THE CHINESE QUESTION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 670, 7 April 1879, Page 2

THE CHINESE QUESTION.

The Chinese question fa attracting attention in Washington, jphere ithej House Committee- on Eduj^ion Jin.* Labor has reported a Bill to CongWr forbidding any Bhip to carry more 'than fifteen, Chinese passengers to any American port. Accompanying the Bill is an ©xHausfcive report reviewing the whole its social, moral, and economical bearings. It describes Chinese upon that Continent, from sworn' testimony, most truthfully, as " sordid, selfish, immoral, and non-assimilating, and a standing menanee to the sociffl* and political institutions to Che country." Considering the probable outcome of existing conditions upon the coast, the report days i-f-" Tkb Mongolian] like the llndiah, is brought in daily contact with our social and politicaliife, and, unlike the African, does not surrender any of his marked peculiarities by reason of the contact. ' It is neither possible nor desirable for two rac.es a« distinct as the Caucasian tad Mongolian to live, under the same Government without assimila-; tion. The degradation or slavery of the one. qt .the other would be the inevitable resuli Homogeneity of ideas and of physical and social habits are essential to national harmony and progress*" ■... -/ ■■ „ ■f/ - „ . ..■ .•