The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-05-10
THE CHINESE IN AMERICA.
A Bit OF History Apropos OF the Present
Agitation OF the Subject.
special correspondence.


Is it not about time for 80 called states
men to recognize few demonstrated
facts? And what fact is more conclu-
sively proved by all experience than this:
That the Aryan race will not consent to
live in any kind of equality with any one
of the inferior races; and the higher the
development Of any Aryan stock, the
purer its blood and the nobler its aim,
the more tiercely intolerant it becomes
of any sort of union with inferior stocks.
OF this truth New England is most
conspicuous example.
In every other part Of America the
first settlers left considerable Indian
tribes in existence. New England alone
left none, or practically none. In all the
blood stained annals of the west and
south there are recorded no such merci-
less massacres AS those Of Fort Mystic
and other New England battle grounds,
The fierce borderers of the Ohio valley
can today point to Miamis, Wyandottes,
Shawnees and other spared tribes in the
Indian Territory, and the Cherokees are
still as numerous as they were in Geor-
gia; but where are the Pequots, the Mar
ragansetts and the Wampanoags? The
Aryans Of New England spared none of
the inferior race. The pious Puritans,
in the language Of one of their witty
descendants, first fell upon their knees
and then fell upon the aborigines."
New England has gone west and met
another race whose presence is at once
hateful and hurtful. The sound Aryan
instinct has promptly asserted itself;
where the Yankee roots himself in the
soil there is no legitimate place for the
Monaghan. 1t is idle to discuss 'cheap
labor" the failure to Americanize" and
all that sort Of thing. Those are bad
enough, but superficial. The real diff
Guilty lies far back Of them. Here is the
essential fact: The mere presence of a
Chinese colony in community is very
great injury to it; first to the laboring
classes but in due time to all classes.
They demoralize first the entire industrial
system, so far as their influence extends,
and then the moral and social organiza-
ton. They are undesirable citizens
from every point of view, and the ma
ton has the highest moral right to ex-
clude them, just rs a father has right to
exclude from his premises all undesira-
BILE associates for his children. To deny
this right is to deny the bedrock principle
of government.
Let us consider q sample case-and it
is sample. A Pacific coast town had
$40 white men engaged in one industry,
of whom nearly three-fourths were mar.
ried. Their children made large Sun
day school; they largely supported two
churches; there were building and loan
association, two debating clubs, a really
handsome reading room and tolerably
good circulating library. The book store
was among the best paying institutions
In the town. The mail distribution was
noticeably large. In short, these labor
ing men were doing their part in the
work of developing truly American
society. They had "given hostages to
fortune OF the 81 900 or IS, 900 paid in
each week in wages there it is certain
that more than half went to build up so
ciety-that is, to rear really American
children, and set up really American
homes. And that is nearly all there is in
this world to laborers.
Well, the "labor difficulty" came. The
process was long and almost brought on
local war; but the final result was
some 400 Cinnamon in place of about 300
30 called common laborers." The en-
gineers, clerks, etc, remained. The out
put increased, the operators declared
larger dividends, the railroad had more
to ship. Behold, says your economist"
the success of the new labor. "Cease
your unchristian war on the Chinese
says the ''philanthropist." But what
has become of the town?
Well, the Sunday school, the debating
clubs, the circulating library and the
loan association dropped dead on the
start One of the churches was soon
closed and is now warehouse. A Mon
golian Sunday school was set up in the
lower town, and the companies advised
the heather to attend it "to learn Eng
lish." The postof1ice was soon rerated,
and rated low. The book store still lin
gers. There is a rather pretentious school
building on the hill, where the well to do
citizens live; and one of the imperative
rules there is that their children are not
to play about the lower part of the town
or even go among the Chinese. They do
not regard the latter as men, but as pro-
ducing machines.
"Chinese cheap labor" indeedl Who
is so blind as not to see that all the moral
vigor and social life are gone out of the
town? 1t is morally dead and will soon
be morally rotten. For all truly Ameri-
can purposes it might as well be a sec
ton of Hong Kong. The operators have
shown their opinion of their Mongolian
serfs by forbidding their children to go
among them. But they have not es-
capped contagion. They have secured
their "cheap labor" but when the long
account is cast up it will be seen that
they have lost more than did the exiled
white laborers. During the discussion
they had much to say about many
of those laborers being foreigners"
but they overlooked the fact that the ma
tive child of the Irishman, the German
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