| Show JOHN CHINAMAN Even the most thoughtful and conservative con-servative of Americans are realizing that Chinese immigration must be placed under un-der stringent restrictions The reasons for this step are not those of fiery p r loudmouthed partisanship of race prejudice or hatred They are reason open and apparent reasons solid substantial sub-stantial and conservative reasons that appeal to the public and individual good of the American citizen and therefore to the best interests of the Nation The Chinaman is essentially and thoroughly a 1 foreigner Whether he stays a day or x a score of years on American soil he is the same foreigner The circulating medium of the country isall i that touches I the feelings of the Chinese They feel no interest in the development develop-ment of the country or in making permanent perma-nent improvements They wish to take all the can with them when they go and leave as little behind as possible of tae results of their labor They fasten on a section of a city or village and 1tl make that forever Chinese They may not own a foot of land in it or a building but they I lastingly alienate it from Americans Amer-icans The Oriental clutch is on the very soil itself The section becomes a hot bed in which male Chinese peculiarities crowd foment grow become fruit Itisa Chinadom less the homes wives children It is Chinadoin in general tone I and quality without the safeguards and reliefs of domestic life It is a part of the municipality set off to onesided unrelieved un-relieved Oriental heathenism Nothing penetrates this mass to change it Indi viduals going out and becoming Christians p Chris-tians make no impression on it for they do not return to become a permanent leaven init but soon like the others go back to the home land Civil and commercial com-mercial influences fall powerless on the ii ironclad stronghold i These quarters while maintaining their locality and quality are perpetually changing in their personnel they are in a I h perpetual flux The average Chinaman i comes to America a little under eighteen S years of age revisits China once in five t years the merchants go twice as often and at the end of twelve years from his I first landing catches up his bundles swings them on a pole across his shoulder shoul-der and is off for the steamer to take him for the last time to the Flowery Kingdom and a fresh Chinaman takes his place No one can understand the web of Chinese life that is weaving into f America who does not take into account I this shuttle filled with Chinamen flying I back and forth between China and our shores by means of which it is woven L Or changing the figure the Asiatic life on our coast is not an orchid pluckec from its ancient seat ten thousand miles S away thrust out on a piece of bark ore or-e stick and living on the air but it has a 1 tap root running back into China and naving no means of selfperpetuation it only survives by the supplies that come 4 through that Sever the taproot and it 4 slowly withers and disappears As it is if the Chinadoin does not change the inmates in-mates alone are changed 5 S These patches grow No American likes to live next to them When they come up to one of another race he vacates his rented property or sells out I and flees and it is always a Chinaman who enters the vacated premises When 2 they cross a street and enter on a new block the whole block is doomed The American city slowly retires before the t Asiatic fungus t These Pagan masses are impervious to American law Our legal system beats against them and is dissolved into into spray or turns and whirls into eddies or I passes in swift currents around them ti I When a Chinaman is caught in crime i outside or when the deed can be proved on biro by outside witnesses ho is easily enough brought to justice But offenses among themselves are rarely brought into our courts unless it is a noisy quarrel quar-rel l publishing itself They settle their own difficulties in their own way but with great mystery about the proceedings proceed-ings They have their own methods of I making contracts enforcing payments and of civil and criminal administration generally I All these evils are made worse by being l be-ing conspicuous The Chinese not only f retain their peculiar manners customs j life languageonly learning a little pigeon or business Englishbut also retain their distinctive cue or dress You recognize them as far as you can see 1 them The town instantly changes its I appearance when you pass into their section I ft sec-tion The old buildings may be there I but they have donned the foreign look The hive is Caucasian the swarm inside and out Chinese In a wordJohn Chinaman can never be Americanized This is the reason palpable and aggressive why Chinese i immigration must be subjected to stringent i strin-gent restrictions |
