Show A CHINESE CHAMPION senator hoar defends mongolian immigration by W U telea telegraph raila to the tile I IlBRA I lOl I mareb L Wind Win doras orua resolution from the committee on foreign relations for au an investigation I into u the loss of certain state pa tiers and rind as to the improper connection aers of government officers or members of congress with claims or grants in connection with tho tile governments govern menta of chili and peru was taken up bayrd moved to amend by adding as a specific subject of inquiry the following whether any promise or sti stipulation p ula tion by which the intervention of the tho united united states into the controversies existing between chill and peru or chili and bolivia has been expressly or implicitly riven given bv by a person or persons connected with the government of th the united states or whether its influence has n in any way exerted promised or intimated in connection with or in in relation to ead ea d contracted acte by tiny any one officially connected with tle government of tho the united states B Bu yards amendment prevailed without objection and the resolution as amended was adopted 41 after the tho morning hour lour unfinished bu business iness the chinea bill was tem ily laid wide aside for a speech by i iccie upon the urgency of better accommodations for the library of Oon Cons gross roas mcdill medill presented resolutions by the tile iowa Legisla legislature turo praying that the patent laws be BO so amended as to prevent alist unjust executions alio oS at resumed consideration of the chinese bill and hoar of massachusetts took the floer floor with a wt speech in opposition to its p k ge ilia first proposition was ras alt that ou our people years ago found cd ed this nation upon the moral law a affirming that at all men have equally derived from their creator the right U t the pursuit pur sult of happiness and that equality in that right is the fundament fun damen tal rule of divine justice in in its a application I 11 to mankind lie ile set forth how W the nation had grown and said the tile existence of the principle just stated hal attracted immigration from all countries to our own shores rather than to south Anpo america rica or r 31 mexico exico that ever every now state affirmed it in iii its constitution and that california her acri self in her original conati constitution declared that it was meant to include the right of expatriation this waa was declared in 1868 by act of Con congress grem and upon ti alie le persistent persistent ersi stent in boil Gon grose row of a Ewi california fornia senator of arispi arieli birth it was urged upon the country eliat the right of expatriation patria tion was indispensable to tile enjoyment of life and the pursuit of happiness happi nees the tile doctrine was solemnly reiterated e in ill th the burlingame it treaty r t mr r webster d declared ared that e equality bality of rights especially of those of la ore I is tho the principal lal benefit which america lia biad conferred red on mankind wo have made madan a treaty and now wo we propose this lqis legation lation which undertakes to deny and overthrow that declaration and to strike a blow at nien by reason of their race and occupation china offers to modify the treaty BO so as to permit the exclusion of diseased persons and im importe port d coolie laborers this offer was rejected by our ur government and a treaty substituted substitute tute which does not permit t tho lie exclusion clu ion of tile three arst clad classes cla sees but only permit their excle sioni la laborers boreri tho purpose of the cramere rs of the yand and of the bill is to strike their bloant lieuw at labor without regard to character acter it was impossible to overstate the consequences to from asserting te erting such a doctrine as lie he d demand of the united it in I the worlds public law for myself and for hiis hour hoar continued I refused t to consent to a denial by bytho the united stasea of tho tire right of every man desiring to improve his c condition ion by honest labor bove inifi its labor being no mans p property rol bert y but his own to go annii anywhere bere on tho the face of lie the earth that he pleases but the tile bill violates the provisions of the treaty which it proposes to execute tile treaty permits only a reasonable eu suspension 18 of f immigration ration therill the bill total totally y prohibits prohibit it for twenty coara card and confers agris on every v ry petty officer of er the right to be delao ze end prid forcibly remove from the coun country try persons without trial what lias has happened within thirteen years that the tile great republic should strike its flaa flag only chinese have been added to our po population Ini lation in that time there arc are but of them hero all h told the with part of the whole population treyarc the mo most moa A easily goi governed arned ra anco e ili in the world hoar continued citing statistics t to show a rapid dev decrease reafie of tho the immigration for the last half of the decade and this dimini dion became greater when compared with the rapidly in creasan cre asin abins numb numbers tirs from other countries mr hoar said raid that in 1881 in a total immigration of there was but I M Chine seand in 1881 there were ivere in a total of im migran migrants mi granta ts while in the tile same samo year chinese vent ment back the pury blooded gypsies roaming through thia this country aro arc as numerous as the chi all of whom if feathered in one place would not exceed the population odthe of the sixteenth city odthe of the country chatan what an insult difan intelligence telli gence lie exclaimed to ask leave of china to keep out their people because this handful of arnond eyed asiatic threatened to destroy our boasted