Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-18
THE CHINESE QUESTION.
Six Reasons in Favor OF tho Geary Law.
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Six Reasons in Favor Of the Geary Law.
To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
Your paper is always fair in discussing public
issues, SO venture to ask for space to state q
few things that seem to be overlooked relating
clared constitutional by the Supreme Court
Before doing SO / venture to say that 1 have
studied the question which it seems, perhaps,
that some editorial writer's have not, except SO
far as they are supplied with pointers by
the astute attorneys of the Chinese merchants
and Six Companies.
l was for four years editor-in-chief Of a San
Francisco daily and made personal investiga-
ton OF the subject before I wrote about il.
Those who know me need not be told that
have no prejudices Of race to overcome. So 1
may say. without egotism. that am not like
the late Henry Ward Beecher. who once spent
seven weeks in California. nearly onehaIf Of it in
the Sierras sightseeing, gave two or three days
to visiting, under police guidance, the Chinese
quarters in Frisco, and yet returned home to
denounce the larger majority of Caiifornians as
knowing nothing Of the Chinese question and
as being unmitigated rufians in what they did
know or do. want to say, then,-
LIST. That the photograph and registration
features Of the Geary Chinese law are copied,
as learn, from similar provisions of law in
the Anglo Australian colonies. Nobody has sug-
gested that the Chinese government turned the
British ont OF China. Therefore, right or
wrong, China would not dare to propose that.
I'd. The Chinese government has little or
nothing to do with it. for no Chinaman emf
CRATES to this country from China He comes
under British colonial protection from the
British colony Of Hong Kong. China has never
favor the emigration Of its people.
Sd. The Chinese Six Companies. with head
quarters at San Francisco, are virtually a
fOreiOn povarpmQOf eyarciGinO md
virtually controlling for their own profit 100 900
alien residents of this land. Like the mayor of
Chinatown in New York. they exercise police
force and constitute themselves a separate
power
4th. There are not over 1000 Americans in
China and there are 10000 Cor thereabouts)
Chinese in America. No American completes
with the Chinese; he only trades with or
teaches them. Every Chinaman here completes
with our labor. avoids taxpaying or other du-
ties, controls and monopolizes nearly all the
commerce with and from China and the United
States. The Americans spend as well as earn
money in China; the Chinese make and save
it here, sending as much as possible out of the
country.
5th. No Chinaman ever landed in America
with the expectation of becoming a citizen or
remaining a resident. For over two wears they
had the right to become citizens. that is after
the war and before Senator Sargen. got the
naturalization law amended against them-aud
yet though there were $4,000 adult Chinese
males at least with the qualifications of resi-
dence living on the Pacific coast. not q dozen Of
them ever sought to take out their papers. The
Six Companies are opposed thereto.
9th. No Chinese laborer ever entered the
United States the first time free man.
He was a debt slave and his wife or sister, or
his parents, were held in bondage or to har-
lotry at home as security for repayment of his
debt.
These boro hao,, ..r.o u-o.. r,,.-.--.. "A
Chinese in isolated corners of the United States
Sometimes the toughs have insulted them. But
cannot recall any outrage so gross as some Of
the native American ones against foreigners
forty years ago, or like that perpetrated on the
Italians at New Orleans.
Let's play fair. The Chinese are undesirable;
that's no reason for abusing them. but their
alien character is no reason why all opposition
to their presence should be libelously assailed.
RICHARD j. HINTON.
The Geological Park and Kenesaw Avenue.
To the Editor of The Evening Star:
My attention has been called to certain arti-
cles lately published In your columns, consist
ing mainly of quotations from late communica-
tons addressed to the District Commissioners
one of Prof. Langley, another Of Mr.. T. Trum-
bull-concerning the present conditions of ac-
cess to the Geological and National PARKS, and
the very great need of their improvement
These communications are emanstions OF an
honorable and most commendable public spirit,
and take the earliest opportunity since nv return
from western trip to express, what canno. be
other than the universal sentiment of Washing
ton, feeling Of great qualification that public
attention is being aroused to this important
matter.
1t can be very safely said that of the cities Of
our land having near their borders so attractive
an object our Geological Park there is not
one whose avenues Of approach thereto are so
unsuitable and inconvenient, or which SO un-
justly reflect the judgment and taste of its
people.
1t is however, to be remembered in partial
extenuation that there is also not another be-
tween the two oceans SO honored and SO ham,
pered by the complications of a burdensomely
majestic government.
But now that an appropriation Of $4,000,
made by the late Congress, is actually being
expended in the extension Of kenesaw avenue
from 18th street to the Zoo Park. and in ac-
cordance with the conditions Of that appropri-
alton the necessary donation of a ninety-foot
roadway has been secured. it only remains that
the municipal authorities exert their fully vested
powers in the prosecution of that wisely con-
sidered work to accomplish what our citizens
have SO long and SO hopefully waited for, viz:
the most direct and dignified. and to the great
est number the most convenient access to both
the National and Geological Parks.
1t is not disputed, 1 think. by any one fully
conversant with the matter that when all the
intorsecting ard tributary streets are properly
trance and exit Of the latter and even now
there is no other line proposed for improve
ment which combines SO many commanding
advantages. 1t is the most direct; it is the
cheapest in construction; it is the most con-
venient and agreeable in grade.