Acknowledgment by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 30, 1882

Acknowledgment

By Editor

We have received from Senator John F. Miller his speech on the Chinese Bill in the United States Senate, for which we return thanks. It was an able speech, which won for him the congratulations of his fellow Senators and the thanks of his constituents.

But there is one point in which justice seems never to be done to the Chinese. Thus Mr. Miller says: “California for Americans and those who will become Americans.” This would sound better if those intelligent Chinamen who apply for papers of naturalization were permitted to receive them. Thousands of people are naturalized in New York City knowing as little of, and caring as little for, our Republican institutions as the Chinese. Whether the Chinese would develop into as good American citizens as those, we cannot tell until the experiment is tried.