civilization advocates orthis of this kind of legislation lie eaid vaid indol invoked KI the old race poeju dice IvI ch had so often played its it hateful and bloody part in ili history and asserted chatas hat as alie chinaman worked and lived cheap lie injured the american laborer lali jill whom lie competed he ile answered this by au an Ar argument Lumea t to show that the outcry against the Cli Ca linese uce was wv the earno sano which biell had been made in the ast liast against alm ilm he irishman tile negro the indian and the tile jew and antl that b t each of thea races in iu turp turn had inq indicated bated its capa ity f r subdued over fl a ia lan P lart irl of tho w rid the tile prejudices wili wil I h it had found he lie a blat tl there cre n ere cT Oret rest abati L on and daura of f tile th of tuc tiie I i copie oiw b bit IL it ili inu h of t this s lie ho lit L by tale n municipal legislation consular olli arri oft could prevent the coming of any man nion labor b was not hiis own filthy habits alts of living liin li in might be con contrella control trollA bd by municipal ordinances prescribing llie the dimensions men oils of a dwelling arid and I limiting the ri ambar of occupants of tho same tenement laking every am ac in determining ter cT its fitness for freedom at its best and not ita its worst twe ve find t he chinese in ili many particulars superior to our own abec ancestors korts as is tl ey fi M t appear in the light of history as described by macarilay Macai ilay th cy furnished able fill diplomats profound philosophers servants and docile laborers among mong the authorities cited on oil tb this a point t were many californians gholia who had personal contact with tho tile an th tho r real M I motive of the tile a attack tt ack upon the chinese was the fear fea r not of f ill the inferiority but of the an ile priority of the chinese in ili most of t the he occupations of life it is said they will not assimilate with us but our treatment of thern has made this impo impossible seible they have learned our industries rapidly on and intelligently telli gently but they ara are e eded by sta statute tuto from the public schools although taxed to support them the california judges certify that chinese can have no honest trial by jury dennis kearneas Kear constitution queue ordinance was held invalid by luelle judge field the laws lairs apt against irist the crimes and extortions extort ions committed upon tile chinese may well explain their unwillingness to acquire a christianity represented to thorn them by such e examples san francisco taxes ho the chinese who carry his washing home in a basket fifteen dollars when I she taxes the person who sands sends it home with hors horses estand and cart two dollars the moat most serious argument hoar made was tile claim that the introduction of chinese labor reduces wages of the american laborer and u upon 11 this he said I am not in favor or lowering anywhere the wages vagos of the amarii an laborer anthe on the contrary I the secand and increase of the I purchasing power of wages of the an american n workingman work inKman should be theone alie one principal pal object of our le legislation isolation the tile share in agricultural culau let and manufacturing products which ROOS goes to labor ought and I believe will steadily increase for that only our protective system exists the acquisition of wealth national or in individual iacobe is to be desired only for that and I believe that cl will learn V very ery soon to in insist on ilia full share of the pi products of his work that whether lie does or not the wealth he lie creates s will make belter better not worse the condition of every higher class claw of labor the or cry y efah of an injury jury to our labor frum from chinese rests on the same fallain which opposed labor saving saying machinery and the tile coming of ia irishman the german and the swede hoar next cited sta statistics ca to allow that in ilia ciany ny mccu X rations st chinese labor is much I i her than that Is is amid ail for tho same kindo kind of T labor at the baat and that labor prices in california im generally range much higher than similar prices in ili the east the chinaman had find created la largo mg wealth for the lie chidi never would have been created without him in the building of railroads and brainin dra draining inin of ivaina lands of california lideh lias has but inhabitants andean and an support the dream of the I pouring o 19 out of the tile vast population of f auell asia on our shores is shown to be he fallacious on bythe by the small numbers who have come N within ith in he the last thirty year ud jd is 13 in in conflict with the other statement that they do nut not como come to stay gray he lie produced abundant illustrations of the tie a tine nt of the chinese i i california and showed that the lie s of chinese wages and of lin linblad in had lad I been beell greatly mr air aloar con conal chided klad b as asserting that the right af i ever evcic y being to go wherever on thit surface of tho the earth lie in may ay get un air houe t living vi interference e by bv government came cause from the fame canie as the tile golden golden rule and the bernit n on the tile mount lount and that authority would make it safe for the government and the hect people ale who obey hios not by exclusion or ur caste but b by reverence forthe for alie individual soul can an wo we aid in ill lie groat great object of goda gods on oil e earth art h the roscue of humanity from the degradation ia is not by chinese policies that china is to be C civilized alter after amplifying this thi idea mr air hoar yielded the floor spoken ov over ertho two hours the bill w was as then laid over for unfinished bianes h i for tomorrow to morrow and tho the a few adjourned |