Chinaman

Together they form the average type which permits of a people being defined.

A thousand Frenchmen, Englishmen, or Chinamen chosen at hazard offer notable differences amongst themselves; but nevertheless, owing to racial heredity, they possess common characteristics which allow of the determining of an ideal type of the Frenchman, the Englishman, and the Chinaman, analogous to the ideal type which the naturalist presents when he describes in a general manner the dog or the horse.

Applicable to the different varieties of dogs or horses, such a description can only include the characteristics common to them all, and not those which enable their numerous individual specimens to be distinguished.

Provided a race be sufficiently ancient, and in consequence homogeneous, its average type is established with sufficient clearness for it to be readily noted by the observer.

The law decreeing their total expulsion has not been carried out because of the enormous expenses its application would entail.

Footnote.

The 53rd Congress only adjourned the execution of the Gary Law, Chinese Exclusion Act, because it found that to convey a hundred thousand Chinamen back to their country would involve an expenditure of thirty millions of francs, whereas the sum voted for the expulsion of the Chinese workmen was only one hundred thousand francs.

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Article 6.

Citizens of the United States visiting or residing in China shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, or exemptions in respect to travel or residence as may there be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation, and, reciprocally, Chinese subjects visiting or residing in the United States shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities, and exemptions in respect to travel or residence as as may be enjoyed by the citizens or subjects of the most favored nation but nothing herein contained shall be held to confer naturalization upon the citizens of the united states in china nor upon the subjects of china in the united states there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth on the pacific coast when article six is read for at one sweep all the crippling intolerant and unconstitutional laws framed by california against chinamen pass away and discover in stage parlance twenty thousand prospective hong kong and sujo voters and office-holders p p tableau p p i am not fond of chinamen but i am still less fond of seeing them wronged and abused if the reader has not lived in san francisco he can have only a very faint conception of the tremendous significance of this mild-looking unpretentious article six it lifts a degraded snubbed vilified and hated race of men out of the mud and invests them with the purple of american sovereignty it makes men out of beasts of burden the first iniquity it strikes at is that same revolutionary one of taxation without representation in california the law imposes a burdensome mining tax upon chinamen a tax which is peculiar in its nature and is not imposed upon any other miners either native or foreign and the legislature that created this rascality knew the law was in flagrant violation of the constitution when they passed it mr cushing a great lawyer and formerly minister to china says that nearly all the pacific coast laws relating to chinamen are unconstitutional and could not stand in court at all the chinese mining tax has been collected with merciless faithfulness for many years often two or three times instead of once but its collection will have to be discontinued now treaties of the united states override the handiwork of even the most gifted of state legislatures in san francisco if a chinaman enters a street car to ride with the negroes and the indians and the other gentlemen and ladies the magnificent conductor instantly ejects him with all the insolence that seventy-five dollars a month and official importance of microscopic dimensions confer upon small people the chinaman may ride on the front platform but not elsewhere hereafter under the ample shadow of article six he may ride where he pleases chinamen the best gardeners in america own no gardens the laws of california do not allow them to acquire property in real estate article six does though p p formerly in the police court they swore chinamen according to the usual form and sometimes where the magistrate was particularly anxious to come at the truth a chicken was beheaded in open court and some yellow paper burned with awful solemnity while the oath was administered but the chinaman testified only against his own countrymen things are changed now however and he may testify against whom he pleases no one ever saw a chinaman on a jury on the pacific coast hereafter they will be seen on juries sitting in judgment upon the crimes of men of all nationalities chinamen have taken no part in elections heretofore further than to sweep out the balloting stations but the time is near at hand when they will vote themselves when they will be clerks and judges of election and receive an account for the votes of white men when they will be eligible to office and may run for congress if such be the will of god we have seen caricatures in san francisco representing a white man asking a chinaman for his vote it was fine irony then but in a very little while the same old lithograph resurrected will have as much point as it ever had only the subject of it will have become a solemn reality instead of an ingenious flight of fancy in that day candidates will have to possess other accomplishments besides being able to drink lager beer and twirl a they will have to smoke opium and eat with chopsticks influential additions will have to be made to election tickets and transparencies thus the country's hope the people's choice donnerwetter o'shaughnessy and ching foo the children of chinese citizens will have the entry of the public schools on the same footing as white children any one who is not blind can see that the very nighty words of article six work a miracle which shames the most dazzling achievements of him of the wonderful lamp i am speaking as if i believed the chinaman would hasten to take out naturalization papers under this treaty and become citizens i do believe it they are shrewd and smart and quick to see an advantage that is one argument if they have any scruples about becoming citizens the politicians who need their votes will soon change their opinions article six does not confer citizenship upon chinamen we have other laws which regulate that matter it simply gives them the privileges and immunities pertaining to residence in the same degree as they are enjoyed by the subjects of the most favored nation one of the chief privileges pertaining to residence among us is that of taking the oath and becoming full citizens after that residence has been extended to the legal and customary period mr cushing says the chinamen had a right to become citizens before article six was framed they certainly have it now prominent senators refuse to touch the treaty or have anything to do with it unless it threw the doors of citizenship open as freely to chinamen as to other foreigners the entire senate knew the broadest meaning of article six and voted for it the closing sentence of it was added to please a certain senator and then he was satisfied and supported the treaty with all his might it was a gratification to him to have that sentence added and inasmuch as the sentence could do no harm since it don't mean anything whatever under the sun it was gratefully and cheerfully added it could not have been added to please a worthier man it sets off the treaty too because it is so gracefully worded and is so essentially and particularly ornamental it embellishes and supports the grand edifice of the chinese treaty even as a wealth of stucco embellishes and supports a stately temple it would hardly be worth while for a treaty to confer naturalization in the last clause of an article wherein it had already provided for the acquirement of naturalization by the proper and usual course the idea of making negroes citizens of the united states was startling and disagreeable to me but i have become reconciled to it and being reconciled to it and the ice being broken and the principle established i am now ready for all comers the idea of seeing a chinaman a citizen of the united states would have been almost appalling to me a few years ago but i suppose i can live through it now maybe it will be well to say what sort of people these prospective voters are there are fifty thousand of them on the pacific coast at large and fifteen thousand or twenty thousand in san francisco they occupy a quarter just out of the business center of the city they worship a hideous idol in a gorgeous temple they have a theatre where the orchestra sit on the stage drinking tea occasionally and deafening the public with a ceaseless din of gongs cymbals and fiddles with two strings whose harmonies are capable of inflicting exquisite torture their theatrical dresses are much finer and more costly than those in the black crook and the immortality of their plays is fully up to the black crook standard consequently they are ruined people their prominent instinct being just like ours let us extend the right hand of fellowship to them across the sea some of the men gamble and the standing of women is not good the chinese streets of san francisco are crowded with shops and stalls mostly but there are many chinese merchant princes who do business on a large scale the remittances of coin to china amount to half a million a month Chinamen work hard and with tireless perseverance.

