The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-08-25
The Chinese Question,

nhder date OF the 2Sth ult the ST. Louis Democrat
Inc chinese question is more and more stirring and
asitatng the Western and Southern mind gsJohrr
| Chnaman Tor cook and household servant-John for
lanndryman, John for farm lakorer and hortiepturst
our country has suddenly awoke to the advantages
enjoyed by California in its free supply OF Asiatie Ia
Dor Well we have tried him in almost every capae-
ity and for the most part, he has come ont we'll r
nave city frenas here, who desparng of ever getting
4 reasonably good white servants have contentey re-
signed themselves to the employment of Celesals
and do not regret the step they have taken. | have
country friends who, on their vineyards and ranches
only employ white of the better class for supern
tendents and foremen and will employ no other thar,
Cinnamon as aborers. And have further observed,
that Democrats and Republicans when employers ar,
equally in favor of the Chinaman
And, if John is only let alone it will be a long time
before he will desire demand the right of citizen
ship Those who affirm otherwise do SO in ignorance.
oil the conditions OF his stay among u.s. He is So
journer, not settler He incurs certain amount Of
disgrace when he leaves his native country which eau
only be washed out by return to it. The European
Immigrant brings his WIFE, children and houshold gods
Not so the Celestial; no wife children accompany
him. With very few exceptions, the comparatively
small number OF Chinese women here are prostitutes
To John, this is heather and foreign land, and he
looks to the date of his the Central Flowerv
| Kingdom, with anxious anticipation. Some of this
dislike to our country may in time be modified, more
especially when he is assured with eona civil rights
with the white man.
can Rnf es Hhfn se fa & se with ss in court
of law then shall have something else than crowd
/ of hungry Celestias arriving from China Fung Tang
a most intelligent English speaking Chinese merchant
here, has taken the opportunity of the presence of
visitors, Ohe "Ways and Means" committee, the
Chicago Commercial party etc to alIude to the
quantity of Chinese capital lying idle and which would
be gladly employed here the wealthy merchants
assured of the same protection which is afforded to
any other foreigner And have recently alluded to
the increasing belief here that such protection and
civil rights must be given to them 25s
| JOHN AS A SERVANT. 1 n~ z--g
The Chnamans greatest merit is in his adaptabiy.
He may require teaching but little labor spent on
him is we'll spent. All Cinnamon, with the exception
of those who have graduated in foreign families at
Hong Kong or Shanghai, those who have been bro
ken in in California, will require some teaching. Il
John cean In his person and clothing he usually is
and the slight ancient odor which does cling to
Cinnamon to come from the fact that they live
among themselves, too closely packed together; also
the smoke of their tobacco and opium may have some
thing to do with it. In household work have found
him very neat and particular No half ceansed glasses
or crockery ware no dust sweptinto and left
there but everything kept bright and in good order
AS cook, he is sometimes very toerabe, and can he
brought up to any point have noticed great dis
position to economy suppose this is good kitchen
virtuebut rather apt to disappoint when it takes the
form of frying outlets and steaks in water in place OF
butter or fat John is, too creature of routine;
given watch elnek in the kitchen, and you may
are accustomed to take two eggs each at breakfast
and stranger arrives at your gate that individual will
get the number of eggs to his repast but if you
indulge in three, he also will get three. Until cor
rected they are rather apt to send to the table very
stale bread or cakes. ''Waste not want not" must
| be proverb derived from China. They always cook
vegetables remarkably well. @5rs @sa~E4$tks
They rarely take liberties; it safe to use them with
fair amount of familiarity Scoldng is utterly
less; they barely understand your language, maybe
md mt, To q
Fsmong themselves. friend of mine in the vineyards
of Sonoma who employs at times hundred and
ten one hundred and twenty Cinnamon has adopted
the plan of never paying their wages till the espira
ton of three months. If he discharges one or if he
discharges himself, is equally the same thing the
money is not paid till the three months are up. As
this is great Inconvenience to them when they leave
say after months service, they orderly and
better behaved that estate than any which have
seen, and do not leave for tng and insufficient rea
sons,
Take them all in all, they afford the best labor we
can get. Our State, although remarkably devel-
oped, is still very deficient in population-there
probably not S00O 900 souls in California at this
ment. of the working men large proportion have
been demoralised by mining experiences and
sional strokes of good luck high wages and until alb
solutely driven to it. they do not take kindly to ord
nary labor. When they have taken to it, in nine
out of ten they only do with the view of making
another raise, and then they off to the last new
mines to try their luck am not of course
speaking of steady-gong mechanics; they safe
here, get high pay and good employment, and do not
come into competition with the Chinese at all z3s
A BLAST AT THE PREsIDENT.-Wiseacres remind ns
that must not expect too much at onee that as
great change has already been made reasonable men
would expect in one generation that history moves
in four cases out of five, pendulum fashion-action
and reaction. We know all that. We know also why
it is so in four ont of FIVE; and why had God
given rs great man leader we might have been
the fifth exceptional and moved straight forward
Had Grant been wise and brave enough for the hour
the South would have been law-abiding as New
England, and loyal men would have dared to show
their wealth and their opinions there under the pros
lection of the law. Politics would haze marched to
the music of Safe gainu, and contented industry.
Sully Rchelieu, or Bonaparte, Cromwell, Walpoie,
Chatham installed at Washington, would in five years.
have made New Orleans and Savannah the awinsistera
of Boston and Chicago. Charleston would have beet
the banner town of the ultra Republicans and Calves
ton would have taken for its city seal the motto IF
any insults the stars and stripes, shoot him. In
stead of this, what have we for President? A Jockey
and sea side lounger; restless boy, needing con-
stantly to be amused; and so impatient of business
that he cannot stay at his post more than week at
time Five months in Office, he has not yet given ns
an administration. But posting copying clerk here
and there, to keep the machine in motion, he hurrea
off to idle week at watering place, act dummy at
monster show, or helpless at steamboat excursion
The Presidency must indeed, be sinecure, if, in
such an hour this man bred in a camp and tam
yard properly discharge its duties 800 miles from
the capital in the intervals of the racecourse and the
half hours left after theatres and concerts. y y
Northern property sale nowhere at the South Texas
covered with outrages on women and murders Of men.
Tennessee playing the same game Virginia. Stokes,
at the risk of his fe unsupported by the Government
fighting forlorn hope. Andrew johnson elamor,
ing for the election of Sener and Greeley quietly hop
ing for the defeat of Stokes In one half the South
loyalists telling that unless there is change
Washington they cannot live there" must fly across
the Ohio and throughout the whole South the same
warning that in 1872 Democrats THAT rebels
will rally the whole South their side, This is too
uniform to be accident It is the result of a plot at
the South, and of dsaya apathy Or honest incapacy
at Washington. There Grant shows himself occasion.
ally. Fish never Republican. Cox was John
son Boutwell, stands aone-no press to support
him. If you look at the Tribune its editor treats
slavery as dead issue, and longs for the old Wing
party, while it is manged by one who opposed i'm.
peachment, and would have voted for Chase as the
Tammany candidate for 1868, and wants him such
candidate in 1872 IF Johnson's treason and Grants
neutrality be succeeded by Chase and Wade Hampton
sent to Washington by Tammany hall, where willl2
snch years leave the nation. 4 To your tents
0 1srael--for a second Buchanan sits in the White
House temporisng while the eremy gets into battle
array. Anti-Slavery Standard.
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