Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-17
THE CHINESE PROBLEM.
A Practical Solution Of the Question.


To tempt Chinese immigrants, and
Introduce them into our cotton States
in sufficient numbers to further a
higher prosperity, viii require skiilful
management. Chinese merchants, en-
titled TO esteem in their several COM
panies, have lately returned from q
prospecting tour to the Atlantic coast,
where universal kindness was be-
slowed upon them, and unmeasured
good feeling manifested toward their
people. Pioneer gangs have lately
Started Tor places in the Eastern States,
where their labor is represented as al
most 3 pressing necessity. These, af-
ter & short period in country whel
all is new to them, write back to their
friends accounts, favorable or other
wise, Of the locality, people and Occu-
patton. Thus, by degrees, through
these means, an immigration viii be
established. They will come freely,
when every letter written home unites
in confirming the encouraging asser-
tions of those who visit China person
ally, to start them forward. The trav-
eled Chinaman, telling stories OF his
Wanderings, will become d sage in his
native district when describing rail
roads, factories, and numerous inven-
tions of civilization.
Foreigners will certainly come from
the OvercrOwded districts 70 a deslra-
bic country, with population OF less
than ten persons, and 10 a State with
only two and half persons to a
square mile. The National COnstitu-
tiOn makes no discrimination regard
ing who may come, but affords equal
rights to all. IfChincse present them
selves, we must admit them. We are
bound by treaty to afford them the
same protection we accord to other
nationalities. Great nations cannot
afford 10 be unjust.
Rather than prevent their coming,
il it were possible, let Us study to un-
derstand and become masters Of the
situation, and direct a system furnish
ing Us Asiatic laborers, So as TO advance
and elevate all of our present white
laboring classes who have within
them ability to rise. Their intrOduc-
ton will be gradual but constant, and
after supplying the large deficit Of la
Dor at the South, and furnishing sufil-
cient for the Inauguration OF new en-
terpTises, it will enable all who are
capable to advance-and keep pace
with the gradual Withdrawal Of their
competitions from mPnial labor to
higher positions.
it is the opinion of Yell-informed
Chinese merchants, who are close OBJ
servers, that the annual savings re-
mitted 10 China by the 900 Chinese
noN on the Pacific coast do not exceed
$40 to each man; against which, as
State, we have the profit on ., -, 600
l days labor, and all permanent indus
| tries developed through their pres
/ ence. which afford further employ
ment TO pure white labOrers. \ very
/ large portion of even this sum sent to
/ China generally goes to assist in bring
I ing more neighbOrs and friends to this
I country, and contributes largely TO
support American shipping. Eight
1 out of every ten ships plying between
4 California and China are American,
{ Chinese merchants having invariably
| given them preference, even when
I compelled 10 pay war risks, which,
( with all their other Insurance, they
1 give 10 our local insurance companies.
During the war their merchants gave
! freely TO the Sanitary Fund. They
have no desire for suffrage, and study
to keen out of politics. All return to
/ China, generally after about five years.
/ \ majority return here, bringing 9th
ers with them. Ii they die abroad,
their bodies are carefully preserved,
taken to their native place, and buricd
in line at their ancestral graveyard.
If California could manufacture as
cheaply as Massachusetts, she might
retain annually Sl4,00O,OOO in the
State, which now go East to pay for
imported goods. Here wealth may
also be largely increased by employ
ing Chinese in silk and tea culture.
( In China, where the use of silk origin
ated, il was a noted industry 1861 years
ago-2suS b. c., or By Hebrew record,
A. L. 1893. They are recorded as using
silk strings for musical instruments,
300 B. &. The world now annually
produces silk valued at S225, $50, ,OO0-
7 over half of which still comes from
I China, Japan and the neighbOring
parts Of Asia. The United States pro
daces but SlUO, 900 worth, and imports
from S40.OUO, ,UW to $45, ,00d, ,000 worth
annually, of which about 81 ,OO0,e0O
worth comes from France, which, in
1860. manufactured SI4G,0 600, 900 and
1 exported $4,000, 900, thus giving EN-
ployment to oyer 600, 900 persons, and
adding vastly to her national wealth
We can furnish America all her tea
! and silk, with the assistance Of Chinese
laborers. California can thus, singly
settle our national exchanges, by 4
J solution far more satisfactory than
England, when she forced opium upon
! the Chinese. AccessiOns of eheaE
Iaborers, without interfering witt
those now here, would enable her Il
! supply herself aad produce raisinS
almonds, olives, prunes, oil, tobacco
and wine, profitably for export. Thes'
. fields of productive industry will real
Z far ampler rewards, enrlching Califor
: mia more than any present expor
= from the gold-felds. These articles
{ are, also, more valuable As exports
/ because annually produced and con
/ sumed; while the production of golC
is single and exhaustive, and not be
{ ing perishable, its relative value t
, other property diminishes in nearl.
the ratio Of It's annually-increasini