The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-11-11
WIVES OF CHINAMEN.
OEPtORABLE lNTERMARRlAGES OF
WHITE GIRLS AND MONGOLlANS.

WIFI 6tNCO ANU MOiSGOllANS.
Sociological Students in san Francisco
and Elsewhere are Face to Face with
Grave Probien-Tho Terrible Fnte
Endured by Conhding Women.
Nowhere in the world is there such
striking commingling of diametri-
cally opposite races us there exists to-
day in the Chinese quarter of San
Francisco. writes Lucie F. Pierce.
Nowhere has the Monaghan race SO
persistently intcrmarried with ma
tionaiities of the white race No
where have white women who venture
to enter into such contract so lost
their caste, their station in society,
and become such wretched outcasts,
without friendly tie of either clan
or country, as they have within the
limits OF the California city
Marriage between whites and Chi
neSe is increasing to an astonishing
extent. Nearly 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 IOt IL moment what Il
white woman surrenders when size
marries Chinaman. First of ALL she
| must abaudOn all association with her
relatives. She is forced to this on ac-
count of tie wide breach which ex-
lists between the races. She not only
must cast aside all filial 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 Il
| social outcast She has lowered her.
self from the ranks Of progressive,
cultured race to those of a vile. un-
clearly. semi-civilzed 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 1t is all loss. She secures
husband but she loses pride. She Sc
cures miserable home, and she loses
dear. her name.
her celestial husband wind his pig
tail around his yellow, shaver head,
and depart for China, leaving ne:
without means of support. 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 merchandise of Il shop, or Il few
bags of gold coin. Naturally one
would think that she who had snrren-
dcred everything that is precious and
noble IN life for her Chinese husband
would reap the benefit of all this and
receive the heritage due her Not so.
No white woman ever inherited a
dollar of a Chinamans wealth. Il goes
10 the beloved urcles and parents ard
| brothers and sisters in the big flow
cry kingdom over the water, and the
white woman is left to starve
Hated and spurned in America. she
may seek the shores of her huebands
country and throw herself upon the
mercy and leniency Of his family there
She, who had once been superior to
them in intellect, in form in beauty,
in morality in instinct, receives not
even the respect of equal to equal
There have been cases where white
women have married Christianized
Mongoians. Marriage in this case is
sacred. binding. legal. There have
been few such that have turned out
happily.
Strange as it may seem. major
ity OF the women who marry Chinese
have sprung from Scandinavian. Ger
man or Russian parentage. 1t seems
that the yellow hair and the blue
eyes of the buxom northern beauties
appeal particularly to the Monaghan
race. The rosy complexion and grace
Of white women astOnishes and at
tracts them. No Chinaman will marry
a woman of his own race if he can
prevail upon white woman to accept
marriage.
If the Chinaman will consent to be-
come a Christian and give up some of
the marital privileges of his native
land. they are looked upon as respect
| able members of the community. The
woman really gains nothing by this;
neither does she lose. She is taking
chances neither way. And the Chi
nese husband and father rises some
what in the nature of his instincts,
one step in the ladder Of advancement.
But this has not been the happy out
come of all the intermarriages which
have taken place. Only rare few
have consented to accept Christianity.
And white women persist in throwing
themselves away on these pagan in
CRATES. Mission workers plead with
them and still they persist in entering
into unions that end eventually in
utter degradation and social degener-
acy. If they are not strong enough
to resist the attentions of pagan &C.
lestial they are not strong enough 20
withstand his awful vices. Let them
step out into the by-way of Il pagan
marriage and they have chosen The
road to everlasting social damnation.
The end is generally violent death.