The sun., 1901-12-30
The Chinaman in This Country as He
Actually Is.

The Chinaman in This Country as He
Actually Is.
A Chinaman, Mr.. SUNYowE PANd,
has a very temperate and an instIuc-
tive paper on "The Chinese in America !"
in the latest number Of the Forum maga-
zine. 1t seems 10 have been prepared
with some Incidental reference TO the
proposal, and we may add, the prob
ability of the extension Of the Chinese
Exclusion act by the present Congress.
He makes no direct assault on that law
prohibiting the immigration OF China
men, except to speak Of it as without
a parallel in the history of the world"
but his whole article is an indirect ex-
poslire Of its injustice from Chinamans
point OF view.
He starts out by calling attention to
the historical fact that "the coming OF
the Chinese into this country was not
Of their own volition; they were invited
here" because OF the impossibility OF
getting enough of other laborers for
the building OF the Central Pacific Rail
road. THE road needed at least ten
thousand laborers, but not more than
eight hundred white men could be Sc
cured" and In the extremity Chinese
labor was systematically sought and
obtained. "Coolie ships were kept run
ming between the Kwang-tung Province
and San Francisco" and when the
railroad was finished more than fifteen
thousand Cinnamon were turned loose
on the country for support. This
number was increased largely because
of the activity Of the steamship agents
in inducing immigration for the sake
Of the fares.
The result was that eventually in
California white labor began TO feel
the competition Of the Cinnamon. who
we're willing TO take less wages. In
1870 arose the so-called Sand-lot agi-
tation" in San Francisco against the
Chinese, which brought about the enact
ment OF the United States law pro-
hibiting the immigration Of the Chinese
and making them ineligible to citizen
ship. The number of Cinnamon here
had been exaggerated greatly. the esti-
mates more than doubling the actual
number found by the census Of 1880,
or los AS. At present the total is about
the same.
The theory on which the Chinese Ex-
clusion law was advocated and passed
is that IL not forcibly prevented Chinese
immigration would swamp the Pacific
States, and by becoming the controlling
al in no .NATatlattnn NxnttlA
away Christian civilization. Mr. sun
YowE PASG opposes 10 this. however.
the matter of fac that the Chinese are
not migratory. Those who have come
here. he says are from few districts
Of the Province of kwang-tung IN which
Canton II situated, and the majority Of
them were villagers and peasants.
The bar to their admission to Amer
ioan citizenship and the prejudice against
them have compelled the Cinnamon for
self -protecilon a. i've by themselves 80
that there are no more clannish poopl.
on earth than th. Chinese in Amruoa
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"As q Ioopie earning much and sT"nd
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