People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-23
NUMBER 40
d a Chinaman will swear

look alike, and Chinaman will swear
to anything.
So, what is known as the Geary act
was demanded, not for the purpose
of deporting Cinnamon already here,
but to make effective the much
abused original exclusion act. Chi
namen were given a full year in
which to establish their lawful right
to remain, and on doing SO they were
to be supplied with passports which
would secure them against future
annoyance or fear Of deportation
and had they even now submitted to
the laws of the land which regarded
their presence as undesirable, their
continued stay would have been dis
puted by no one.
But they placed their ''tongs'
above the national Congress, and
obeyed their edicts forbidding regis
tration ) at the command of their
leaders they defed the law, even
though they knew that in doing so
they incurred the penalty of depor-
tation, and sixty-fve millions of free
white American citizens were laughed
at and spit upon by one hundred
thousand coolie slaves at the instiga-
ton of their two or three score of
laWless heather masters.
Now what an opportunity was
this to make manifest the majesty of
the law! What a chance to teach
these despisers of our institutions
thac their contempt for us as peo-
pie was not Well grounded! They
had openly asserted that with plenty
of money they could ''fx things all
right" One of them illustrated the
whole thing, from his standpoint,
with two twenty dollar gold pieces.
With a gold piece held before one
eye, he said, "Oficer see a little"
Then covering the other eye with
the second gold piece, he said,
"Oficer see nothing"
The decision of the Supreme court,
however, affirming the constitu-
tionality of the Geary act, seemed
for a time TO shake their faith in the
potency of gold. For once it had
failed them, and every Monaghan
face seen on our streets showed that
they were stunned by the blow. But
another assessment was levied and
promptly paid, and Chinatown
smiled again, It was evident that
they still hoped TO purchase lmmu-
nifty from the operation OF the Geary
act but thought these law defyers,
when they had to do with the Presi-
dent of the United States and his
chosen subordinates, would find that
they were not dealing with the San
Francisco police force. | conf
IDENTIFY believed that a man, the
greater part of whose life had been
passed in assisting in some capacity
to apply the mandates of the law,
would now, in his exalted position,
with his oath of office so newly
pledged, hasten to teach this defiant
alien population that they were GER
tainly not more exempt from the
operation of our laws than were our
own people. Did he do it? No!
Why did he not do it? Well, that
would be hard to tell. It certainly
was his duty, and it should have been
apleasant duty, inasmuch as it would
have freed his country from a
blighting curse and his race and re-
ligion from a threatened danger too
apparent to be disguised.
And what of the relief which for
ten long years we have hoped and
striven to attain through peaceful
methods? Is history to record that
at the last, when apparently within
our grasp, it was snatched from us
by the hand Of the man who, by vir-
ture of his Office and his oath, should
have done all in his power to assist
in its attainment? "Whom the gods
would destroy, they first make mad"
1t will be mad act, on the part OF
those most interested, to convince
the American people that there can
be no law enacted to stop the In
vasion of this country by China.
The fact that the Chinaman is a
moral and social leper will count for
nothing SO long as he is needided to
"hold down" the price of American