Speech #470030225

The superstitions of FungShusy dominate hnm wherever lie maybe inthe world. The sbtileiiysticisms of China. so strabgely governing all its people in their social. political. sol quasi dig ious life. are as ia hook in his nose. by which his purchaser controls him at all times and in all places. and thus this relation of toaster and quasi slave. no mat. ter how smoy inelsapart. is welded by the mystical links of religious superstition. tiiily ties. and rights of ancestral tombs. wich control and regulate the resipro. cal ditties of trader and cooly in the loomelaud. The means of obtaining coolies are as various as tthe ingenuity of mal can devise. and are as corrupt as tle incentive to large gains can 8tiniliato and invent. len and boys are decoyed by all sorts of tricks. opiates. and illusry proiises into the haunts of the traders. Once in the clutches of these mondealers. by a system of treachery and terrorism connived at ly the local Chinese antiorities. w~hose chief business in life is to "squeeze" the pieoiie. the stupefied cooly is over. awed into making a contract under such Chioese inluCnences sid 8rrouiidings as to give it a sacredness of character nowhere else known in the world. F0romi that moimnt he is the mere tool of the rich dealer wherever lie may go. It. is dificult for persons accustomed to western civilization to understanud the depth and extent. of this relationship. but Chinese civilization is unique. perhaps opaque. and cantot be measured by that of any other. This is the testimony of many writers and travelers in Clhina. and is evidenced very fully in the report made to Cosgress by the joint Congressional committee and also in the report made in theCalifornia Senate its 1877. Such are the Chinese who are called "immigrants." We of the Pacific coast have tried all varieties of men as immigrants." and our experience suggests a warm -and generouss welcome to our shore of the German. the Irishman. the Scandinavian. the Italian. and all who come from beyond the Atlantic. but of Chinese we have enough. and would be glad to exchange those we have for tiny white people under the sun. It has been arged. however. that we have no right to discriminate against the people of any race or nation who desire to come to the United States. and that it has been time Uniform policy of our Government to welcome the men of all races and nations to our shores. To this I answer. that. iu respect of the Chinese. our Government has agreed with China that we may discriminate as acainst a certain class of her people.