The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-01-24

in harmony with it's surroundings I;
but heathenism in q Christian land is
an insufferable shame, and rendered in
tolerable by its utter conflict with it's
environment. In the heart OF San
Francisco there is large quarter wholly
taken up by the Chinese, which means
practical heathenism localized and or
ganized with scarcely feature of its
essential characteristics lacking. There
are their idolatrous temples; there are
their opium dens; there morality would
be stranger, and chastity a name un-
known; there woman is q slave more
ableet and degraded than pen dare write
for the eyes OF virtue and decency !;
bought and sold for sensual purposes is
she, just az the horse for the harness, or
the OK for the yoke. her price CORES
ponding with her supposed physical
qualities for the nameless vices and
crimes to which she is to be prosti-
tuted, while her cruel masters in turn
fatten upon the revenues of her shame
ceptions where family lie exists under
forms os tolerable decency; but the
general condition is that of abject, I'M
mitigated immortality.
In discussing the industrial eide of
the Chinese problem, Mr.. HANNA calls
attention to the cardinal fact that
the Chinese lsborer, who rears no fam
lily and has but few of the wants OF the
higher civilization in which our own
people are brought up. can compete out
OF the market even the humblest white
labor. He says:
1t is~not just in this case to say that
the cheaper man chould have the pre-
ference;" for the difference here ia as
wide as the distinction between Chris
tianity and heathenism. The China
man can cut the white mans wages be-
cause he ia heather and not a Chris
tisn. He eats heathen's food, wears a
heathen's clothes, dwells in a heathen'e
howell, and lives a heathen's life, and
intends never to be any thing but a
heather.
Can there be any just competition
between such a human being and q
white Christian? The very thought ie
abhorrent! This competition has al
ready brought on very grave results in
the industrial condition of California.
Thousands of white people are out of
employment and being reduced to pau.
perism, while heather race, who de-
spise both our country and our religion,
are eating the bread OF the white citi-
zen.
The reverend gentleman then exam
inca into the question in its political
aspect, and shows that there are moral,
physical and racial reasons why they
can never become citizens, and if they
could that it would be a calamity to
which the sudden granting of the suf.
frage to the ignorant negroes of the
south is a blessing. They are almost
without exception irreconcilable, I'M
chanzeable aliens, so utterly sverse to
the country that protects them, and out
of whose muni6cence they enrich them
selves, that they will not even allow
their dead bones to rest in its soil. The
franchise in the hands of such an ele-
ment-practicslly an element OF slaves
would be used by their masters for their
own purposes.
Ii some Of the reverends of the east
who now so loudly insist upon the unre.
stricted immigration of Chinese would
listen to the arguments and statements
of such men as DR.. Hamms, who deduce
their opinions from their practical ex-
perience in, and close study Of the
question, they would soon show higher
and more admirable American spirit
than they now display in one of the
most serious problems that ever con-
fronted the civilization of this century.