The morning call., 1893-06-12
WHAT BOSTON THINKS.

Tbs Boston Globe has printed the opin-
ions of several leading citizens on the re-
cent Supreme Court decision upholding
the Chinese registration act. These Opin-
ions are gems in their way. For example,
Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison saws:
1t is not the first Time that a decision OF the
Supreme Court has violated the moral sense OF
the people andebrought law Itself into disrepute.
The right to abuse the Supreme Court is
conceded to certain class of Bostonians.
But if the wild and wooily West had crit
iciZed an adverse decision of the court
Boston would have held up its hands in
holy horror. Having disposed of the
Supreme Court Mr.. Garrison proceeds to
dispose of the law:
A nation that can deliberately adopt and obey
such an edIcJ is rapidly tending toward a deS-
potism under which no human rights will be
respected. In the interest OF law ITSELF 1t is the
duty of good citizens to make this act OF pro-
scriptiOn against he innocent Chinese In our
midst null and void.
Mr.. Garrison. it Will be perceived, is
getting along pretty well. He wants good
citizens TO combine to make an act of Con-
gress. which the Supreme Court has de-
clared constitutional, null and void. Mr..
Garrison covers his face with this hands
when he admits that Mr.. Geary. the author
OF what Mr.. Garrison terms IAN Infamous
bill, is of Boston birth. 1t may be nee
essary at this point to inform the people
of California who Mr.. Lloyd Garrison is.
Such expressions as are quoted would war
rant the idea that he is an imported anar-
chist, who had not learned the line which
separates free speech from license. But
Mr.. Garrison is native of the soil, a man
Of education and social position and nat
urally law-abding citizen. His iptem-
perate speeches are probably due in a
measure to the fact that a similar intem-
perance of speech on the part of his father
In the early days Of the anti-Slavery agita-
tion won distinction for its author. =
In happy contrast TO the utterances OF
Mr.. Garrison are those of William c. Par
ker of the Boston Common Council. Mr..
Parker says:
We do not need the Chinese, and their filth
corruption and opium habits are OF themselves
reasons enough why we should forever cast
them out OF our beloved country. In COM
parlson OF my visits TO Chinatown IN San Fran
cisco and Boston, fnd here the same state of
affairs as there. In Boston their number has
more than doubled since five years ago, when
made my first inspection on Harrison avenue
They come here solely for money. boarding it,
living ID very deplorable condition until
their fortune is made, and then they return 10
China. ask. what benefit has the United
States received from them? None.
The enlightened views of Mr.. Parker
are doubtless due to his visits to this
State He certainly could not have ac-
quired so much wisdom in Boston. We
then see the inestimable advantages of
travel. Mr.. Garrison, so far as known,
has never ventured West. Mr.. Parker
has. The conclusion is easily reached
that Boston people should get out of Bos-
ton as often as they can.
MIR. George E. O'Neili is another Bos-
tonian who gives evidence of travel; else
low could he have bibed such ideas as
are herein expressed:
The peoples of the earth are divided into ma.
lions, and Ii is as much the duty of the govern
ing power or head OF each nation to protect its
members against The corrup,ing Influences OF
other nations as II is for the head OF family to
protect It's members against the vices immoral
lies, filthy habits and demoralizlng Influences
of neighboring family or families. If IA father
Of family. through self-interest, ignorance or
other weakness, invites an immoral or filthy
person to his home he commits an afront
against that most sacred Institution, and his
first ACT of repentance should be the eviction
OF bis guest.