The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1901-11-23
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have become attached to this picturesque ORR
entail streets and in kitchens, who.
Ike Tennyson's Maud, is 'icily regular, splen-
didly NULL 1t is not question OF reilS-
ion. Our country is free to faith, provided
faith be true to freedom and republican insti-
buttons. Neither is it a question of human
rights. immigration is not a right, but a
privilege The enjoyment of American liberty
is not right, but a privilege, conditioned by
is quite within the power OF the state to reSu-
late such national privileges. This has been
the policy of European governments for hum
dreds of years 1t is the prerogatve and pol
icy OF the United States, to be exercised not
only in accordance with International good
will, but in defense of national well being, IN
protection of commerce, the workingmen and
national morality.
This, then is question of method, as to
how the industrial and social integrity of the
republic may be served and maintained This
great convention meets in the name of Ameri-
can patriotism, and nots with one word o.
civilization es against the venerable paganism
of China, with the hope that the one may be
protec.ed that the otner IN .he m
and become civilized.
Three main arguments used to support
try. OF political economy and OF morality.
have been asked to speak upon the last.
Through our gates have come the down-trod-
den, the Italian, and the Swede, the German
and the Dane and all nationalities. We have
bled and died for the blacks. Here in San
Francisco we are not by any morally
vice is evil as yellow vice, and 1t is because
of this that we see danger in unlimited imml-
grafton. Humiliating as 1t may seem Chris
tan America is not equal to pagan China.
San Francisco is not equal to Chinese immor-
atty Is Boston or New York or Chicago equal
to the task Of assinlilating Chinese populations
with American standards? Says Chinese pro-
verb. THE light of heaven cannot shine into
States are an inverted bowl. Henry Ward
Beecher said, when the lion eats the OK, the
OK becomes the lion; not the lion, OK. X mas
wall in mix hat
much OK, or If he be poisoned, we nave DEAD
lion as a result
China is the OK America is the lion. AS
well might mouse try to digest an elephant
as America to digest China. There Is too
much China;a China Of many centuries OF
vices. You cannot empty the Pacific into
cup This is what advocates Of. unlimited i'm
migration would try to do.
What are the facts?
The present number of Chinese in the United
States may approximately be put down at
"a 600 on the Pacific Coast outside of San Fran
cisco..a and $4,000 in other States and Terri
tories. 1t is estimated that the whole rum
Der of Chinese protesting the Christian faith
is about 1000. 1t is claimed that more than
1000 attend evening schools. that the number
in missions and public schools equal 500 and
that $4,000 has been given by the Chinese for
the building of chapels and for Christian work.
1 may venture the opinion, however that in
the face of these figures it is the opinion of
Christian workers among the Chinese that the
proper place to civilize the race is not here,
but in their own country.
We have failed to christianize- the Chinese
population of California. From moral point
of view the Chinaman has not been a success
in the United States, which is to say, he has
not assimilated with American institutions
and ideals. He has planted orchards, built
railroads. washed linen and prepared dinners
for $50 or $40 month, but has signally failed
to become moral American force. His mega
tive virtues have never become positive In
fluences.
This is true largely because he is the i'm
migrant without home. He is man with
ar,fo ho1 xrerf,k
hither their wives and children, for whom
they have sacrificed. The cabin and the
in their veins.
They have become pillars of the republic,
but the Chinese homeless people. Con-
sequently they have imperilled their environ
ment, and the influence of their lives has not
been good. The Scotch have given US con-
science the italian artistic taste. the French
man wit, the English piety, the Scandinavian
industry, but the Chinese have made no perma-
nent gifts TO American life. He has con-
triputed nothing to the moral or social fibre
OF the republic. He has left no art. no sci
ence, not even his fortune or his bones. Hr
has taken millions from gold fields. Ht
has not left anywhere a permanent dollar.
NO man is moral force in the United Slater
A few years ago the Board of Supervisors
OF this city made investigation, when H.
space comprised in eight blocks: Fifty-seven
women and fifty-nine children living as fami-
lies; Isl women and 57e children herded to-
relatives and no family classification so far
as could be ascertained: SIC prostitutes and
eignty-seven children, professional prostitutes
ana chudren living together
mere were JOB houses of prostitution, $50
iron-ciad barred and barricaded gambling
gems, twenty-six opium joints existing in de-
nance OF municipal laws and of police authori-
~. In habitations sufficient for $50 persons
the committee found 1913 actual sleeping occu-
pants.
The conditions are practically the enroe 70
day. ~
chinatown furnishes the best argument
standpoint. "
It's doors and filth its prostitution and slav-
cry, It's opium joints and gambling dens its
unsanitary conditions and atmosphere of secret
eye and turn the stomach.
we nave cleansed Havana with broom and
SPADE and flame, but every large city in the
country has an annex of Chinese degeneracy
Wnlcn needs, doubtless, Bibles and schools. but
nrst OF all sanitation and cleanliness. which
in the laws of health precedes godliness itself.
CHINATOWN in San Francisco Is museum of
oriental vice, kept open for the benefit of East
ern tourlsts-and other people. 1t is city of
slavery, worse than the slave pen in New Or
leans which gave young Lincoln the inspiration
to lift the thunderbot of the Northern con-
science. A second Harriet Beecher Stowe
might write another "Uncle Toms Cabin and
Draw the picture of oriental Eliza bound by