Year: 1878

CHINESE.


New York Mai.l


Another reason has been published
for the immediate expulsion of the
Chinese from California and the prohibi-
ton of fresh importations. The Chinese,
so complains the Californian, do not
live well enough. None of them board
at the Palace Hotel, the Lick House, or
the Occidental. None of them patronize
the fashionable tailors of that delightful
city, and there never has been an in
stance known of Chinaman going into
the Poodle Dog Restaurant, which is the
Delmonico's Of San Francisco, and ex-
pending twenty dollars for dinner, and
they never indulge in four bit brandy.
Therefore, the Chinsman is bar to the
progress of the country, and must be got
rid of to make room for race more
gustatory, more bibulous and more
sartorially inclined. ~


There may be some reason in this.
The Chinaman is lowly-minded, and in
clined to economy that would delight the
heart of a Scotchman. He sleeps in a
little bunk, he eats very little, aid that
little of the cheapest, and his dissipa-
tions are absurdly cheap and harmless.
A play which takes six months in its per-
formance delights his heart, especially
as the plot is SO complicated that to miss
half the nights makes no earthly differ
ence with him, as he never could under
stand it anyhow, and the sweetmeats i'm
ported fEem- the FleweFy Kingdom have
the merit of being extremely cheap and
having not the slightest intoxicating
properties. Then he goes to bed very
early, that he may rise with the lark
or whatever bird they have in California
that wakes up sluggards early in the
morning-and get to his work, like
weak little man. He has none of the
qualities that endear him to the average
Californian. He does not fill himself
with cheap whisky, and go out killing
people, nor does he make night hideous
by ripping off signs, breaking in doors
and shooting people. Some few of them
can use the razor with tolerable GER
tainty and precision, but the revolver is
not much known among them; and as
for hunting other people in gangs, the
Chinaman is altogether too poor spirited
to do anything of the kind.


Then his clothing! Why simple pair
of wooden drawers, with loose cotton
trowsers, and loose cotton blouse over
it answers his purpose, and when he
aspires to the pantaloons of the more
civilized American, they are always of
the cheapest description. In short, what
beggarly wages the Chinaman earns he
saves, and thereto isn't of much use to
the hotels, barkeepers, and tailors of the
country.


We suggest, however, before they ex-
pei him, that he may improve. Who
knows but that constant contact with
the hoodlums of San Francisco may
bring him up to their level? The whisky
of that coast is searching, and if they
can get him to drinking it steadily for
while, who shall say that he will not, in
time, be competent to commit as clear
murder as any of them? Who shall say
that he cannot be brought to abandon
the simplicity of costume that has here
tofore distinguished him, and in time
run in debt for clothes with the proud
est American on the coast. What is to
prevent him from assimilating with the
Caucasian race, and getting all their
vices, if he does dodge their virtues?
All this is possible, though we must con-
fess that the way they have resisted
thus far, gives some color to the per-
petual persecution they have been sub
jected to.