The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-07-17


this naaster, already hundred thous1nd'
sfstes Clli1se ksve arzissa, !, sala tlssif
rssisas lsboE y msnifs fsisins itsslf - Ne
cheap production of textile fabrics, me-
chanioal Improvements, and the necessa-
siss Of life. Living oha handful Of rice
: day, Glad in cotton garments, they
msks themselves, at . cos5 OF . qoIiar or
two; dozens living in single tenement,
and thus practicing system Of ecoromy
which reduces their living to six or eight
cents day, they viii work for fifteen
cents day, and make money.
They know nothing Of luxury or the
comforts or ineonyenisnees Of life j; they
have but one object, and that Is TO make
money. In vain did the mechanics ard
laborers Of San Francisco FRY by cruel
treatment TO banish them; in vain were
trades union formed to prevent their OBJ
tanning employment It., was found irn-
possible TO starve out peopIe who could
adapt themselves to the employments Of
women, live on their wages, and, when
employment failed, live on animals and
offal which are an abomination 10 Can-
casiansl Though not possessed Of the
physical vigor Of che Caucasian, their
patience and tintiring application oeua-
pensate largely for this. Reared under
despotism, where oppression is the rule
and british stupidity general, they have
no ideas of freedom !; they arc AZ obs-
dent as slaves, and they only need di-
reoting mind to plan, 70 measure, to lay
of the work, when, with the uncom-
planning submission of machine, they
delve in the rocks, hew in the forests or
labor in the fields. AS you walk up the
streets Of San Francisco you will SEQ
them squatted in the alleys or corners,
mending shoes, queenswa-e, tinware,
making garments for the Jews, toys,
balls, hoops, states, pencils, satohels for
the boys. They will sole your shoes for
five cents above the cost of the leather,
and do it in o workmanlike manner
Give them the tobacco and they win
make you hundred cigars forten cents.
Tin and copper ware they viii make for
you according to directions at few
cents above the cost of the material; and
if you want man killed they will do
that at cost Of a few dollars Con.
science they have none; morals they
know not; future life beyond the grave
they disbelisve, and death has no tor
rors for them. Perjury is very common,
as they cannot, or win not, appreciate
the sanotity Of an oath; hence they arc
frequently hired as witnesses.
In NO ordinary way can honest, repu-
table workmel meet and master these
people. They are uDscrupulnus to the
last degree, submitting to the indignities
that would make the Blood of an Ameri.
car or an Irishmau boil, for the rnerest
pietance at which an Eastern laborer
would turn mp his nose. They viii viii be
met and encouraged by <hA capitalists.
and unless they are bluHed, stopped be.
fore they secure foothold, trouble and
discord, confusion aud disaster will sure
ly result from their coming.
It behooves tho workingmen Of our
day TO think of this matter sso,c il is 6
thousand times more important than the
negro questions or the woman question.
They are minor MASTERS which can be
settled easily when notGins else is urgent;
this needs attention nov.
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