Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-09-23


the second degree or manslaughter. I think
that ne got ten years. He Is in the peniten-
tiary now. In the course Of his trial 1t
came out that he had been using this wo-
man to make money for him; that he had
been putting her out to prostitution that
she might bring him coin. And he testified
that he had paid 10 much for her and that
ne considered her his property. Oh, almost
any Chinaman will tell you that women
are considered property by the Chinese and
that they are bought and sold. You can get
CHINA woman for about 5000"
asked the Senator II he had ever been
Threatened by the Chinese or had ever been
In danger from them.
don't want to talk about my own fear
iessness." he said with a laugh. "but I
nave gone ahead with my work and said
what 1 durn pleased and I have not been
shot yet: Oh. the Chinaman is not like the
DEGRADED OF other races. He is not vim
dieuve. He VIII not lie in wait for the man
VINO has prosecuted him to assault him.
BUT ne Will go out and kill a man II he is
told to do so without having any feeling
at all against him. 1t is not at all an un-
posted In Chinatown SAYING that a certain
Chfnaman is to be killed. And the high
binders get him every time.
They VIII Not AssamiIate.
I have not made a special study of the
Chinese question:" said the Senator In an
s"er TO question. What 1 know about
them have learned by constantly coming
In contact with them. When I was a school
boy In San Francisco at sixteen I explored
CHINATOWN. i have been in their places
three and four stories below the street
ana II you ever go there you will
learn two things-that the Chinese are a
very queer people and that you never want
TO go there again. They talk about our
aas, .s the Chinaman. 1t has taken
MIN centuries to school his stomach to be
SATISFIED with almost nothing. 1t would
take him as long. perhaps. to bring 1t back
10 the normal. And you must make a start
some time and the Chinaman has not
started yet. The Chinaman will live on
what would kin a white man. He will live
In an atmosphere which you could not
stand for forty-eight hours. BY tens OF
centuries OF discipline he has absolutely
changed his physical conformation. He is
altogether different from the white man"
asked the Senator II California could
get along without a Chinaman-if cheap
labor was not necessity
Our people seem to think that we could
get along without him." he said. 1--WE
voted on that question specifically, and the
vote was ten to one in favor of getting rid
OF MIN. It IL ridiculous to say that the
Chinese have been a necessary factor in
making California what she is. They
helped to build the railroads but the rail
roads would have been built anyhow and
the chief difference would have been that
the money would have stayed in this coun-
try instead Of being sent to China be-
lieve California would have been better or
II we had never seen Chinaman. I be-
lievs that We would have more people and
be more prosperous today"
j spoke to the Senator about the report
which was then in circulation that the Chi
nese minister had assured Secretary Gresh-
am that II the Chinese were given time
they would now register under the Geary
law. and that the Six Companies had agreed
to It,
II have heard nothing Of this" said the
senator, but what / don't understand is
why the United States government should
have diplomatic relations with the Six Com
pantes. The Geary law Is all right, but the
administration did not go about the en-
forcement Of 1t in the right way. Instead
or simply notifying the district attorneys
that there was no money to enforce II by
deportation and that they would have to
walt Tor an Appropriation, they have tied
the hands Of the district attorneys every
where. Now, / know that the district at
torney at Los Angeles would have liked to
go to work and pick out the highbinGers
and the toughs among the Cinnamon and
nave them deported when 1t was possible.
But by this act of the Department Of Jus
tice the prosecution of these Cinnamon has
been left In private hands, and the people
who are prosecuting are just as liable as
not to pick out the wrong man."
Then there are good Chinamen?" said
Not an Unmixed Evil.
THE presence of some Cinnamon In Cali
fornia Is not an unmixed evil" said the SEN
ator. But what aggravates our people is
the fact that the Chinese have openly defied
our law. 1t was not an unjust law. 1t was
not intended to drive the Cinnamon out of
the United States. 1t was simply intended
to prevent other Cinnamon coming in 1t re-
Quired Of the Chinese no more than I must
do as an American citizen to preserve the
purity Of the ballot. l must register IL I
wish to vote and / must identify myself SO
as to prevent fraud at the polls. Ali that is
asked OF the Chinaman Is that be shall reg
lister and identify himself to prevent the
commission of fraud. This he has refused
to do and his defiance of our laws has hurt
us In the eyes of other nations. All this talk
about retaliation Is absurd. The Chinese
know that IL they attempted to do any harm
to our people in China there are a good
many thousand Cinnamon In California who
would be holocausted In short order The
Chinaman is the cutest animal that ever
lived. This talk Of retaliation is all bluff"
As We reached the Capitol the Senator
turned and said: THE Chnaman is a stolid,
patient. laborious piece of humanity. He is
as stolid as the American Indian. A China
man never cries out when he is in pain. A
gentleman who saw a parrlcide killed In
China related the particulars to me. The
punishment for parricide is to be cut up
alive; the cutting being done so as to pro-
long the agony and postpone death as far as
possible. This gentleman told me that the
knowledge which the executioner showed of
human anatomy was something wonderful
But all the time that he was chopping away
at his victim, slicing a piece off here and
another there, the man never uttered cry
And, by the way" said the Senator, did
you ever see Chinaman with one arm or
one leg? I never have, and / never found
anybody who has OF course, a great many
of them have been MANNED in the course Of
their work on the railroads and it is my
belief that the others kill them
What brother Hoar and these other Mas
sachusetts people need" said the Senator
is a practical Illustration. If they could have
about a million Cinnamon dumped among
them and II about a quarter of the popula-
ton Of Massachusetts, would get the scrof-
ula from the Cinnamon. I think they would
have a better idea Of the Chinese than they
have today" was the Senator's parting shot
as he turned to enter the Capitol.
GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.
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Four Local British Parliaments.
From London Truth.
sincerely hope that the next general
election will result in an overwhelming ma
jority for home rule. But 1t is obvious that