Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-30


And here the most i'm pr0E Eed machinery
known in such aBlishments is in
use.
They do all the work in the most ex.
tensive shot tower in the West. They
make all fine articles of gentlemen e
wear where the neatest machine sew
ing is required. They bind bOOks and
make books; they set type without
knowing the language they carve
with great skin syin snort, they are
learning al trades rapidly, and becom-
ing Versed in themysferles OfHH heavy
machinery, and delicate and labor saw
ing machines as well and in all tneir
movements are about as accurate and
regular as the machinery itself. Most
OF the beautiful photographs and stereO-
scopie views which the Central Pacific
Railroad Company has sent throughout
the East are printed, finished and
i mounted by Chinamen.
/ There is no unskilied labor which
they can not perform rapidly and well.
There is no machinery which they can
not speedily learn to attend as accurate
ly as il they themselves were part OF
it, and wages are as one to two and a.
/ half and three. It is not difficult 70
understand the advantages thus offer
ed.
THEIR EDUCATION AND PAGANIsAI.
Ninety-eight per cent of those who
come here can read and write their own
/ language. Most of them are rapid in
figuring. Their children learn our
/ language quickly; bhsS parents with
4 d ficultY, though they sOuu manage 70
/ acquire a stock of words and SEN
/ tences which answer -ther purposes.
They show great anxiety to send their
/ children to school, where English is
Taught, though as yet few facilities
have been given them, Tor while they
/ pay full school taxes, they have as vet
| been furnished but one school house
/ for forty pupils. AS class, there is
none 50 law abiding-not even the
| Americans, and none more honest.
TBey pay all taxes to the Government
] cheerfuliy and carefully and the school
1 tax of the State, though they have very
small returns for the latter.
| The State imposes a tax of five dol
/ lars per capita upon alls&hat land, and
some special licences such as the mi
ners' tax of three dollars, the first OF
which the Stale has no right to collect.
| There are di~graces of this kind which
demagogues have brought upon Cali
fornia, but which the respectable ella asses
do notsanctiOn, and viii rectiiY before
long. The visit of so many Congress-
men to the West this summer can not
fail to lead to the much needed Iegisla-
ton OF these people. They seem to
have no desire to vote, and for the pres
enb it is doubtless better that they
should not. They only ask through
their leading men for a standing in the
courts as witnesses, and equal pFotec-
IlOn from the law. This they have
right to claim, and will ere long se-
cure.
They are idoIators. This is the most
difficult point in the whole problem.
SJHl, those who suppose that Americas
civilization can not stand against a few
thousand or even million Chinese, are
/ hrrFnu D0unh rnnd loss fr-oT1
Contrary to the opinions of most, the
| Cbinaman errects no idol as God. He
would no sooner do this than the Chris
tain. HIS faith is this: God is good
and kind, and so mereiful that He viii
under no circumstances 90 us anything
but good. But the Evil One hates us,
and is ever watching an opportunity TO
| injure and destroy US we must cOncil-
iHle him. And SO Joss or Devil houses
are erected, and incense is burned con-
stantly, and offerings made TO concfli-
ate the Devil.
They believe in the sweet Influence
of departed spirits, that the dead are
constantly around Them to watch and
guard and help. They make offerings
of foou at their graves, not as it is said
with the idea of feeding the dead, but
to show them that rhey are remem ber-
ed. Their name for God and for the
influence which these departed exert is
the same as that which expresses the
soft warmth and effect-A6f+a Southern
sun telling upon slopesFhieh docks
toward the South.
They send their dead home to bury
them in the family line, so that the
chain of ancestry may be complete, and
the sweet Influences from the spirit
would fioW through the line uninter-
ruptedly. IF the line is broken by an
absent dead one, the influences are less
regular, and the wandering spirit is
not at rest, and instead of watching to
do good, desires TO iDjure and make
trouble in return for the neglect of his
body. Three times year offerings are
made to departed spirits, and q late
| Emperor has decreed that the Govern
ment make offerings also three times a
| year to spirits at large, that is to the
| spirits of such as have died in battle
| or have been lost at sea and left un bur-
| led or not returned to the graves where
the family line is laid. This Emperor
had lost some of his family at sea, and
after much mourning over his broken
| line of buried ancestors he hit upon the
remedy thus described.
There is much that is beautiful and
poetical in what they term their reli-
giUn, and much that shows a mind sus-
| cep ible to religious truth. The mis-
| sionarY field is being brought to our
! verv doors in California. The great so
| t,ietIes of The country can not move too
| prom utly in efforts to educate and chris
| tianize these pagNns, skilled in all la
| Dor and accomplished in a Thousand
ways. and whose coming will bless the
/ country in many important respects.
| The wave is setting in upon our shores
| strongly, and Christian missionary ef-
| fort should be Immediately put forth to
reclaim and mould this new element in
our wealth and advancement.
It is charged that those who come
| hoard all their gold, and take it home,
ltV,, L-oariuuy r0noh COiD ont 0f La
ton. This has been true. The reason
! Is obvious The courts extended no
| nrotection their testimony was worth
| less they could not enforce contracts
sharpers were continually preying upon
them, and so they were driven to trade
| with their own people, and hoard their
gold.
But under the encouragement which
the better classes are giving them, all
this is changing. Their merchants are
erecting stores, and investing in real
estate. The laborers are purchasing
homes and sending for their wives.
4 More and more of those who GO home
are returning, and most of them with
friends designing to stay. The stten-
ton of the great Chinese capitalists o
the Empire is being turned to our cOast
and the hope of many of our best busi.
ness men in San Francisco is, that they
will shArtly be induced to take hold o.
great enterprises. The coin Of th,
world has been pouring into China foi
generations. In Canton and HOui
Kong there are many native depOsitor:
of five and six millions, and many
Chinese companies winch could furDisl
J fifty and sixty millions to such an en-
i terprise az the Pacific Railroad, or t.
steamship lines, if they could once b
= interested in the matter. Chinese ner
: chants say these men will invest tn
: moment they can have full protection
= ! for their persons and property unde
= the laws.
: Such are the outlines Of the Chimes
7 problem, which before the nation ha
. become fully aware that Chinese iInIDi
grafton has hegun in earnest is thrus
upon it in all its great proportions.
Thinking men Will turn their atten
!, lion to it at once, as one of the mos
= Important questions of the day.
y [FrOm the Lebanon Start
r HOW 1T WAS DONE.