Litchfield enquirer., 1869-07-01

theIr muscle and their skill during all the hours of the day, only asking a reasonable time for meals, together with the stipnla- ted wages when their work is done. s,4 ;
 The owners of woollen factories praise
 them as the best of workmen. The officers and foremen of the Central Pacific rail
 road-on which some ten thousand China
 men are said to be at work-speak no less highly of. them. Their work is fun and honest, no tagging and storytelling, no whiskey drinking, and few fights. Over seers declare that they can drill more rock aud move more dirt with Chinamen than with an equal number of men who claim this kind of occupation as their speciality. what they lack in bodily yigor is made mp in persistency and steadiness.
 IeYIndeed, California is just beginning to feel how suicidal her course toward Asiatic labor has been, and she is fndingathata shel material prosperity is increasing apace
 With the innovation upon that policy ! The Chinese are found now in woollen paper and powder mills in the bora1
 works E; in the hop plantations, fruit orch
 ards and vineyards /; following the reaping machines on farms, and working the salt. pits on the coast doing almost universally
 the cooking, and engaged in hundreds ol
 branches of industry that would be impos. sible without their cheap labor.
 The sure result of this will be that, in a few years, the smell savings of these work. men will, by accumulation, transform the cooile of to-day into the capitalist, con. tracting to build railroads, owning large farms or factories and lines of ships, and
 making great commercial combinations
 This is certain, for no people on the face of the earth advance so unswervingly in
 the accumulation of capital and in it's in
 vestment from childhood upward they combine the shrewdness of the Jews witt the many y-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 Java5 where they hays long been tolerated, the Chinese number not far from 150, 900, the greater part hay ing more or less Javan blood. The op.
 pression of the Dutch is the cause of the population not being larger. @'' They are obliged to pay mulct for leave to enter, and larger one for permission to quit, J
 besides poil-tax none of which imposts are levied on other foreigneas. During the last century they were so badly treated that they reyolted, and in 174O were at
 tacked in their quarters in Batavia, when ter thousand of them are said to have been slaughtered Sir Stamford Rallies, writing Tn lol7, says :}4GH3fI4 H.Gt2 3aG3 gaaH 9 r. r The most numerous and important
 class of foreigners in Java are the Chinese, who do not fall short of 100000, and who. with system of free trade and free culti. vation, would soon accumulate tenfold, by natural increase within the island and gradua! accessions of new settlers from home. Thay- arripa at Batavia to the amount of thousand or more in iunks, without money or resources; but by indus. try soon acquire comparative opuIence.- There are no women in Java who came di. rectiy from China; but as the Chinese of- ten marry the daughters of their country men by Java women, there results nu. merons mixed race which is often scarcely dlstlngulshable from the native Chinese. Many return to China annually in the lunks. but by no means in the same num- Der as they arrive. They are governed in matters of inheritance and minor affairs by tbelr own laws, administered by their owL officials appointed by the Dutch gov ernor. They are distinct from the natives and are In a high degree more intelligent, more laborions, and more luxurious. They are the life and soul of the commerce of the country. In the native provinces they are still the farmers of the revenue, having formerly been so throughout the island. ",0
 Beginning on their arrival as coolies and laborers, they soon accnmmulate enough to work independently, and many of them amass large fortunes They have obtained nearly the monoply of the native produce and an uncontrolled command of their market for foreign commodities. .96 Their industry embraces the whole system of commerce, pnnl from the greatest wholesale specuiations to the most minute branches of the retail trade. In their hands are all the amanufaetories, edistilleries, potteries, etc, an1 they have large coffee and sugar plantations. Their means are increased by their Knowledge of business, their spirit oi enterprise, and their mutual confidence. They are equally we'll adapted for trade or agriculture. 'se'}H4 has-3fsE I 1IGsSG S1. ] h the English colony of Singapore 5O.oOO, out of . population of, 8O,OOO, are Cninamen. chiefly from the island of Halnan. Here the Chinese have obtained a strong footiold, and, under the full pro. tectlon of English law, are accommodating great fortunes. Nearly all the trade is un- der their control, and this represented, in 1867, $35, ,OO0 900 imports and $2S, FOG, ,oOO exports. Carrying with them and retain ing tnelr innate energy in Q country where both the natives and Europeans succumb, morally if not physically, to the enervating climate, they are absorbing every depart ment of labor. The writer was told some years since that the English owners of a large machine shop at Singapore were gradually removing their English workmen and replacing them with China men. having found the latter more docile. sober and enduring, and, with the same amount of instruction, equally skilful. So successful is their competition that Parsees Jews and Europeans can retain no, foot hold in face of it. 1'"' sA4'lsfta bllh
 The growth of Chinese population and industry in the East Indian Archipelaeo is already matter of great significance. In 1t we may see the coming solution of an important problem The vast areas of tropical lands, insular and continental, have hitherto been, comparatively speak ing. closed world. And yet lssqthe warm regions yield larger returns of those plants they have in common with; the temperate zones, and have peculiar plants which yield more nourishment from the same area Phus maize, which yields fortyfold orfifty- foletin France, tgivesione hundred and tif- tyfold, Ion an average, in Mexico z +sA Hum boldt estimates that an drpeat (tiye-sixths of an acre) which will barely support two
 men, when sown in iwheat.a will feed fifty with lhananas., ,dsiseg ed3 oi y1uig3 tasya