Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-07-14

crime against free government is to be
committed for three reasons:
First.-Beeause some $4,000. 900 OF
Hawaiian bonds have been sold in this
country at about 80 cents ON the dollar.
We are asked to guarantee the payment
of "a, 600, 600 of these bonds. The mo-
ment we annex the islands those bonds
will soar to par, and certain favored pa
triots possessed of inside information
will reap a profit Of 20 cents for every
80 cents invested, making a total of
IS, 500, 600, a very comfortable nest
egg to have in the family.
Second.-There is q pressing neces-
sity for two rotten borough senators to
exc out the single gold standard major
ity at the other end of the capitol.
Third. But, above all, William Nc
Kinley will have sore need for the three
electoral votes of Hawaii in the melan-
choly days Of November in 1900, when
he again faces at the polls the great
tribune Of the people, William Jen-
nings Bryan Of Nebraska.
For these base and forbidden ends we
r asked to do an act which will jeop-
ardize the American republic.
Mr.. Speaker, ever since we could
read, you and I and all of us, in our
self gratulations upon the success of our
experiment in representative govern
ment, have held up to the scornful gaze
of men the farcical elections in Old
Sarum, Pocket, Brooches and other rot
ten English boroughs. But should we
do this foolish, this wicked, thing
Johnnie Bull, dull as he is in matters
of wit and humor, will have the joke
ON us and will make us the perpetual
butt for his ridioule. The half dozen
voters at Old Sarum were not q lot OF
nondescript Asiatico-P olynesian igno-
ramuses, but were Englishmen, habitu-
uated to representative government,
whose fathers fought at Hastings, at
Crecy and at A~ginoourt. They belonged
to that great Teutonio stock, the i'm.
perial race of the world, which for
/, 900 years has gone forth conquering
and to conquer, governing and to gov
ern. But how can we justify either to
ourselves or to our posterity the act we
are about to commit? How can we en-.
dure our shame when q Chinese senator
from Hawaii, with his pigtail hanging
down his back, with his pagan joss in
his hand, shall rise from his curule
chair and in pigeon English proceed to
chop logic with George Frisbie Hoar or
Henry Cabot Lodge? o tempora! o
moresl
Then will true patriots, the descend
ants of the pilgrims, hide their dimin-
ished heads and in agony of soul ex-
claim in the language Of Truthful
James ma celebrated occasion:
Do I sleepP Do I dreamP
Do I wonder and doubtf
Are things what they seem,
Or is visions aboutf
d our civilization q failure,
Or IL the Caucasian played outf
Fight For Chinese Exclusion.
For more than a quarter of a century
a persistent fight has been waged by the
denizens of the Pacific slope against the
sublimated humanitarianism of the east
to exclude Chinese immigrants from our
shores. When in the Fifty-third con-
gress we passed a bill requiring every
almond eyed disciple Of Confucius dom
iciled in the United States to file his
photograph and the mold of his thumb,
not as works Of art or souvenirs of affec-
ton, but as evidences Of good faith, for
purposes of Identification when about to
revisit his native land, we supposed
that we had finally settled the difficulty,
but we are now coolly invited to s~tultify
ourselves and undo the labor of many
years by an act which will in one mo-
ment admit more Chinese into this
country than the Chinese Six Companies
Of San Francisco would have imported
in so years.
I press these questions home upon
your minds and oonsciences. Are we
ready to admit Chinese to citizenship!
Are we willissg that they shall have a
voice in our a9Eirs? Do we propose de-
l~iberately and absolutely without provo
cation to take that reckless leap into the
dark! Do not a great many people be-
lieye that we have already gone too far
in the attempt to assimilate all the PEG.
pies of the earth? Is not this question
constantly asked: Is the American re-
public endowed with the stomach of an
ostrich that there is no limit to its di-
gestive powers? Is there not a large, in
sistent and growing sentiment in this
country in favor Of restricting even
white immigration to the ablebodied,
the v%irtuous, the intelligent?
We might as we'll look these ques.
lions squarely and c~ourageously in the
face. We cannot shunt them out of the
way. They will not down at our bid.
ding or for convenience.
A Chinaman never can be fit for
American citizenship. His color, his
diet, his mental conformation, his hab.
its of thought, his methods of conduct,
his style of living, his ideas Of govern.
ment, his theory of the domestic rela.
tions, his code of morals, his religion,
his p~assiveness in servitude, his ultra
conservatism, his manners, his amuse-
ments, the very fashion of his dress, are
radically un-American. In all these he
is thoroughly incorrigible. His ways
are not our ways. He is among us, but
not of us. What he was when the grea.
wal was d-puA4uluS uc 10 AoW WLIAS
William Of Hohenzollern is ~incorporat.
ing him vi ct arms into his body pol
tito. He changes his allegiance Tor,
speaking more accurately, his allegiance
is changed for himl from the emperor
Of China to the emperor of Germany
with a sang froid that is amazing and
with a smile that is childlike and bland.
Empires may fall, empires may rise,
empires may be sliced up, dismembered,
s~tomized-the Yellow sea may be red
dened with the blood Of his countrymen
he cares not. He holds his peace. He
keeps the even tenor of his way. And
what he is now he will be in the last
day-suave, stolid, imperturbable, in
defatigable, unpatriotic.
But n thing he does to perfection
he accumulates money. Having money,
he must be taxed. Taxation and repre-
sentation go together. That proposition
was the essence Of that historic pream-
BILE for which our Revolutionary fathers
flung their gage of battle at the feet OF
MR. uu.h usII nobofo