Show iye lye THE elry elgy CHINESE NESE QUESTION IN the journal tournai To of social science charles francis francia adams arbas lately published hi bu views views respecting the chinese immigration which is forcing its way to our shores he takes a gloomy view and is filled with anxious forebodings respecting the result of this immigration he sets forth fhe the nature of the chinese chiaese immoralities and the evils which will inevitably evit ably in his opinion be fastened upon the nation by the introduction of this strange race into our land he says the ithe population laton of the tho farthest east swarms by the tho hundreds of millions and presses continua continually continually ll on the extreme limits of subsistence for goc for unknown centuries the great dikes of oriental I 1 law and custom have stood high and strong retaining that unknown flood of humanity within native bounds behind those walls wails the level of population has risen higher and higher and ha has pressed against them more and more severely but as yet they have scarcely begun to yield for nearly half a century the we whole civilized world has been working i at those barriers and undermining them wo we want to let trade in and in doing so we are going to let the population out within within the last few years the barriers have begun to yield within the next half contu ry they thoy will wiil be wholly destroyed and this vast reservoir of humanity semi civilized ignorant asiatic in blood manners gid wid and morals will come como flooding over the earth to deplete china of its surplus population is li a i a simple impossibility the stream of emigration once set in can only increase it can never run dry neither keither is this emigration mi already firmly established christian or in anyway any waya into kinto us or in any sympathy with us or intellectually approachable proa chable by us it it speaks an unknown tongue and has strange manners and customs it does not change or assimilate to it subject to the naturalization laws the amendment to the constitution now pending za before the state legislatures guarantees the 1 suffrage this emigration is now we welcomed by the philosophers of the school of material progress as likely to supply an inexhaustible supply of cheap labor the same thinkers would doubtless organize an emigration from sodom and the cities of the plain could the inhabitants of those industrious dust rious communities but import an inexhaustible supply lyof of cheap brimstone with their vices and dig upon our railways when not corrupting conr morals morais 11 this question of chinese immigration is beginning to excite consid considerable erab le attention among thinking men all over the united states it presses itself upon their notice and it elicits a great variety a of opinions many being decidedly of the opinion that it will be an advantage to the country to suffer the stream of emigration to tiow flow on uninterruptedly while W hile hiie others view it as an evil freighted with portentous consequences to the country on the h of this month mouth a convention of planters with delegates from all the southern states is to meet at memphis to take into consideration the project of importing chinese to work the plantations of the south this brings the subject prominently before the country and their decision will be watched with some degree of interest by the people of all sections in california this matter has received much attention and the people have havo had ample opportunities for fon ascertaining whether the influx of this race is fraught with beneficial or injurious consequences to the country it might be supposed that from the tl he experience of the people of that state much valuable information on the subject might be derived but the fact is 0 opinions P idiens are greatly divided there the chinese question guestion ques gues tion enters largely into politic sand mens views respecting it are in influenced flu fiu to a great extent by their position 1 if a man be an empio employer berhe he looks upon the chinaman with more favor than if he be an employed emp loye the former views the asiatic as a cheap laborer an instrument which he be can use to serve his purposes and to increase his facilities for accumulating wealth and of course he discovers virtues in him which the anglo saxon laboring man with whom he is brought into competition cannot perceive lie he learns to hate himfar he becomes his formidable rival in the labor market cheapening labor and virtually ta taking kingas ashe asbe he thinks the bread out of his and his hig faunys fam ilys mouths entertaining such views he only perc perceives elves the Chinam Chin amans anys degradation and vices in his eyes he hd is a foreigner a heath heathen en and but little above i S I 1 tiac f the brute this explains the treatment they frequently receive on landau landing i at san francisco it is not I 1 many n any lys days since we a san ban francisco paper of the debarkation of 1200 chinese at that port and of their being attacked by a mob moh of men and boys with stones clubs and mud many of them being knocked down and then daubed with mud and dragged around by the hair bair the crowd on the sidewalks sidewalk fi laughing at and cheering the spectacle in nevada a convention of miners is about to be held at virginia city for the purpose it is alleged of consulting upon the best beat means to procure the exclusion of the chinese from the mines of the pacific coast their argument is that as the chinaman can live upon wages on which a white man would starve he is sure if permitted to work to drive out the white man so Soto to save themselves they wish him to be debar red from working some of the california papers in commenting upon this movement say that if the miners would only view this question in its broadest bearings they would soon find that the introduction of chinese to the mines can never be productive of harm to them but on the contrary they must benefit by it the san francisco times in a recent article upon the condition of the labor market says during the past year demagogues demagogue shave have havo been busily engaged in prognosticating all kinds of evil from the influx of wo we have been told that they were taking the bread out of tho the mouths of white men and women we WY have been assured that the tho employment of as domestics domestico was driving away industrious and capable white girls whose places were filled by the hateful economical mongol pic ric pictures tures have been drawn of able bodied i grants reduced to beggary in our streets and n I 1 an attempt has been made to create the impression that so far as tho the labor market manket was concerned john chinaman had emulated caesar and had co come me seen and conquered and and ana now ow what wh at are the sober facts as shown by figures aures which neither labor leaguers nor politicians can get round the chinese element has exerted no appreciable fluence influence iz umon upon the labor market all through the tha year tho the demand in every class of occupations has been steadily in advance of the supply although it is known known that chinese are largely employed as cooks and house servants the demand for white girls has been constant and invariably in excess of tho supply nor has tho the rate of wages been affe affected chea at all very merent different dI to this is the tone of the daily dally inland ampre lem JEm pre published in 1 1 n nevada it bays says in our humble opinion there is a danger now hanging over oui our nation moro more fearful in its promise of destruction to the future of the united states than another war like that from the effects of which half the homes hordes of our countrymen are draped iti in a debt hang hangs over us that puzzles the shrewdest statesmen of the land to put in a successful way of ai qui dation yes a greater peril than the pestilence or the tho earthquake carries with it this peril is the introduction of chinese coolies co oliea shadowed foreshadowed fore by the proposed meeting of the convention of planters at memphis the empire hn knows S that under the guise of patient labkow laborers aers the planters are likely to introduce in 1 A people before whom the shrewdest nations of bf tho the earth when brought into competition are are aro but as children it continues they begin as a blessing they finish as a scourge individually they are are nothing collectively collectively they are like the locusts which darken the sun above and consume the vegetation of the earth below As la borers when laborers were feland abundant antior for the caucasian race they in california nia did well but their stay on this coast h halb haib been but a probation they came here un under der difficulties their stay was only by a reluctant sufferance and as soon as they could they have hastened away but once remove the restrictions now placed upon theland the mand a flood gate is opened which will almost take away our identity as a nation when once it is accomplished what the in san francisco demanded for his country countrymen mea moa before the congressional commatee Comm itee they will com commence menco to bring here their wives and children and their household gods then a gloomier shadow will fall upon the prosperity of white men in the united states than ever african slavery war or pestilence could bring they will come as slaves they will end in enslaving us or those who are to como come after us there is probably no people on the continent who are likely to bo be less disturbed or affected by the introduction or non introduction of this element than the people of utah if the people act with the union and wisdom which have heretofore characterised characterized their movements they are and will be sane safe from all disturbance there is no class american european or asiatic the influx of which can harm them if they thay act wisely and in accordance t 7 i i 1 jym i ir t U ir mil mii r i with the counsel which is given iven they can sustain themselves and be as independent as any community in the world it is the union of the pe people aple which has produced the remarkable results that are ire everywhere apparent iii in this territory and that concert of action carried out and maintained in all the details of labor will give us continued supremacy |