Show from the stockton ta t ALIFORNIA AND THE CHINESE ithe athe policy pursued by the state of california toward the chinese is false inot enot if not infamous our government fo for r many years has had an ambassador of the first class resident in that country th leby recognizing china as one of the gleat igat powers of the trie world we have hoi hol i cited their trade and diplomats have ell yil ordered to trail along after the M ruih tajh tl h and alid french armies at pekin pelan rt ren reA reades between this and that county have been solemnized regu latag interchanges and on tile the one hand for tile the resi hz n protection of our merchants in chimon oh the other for the residence and afo protection petion of tile tiie chinese in the united states this country has actually profi tedmore by the wars that have opened chinese ports than either cither of the nations who incurred tile the e expense pense of forcing the emperors into the arrangement the english and french justly complain of this they have similar treaties but so far yankee tact and enterprise ter terill prise rise have taken the wind out of th theira fl sails kalls having obtained this advantage cheaply it would appear from the cha character of the laws of this state that wo we are ire bent oil on such a construe construction tion of our treaties as will soon forfeit all ali the good results from them in england or france the law protects a chinaman as it does any other person in california a chinaman has no more protection against a citizen than a dog or a horse his property liberty or life may be sworn away by the dirtiest rascal who disgraces a white skin and caucasian blood the chinaman no matter what his respectability or character for truth and honor is barred out of our courts and cannot testify against the highwayman thief or common Va vagrant gramit who may have robbed or injured him the law which thus discriminates crimi nates is in fact a premium for robbery theft and murder and there are hundreds of vagrant scoundrels who live by it in the mountains as well veil as the cities our interior exchanges come to us freighted with accounts of the robbery and murder of chinese in every part of the mines the men who perpetrate p elrate these outrages are often well known they belong to a class who have not done an honest days work in ten years who live by stealing low cheating gambling ant and just such law protected murders and robberies as the newspapers chronicle yet no voice is raised in behalf of the the chinese or in execration of tile the white thieves and va vagrants rants the class thus protected by the law may number from one to two thousand they are not any more serviceable vi to society than so many coyotes they have nothing they do nothing they are arc too proud to beg therefore they must s steal t eai cal yet they are protected they even vote sit on juries j uries urles occasionally casio nally and now and then possibly swear a chinaman chinaman to the gallows or state prison we have who pay a year in taxes work constantly at low wages help to enrich the state by their labor and are about as quiet and orderly as any average laborers in the united states they neither vote sit injuries on juries or ask any of f the higher rights of citizens this is is very well they are not fit for citizenship though quite as fit either morally or intellectually as tile the white villains who rob them but this is not all they are not even allowed the poor privilege of swearing in a court of justice though the common loafer is and even til the negro who but a short time ago was regarded as a mere chattel there seems to be no better reason for this odious and barbarous rule of california law than that the chinaman has a tawny skin shin and an almond eye or that his faith is not like ilke ours as if confucius or or plato were not as capable of comprehending the virtue of truth as the christian philosophers we pronounce the rule infamous and a clear invitation to two thousand white th shelves the ives elves robbers and assassins to expel forty thousand industrious profitable profitable table tabie laborers from tile the state what shat would Fran france eeor or england or america say to it if the chinese were to practice the same rule toward their residents in china to exclude them from tile the privileges of an oath while native robbers enjoyed it simply because our religion diali diners ers from theirs we imagine there would be the id d 1 to pay and all christendom would soon be deafened with our complaints fair play imajewel isa is a jewel 11 if we desire to maintain trade with china and japan to encourage their labor here and to cultivate such friendly relations as will admit of the settlement of our merchants and traders in those countries let us show them that we are capable of the least of tile the cardinal virtues justice At present tile the standing of a chinaman in california is scarcely better than that of a slave in texas I 1 tim swedes in minnesota manufacture their own dry goods raising wool and flax in lelent clent elent quantities to supply them for their present wants and also to lay away for the future why not do so in utah A movement to colonize delaware with northern emigrants has received the tilo sanction and assistance of gov cannon and is already in successful operation i I 1 I 1 |