THE HEATHEN CHINEE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 249, 20 October 1874, Page 3

THE HEATHEN CHINEE.

The San Francisco correspondent of tbe Auckland Herald writes as foiBy the last trip of the s.s. Japan there was a large importation of cofioe, almond-eyed Cypriaces d Trom the "Flowery Land." Two thousand Chinese ladies of doubtful morality havtog* -already found a home in these ai sunny*' regions, Uncle Sam thought it time 6n6ughyto cry "bold enough,' 9 and thjeilkndiog of tbis additional batch of se.led doves was forbidden. After a cpngiderable amoant of pow-wowing \b the. *f hole party, some twenty in number, were placed in arrest, and when the necessary legal proceedings had -i-heen'gone through, they were removed ~ 33 fronf tne^leamer and placed in durance vile. On 'their way to the lock-up an ancient and particularly blond disciple j^C9flf^:oß informed bis fair coontryjwotneo that they were beiog led tothe .noltaghM-i* Mt «M °f a ™ rifc y tbe t .should be decapitated by the " Melican •°tiban/'" lostanter the whole batch flung "' n ifcih)s4l v vsß upon the inhospitable streete %ail|ariaos. „ I have seen a Maori oiiSfaradMfifcV.aDd. heard: their infernal screeches, but that was as the soft "'ptping^bf ;a £\iio compared with the ophiclelde yells' of these heathen maids .J^p^ng, short of force could persuade anthem lp enter tbe jail where they were Iktoid certain' death awaited them. In riii (helsii ! tigg!e vfith the gentlemen in grey '^it^ that the Misses i!_i^a_)ftkj«. had. imbibed tbte spirit of the -Juigd and.i»ad been doiog Uncle Sam t' J *with jyWfegeaace . Each Chinawomen ] ou leaving 'the steamer, had arrayed herself in from bix to twelve silk jdrssaes end a fair proportion of panta- *' Joonjs,. theit;. object being to evade the i* *MWf(r.r, . B< *!f ybarbarously imposed by j ;3^opa^f(p. ', In this theiy merely fol--33-:loivad.ft«aatom almost universal in this •^>e T ot»n'tnrJ ; :^ot many monthß ago fifteen ?* l ffi!iiWl!B' : f^ nte *'^ thiß cil7; gj,*w^/^flyVrnauled'by the authorities for playing the earner liitle game. Surely the Chinese are— becoming civilised! ha/Under the operation of a state law the _f'"Jadge' before whom the women were brought decided that the Pacific Mail . L „Comj^ny; should take them back to the the Sun. tunates. They had been told that^here were about sixty thousand eligible comai paiibns awaiting them here. Their fortunefc.ajftd aipy had ; tfeen dreaming -qoof letUming to China Jadenwith the . spoils of our Barbary Coast. Alas for m iM fiomac^ilculation, their fair dream 3Jl via^rudely, dispelled and the inhuman Melican Judge haa packed them back to the place from whence they came. ! jU uo^UftaJwi . BPiaible that Mr yogel's 2f-igU£aut_e;schemea> may sooner or later lead to the introduction of tbe Heathen . into, your Province. Should your im--b(ii3gr4t_ojp schemes fail, this temptation s ?tOMiarryiiOQt hia Railway hobby by means of "Chinee cheap labor-' would grept. . In view of ( tbiß possi'. o : 'MHjh IJS^hjl take the liberty of sayw ing to MroVogel, don't. Egypt was afflicted, but her troubles were as ** 7 wtl?iUg' compared with what is ih Btore. « t ' , W > yo(r , lf ever John Chinaman gets a ._ .footing in New Zealand, more especially in your province. It iB only right tbat I sbouid give my reasons for this asZ T 4WtjV°S before doing bo I; will give you a britflsketehof tbd Heathen Kingdom .io^lSa&iFfincisco.' There are sixty, thousand Chinamen in tbis city— nearly 3 tbe Entire population-. ;/ It is a^jiß^sioal, moral, and : mental impossibility tbat' this people can ever .^<b\Bhoi_ie amalgamated with tbe Caucasian raceat* <- in tbe imitative arts they OOif^rjßithoueand years behind the citigsDs of this country,. ( aod they will never overtake the : distance. Morality, religion, cleanliness, are purely abstract terms frith them, aod tbe sole motive power in their nature, the desire to make money, is the only principle they have in common with the." Melican man." Again, tbey have no interest at stake in the country, and are governed by a secret society composed of wealthy men of their own race. There are six Chinese companies here, very wealthy and very powerful. Whatever social discipline is exercised is through the influence^of theae companies, who tax 'tneir 'humble brethren with as much regularity and persistency } as their model? hi tbis respect,, the U.S.A. Customs officials, 'fhe most recent in--0 s.Snce i'b tbe levying of a tax of six dollars' on every adult Chinaman, as a subscription to a fund for clean scrapiog his bones when dead. Steadily aud surely the Chinese workman is driving the American to. the wall. In every branch 'of trade tbey are ramifying to - ". an -extent Scarcely ored i table. Oplyyt^e <>£ber day a awe]} Californian o;,(pnna himself in a state of intense dis- ' gost«rtien be discovered that a pair of H nht*t&ftunables,' for which he had been measured by a tiptop tailor, were the i; - : workiaanship of a Chinaman. American » cipitaHsttf are now compelled to employ ''Chinamen - because tbe American laboorer*aabeen driven from. the State . ./-by thqm,* .Nearly all the servant girls , q ;(ex«use the. : bH|l) are Chinamen. They nre cooks, housemaids, laundry; maids; n«S? r J 8 f1f , %--.* 1 . n J I WnB aod everything; T>4f.J f'^F^JM™' tailors, '/carpenters, cabinet-makers, tobacco spumes, anj cigor-makere they are a drug. Only from, the, .heavier lines, such as blacksmiths, masonß,and builders' workshops, are tbey at present excluded. It is .'/?aiW^ue that many of the railway lines now terminating in 'Frisco mighi not« l haVe Veen * btiilt ha^ the promoter^ been* obliged to employ American labour.

