Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-17
A RADICAL REMEDY NEEDED.

We are glad to note that interest is
again being raised in the Chinese exclu-
sion question. A number OF senators
have introduced bills amendatory of the
existing law, and our own senator, the
Hon. Charles N. FELTON,, amongst the
rest. 1t is high time that all our laws
aimed at the exclusion of the Chinese
should either be enforced and perfected
or repealed. There should be no
more childs play in this matter. A
ceaseless stream of Mongolians is pour
ing into the United States from all quar-
ters. They get in on the Canadian and
the Mexican frontiers. They flow in
from British Columbia. The present
law is notoriously imperative. We are
in urgent need of really practical
measure. Some device should be adopted
by which Chinaman r;ghtfully resi-
dent in the United States could be
identified, and one wrongfully here
should be extruded. The policy of the
United States towards John Chinaman
should be honest and thorough.
There are, of course, large number
of people OF the United States who have
sentimental and meretricious ideas
about the Mongolian. They are ignor-
ant OF the incurable mischief this alien
and non-asslmilative race does to the
Pacific coast more particularly. These
sentimentalists have made their fight
and lost. The sober second thought of
the American people has pronounced
for Chinese exclusion. That being the
case, an honest policy of exclusion
should be carried out.
The present is most opportune time
for perfecting such policy. The recent
massacres OF Christian missionaries and
of Europeans generally in China has
called attention anew to the peculiarly
barbarous character of the Chinese. In
the occasional scenes of violence that
have occurred in the United States
against the Chinaman, questions Of
labor in localities have been at the bot
tom OF the disturbances. In China,
however, the case is altogether diff
ferent. There the fury OF the populace,
which is only too plainly countenanced
by the mandarins in authority, is d.
rected against the foreigner as a for
eigner. American or European to this
Chinese fanaticism simply appears as
the "pg-mouthed European" The rage
of the Celestial is undiscriminating and
remorseless. There is in that great hive
of population no resentment begotten of
attempts to lower wages, or to throw
native Chinese out of employments
through which they earn their liveli-
hood. 1t is simply pIlnd and bloody
hatred OF any race that is not embraced
in the tribes that inhabit the land of
Cathay. No European can venture in
land without certain loss of life. To un-
dertake journey to Pekin is for the
European to seek that bourne from
which no traveller has ever been known
to return.
Why, then, shillv-shally about the
matter? The laws cannot be made too
unsparing. They should be made SO de-
cisive that any Chinaman, outside of the
exempted classes, who should be
found in the United States after
fixed date, without certificates of
Identification, should be Immediately
packed home, bag and baggage, scrip
and scrippage. And it should be well
understood that such laws were made to
be enforced, and are not to be simply
the medium by which boodling officials
shall enrich themselves. Under such
guarantees the Chinese evil would be
clearly in process of extinction.
Mr.. FELTON, understands very fully the
evils from which this coast suffers. He
is fully equipped with all the knowledge
and experience which should enable
him to frame a comprehensive and ef-
fectual measure. Should he succeed in
placing such law on the statute books
he will have laid the foundation for an
enduring personal popularity, and will
have endeared himself to the people of
the Pacific coast.
! On given day every Chinaman in