| Show A BAD COUNTRY fob FOR CHINA menthe chinese residents of Calif california according to accounts in f bome some of our recent exchanges are enduring great injustice and ill treatment at the han ban hands ds of thein their neighbors the civil status s of the in the golden state beate is 18 so 60 low hat that no matter what injuries ho he may sustain at the handsol hands of a caucasian he has no chance whatever of redress on chinese testimony for by the tha laws of california the evidence of a chinaman is nut not allowable ina inn in a court of justice in that state the result is that all classes of chinese re residents s identa there rich or poor no matter how in dust rious or how as taxpayers tax payers they support the revenue bevenue may be swindled but out of their property or subjected to per injury with little or no chance of redress this state of things has it is said given birth to a new cl assof swindlers lers in san francisco who obtain goods on pretences pretenses from chinese houses carrying on various useful branches of industry and devote the entire proceeds to their own which they can do with impunity and as the celestials Celesti als can obtain no jio redress at the hands of odthe tee law they are thus robbed in numberless instances of the fruits of their industry were this the worst phase of the injustice done to thedoor the poor chinese it would bea wrong so flagrant as scarcely to nind find a parallel in modern times at least in a civilized community but it is far from being eo so as the following from one of our exchanges abundantly proves alast evening at the tho themire nire fire on dupont street elreeta a crowd of waverly place loafers and neves thieves and roughs boughs who were being behig kept hept back from the fire by the police amused themselves by throwing a china woman down in the muddy stift and dragging her back and forth by the hair for some minutes the poor female heathen was rescued from their clutches at last by officer saulsbury and taken to the for protection he also arrested one of other her assailants who was pointed out by the woman but as she could not testify against him he was dismissed on his arrival at the the woman then begged an officer to take her to her husbands house saying in piteous accents I 1 do please with me go bo so many white mins wins mans hily killy me do with me go it is scarcely possible to believe that such a state of things is allowed to exist by legislative enactment but so it is the feeling in california against the chinese Is very strong they are disliked and viewed with great grent jealousy still I 1 they should have protection accorded unto them all men irrespective of race or color while they are industrious dust rious and hell help to bear the burdens of taxation imposed upon them by the community in which they live sh should 0 uld be protected in their persons and property if they are vicious there is the law to which they can be held amenable and by it they can be controlled oled and k kept t within bounds erstich such treatments treat that referred to above is about on a par with that on endured by the jews in their darkest days and d in this day of boasted civilization enlightenment and humanity it is is monstrous if american or european citizens in china were subjected to such injustice and brutality all christendom would ring wa with th the account and untold blood and treasure would be expended rather than suffer such outrages to continue the same rule ought to hold good with regard to chinese in this country for whether in a national or an individual capacity capac ityl I 1 the golden rule do unto others as you would they should do unto you Is equally applicable and beneficial |