It might have been better, however, to have allowed the lines to wait than to force them at the expense of the loss of probably 100,000 bona -fide settlers. The Chinese import on their own account, through their own merchants, not only all the goods they sell, bnt all tbe food they consume ahd all the clothing they wear. Tbe bulk of their earnings find their way to China. The only.; interests really benefited by Chinese cheap labour are the steamboat, railroad, and manufacturing. . But r.he benefit even to thorn is .only apparent. Eighty thousand Chinamen in this State, shut out eighty thousand Ameriean or European families who would add yearly to the general wealth of the country, ond amongst whom these very corporations wonld find customers of vastly more value than five times the number of Chinamen. The homes qf the Chinese are .filthy hovels, — a Maori whare- is a palace in comparison. : Disease of an infectious kind breaking out amongst them could not be confined to their quarters, and would necessarily spread to the American portions of the city. . The Chinese quarters in' Sah ! Francisco are sitnated j with jreferep.ee to the leading streets just as West Queen-street and Chancery Lane are to your Queen-street. That tbey do not even for a moment contemplate amalgamating (if it were possible) witb other races is evidenced by the fact that they bave regularly-framed .laws of their own, a secret police, secret tax collectors, and secret tribunals. * At the instance of the latter many a Chinaman has ceased to be. They have ..their own merchants, theatres, places of worship, retain their ' Oriental gait and abominable language, and in every respect remain, and intend 'to remain, a M peculiar people." In ten yeara* time tbe Chinese population will bave increased in a much greater ratio _ than the American, for every Chinaman that comes here shuts out a white 1 map. ■■ We may, therefore, look forward to a period not far distant when California will cease to ba Amerioan, and will become— so far as the bulk of it's population is concerned — Mongolian. This is no mere fancy picture, but ia truth, which will certainly ' be demonstrated unless the Burlinghame treaty with China be repealed. Unfortunately the interests of. the Eastern States clash with the Western in this* matter, anfl there is not much prospect' of any legislation oo tbe subject. When it ia too late, probably capitalists will see that .they have killed the goose thall Jaid the golden eggj by driving from tbe State the American workmen whose pride and interest would have been alike involved in, progress ,of the country. As a_,firsV : fruit of Chinese I cheap labor, we have growing up here ; bands qf hoodlums, {Angiice; .City Arabs) who are such because it is utterly impossible for them to find employment in the city, and they are unfitted, being city born, for agricui•iJif*!^...^- ..Every .7 has been closed to tbem by the insatiable. Mongol. k SauQueuteo, the jail, has over nine hundred of this hoodlum element in eafe custody, yet the, ; streets . and • by-ways are full" of them. Two-thirds of the crime of San Francisco results from tbe 'facts that parents find it next to impossible to get their boys into anything like regular employment.; Briefly tp summarise. 1. The Chinese are an alien race, with whoai -it is utterly impossible that a Caucasian race can amalgamate. 2. . They are a people . devoid of- the . first . principles of religion, .morality, and cleanliness. 3. Their peculiar institutions are opposed to progress, and must necessarily exert an evil influence on the community in which they are Vplace'd. : 4. . '^hey are nootprodiicers, only small consumers, and the result of their labor-is 'lost to the country in which* .tiey* live; and lastly, their ability : to live upon food tbat could not sustain a. Caucasian makes them dangerous I and successful rivals to the white man, j whom tbey drive before them, but I wbose place they never permanently "occupy.