The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-24

Railroad, and are highly spoken Of BY the
officers and foremeu. Their work is full
and honest. What they lack in bodily viRor
they make up in persistency and steadi-
ness. In California, the Chinese are found
in woollen, paper and powder mills; in tae
berax works; in the hop plantations, fruit
orchards and vineyards; following the reap
ing machines on farms and working the
salt pits on the coast; doing almost univer-
sally the cooking, and engaged in hundreds
of branches of industry that would be i'm
possible without their cheap labor. A wri-
ter in the Galaxy ssys upon this subject;
"The sure result will be that. in few years,
the small savings of these workmen will, ty
accumulation, transform the cooie OF to-day
into the capitalist, contracting to build rail-
roads, owning large farms and factories, and
lines of ships, and making great commercial
combinations. This is certain; for no people
on the face Of the earth advance 30 unsWerv-
inely in the accumulation Of capital; and in
its investment, from childhood upward, they
combine the shrewdness Of the Jews with the
many-sidedness of the Yankee. What the Jews
have been in banking, the Chinese may easily
become-in general commerce and industry on
the Pacific coast"
On the Island Of Java the Chinese num-
Der not far from 10000. Their industry
embraces the whole system Of commerce,
and they are found to be equally we'll sdsp-
ted for trade or agriculture. In the Eng
lish ,lony of Singapore, $4,000 out Of q
population Of $4,000 are Cinnamon; and in
an enervating climate they retain all their
native energy. This fact alone points out
the fitness of the Chinese for the fields and
plantations of the South. They can work
wherever the African can work, and they
have a patience, perseverance and frugal
spirit which the freedman has never pos,
sessed. And that the Chinese have native
capacity is proved by the circumstance that
from China have radisted many of the fun
damental features Of Asistic and even Of
European civilization. Their inventions
have been comparatively unfruitful; but
the isolated position Of China cut her off
from that intercourse with foreign nations
which would have stimulated the practical
activity Of her people. In tho Chinese sys-
tenn Of government, there are many fea-
lures which might be adopted with advan-
tsge by this country and the nations Of Eu-
rope. Office, for instance, is open to all.
Proficiency in scholarship forms the basis
Of competition, the officials being chosen
from the candidates who take the highest
honors.
Why, then, looking at the broad fact that
additional labor is our greatest need, should
there be any objection to the introduction
Of Chinese immigrants into the. South {
The Chinaman is saving, pains-ta
and industrious, and will make cheap
or and better lsborer than the mass
Of the freedmen. To the culture Of rice
and cotton the Chinamsn is especially
adapted, and there is~-no department of
labor in which he cannot be employed to
advantage. We want the Chinaman to work
in sur felds; we'wsnt him as tiller Of the
soil: and in this way John Chinaman may
lay the foundation Of our prosperity and
his own, without interfering with any class
Of labor which We now enjoy. The Asiatic'
would come here to fill the vast gap-in our
industrial system; not to drive away or de-
prive of work any laborers whom we now
have and wish to retain.