Year: 1879

Beecher and the Chinese.


[Cincinnati Enquirer


In his so-called sermon Henry Ward
Beecher said:


"Hear this, Christian people who
have trodden down the negro. Hear
this, ye Christian nation, pouring out
the blood Of the original dwellers of
the soil. Hear this, ye that of fened up
the sealed lands of China, and called
aloud for interchange and brotherhood
and then when the Chinaman comes
hither, seek and drive him out as an
alien and outcast. This nation is hard.
er than the people who had just como
out of bondage aud were unenlighten-
ed with four thousand years of civil
ization and religion. There should be
one law for the American, one for the
German, one for the Irishman and one
for the Chinesel Loud applause. |
Are we to say that il Is the politicians,
and stand still2 Cursed be the nation
that oppresses the poor, that refuses to
protect the stranger. care nothing
for politics, but care for my people,
whose conduct in this particular ought
to make the desert blush"


These utterances are eminently wor-
thy their source: and it Is rather conn
plimentary than otherwise to the peo-
Pile who are opposed to making this
country Chinese colony, that Beecher
is on the other side. It is meet that
the moral leper of Brooklyn should
entertain fellow feeling for the
physical lepers of the Flowery King
dom, whose every female Immigrant
is prostitute of the vilest description.
1t is appropriate that the pastor Of q
Church around which the malodorous
airs of licentiousness continually hang.
should welcome with open arms the
most adulterous people upon the face
of the earth. 1t is fitting that the man
and the organization who bounded
from Church and society a poor wo-
man, whose weakness and sin was in
trusting him, should concentrate their
noble efforts in an attempt to still fur
ther oppress the working people of the
country, and that his sleek and we'll
fed parishioners should greet with de-
risive laughter his cold -blooded sneers
at people who earn their honest bread
by the sweat of their faces. It was to
be expected that the man who receives
$500 for two-hours' talk should favor
the Introduction of class of people
whose only merit is that they thrive
and wax fat upon wages which would
starve q white iaborer and his family
1t is not surprising that man who re-
ceived 100000 to defend himself from
the consequences of shameless liaison
aud gathers in $4,000 per year fer
playing pulpit pranks before select
audience of money-changers and mon
ey-worshipers, should declare one dol
lar per day sufficient for the laboring
man, aud do what in him lies to reduce
that starvation stipend. 1t is not won
derful that a man who held up his
hand in a Court of Justice and defied
all law, human and divine, should ap.
pear as the advocate of the sacredness
and singleness of law. 1t is not
strange that man who is believed to
have remorselessly trampled the fam.
lily relation under foot, should favor
the immigration of people who rec
oanize no marital obligation, aud sur
render themselves completely to the
devilish domination of lust. 1t is mol
singular that this man is possessed Of
such an obliqu;ty of vision that he can
discover no difference between the in.
telligent Irishman aud German who
comes here to remain and become good
citizens, and the piratical Pagan who
comes here to rob American laborert
and carry his plunder to Caina-who
never becomes citizen, aud who, in
the language of the Chinese Ambassa'
dor, "only wants to trade and make
money" 1t is not strange that the
man whose pernicious notoriety hai
done more to debauch the young ol
the country than any other thousand
men in it, should welcome q people
whose touch is pollution, whose every
influence is wholly corruptins, and
whose persons, manners and lives ART
inconceivably filthy, and vile to the
last degree. 1t is not surprising that 9
man who defies self and worships 8
q God of his own creation should rec
| ognize . fellow-worker in the wor.


shippers of joss. He calls for 4" cures
unon the nation that onnrosana tn