The Chinese Immigration.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2919, 8 June 1888, Page 2

The Chinese Immigration.

The President of the Laundrymen's National Association, and Secretary, were at Washington, February 21th, urging senators and representatitffc to pass Senator Mitchell's bill abW L utely prohibiting Chinese immigration.. The executive committee, urge the passage of Mr Mitchell's bill. In their memorial they say: " Our own fellow-craftsmen are the more solicitous that Chinese immigrants should be entirely excluded because so large a proportion of them gravitate naturally into the laundry business. Of the two hundred and fifty thousand among us, ninety-eight thousand and five hundred are laun-

drymen, and their laundries number , twelve thousand nine hundred and / seventy-three—nearly double the nura-# ber of those conducted by Americans. They, of course, employ.no American help, and three fourths of them are controlled by the Chinese syndicate, known as the Six Companies, whose agents are in every Chinese hamlet in the land, making weekly collections from each laundry, and reminding

this Pagan people wherever they go that they are still the slaves of the Chinese Government, as thejSfire of the most hideous vices with wmcli that country's effete society

is reeking. Of the 2G,983,840d01s which they draw annually from this country, giving back 110 return in taxes or any form of loyalty, many millions are expended in China for the means to indulge their national vices, and to hire what is really slave labor to compete with American laborers. The meagreness of their business expenditures, from which this country could alone realise any benefit in their presence, is indicated by the estimate that their total laundry outfit costs less than 825,000d015, while '

liany of their laundries are opium lens of the lowest type. The 60,000

wage-women now employed in American laundries, might have their numbers more than quadrupled if these these Chinese seed beds of leprosy could be closed. But all the argu-

ments against Chinese immigration, drawn from economic or considerations, are really trifling compared with the gross immoralities which everywhere attend them, and the Pagan rites with which they continually insult and tend to debaunch every Christian sentiment."