Show ANOTHER ORIENTAL DANGER our neighbors on the pacific coast are and for years yearn have been in a state of apprehension amounting at times to alarm over the presence and continual coming of great numbers of Cb chinese Inese laws so HO strict and searching as to knock at least one line ot of tile the star spangled Hp angled banner into pi have been passel and enforced but the feel I 1 ing ng is as far from being allayed as it was iu in the days when the gates were as wide open to and as lew few restrictions upon chinese as upon any otner other so bo high has this feeling run that crimes and outrages innumerable have been practiced upon the heathen a certain loose joose and characterless act erless orless element considering them reives elves licensed to and auf juf justified in pelting abd even shooting with or without provocation As a necessary result the chinese have at tim s retaliated talia ted and some of work has been cruel treacherous aud and bloo bloody jy as witness the late highbinder outrages if it is not a case of like producing like we are very much at sea on the ane question as the little brodu follows fellows from china that live in this city are remarkably dacile and in most cases timid creatures who would rather run than tight light and rather wash a white mans shirt than do either A recent number of the san francisco francioco chronicle after pronouncing the doctrine of universal fatherhood and brotherhood 9 mere inere form of words lovely in theory but detrimental and destructive in practice makes jaees the discovery di that the united states is now confronted with a number or of serious problems arising from the passage of the geary exclusion act the chinese six companies having the effrontery to set themselves in direct antagonism to the operation of that law an to anticipate the action of the 0 ourt urt on the question of its constitutionality under such conditions it asks can the united coiled states afford to te permit the unregulated regula teu aud and unrestricted advent of japanese who bid fair to swarm upon our shores and to supplant american labor in unnumbered fields of industry in view of the fact that japan is known to be a land of vast and wealth giving resources whose development has baa only just commenced and that the population is but little more than half of that of the untied united states one would be apt to think if not previously informed the other way that the japanese were in danger from us No nothing thlu can surpass the average Amt american rican in rapacity and predatory action when those to whom our carneu a little inferior t us ua physically greatly so numerically and not in it at all educationally as witness the disgraceful proceedings which w aich have been and to a fehser extent still are going on in the indian territory the eniy little nation the natives have been permitted to call their own out of all this vast continent that aks ws once theirs I 1 tile the chronicle makes the additional discovery that there is a moral and social feature to which no observant citizen of san francisco can be blind and that is the character of the japanese females who have of late been coming to this country il ij great numbers it may do for sir edwin arnold to chant in verse verae and prose the praises ot of the husmees and for pierre lioti hoti to write eulogies on Ibl macdanie Ma danie adarae MAO aae but it does not follow that in this american city of sar san francisco Frano isco we are ready to adopt the teahouse as aa a national institution or to give our consent to the establishment of a japanese quarter for which tsin tain well known but unmentionable ble streets in this city should be an analogue and a symbol no let us hope vastly otherwise any thing or influence that would have a tendency to demoralize demora liae or our coastwise neighbor ought to be ba shunned with a vigor like unto that which a man ex exhibits in tile the presence of a mad bull or a woman betrays at the appearance of a mouse if ef the i act is not y drastic and effective in its operation t to keep tea gardens immoral woman and common laborers from tills this side the golden aate by all weans means let something else be tio devised aud quickly k A city which contains a drinking saloon for every ninety three people ought to tg be surrounded by a wall chinese Chines ehigh digh japanese tight nl nd dublin stout |