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Show Why Chinamen Never Naturalize. The penal code of China contains a provision pro-vision which is correctly translated as follows: fol-lows: "All persons renouncing their country and allegiance,- or devising the means, thereof, shall be beheaded, and in the punishment of this offense no distinction shall be made between principals and accessories. ac-cessories. The property of all such criminals crim-inals shall be confiscated and their wives and children distributed as slaves to the great officers ot state. . The parents, grandparents, brothers and grandchildren of such criminals, whether habitually living with them under ' the same roof or not, shall be perpetually banished to the distance of 2,600 leagues'. All those who purposely conceal or connive con-nive at this crime shall be strangled. Those who inform against criminals of this class shall be rewarded with the whole of their property. . . If the crime is contrived but not executed, the principals are to be strangled and the accessories punished with blows and banishment." ban-ishment." - This provision, which has only lately become known, explains why John has no particular desire to naturalize, cut off his queue and become a real "Melican man." The law-maker who devised it conferred a more incalculable blessing on California than any Caucasian in the State has ever done or ever will do.. John may Christianize (four or five centuries hence), but he will be in no haste to naturalize natural-ize while that section of the code of his native land remains unchanged. San I' rancisco Chronicle. . |