The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-06-17
G II A RI ES TON.
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE II, 1869.
John chinaman i'm tho south.

X John Chinaman In tine South.
A planter who has evidently given much
attention to a consideration of the labor
question. sends us an article upon the sub
jeot Of the introduction of coolies into the
South. 1t may be reduced to the following
propositions:
l. 1t will take half century to bring
into the States Of the South enough Irish,
Germans or English to supply the labor de-
mand, and it is doubtful if the Atlantic and
Gulf coasts will ever have suficienoy of
those people for laborers. Is it, then, wise
to waste our patience and money in trying
to overcome the deep rooted prejudices Of
the European immigrant, when it is possi-
BILE to import Immediately 200, 900 Asiatios
who will work as we'll, and doubtless better
In our climate, and whose treatment will be
so FAR superior to what they have been ac-
oustomed to at home that they cannot fail
to be contented?
2. The statement that the Chinese are
vicious and bloodthirsty is untrue, or else
every account we have Of that people from
travellers, and from persons who have Wis.
tied amongst them, is q gross misrepresen-'
ftation. No people, such as the Californi-
ans say the Chinese are, who are not con-
servative and'law abiding, could have sus-
tanned for 1000 years civilization over
population now numbering 2OO,OOO,OOO
8. The coolies are better adapted to our
system Of labor-the plantation system.
and no other is to be thought Of in the sea-
coast region Of the South-than any other
immigrants. ss -1
a. The Asiatic is not our inferior natu-
rally. He is only behind us in mental Gull
ture, and equality in these respects will
soon be attained when he becomes our coun-
tryman and oompatriot. ra
s. No enc who understands the inmate
antagonism Of the two races will for a mo-
ment apprehend the social OF political
amalgamation Of the coolie with the Afri-
can. Besides, with an abundant laborinp
population, it will be quite as easy to CON
troll the political action Of our coolies as it
Is for the people Of the North and the Old
World to control the political action Of the
same classes in their own society, viz: by
refusing employment to, OF by discharging,
the labofer who opposes at the ballot the
political interests Of his employers.
6. The prejudices of the European immi-
grants are 80 strong that none who possess
the means Of paying their way to the North
west care to come to the South. And what
is the cost Of those who do come? It costs
700 to bring an European family South.
When they arrive they are nearly destitute,
and their employer must buy them beds,
blankets, plates, knives and forks, cooking
utensils, shoes, clothes. and dozen ether
things, aggregating $25 more. The man
is paid $40 month wages, and his ratisns
OF bacon, -four, corn meal, molasses, vege-
tables and coffee cost SO month additional.
White labor is 80 scarce that the newly ar
rived immigrant may be tempted to desert
his employer when he has worked for
couple Of months, and the planter is left
in the lurch to the tune Of $50 or $50.
And work must be found for the wife Of the
white immigrant. She will not 20 into the
feld, and what else can she do Yet the
man says he cannot support his family I'M
less you give his wife employment.
y The white immigrant IL ignorant Of
tho use Of our implements, and for long
nttoassQaiEss the services Of, skilled ma
tive laborer as his instructor.
9. Our correspondent ssys in conclusion:
sLst those who prefer the European em.
"ploy him. advocate the coolie, and pro-
''poses to take Immediately the necessary
''steps leading to q supply for next years
Operations. Tho negroes would do,
s'but there are not enough. There is the
''rub in that quarter"
without discussing the positions taken by
our correspondent, We may remark that the
Newberry Immigration Society in this State
has provedshe "praeticability Of tho intro
duc,ion Of white labor on q small scale, and
we believe that the Immigrants have in
every instance given great satisfaction by
their intelligence, industry and sobriety.
This, however, is mot ksSpoint. In the
words Of Mrs. Glass, we must Arst catch
eur hare. As we have said over and over
again, 1t Will be many years before there
will DO any very considerable white immi-
grafton to the cotton and rice growing States
Of the South. But labor We must have, or
the State can make no progress. We prefer
the white laborer, the undsf1led white man,
to any Asiatic or Affioan. We want white
mon 70 strengthen our moral Abrs and to
give tone to the body pslitio, 90 wsll as to
till our aslds and work in sur Saesoriss.
But the fssling against no 10 90 intsnse and
tho Western competitioa Tor white laberers
10 % active, that South CsroliAa, at all