Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-06-09
WIVES OF CHINAMEN.
0EPLORABLE iNTERMARRlAGES OF
WHITE GIRLS AND MoNGOLIANS.

Sociological students in San francisco
and Elsewhere Are Face to Face with
Grave Problem-The Terrible Fate
Endured by Confidins Women.
Nowhere in tho world Is there such
striking commingling Of diametri-
cally opposite races as there exists to-
day in the Chinese quarter Of San
Francisco, writes Lucie F. Pierce.
Nowhere has the Mongolian race SO
persistently tntermarried with ma
tionalities Of the white race. No
where have white women who venture
to enter into such a 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 for moment what a
white woman surrenders when she
niarries Chinaman. First of all, she
must abandon all association with her
relatives. She is forced to this on ac-
count of the 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
| he 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 her.
self from the ranks of a progressive,
cultured race to those of vile, un-
cleanly, semi-civiliZed horde, weak
mentally and morally. She has lost
all that would make 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 a
husband but she loses pride. She Sc
cures a miserable home, and she loses
| forever what woman holds most
! dear, her name.
| At any moment we may expect to see
ner celestial husband wind his pig
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and depart for China, leaving her
without means Of support, cast upon
the world, a 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 shop, or a few
bags of gold coin. Naturally one
would think that she who had surren-
dered 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 Chinaman's wealth. 1t goes
to the beloved uncles and parents and
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
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