A radical view of the Chinese question as elucidated by the Hon. J. McM. Shafter.

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A RADICAL VIEW OF THE CHINESE QUESTION AS ELUCIDATED BY THE Hon. J. McM. SHAFTER


Last Wednesday evening, at Platt's Hall, J. McM. Shafter, one of the leading lights of the Radicals, in the course of a speech made use of the following language.


As the Hon. J. McM. Shafter is one of the Presidential Electors on the Republican ticket, his utterances reflect only the real sentiment of the party to which he belongs:


"Who ever heard of a refined, intelligent Southern lady instructing negro children in the South? Nobody did. They are being partially educated by the Yankee school mistress. Mr. Ingersoll never said a truer thing than when he said that the Democratic party enclosed in its filthy arms all the ignorance and crime in the country. I will take twenty vaqueros from across the bay and bring them over here on election day in certain wards of this city and let them lasso 100 voters from the line, and let the police PICK UP ONE HUNDRED CHINAMEN At random on Dupont street, and my word for it you will find every one of these Chinamen superior to the other batch in intelligence and knowledge of our institutions, our liter- ature and the history of the country. [Hisses.] Well, gentlemen, you can hiss as much as you please. I never saw a Chinaman that could not sign his name, and Mr. In- gersoll came very near the truth when he said that when- ever you see a man shoot off a cross--the sign of salvation --in lieu of his name, you may safely put him down as a Democrat."


The above is from the San Francisco Call of Thursday, November 2d.


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