Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-08-27
absorb several millions of Chinese before
ten years.

ten years.
Reporter-Where will the overflow go !?
! Choy Chew-The overflow will spread
through the mineral regions of the Rocky
Mountains, Nt:ada. Montana, Colorado
and Arizona. Americans won't object if
Cinnamon make these countries blossom
like the rose, and have every faith in
Americans awakening to tho necessity of
giving the Chinese fair play and just laws,
If they place any valu" on his services as q
| laborer.
| Reporter-What Go you think of the
scheme for bringing Chinese labor to the
South
| Chow-Chew-Th impression on my
mind Is that the Chinese laborer cannot
better his condition by emigrating to the
South to work III the cotton fields or on
sugar plantations at what must necessarily
be a low figure of compensation and in
competition with the negro population. -
For some years to come he will find all the
labor he wants 10 California, where new
sources Of wealth and industry are spring
ing up every day.
Then his countrymen are there, which is
ono powerful inducement, and when he
has made what he deems enough Of 1nvucy
he can pack up and leave conveniently fUr
China from the port of San Francisco
IChlnamen like to die at home Will these
Southern planters treat their Chinese
labOrers we'll ? Will there be any such syl-
tenn approXimating to tho recent institrt-
lion of slavery attempted ? Will the China
man find IN the Southern States much else
to turn his hands to than mere field labor?
These are questions Chinaman might ask
and wish to be enlightened upon. l hAvo
no doubt that Mr.. kOOpmanshoop will find
little difficulty i'll procuring labOrerS for
the Southern planters who want them, but
must wait to see the experiment tried be-
fore saying that millions of our people will
rush to the States of the South. One Pc
culiarity of the Chinese is that If the first
reports which reach them of a new settle
ment whittier some Of their c0untrymen
have gone are not of q hattering character
they reject all subsequent invitations. The
gold brought them to California, and all
the cruel treatment they met with failed to
deter others from afterwards migrating
there 1t will depend altogether upon the
success of the first Chinese experiment at
the South whether the millions will go
there.
Thery is a vast field for them east and
west Of the Rocky Mountains and down
towards Mexico. When the communica-
ton between California and China is en-
larged the emigration will increase but [
am not of opinion that the aggregate of
emigrants can ever become SO great as
some people think. Allowance should be
made for tho return stream of Chinese
which will all the time keep going OH. and
naver permit the total to reach an exces-
sive figure. Those emigrants who come
from China to make all the money they
can and then return do not care to go very
far away from San Francisco if they can
help it.
Reporter-I suppose there is no need to
use any means to stimulate emigration
from China to California
Choy. .Chew-Not the slightest. In all
the seaboard cities they have heard of
California they have heard of the gold
mines and the fortunes many of their
countrymen have made, and those who
have no visible prospect of making much
at home and with the means to take them
away will start for California. Of course
there are some worthless ones among them,
but as general thing they are all prepared
to work, and work hard if necessary. They
are satisfied with small gains and they live
sober and quiet.