The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-03-13

commercial greed that saddled
upon the Chinese the foulest and
most damnable curse a human be-
ing can acquire, the opium habit.
The result is that today instead Of
being the vigorous beings the
Chinese once were, they are weak,
effeminate degenerates, but peace
full and loyal among their people
and to their empire.
The Chinese must always re-
main the football of his white
brothers for no better reason than
that he is sheathen Chinee."
The Chinese puzzle would not
prove such a grave and spooky
menace to Americans especially
the housewife if he, ''the Chinee,"
were given better opportunity to
show his real value as a human
being; but that is impossible among
an educated and progressive peo-
pie such as we are. Impossible
because among us we conjure such
things as Confucius, joss houses,
opium dives, pigtails, bungloo,
highbinders, female traffic, birds
nest stew, rat-suee, chopsticks,
chop suee, Chinese laundries and
other loathsome habits and char
acteristics too numerous to men,
ton; to say nothing of the hordes
Of coolies that would drive the
Italians and their padrone system
out Of Patterson, New Jersey, and
the Poles, Slavs, Huns and other
privileged and enlightened peoples
now being dumped at Castle Gar
den to become model citizens of
this glorious free country of ours.
It is a singular fact that the labor
unions are bitterly and uncom-
promisingly opposed to admitting
the Chinese to our shores upon the
theory that, the bars once let down
to Chinese emigrants would mean
the ruin of the mechanic and la
boring man, while they scarcely
seem to notice the class of emf
grants dumped at New York and
other eastern ports, and the con-
ditions of labor and wages in the
east as a result of the influx of
European scum, to say nothing
of the vice and crime transplanted
to the larger cities of the east from
overlooking Rome. Naples, Vienna,
Paris, Moscow, London, Antwerp,
Brussels and other European pur-
veyors. Italy actually provides
the means to send us it's human
scum, both male and female; Paris
sends us all of its superfuous
demimondes, while from Belgium
and the Russian and Austrian
ports we receive our worst paupers.
It is only from Ireland, Germany,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France
and Holland that the best and
highest type of emigrants come,
and this to limited degree,
Italy alone sending us annually
more human scum than the above
nations in desirable emigrants.
While emigration in the east
has been demoralizing to the labor
interests on account of the cheap
laborit begets, the Chinese upon the
Pacific coast and Rocky Noun
tain states have never injured the
laboring interests seriously; on the
contrary, the Chinese have been in
many ways blessing, especially
to the housewife, who, if she told
the truth would tell you that her
Chinese actually 'sabes' more
about homework than she does.
The Chinaman is not a mechanic
outside of certain spheres for
which there is no calling in this
country, while on the other hand
he is natural born cook and his
effeminate nature and quaint hui
morous uOdlese odlige makes him the
best piece of household goods any
woman could wish for, that is, if
she wishad for q raliahla hnasa.