The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-21
THE JULY MAGAZINES.
"The SsaIaxy.o

Impending Chinese Problem" by Raphael
Pumpelly. ''The Throne of Louis Philippe
Its Erection and its Overthrow;" No 2, Its
Overthrow" by John S. G. Abbott. ga
Light Man, by Henry James, Jr 'Matins,
by Edna Dean Proctor. "Our Great Farmers
The Poultry Lovers, by Charles W. Elliott
''Susan Fielding" by Mrs. Edwards; chap
ters xxi, xxi, and xiii "A Woman Last
Gift, (" by Sarah M b. Piatt. 1.-The Practical
View of Spiders Silk by Burt g. Wilder,
MD. with ilustrations) "The Last Chap
ter in the History Of tle War" byJ. M.
Bundy. "a Plea for Jack Cade-The End of
Word Controversy, by Richard Grant White.
''The Galaxy Miscellany, containing "Who
Discovered the Hudson, 10y b. f. De Costa;
'"The Gastronomical Almanac-July," by
Pierre Blot. 'Drift-wood" by Philip Quill
bet, containing IAN Old New Wonder.
'Literature and Art containing Julius
Caesar and Shylocll, 'Some New Books,
"Who Wrote Beautiful Snow Literary
and Art Notes" ''Nebule, by the Editor.
The ''Chinese question" is looming up in
the near future as one that is likely to give us
trouble, and it should therefore receive at this
time the careful and dispassionate consideration
of all thoughtful men. From a well-considered
article entitled ''Our Impending Chinese
Problem" by Raphael Pumpelly, we quote as
follows
Leaving out all other questions the capa-
city of America for receiving emigration is at
present boundless, as compared with the capa-
city of all the world to supply it. An eminent
English geographer has carefully calculated
that the two Americas are capable of support
ing thirty-six hundred millions of inhabitants.
Room and subsistence are not wanting The
capacity for absorption of labor is scarcely
more limited. The end of the long-continued
exodus from Europe cannot be far off: to
think otherwise is to believe unjustifably in
rapidly-approaching decay of the nations
beyond the Atlantic. Social and political re-
forms raising the condition of the people
especially that of the women of the lowest
classes, the increase in industrial prosperity
and the continued drain of skilled labor to
foreign countries, seem to be silently working
throughout Europe towards the establishment
of proper balance between population and
means of support.
The Chinaman in this country was for wears
excluded from all participation in the develop
ment OF the national prosperity, and was
grudgingly allowed to work only in those gold
= diggings which were considered worthless by
the American. But when pressing necessity
arose for labor on the public works of Cali
tornla and Nevada, the Chnaman was found
to answer every need: and now having be-
come identified with our internal improve
ments, he has obtained recognition as a neces-
sary element of population-the execution of
great enterprises is based on his cooperation
For veal or woe. the Pacific Railroad is uniting
more distant extremes than the two shores of
our continent
Inc facilities for crossing the Pacific are
yearly increasing; and is also the
knowledge of America in China. Unless
obstacles be placed in the way, immi-
grafton will increase rapidly; with additional
encouragement it will soon become enormous.
Having no rights, exposed to continued ex-
tortion, treated with contempt and indignity,
branded as an idolator, and charged with
every vice by his scrupulously Just, religious
and virtuous neighbors, the Chinaman, feel
ing that he has no position here, seeks Cali
fornia as the pearl diver does the bottom of
the sea, and returns as soon as possible to the
free air of his native soil Place these Chi
namen on the same footing with other immi-
grants, and the result will be that while
many will return to the home of their
toretathers, large portion will make this
the home of their descendants This was and
rs the case in the Dutch East Indies, where
they were less oppressed than in California.
Under these circumstances, if this immigra-
ton should be proportionate to the necessity
hoh Iehel lnat eAlStS III Cnlna or To the capa-
city for receiving it here; or, again, if it
should bear the same relation to the parent
population that the emigration from Ireland
and Germany bears to the home population
OF those countries, the male adults of Mon
gohan origin on this continent would soon
outnumber those of the European race.
When we consider that the prejudice of
race is with us a part of the foundation of
politics; that the moral characteristics of
various nationalities become important
parts of the framework on which
parties are constructed; that the op-
posing armies which fight with the ballot
and at times threaten the sword, are. to a
Large extent, massed by races; when we con
slider this, and then turn to the prospect of a
homogeneous mass of people among us, their
male adults outnumbering largely those of all
other component parts of the population and
haVlng no sympathetic bond with us in their
language, traditions, or, so far as it goes for
anything, their religion; then the social and
political importance of this great problem
dawns on the mind.
To the thinker who has come to look upon
the Americas as the birthright of the Euro
pean under the tutelage of the Anglo-Saxon;
presenting the prospect of hemisphere peo-
Pieo with new race built up from the best
o. sleHents OF the European, numbering more
cldn twice the present population of the
BloDe; a race which will be homooeneous an
Joylng the most complete means of intercono-
munlcatlon by steam and electricity boyine,
one language, one form of government onS
one idea of God; to him the startIino Y,,oSs;
bilities involved in the problem be3Sorro r'I 1,a
come as the discovery of neglected data
which may invalidate the results of years Of
calculation. ~
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