Other foreigners get out of work, and labor exchanges must look out for them.

Chinamen look out for themselves, and are never idle a week at a time.

They make excellent cooks, washers, ironers, and house servants.

They are never seen drunk.

They possess the rare and probably peculiarly barbarous faculty of minding their own business.

they are as thrifty as holland dutch they permit nothing to go to waste when they kill an animal for food they find use for its hoofs hide bones entrails everything when other people throw away fruit cans they pick them up heat them and secure the melted tin and solder they do not scorn refuse rags paper and broken glass they can make a blooming garden out of a sand-pile for they seem to know how to make manure out of everything which other people waste as i have said before they are remarkably quick and intelligent and they can all read write and cipher they are of an exceedingly observant and inquiring disposition i have been describing the lowest class of chinamen do not they compare favorably with the mass of other immigrants will they not make good citizens are they not able to confer a sound and solid prosperity upon a state what makes a sounder prosperity or invites and unshackles capital more surely than good cheap reliable labor california and oregon are vast uncultivated grain fields I am enabled to state this in the face of the fact that California yields twenty million bushels of wheat this year.

In fact they seemed quite the lords of the soil and were not subjected to the least annoyance from the natives.

Hundreds of Chinamen gather round this spot, where they have erected huts and a bazaar, or market, for supplying the shipping, and what appears not a little strange to European eyes.

Whenever the ships move to any other anchorage in the vicinity, the whole of the inhabitants, houses, market, and all, move along with them.

So easily do these individuals change about from one place to another.

After being completely drenched by the breakers which roll high along the shores of this bay, and render the landing, particularly in small boats, rather dangerous.

