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Updated: June 6, 2025


America listened to the blatant demagogues, the "sand-lot orators," and excluded the Chinese. To-day it is almost impossible for a Chinese gentleman to send his son to America to travel or study. He will not be distinguished from laundryman "John," and is thrown back in the teeth of his countrymen; meanwhile China continues to be raided by American missionaries. The insult is rarely resented.

The silence was broken by the sound of voices talking the jargon of peons, I thought and I remembered that I was alone, and driving across a lonely part of the city. The voices seemed to be approaching down Powell Street, even now perhaps under the very convent walls. They sounded loud and jovial. "Can't you turn into the sand-lot, and make a cross-cut to Mason Street?" I whispered to the driver.

As you walk through the streets you see also the name of Kearney, not Dennis of "sand-lot" fame, but that of General S.W. Kearney, whose sword aided in placing the star of California in our Nation's Flag; you read too the name of the old Indian chief, Marin, and that of Montezuma takes you across the Rio Grande and back to the days of Mexican romance and barbaric splendour.

There is not a wrong stitch, and one side is as neat as the other. What shall we say? 'Three cheers! The Chinese must go! shouted Pat Higgins, a patriotic person of five years, whose father was an organiser of sand-lot meetings.

I hoped to see Mrs. Grubb, to ask if her children can come and spend the morning with me to-morrow. 'Oh, that'll be all right; they're not her children; she doesn't care where they go; they stay in the back yard or on the sand-lot most of the time: she's got something more important to occupy her attention. Say, I hope you'll excuse me, but you look a little pale.

And at that very hour the Sand-lot of San Francisco was crowded with the unemployed, and the echo from the other side of Market Street was repeating the rant of demagogues. If, in truth, it were only for the sake of wages that men emigrate, how many thousands would regret the bargain!

On this twilight evening the captain of the schooner, assisted by a portion of his crew, deliberately took down part of the fence which enclosed a sand-lot bounded by Montgomery, Sutter and Post Streets; driving into the centre of the lot; the horses four jaded beasts were turned loose, and soon a camp-fire was lighted and the entire emigrant family gathered about it to partake of the evening meal.

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