The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-07-24
Reverend Goodenough on
immigration.
CHINESE EXCLUSION WISE.
The Minister Says That Cleveland
Should Be Impeached for Not En-
forcing the Geary Act.

ducing the lecturer that he was "glad one
clergyman, pastor of church, is wholly
right on the labor question"
Rev. Mr.. Goodenough said: II AN not
n lily-handed clergyman. l have been
bronzed by labor in the fields. l am the
SOB of a New England farmer and my
sympathy has always been with the Ia
borer. The veal and woe of labor are
mine. My status as clergyman does not
remove me from the labor field. All Chris
tan ciergymeh must be hard workers if
they do their duty.
Labor Keeps the devil out of the brain
and we are coming to regard it as boon
from God. We have turned it to selfish
ends and used it for the worship of Mann
mon. Honest industry is calculated to
supply all reasonable wants and divert the
mind from evil. Honest occupation Is
morality and want of II immortality. Labor
could not have been Gods curse on man.
He would never have fallen had 1t not
been for his idleness. Without occupation
Adam and Eve were begulled, the former
being temp pied by his wife.
THE Scriptural expression, that 'Th
labOrer is worthy of his hire, is held to
mean that ministers deserve proper sup
port, but to me its meaning It's broader.
There is no need for monopoly of it by
ClbTRymeD. Ii Iueduo ludt 6fSlJ mdu
is entitled to adequate compensation.
perhaps the time has not come for the
total exclusion of immigrants, but it has
for rigid discrimination as to who shall be
admitted. We have comparatively little
land that can be taken at once for cultlva-
tion. We have good deal which needs
costly irrigation works before anything
can be grown thereon. To provide irriga-
ton works or to purchase the land after
irrigation is supplied is beyond the means
of poor immigrants and they swell the
laboring population of cities. Very many
of the Immigrants without resources are
of low grade.
''Imm grants from certain parts of Eu-
rope, Socialists, and Nihillsts, nave lately
been coming in large numbers. They
come from the lower grades, are paupers,
and are turbulent. Their own countries
were glad 10 get rid of them. In New York
particularly the time for hosting danger
signals has arrived. The digestion of the
United States is impaired. and change
of diet is in order. Let US give our national
stomach a rest. Our dangerous classes
are constantly augmented by immigration
now.
Instead of receding from our Chinese
pc icy We should extend it and discrim-
nsie IS to the admission of immigrants
iraal all nations. Some of the Immigrants
can subsist on a cheap diet that would
titlon ith immigrants of that class means
10 American labor slow but inevitable
degradation, with poorer fare and more
miserable surroundings.
The Scott and Geary acts involve the
whole question of immigration. They in
voive what we shall do with other q atoms.
With 400. 100000 Chinese at our doors we
cannot open those doors wide.
Il am surprised at the utterances of
Rev. Mr.. Wendt against the Geary act.
Rev. DR.. Mclean is reported in the local
papers as having said that this country
would net dare treat Great Britain's i'm
migrant as 1t has the Chinese. l am as
tonished that a native-born American
would declare in Christian pulpit that
his nation would not dare do right. That
IS what his declarations amount to.
The Geary law was passed to close up
ioopholes N the Scott act and remove the
defect OF imposing what were said to be
needlessly harsh terms on the Chinese re-
siding in this country. By registration
the Chinese living in the country would
have no hardship imposed on them, and at
the same time fraudulent entries of Chi
nese into this country might be prevented
II class all who hold the views ex-
pressed by Eastern papers and clergymen
in regard to the Geary act as foes to
American labor. AT the head of them
place President Cleveland. In violation
OF his oath OF Office he con spired with the
Chinese Six Conn anieS to defeat the law
1t was his sworn duty to enforce that law
like every other, regardless of his opinion
as to its constitutionality. If be believed
il a bad law he should have adopted the
sententious advice of General Grant, who
said that the best way to make bad law
odious is to enforce it,. The President is
liable to impeachment for his conduct. He
is the supreme law breaker of the land,
and if Congress acts properly he will be
impeached.
He has no right to decide whether
law is good or bad. This law had been
passed by Congress and signed by the
President. and Cleveland's duty was
simply to execute it.
rs the law which requires US to register
in order to vote brutal, cowardly and DEM
agogical. as the Fasteners term the Geary
act? On the contrary, it protects our
rights, and registration proves conven-
fence. Neglect of registration results to
the citizen in the loss Of his right to vote.
In the case of the Chinese 1t results in
their being sent home without cost.
This is light penalty for breaking
lazy. When citizens break any law they
ere hustled off to jail. When any person
goes TO European country he must not
only register. but go to the trouble of
getting passports. involving more hard
ship than the Geary act imposes ON the
Chinese. Yet Eastern papers and clergy
men call this law brutal.
1.-The Chinese who come here are cody |
slaves. l see no difference In having
brown or black slaves among us. The |
Chinese have cast blight over this coast |
Their presence has deferred the coming of |
white labOrerS, who could have done the |
work given to Chinese better and at the |
same time would have built permanent |
homes among us.
SIT is bosh to say the Central and South |
ern Pacific Railroads could not have been |
built without Chinese, though if white |
labor was employed the railroad company |
would have had to spend few more mil |
lions OF dollars. and it might not have &C
CURED such grip on this State as it has |
had.
There is no reason for us to incur dan
gerous risks in affording Europeans a new
home. Europe is not 0vercrowded. Let
It's people redeem themselves by getting rid
Of their costly standing armies and develop
ing their own resources.
1T is ridiculous to think Of bringing
Chinese here to Christianize them. Heap
pretty teacher is their usual reason for
going to Sunday-schooI. They always Sc
ect a lady teacher. Their motive in going
o Sunday school is not doubtful, but their
is.
The Chinese appears to be a stronger
ace type than the Anglo Saxon. Children
BORN of white and Chinese parents have
he Chinese type. The Transformation of