The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-22

] country needing development, even il tDeV re-
ceive what whites demand for similar services.
But when the question OF cost presents itself,
the value of labor appears in q new and impor-
tant light. Speaking in liberal terms, Chinese
| ltbor costs only one. third as mu, III as white
Torkmen demand. Now, if they receive only
tar treatment, ls there any limit to the supply?
China is crowded to oyerfowing with it's popu-
Looking to the great undeveloped West. which
stretches beyond the Rocky Mountains, the
| best men in both parties in California regard
the promise for labor with rejoicing. Farmers
are employing them 10 all directions. Silk
culture Is opening, and cotton and rice and
tea, it is confidently believed, will be hereafter
raised successfully.
The WELD of gold and silver will be vastly in.
creased the moment capitalists can succeed in
securing Cinnamon admission to the mines.
| With the present price Of white labor, mines
which Well less than about $40 to the ton can
not be worked. There are inexhaustib!e mines
already known which will produce from 81 to
$40 to the ton. With Chinese labor, all rock
which produces 81 per ton can be worked with
profit. It can be family seen what advanta-
ges to the whole country would now rom such
change in mining.
As yet it is impossible to introduce these
people into the great mines, though they are
gradually making headway. Where a white
miner abandons his claim it his daily receipts
fall much below 81 or s., a Chinaman thinks be
ls making fortune If he secures seveaty-hve
cents.
rHHIR EDUCATION AND PAaAN1sM.
Ninety-eight per cent. Of those that come
here can read and write their own language.
Most OF them are rapid in figuring: Th IT
children learn our language rapidly the
parents with difficulty, though they soon man
age to acquire stock of words and sentences
which answer their purposes. They show 8
great anxiety to send their children to school
where English ls taught, though as yet few
facilities have been given them, for while they
pay full school taxes, they have as yet been
furnished but one school house for forty pu.
| pills. Ae class, there is none 30 law ABIDING
not even the Americana and none m IRE
cheerfully and carefully, and the school tax OF
the State, though they have very small returns
for the latter.
The State imposes tax Of five dollars per
capita upon all the land, and some special
licenses. such as the miners tax Of three do :
lars: the first Of which the State hiss no right
to collect. There are disgraces Of this kind
which demaRogues have brought upon Callfor-
mia, but which the respects BILE classes do not
sanction and will rectify before long.
They are idolaters. This is the most diff.
cult point in the whole problem. still those
who suppose that American civilization cannot
stand against few thousand or a few mill
lion Chinese, are borrowing much needless
trouble.
Contrary to the opinion Of most readers, the
Chinaman erects no idol OF God He would no
sooner do this than the Christian. His faith
Is this God is good and kind, and 30 merci-
ful that he will under no circumstances do US
anything hut good. But the Evil One hates
us, and is ever watching an opportunity TO in.
jufe and destroy us; we must conciliate him
And 30 Joss or Devil houses are erected, and
insence burned constantly, and offerings made
10 conciliste the Devil.
THEIR DEAD.
They believe in the sweet influences OF de-
parted.splrits, that the dead are constantly
around them to watch, aud guard, and help.
They make offerings OF food at their graves,
| not, "a, is said with the idea Of feeding the
dead, but to show them that they are remem-
bered. Their name for God and tor the in
fuence whion these departed exert is the same
as that which expresses the soft warmth aud
| effect OF q southern sun falling upon slope
which looks toward the south.
They send their dead home to bury them in
the family Line, go that the chain OF ancestry
may be complete, and the sweet influences
from the spirit would flow through the line un-
interruptedly. II the llne is broken by an alb
sent dead one, the infusnces are less regular,
and the wandering spirit is not at rest, and in
stead Of Watching to do good, desires to injure
his body. Three times . year offerings are
made to departed spirits. and late Emperor
has decreed that the government make offer'
inge also three tunes year to spirits at large
that is to the spir1ts Of such as have died IN
battle or have been lost at sea, and LETT unbu
ried or not returned TO the graves where the
family line ls laid.
WHY WEALTH B MADE FOB CHINA.
1t is charged that those who come hoard al
their gold, and take IL home, thus keeping
much coin out Of circulation. This has beer
true. The reason is obvious. The courts e1
tend no protection; their testimony was worth
less; they could not enforce contracts; sharp
ers were continually preylng upon them, anc
| go they were driven to trade with their owl
people, and hoard their gold.
But under the encouragement which tht
better classes are giving them, all this ii
changing. Their merchants are erecting stores
| and INV. sting IN real estate. The laborers art
purchasing homes and sending for their wives
More and more Of those who 20 home are re-
| turning, and most of them with friends design
Jog to stay. The attention Of tile great Chinese
capitalists Of the Empire is being turned to oul
coast, and the hope among many OF ou: bes
| business men in san Francisco is that they
will shortly be induced to take hold OF erea
enterprises. The coin Of the world has beer
pouring into China for generations. In Can
ton and Hong Kong there are many native de
postors OF i've and SIX millions, and man!
Chinese companies which could furnish MT,
and sixty millions to such an enterprise as tn:
Pacific Railroad. or to steamship lines, II the.
could once be interested in the matter. Chi
nese merchants say these men will invest tht
moment they can have full protection for then
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