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Show AHTI-CHIHESE SENTIMENT. ! A very strong and general ecnti-1 ecnti-1 mciit against an extension of Chinese I i:,fnrat:un has been worked up in ' Caliibriiia, and it appears to be in-J in-J i-reading since the euprcme court of j tho United States declared illegal an ! act of the California logi-ilature prohibiting pro-hibiting tho landing of Ciijutse prostitutes. pros-titutes. The question has already been brought before the state legisla-lature legisla-lature and the board of supervisors of San Francisco, the latter board having hav-ing determined to send a delegation of citizens to Washington to represent the Chinese qufstion to congress, at the expense of the city. The mayor, in laying this subject before the board, said that it "could not but have ol served the increase of Chinese paupers, prostitutes, gamblers and criminals. Tho Chinese had invaded the heart of the city, destroying property values; they defy the police, make and enforce their own laws and regulations, and crowd our prisons, pri-sons, asylums and hospitals. The evil ia attaining proportions threatening threaten-ing the prosperity of tho city and public safety. Chinese immigration is imperiling the interests of the working classes and endangering the morals of boys." Tho newspaper press is also paying considerable attention to this subject, and in a two-column article the San Francisco Cull, a conservative and reliable sheet, describes the detested de-tested Chinese quarter of that city and its filthy and disgraceful condition. con-dition. Among other demoralizing practices which the Chinese have introduced is that of opium smoking and chewing. Gambling flourishes largely with them, there being not less than 120 Chinese gambling houses and Ave lotteries, with not less than fifty branch oflicea. The "Chinese come here as tho bonded slaves of one of the six companies, harnessed to toil for several years ere he can pay off the money advanced ; for his passage; aud when the email percentage of his earnings which he can call his own has vanished in the rattle of the unlucky dice, he will stake his cotton blouse, his sandals, yea, all but his pigtail and his prejudices, preju-dices, as a sacrifice to fickle chance, with all the stoicism of a Seneca warrior war-rior at the stake." Of the 30,000 Chinese population now in San Francisco, not less than 2,000 are abandoned women. The numbers of this chwa of population are constantly increasing, nnd it is claimed that in a commercial and industrial in-dustrial senso they are becoming a great detriment to the white work-ingmen work-ingmen and women, and in the opinion of a great part of the community, com-munity, the evil can no longer be ignored ig-nored by the people and by the eov-j ernment; and congress will be asked to modify or repeal the Burlingume treaty, and hereafter admit only a limited number of Chinese to our shores, under such regulations as will ensure safety to our communities from their filthy habits and demoral-, izing practices. |