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Show after arriving on the golden coast had a tendency to soften their hearts and make them more considerate of the lowly and the poor than are onr friends of the East. They had Chinese in abundance among them as servants and contract laborers. For thirty years they studied the problem of Chinese immigration, and finally they reached the conclusion that no race on this earth can succeed in direct competition with the Chinese. They saw the reason for it. They saw that Chinese could live and support a family" on less money than any man of a generous race can live. Through 4000 years of want and famine in- China the race had prepared itself for a fight with poverty until sixteen Chinese can live and work in a room not any too large for two Americans to work in. They can live on food that the stomach of a white man would instantly reject if he could swallow it at all. More than that, they come as an alien race, bringing bring-ing their own food and clothing, adhering to their clothing .and living mostly on the food sent them from China. The contract on which they came included a clause that if they should die in this country their bones should be returned to the flowery kingdom, country simply for the purposes of plunder. Some of them were good servants. Let a competent woman wo-man train one of them when they first come to the country and they make good housekeepers and cooks. They are. however, in our judgment, a superior su-perior race altogether to the Japanese, with a single exception up to date the Japanese are the most tenacious fighters. The Chinese nnike better servants ser-vants than the Japanese, and possibly a Chinese butler but-ler in Xew York does get $60 a month, but if he does it is because Chinese butlers are scarce. Open the pates to them and it would be easy to get a Chinese butler two years from now for $15 a month. It would be easy to contract for Chinese laborers for 60 cents a day and they would board themselves, but when that pot to be the case, the workingmen and women of generous races would nave 10 move our. That question is thoroughly understood on the West coast. It only wants a little experience for the East to find it out. too. When the Nation speaks of the Irish or the Italians or the Slavonic, or any other European race, it forgets that they are all Caucasians and assimilate easily with the men and women of this country, while on the part of the .Japanese and the Chinese there is a race division which cannot he broken down. They are both an exclusive people, they have no use for the outside world, except what they can make out of it. Their hearts are in native lands; thev have no possible disposition to alienate themselves. them-selves. As far as China is concerned, they look down upon us from 40' Ml years of exclusiveness. and believe that they are the only real first-class people on earth. The West coast Ioiil' az decided that they ought to be kept in the land of their love and not to become leeches upon the United States. Our (Jovernment rests upon the intelligence and patriotism of the people, and any man who advocates advo-cates the indiscriminate immigration of an alien race that cannot assimilate with ours, at the same time that man advocates reducing the poor n 11 of this countr to h poverty 01, t of which Ins ch'Mren cannot he educated and m the throes of which p.i-t p.i-t riot ism d ies. WHY THAT ASIATIC EXCLUSION? Col. H. O. S Hoistand has hepn Ipoturinc in New-York, New-York, and aocordinn to thr Nation, "punctured the fallacv" of cheap labor hy saying that "cheap Chinese Chi-nese labor would not remain cheap vev Inns: after enterinz this country. The Nation indorse him because he was m Pe-kine Pe-kine during the troubles there. The Nation proceeds to say flint ' cheap Irish labor la-bor was a political hurrhear during the days of the great exodus from Ireland." Durum the Civil war "there was a great fear that the negroes would move in a bodv to the North and ruin the laboring men who accepted low wages. It speaks of the hun'i'-ds of Italian-, and Slavic immigrants that pour through our gates and live or a few cents a day at hoi.ie. but have no difficulty in adjusting themselves to onr higher wage scale. I; 8avs. too. that "from people who employ Japanes-and Japanes-and Chinese servants in this ctv we hear freipienl ly that thev are admirable servants, but far too e. pensive for an ordinary family. To a bO a montl Chinese butler a a month Irish servant girl is ;: cheap laborer of the obnoxious kind." We are disposed to think that the Almight;. made a mistake when he put the west part of thi-i thi-i country next to China instead of the cast. Tin East want Chinese and Japanese so much, it is a pity that they cannot, for a little while, have all ! their desires gratitied. Perhaps when the Panama i canal is finished their longings will be gratified. The people of the Pacific coast originally were ' made up of the pick of the East. The brightest men ' went there from every town and county of the East to make up the population of California. When they mingled together they made a sterling community. I iOxe hardshics of their going and thos thejr suffered r 1 |