THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1879.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3369, 9 October 1879, Page 2

THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1879.

Although many are inclined to scoff at and make little of the Chinese question, it is a matter of such grave importance as to require immediate attention at the hands of our legislators. - The facilities offered for emigration through the commercial intercourse opened up with European nations, first pave the inhabitants of the Flowery land an opportunity to see the outside world, and once the barrier of Mongolian esclusiveness was broken, like a river bursting its banks, the Chinese began to spread thomselves over the fair lands of America and Australia. On the golden Pacific slope " John's" presenco in limited numbers was at first hailed with satisfaction. He was unoffensive, and worked hard, and there was no cause for objection ; but in a very short time California had bitter reason to regret that ever one celestial had passed through the Goldeu Gate. They poured into California in thousands, and the prosperity of that State received as severe a blow with the yellow inundation,, as it received an impetus from the pro* ductioff of the yellow metal from its mountains. At the present day California groans and writhes under the burden which, like the old man of the sea on the' shoulders of Sinbad, cannot be thrown off, and the neck of the Caucasian is apparently firmly pressed down by yellow understanding of the Mongolian. Looking from the northern to the southern hemisphere we find the übiquitous " John " is there also, and threatening to intrude still further on the shores of Australia and Few Zealand. The people of this colony must be educated to see the danger of the intrusion; the voice of public opinion must be raised to so restrict Chinese immigration that New Zealand may not in future have the same cause to complain as America has to-day. An American orator, speaking on the all-important subject aays : " No two people of different races ever yet lived together unless they assimilated and coalesced, or one became subordinated to the other. In the case of the negroes they became our slaves; in the matter of the Indians, they have been, and are gradually being, exterminated. The Chinese are a people whose peculiar civilization has long since crystallized into the perfected form of its system. It is no longer plastic. Age cannot change nor further experience improve it. The dissimilarity between Asiatic characteristics, language, manners, faith, stolid unconcern and conscienceless fatalism, and the salient features of Anglo-Saxon existence, is too radical ever to be reconciled ; too fundamental to admit of compromiso. The races are non-assimila-tive. They are as different as the fundamental strata of the earth, and neither time nor law —human or divine— can accomodate them to each other or endow them with a common nature, puri pose or human destiny. As an inferior : race accepting none of the virtues.of the superior, the presence of the heathen

Chinpso is compromising and degrading to Ui ■ general nmitHuJe. Not more distinctive and irreconcilable aro light and duikns^.s tium these two races. With (he succosa of one, the other raunt depart." V/o trust that as soon as the iss«o iiotv Ik'fore Parliament is sattled, one of the first nr asurcs takon in hand will be a bill to restrict Chinese Immigration.