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

and 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 shillalah. They will have to smoke opium and eat with

chop-sticks. 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

first ninety words of Article 6 work a miracle which shames the most

dazzling achievements of him of the wonderful lamp. I am speaking as if

I believed the Chinamen 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

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