The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-07-17

this matter, already hundred shoussad
ofsksss CHinese havs arrived. ana ;aheir
pssisus labor b msnifeating itsslf - die
ohsap prodassion of textile fabrics, me-
chanical improvements, and the necessa-
ries Of life. Living on q handful Of rice
Q day, clad in cotton garments, they
make themselves, at cost Of. dollar or
two; dozens living in single tenement,
and thus praoticing system Of economy
which reduces their living TO six or eight
cents day, they will work for fifteen
cents day, and make money.
They know nothing Of luxury or the
comforts or inconveniences of life i; they
have but one object, and that Is TO make
money. In vain did the mechanics and
laborors Of San Francisco try by cruel
treatment to bauish them; in vain were
trades union formed to prevent their OBJ
tanning employment; IT, was found i'm
possible possible 70 70 5taFvo out = PuOpio VINO Oouid
adapt themselves to the employnents Of
women, i've CT their wages, and, when
employment failed, live on animals and
offal which are an abomination to Cau-
casians! Though not possessed Of the
physical vigor Of the Caucasian, their
patience and untiring application COM
pensate largely for this. Reared under
despotism, where oppression ia the rule
and british stupidity general, they have
no ideas of freedom (; they are as obe-
dent rs slaves, and they only need di-
recting mind to plan, to measure, to lay
off the work, when, with the uncom-
planning submission Of machine, they
delve in the rocks, hew in the forests or
labor in the fields. As you walk up the
streets of San Francisco you will see
them squatted in the alleys or corners,
mending shoes, queensware, tinware,
making garments for the Jews, toys,
balls, hoops, states, pencils, satohels for
the boys. They will sole your shoes for
Eve cents above the cost of the leather,
and do it in workmauimiihU maauer.
Give them the tobacco and they win
make you a hundred cigars for ten cents.
Tin and copper ware they will make for
you according to directions a. fsv
cents above the cost of the material; and
if you want a man killed they will do
that at cost of q few dollars! Con.
science they have none; morals they
know not; future life beyond the grave
they disbelieve, and death has no ter
rors for them. Perjury is very common,
as they. cannot, or win not, appreciate
the sanotity of an oath /; hence they arc
frequently hired as witnesses.
In no ordinary way can honest, repu-
table workmen meet and master these
people. They are unsesupplons to the
last degree. submitting to siae indignities
that would make tho blood of an Ameri.
can or au Irishman boil, for the merest
pittance at which an Eastern laborer
would turn up his nose. They will be
met and encouraged by >hA capitalists.
and unless they are bluffed, stopped be-
fore they secure foothold, trouble aud
discord, confusion aud disaster will sure.
ly result from their coming.
It behooves the workingmen of our
day to think of this matter nov it is q
thousand times more important than the
negro questions or the woman question
They are minor matters which can be
settled easily when nothfns else is urgent
this needs attention nov.