The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-07-22

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/ grants now existing in the Union.
The companies obtain employment fc
their members. From this fact they haY
been charged with dealing in coolies. Th
charge is wholly false. No member of tb
company is obliged to accept place foun
for him if he does not desire to do 81
though he must trust the companies in
! plicitly, and for the good reason that h
finds no better friends. Thousands VIII
come are brought by the company fun
through previous arrangement made b.
the immigrants with the agents in China
For the repayment of this they give thei
word. Their first anxiety is to replac
this sum. The company keeps a recor
OF the amount, of the place where the EN-
igrant is employed, and makes a specia
agreement with each as to the rate of re
payments. The company has no hold up
on the laborer whatever, except his prom
Use, and does not assume control of him Il
any extent. But John is honest anC
prompt to pay, and grateful besides 70
the help extended.
These companies take entire charge O
all paupers, and no Chinaman has as ye
become charge upon the State.
It is very easy to see what such hell
and encouragement will lead to in in
creasing the new immigration.
WHAT JOHN CAN DO.
California is blessed with gold, and ricI
soil, and charming climate. Its resource:
are beyond computation. Its best citizens
speak of these, and then say that of al
their blessings, that of Chinese labor is one
of the greatest. The whole business and
commerce of the State was languishing be.
cause of the scarcity of laborers. But just
in the time of greatest need the relief
came. Women were few in California,
house servants could be found for the
wealthiest alone. But John arrived, and
though he knew nothing of American
housekeeping or cooking, he learned both
almost with a single lesson. And taken
as a class, there are no better house ser
wants in the land to-day than these, if in
deed there is any class so good. And
they are equally as efficient as cooks,
or nurses. Show them
once or twice how to do anything within
the range of their ability, and in house
hold matters it is a wide one, and he will
continue to do the thing exactly as he was
shown to the end of his days.
But for John the Pacific Railroad would
have been delayed three years. AS an ar
tist with shovel or drill, wheelbarrow and
cart, he has proved himself unsurpassed.
He is temperate, has no rows, is not at
home in riot, knows nothing of strikes,
has few holidays, boards himself, cooks
his own food to his liking, does his own
keeps himself scrupulously
clean, is always respectful, contented and
OVial. He is above all other classes a
most useful and pleasant person to build
with.
And then he is good at almost every
hing else where intelligent labor is re-
1uired. The largest and finest wooden
mill on the coast, and in fact one whose
work is not eqUaled elsewhere, employs
Cinnamon alone. This company, after
making very heavX contracts, were sub
ecte3 co UdVz 5es5 Of a general strike among
heir white workmen. To yield to the de-
mands was to lose largely, to stop work
was to be ruined. In this strait they de-
,ided to try Chinese" Enough were Sc
ected to attend all the machinery, and in
few days the mill was running again up
% its full capacity, and producing its best
quality of goods. And here the most i'm
proved machinery known in suck estab-
ishments is in use.
They do ali the work in the most exten-
iive shot tower in the West. They make
all fine articles of gentlemen's wear, where
5he neatest machine sewing is required.
They bind books and make books; they
set type without knowing the languages;
hey carve with great skill; in short they
are learning all trades rapidly, and be-
coming versed in the mysteries of all
leavy machinery, and delicate and labor
saving machines as well, and in all their
are about as accurate and reg
liar as the machinery itself. Most of the
beautiful photographs and stereOscOpic
,iews which the Central Pacific Railroad
Company has sent throughout the East
ire printed, finished and mounted by Chi
lamen.
Such, in outline only, is their standing
IS labOrers. Such people are an acquisi-
ion in great country needing develop
nent, even if they received what whites
lemand for similar services. But when
he question of cost presents itself the val
lie of the labor appears in new and i'm
,Ortant light. Speaking in general terms,
chinese labor costs only One-third as much
is white wOrkmen demand. Nor, if they
eceive only fair treatment, is there any
INIT to the supply. China is crowd
d to Overfiowing with its population. Wei
ng 10 the great developed West. which
stretches beyond the Rocky Mountains,
he best men in both parties in California
egard the promise for labor with rejoiC=
ng. Farmers are employing them in all
directions. Silk culture is opening, and
;otton and rice and tea, it is confidently
will he hereafter raised success
ully.
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7astly increased the moment capitalists
an succeed in securing Cinnamon admis-
ion to the mines. With the present pri-
,es of white labor, mines which yield less
han about twenty dollars to the ton can
rot be worked. There are inexhaustible
mines already known which will produce
rom seven to twenty dollars to the ton.
With Chinese labor, all rock which pro-
1uces seven dollars per ton can be worked
With profit. 1t can be family seen what
advantages to the whole country would
low from such a change in mining.
AS yet it is impossible to introduce these
people into the great mines, though they
ire gradually making headway. Where a
White miner abandOns his claim, if his
laily receipts fall much below four or five
iollars, Chinaman thinks he is making
| fortune if he secures 70 cents.
There is no unskilled labor which they
AN not perform rapidly and well. There
S no machinery which they cannot speed
ly learn to attend as accurately as if they
themselves were part of it, and wages are
as one to two and half and three. 1t isl
lOt difficult to understand the adyanta-
5es thus offered by the Chinaman.
THEIR EDUCATION AND PAGANIsM.
Ninety per cent. of those who
,ome here can read and write their own
Most Of theIa are rapid in fig
lring. Their children learn our language
quickly the parents with difficulty, though
hey soon manage TO acquire a stock of
words and sentences which answer their
purpose. They show a great anxiety to send
heir children to school, where English is
aught, though as yet few facilities have been
afforded them, for while they pay the full
school tax, they have as yet been furnish
ed with but one school house for forty pu-
pills. As class there are none so law,
even the American citizens,
and none more honest. They pay all
State and Government taxes cheerfuuy
ind promptly, and also the school tax,
hOugh they get very small return for the
after.
The State imposes a tax of five dollars
per capita upon all the land, and some
special licenses, such as the miners tax of
,hree dollars. the first of which the State