The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-18
DEPLORABLE INTERMARRIAGEs.
Weddings of Caucasians and China
men in San Francisco.

men in San Francisco.
From the Chicago Times Herald.
San Francisco.-Apropos of the fight of
Chan Tin San, or Big Jim, the notorious
celestial wanted in this city for. the muir
der Of Fong Ching, or Little Pete, it is
said he has escaped to China, leaving his
Caucasian wife, a Swedish woman named
Lawson, in deplorable and destitute cir
cumstances. Now the question of a dis
tressing social condition and its abate-
ment has arisen in the minds of local So
Geological students.
Nowhere In the world is there such a
striking comingling of Numerically oppo-
site races as there exists to-day in the
Chinese quarter of San Francisco. No
where has the Monaghan race so persist
emily intermarried with nationalities of
the white race. Nowhere have white wo-
men who venture to enter into such a
contract so lost their caste, their station
in society, and become such wretched out
casts, without friendly tie of either clan
or country as they have here within the
limits of this city.
Marriage between whites and Chinese is
increasing to an astonishing extent. Near
ly one hundred cases are now known TO
exist This is not large, of course, in
comparison with the number of Chinese
in the city. Indeed, that number is small.
But its significance is terrifying. In that
lies the problem.
Contemplate for moment what white
woman surrenders when she marries a
Chinaman First of all, she must abandon
all association with her relatives. She is
forced TO this on account of the wide
breach which exists between the races.
She not only must cast aside all tilial ties,
but She must sever forever all connection
with the whole white race. When she
abandons her race she abandons her caste.
And when she loses her caste she loses
her country. She becomes a social outcast.
She has lowered herself from the ranks of
a progressive, cultured race to those of a
vile, uncleanly, semi-civilized horde, weak
mentally and morally. She has lost all
that would make a patriotic woman loyal
TO Whatever national flag, thrill with the
deepest feeling
And the gain? Why, there is no gain.
IL Is all loss. She secures a husband, but
she loses pride. She secures a miserable
nome and she loses forever what a wo-
man holds most DEAR her name.
Al any moment we may expect TO see her
celestial husband wind his pigtail around
ms yellow, shaver head and depart for
emma, leaving her without means of sup
port cast upon the world, despised and
ignored creature. AT any time, living in
the midst of disease-breeding filth, the
husband may be carried off by death. He
may leave some landed property, or the
me[chandlse of shop or few bags of
soid com. Naturally one would think that
sHe VINO had surrendered everything that
Is precious and noble in life for her Chi
nest husband would reap the benefit of all
ulls ana receive the heritage due her. Not
60 NO white woman ever inherited dol
"a Vi Chinaman's wealth. 1t goes to the
DeIoVed uncles and parents and brothers
anu SISTERS in the big fowery kingdom
SV,er the water, and the white woman is
Nlt 10 starve. Why, even the other wife
VI me Chinaman, the first wife whom he
tILpuuiated for the Caucasian, receives her
tsiale. The white woman is ignored. It
a. dS II she never existed, not only with
Wv VIZ race from which she sprung, but the
a aSge which she adopted. 1t is then that
sue realizes for the first time the awful
Ince which she has made.
nated and spurned in America, she may
oreA me shores of her husbands country
SI-l throw herself upon the mercy and
+eHlency of his family there But she re-
IVES no quarter. She, who had once
~ superior to them in intellect, in form,
Ueauty, in morality, in instinct, re-
equal - N4N"- ~
mere mere have been cases where white wo-
N. married Cnf1St1d0lZeQ MOngO-
bnSt Marriage in this case is sacred,
sno lung legal. They have been a few
~ mat have turned out happily. There
~ no other wife, or wives, in China.
On marriage was a bona fide contract
sell-respectlng basis.
cor,s al Chinese students who have be-
VIII uenlzens of the United States and
rieS nave adopted Christianity have mar
fer NJ THI d. ming white girls. There is WAL
mar rohs, clever and cultured China
sitr graduate of the Stanford Univer-
into,,."Snlo could find nothing congenial or
insintS uhs in the companionship of the
Of bI1@ Weak-minded, foot-bound women
then, o"h race. Marriage with one of
He bs "puLa nave been purgatory for him.
ciyili1a1 received to its fullest breadth
wlsda,s enlightenment. He showed his
str.r.lh marrying an\American woman.
the r,atee as II may seem, a majority of
sprin,, ieh who marry Chinese here have
Russissu from Scandinavian, German or,
low ba parentage. 1t seems that the vel
nortbs,I ana the blue eyes Of the buxom
the Nj beauties appeal particularly TO
and ian race. The rosy complexion
attraota OF white women astonishes and
a Won,a them. No Chinaman will marry
Vail mn OF mis- own race il he can pre-
rage white woman to accept mar
Chris,,.n ihaman will consent TO become
tai pri,iienn and give up some of the mari
plural tneses Of his native land incind fsr,
eeiyed mt i .,se Itself, then both are re-
'ne church, their children are