The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-29
DEFENDING THE CHI ESE.
This Country Owes Much to
Them. Says Pastor Gates.

Rev. DIR. N. l.. Gates, of Grace Metho-
dist Episcopal Church. WAS to have
preached upon the subject OF well Dig
ging" last night. hut his mental dril
seems to have struck China before reach
ing water. He has reserved the sermon
on well Digging" TOR another Sunday
night, After a prelude last night upon
the iniquity Of The Gesry act with refer
ence to Chinese Immigration, Mr.. Gates
launched into u strong and elaborate de
fenae of "the prosecuted Chinese" III
bis prelude he declared the Geary act To
be "the most farcical act OF all the farcical
acts thai the last farcical National Con-
gress enacted.
IA Democratic House generated It, a
Republican Senate fostered it, aud a Re-
publican President ohristened it,h con-
tinued the speaker, and when this law
was passed American statesmanshlp In
both parties had reached the lowest dregs
in the political pot"
During the course of his sermon, M.
Gates said
"Tne attitude of the Government
towards the Chinese is such as to bring a
and fair-minded Americ4 IN citizen. 1t
this country sought out China
for the purpose, OF trade and personal
negotiations. This nation insisted on q
treaty with China and pledged its nonor
to protect the people who should come to
us from that empire. This nation has
ously allowed a constant and systematic
persecution of the Chinese here. in de-
fiance Of treaty, law and justice. The
charges against them are mainly fornau-
lated by hoodlums, led on ~ such men
as Dennis Kearpey.p
@UNFoUNDED CHARGES.
"The first charge Is thai they come
here as slaves. This is not true. Some
come here to seek gold: others. by invita-
tiou. to help build railroads and till our
untillable lands"
Mr.. Gates also r~epudiated the second
charge, to wit, that the Chinese were the
lowest class Of emiRrants that come here.
He said:-
ing classes of China aud are Obliged to
take up laundering and shoemaktng be-
cause they are pushed lout of other
trades"
The speaker called the attent ion to the
fact that but very few OF them are found
in our jatls aud ~poornouses; that They
seldom appear in our criminal records.
He never saw q tramp Chiuaman. They
W6Ib uVbs AntuCkCLo anu UAk1 VptoSASkSs
AS to the claim that they were tdolators
Mr., Gates referred to the Mormons whom
ne said worship Joe Smith ts the one who
planned the salvation Of the world; and
yet the American lag protected them =
they were given every right OF Citizen
ship.
As to the third charge, that the Chinese
did not come here 10 stay. but TO make all
they can and take 1t away with ahem,
Mr.. Gates said that when IL was decided
TO connect RIA Atlantic with tue Pacific
by steel for the purpose of developing our
resources the aut norities tried emigrant
labor of almost all ~nationalities. but that
the Congressional CommiJtee declared
the efforts failures. Whiskey drinking
and fighting. poor and irregular work
were written against 6he workmen.
CHINESE aABoRERS.
''!,he efforts were about to be abol-
ished," said the speaker. "Flnally the
committee decided to send tor the
Chinese, and the work was quickly and
we'll done. So also TO the thousands of
acres of overfowed lands, where no other
immigrants would go, they went and re
deemed those lands. Those iauds uurS.
deemed. did not return one penny to the
State. Now they produce fifty TO ninety
bushels of grain TO the acre. Inc Sur
vsyor General Of California. in his re-
port, DECLARED that In the W item
.alone-that of railroads and redeemed
lands-the Chinese had enriched Cali
rornia by. $sSv,ooo .oOo. T. is 2 mater
annually larr ID by the Chinese. they ex-
pend $751; 0.00o. AS to their arg -nent
about Ia ng money u of the country.
what about tue Americans III China. VINO
spend money there only for p~erishable
fruits and brlng home $40 to every 81
tnat John takes out of THIS country Be-
sides, in almost every case, they leave be-
hind an influence more Pagan than the
Pagan Chinaman leaves here. They have
contributed to our wealth more tuan any
but, suppose tas do send money out
of the country, are they the only on6S
A Boston banker not long g said that
In four weeks he made out drafts and
bills Of exchange 10 Irish girls in Boston
to send nome to friends 1a Ireland
O'Reiily, editor OF the Bostuu Pilot. 9
leading Catholic paper, in one OF his
lectures of the wrongs OF Ireland said:-
'The Irish question is not only AL irish
question, out an American economic
question, for the Irian sent GU OF tats
country every year S70.00D.0OD,'
CHINESE TAXPAYERS.
saThey say the Chinese bay no taxes
The eleven thousand Chinese in Sau
Francisco par annually mAny thousands
OF dollars 10 taxes gu real estate and per-
sonal property. They pay So epiece as Il
noll tax. They pay S2s, 0pp q year for
license. They pay $t4, 900 internal
revenue OH cigars. In addition to this
many of them pay a miners tax of 81 .
mouth, and IS has been paid for eyssy
Chinaman lAudipg here. Then the duties
on rice brought by the Cnfna rad and
mostly CONSUMED BY the Chinese psDula.
tion amounts to Sl.000.0o0 in GOLD every
year."
Tine speaker cited history to show tina
the English aud the Americans Were
primarily responsible for the hold ths
opium habit has upon the Cninese. D
introduced opium into Cnina, aud the
burning OF . cargo at he instance OF one
of Cnina's enraged Emperors, led TO a war
with England.
ARROWS CHASING FUNCTION.