prepare the way for a peacAable occupation
or an armed incursion. When the tide be-
gins to roll eastward, as it inevitably must,
it will mean the grandest and most deter
mined opposition on the part Of the Aryan
race, or their expulsion and extinction
from the American continent. 1t Is very
true that none Of us will be alive to see
LlOL6 tudu GilS seemingly ulllOc6t SETTLE
ment of Washee- washee in our midst, but |
hold that we have duty to perform for
our posterlty, as serious as that imposed
| upon our noble ancestors, who braved 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 nave; but as
matter OF convenience and expediency 1t
behOoves us-now that we ar he-e-to stay,
! and to insure the welfare and immunity of
those coming after us.
"H GU newspaper men ought to take the
matter up with more thUToug mess and
pertinacity than has Yet been shown, and
arouse the American people to the i'm
portance Of getting to work right away on
the exclusion and expulsion of john
There is no need of killing the grinning
heather; but we can starve him out If
we could persuade ourselves that the saving
of few cents on a laundry bill is of less
importance than the enforcement of
great prr ciple in political economy, and
t1at the future will be cursed by tle errors
of the present, we will have taken a won
derful step in advance.
AT all events, the Chinaman must eo.n
LADY LINDSAY, the soug-writer, is As tall
statuesque, and fond of wearing classical cos
tunes. She DSIntS cOlorS oh ipe ,IK