THE AGITATION IN SAN FRANCISCO AGAINST THE CHINESE.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 27 September 1880, Page 2

THE AGITATION IN SAN FRANCISCO AGAINST THE CHINESE.

As a result of Kearney's agnation in San Francisco, the Chinese are migrating eastwards iv largo numbers, and eve long Chicago, St. Loui3, and even ]>7ew York, may each havo its China town and enjoy the privilege of having to keep the peace between the Irish and tho Asiatics. That their competition in the labour market will be exceedingly keen in some direc* tions as already clear. A3 hotel servants., laundryrnec, and cheap cobblers they soon make their way, But tho remarkable part of the whole thing is the small number of Chinamen who have contrived thus to create au alarm which 4,000,000 of negroes have never excited. It is cal* dilated, Recording !o the statistic? furnished to the commission appointed to look into tho question, that there are in the whole of the United States fewer than 100,000 Chinamen, and of late the ihßax has been stopped. It seems iucrediblc that so trifiiiijf an immigration should be viewed with such alarm by the miner? snd artisans of the Pacific Slope. Yet if the respectable citizens .had not joined together tba Chinese would almost cer* tainly have suffered severely before this. The fact is that, monstrous as is tho object of Kearney 's agaitalion, and shameful as are the Eesos used to pro* mote it, there is a deeper antagonism than that merely between two wage^earning eonmunities-— the conflict be! ween two civilisations. The Chinamen always maintain their isolation, neyer really mingle with the people, and their .secret societies arscl peculiar modo of Hie set the populace against thorn almost as much as their readiness to take low wages. If many of them do got into the eastern cities there will bo trouble there too.