When I got on shore and proceeded to walk in the direction I intended, the boatmen and others came round me and attempted to dissuade me from going by intimating that I was sure to be attacked by the Chinchew men and robbed or murdered.

I also saw signs of warfare in the shape of matchlocks and long bamboo poles in the hands of the Chinamen who, as my servant informed me, were obliged to carry them in self-defense.

I began to wish then that I had brought off from the ship a few of the crew for protection.

is to put them ashore.

I, for one, don't want to be drowned for the sake of a handful of dirty Chinamen.

And I, for another, don't care to give in to a handful of dirty Chinamen to escape drowning, I answered hotly.

he'll sink the reindeer under us all at this rate

he whined

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The Two Chinamen Ages ago, when this world was new, having been created but a short while, two Chinese boys left their native country and started out on their travels to discover things new and strange.

After wandering for many days, they came to the Hill and Water Country where the Shans live.

Here they found a monastery where lived very wise and learned priests who instructed them in many ways.

It broke all the nets and smashed all the traps.

It snapped all the lines that were set for it, and nobody was strong enough to pull it ashore when it did take the hook.

The Chinamen saw it, and the elder brother instantly strung his bow, put on a bolt, and shot the great fish as it was swimming in the shallow water.

In a few minutes, he had it on his shoulder, and they commenced to cross the bridge to the other side of the river.

There ain't no way to travel alone when I can find a sociable fella to talk to.

You going to the mine on business? Well, Cash sent in word by one of his Chinamen that he was itching to play a little stud poke this evening.

Yeah, like everybody else in these parts, I think he's a

low-down, dirty skunk.

You bet I have.

Stick up your hands, Daly, and come inside, both of you.

Aren't you facing trouble enough as it is, Cash? You two are going to get me out of trouble with them Chinamen.

What do you mean? First, give me that pistol you took away tonight.

The safest thing to do," he chattered cravenly, is to put them ashore.

I, for one, don't want to be drowned for the sake of a handful of dirty Chinamen."

And I, for another, don't care to give in to a handful of dirty Chinamen to escape drowning," I answered hotly.

he'll sink the reindeer under us all at this rate

he whined

Then two silver palace cars, each 60 feet long.

Then a smoking car, at that time occupied mainly by Chinamen.

And then five ordinary passenger cars, with platforms like all the others, making altogether a train about 700 feet in length.

The platforms of the four front cars were clustered over with digger Indians, with their squaws, children, and gear.

Granger, for the ones who get it done.

The light of the sinking sun from that time glorified the Sierras, and as the dew fell, aromatic odors made the still air sweet.

On a single track, sometimes carried on a narrow ledge excavated from the mountainside by men lowered from the top in baskets, overhanging ravines from 2,000 to 3,000 feet deep, the monster train snaked its way upwards, stopping sometimes in front of a few frame houses, at others where nothing was to be seen but a log cabin with a few Chinamen hanging about it, but where trails on the sides of the ravines pointed to a gold country above and below.

So sharp and frequent are the curves on some parts of the ascent, that on looking out of the window one could seldom see more than a part of the train at once.

Dearest Mother, We are off at last, and so far it seems quite nice, although in some respects a little speck disappointing.

We went down to the wharf quite early, and our bags were taken up to the room by a lot of little Chinamen dressed in dark blue with a round black hat with a red topknot to it.

They were certainly very funny and cute.

Most of them take the end of their queue and put it in their coat pocket.

Our steward is a very nice Chinaman dressed like the ones I have just described.

The scene at the dock was quite queer, very different from the departure of an Atlantic steamer.

Chinamen swarmed everywhere, and there were also a good many Japs mixed in.

All the servants and sailors are Chinamen, and they seem to be very competent.

Accordingly, the production and manufacture of opium was made a government monopoly.

China, after all, was a long way off, and Chinamen were only Chinamen.

That the East India Company might be loosing an uncontrollable monster not only on China but on the world hardly occurred to the great Warren Hastings.

The British chickens might, a century later, come home to roost in Australia and South Africa was too remote a possibility, even for speculative inquiry.

They have sat tight, wearing that inscrutable smile, while the foreigners discuss the cutting up of China as if it were a huge cake.

They have seen the Japanese, a race of little brown men, inhabiting a few little islands, face the dreaded bear of Russia and drive it back into Siberia.

Now at last, these patient Chinamen are picking up some odds and ends of Western science.

They are building railroads and manufacturing the rails for them.