Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-10
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18th inst. From far and near our
work meets with approval and COM
mendation, and it is with no unusual
pride that we refer to it, for from the
first the APPEAL has taken a leading
position on the subject. The New
York Herald referring to the matter
Zone of the leading Chinese
operators in this business in California
has announced his intention TO attend
the Convention for the purpose of Of
fering contracts, and we are informed
that parties in New York are prepar-
ing to visit Memphis at the same
time with offers of great facilities for
transportation. The Convention will
meet on the 18th inst, and there is no
reason why fifty or a hundred thOus-
and Chinese should not be put on the
cotton plantations of the South in time
for the picking of next years crop.
That the Convention at Memphis
will be numerously attended, there
cannot be the slightest doubt; but
though eminent as agricultural labor
ers, it is not alone in filling the earth
that the Chinese are adaptedtO fill our
social wants. The experiment has
been made IN California and has
proved a success. Nearly two hun
dred thousand Chinese have already
poured in through the Golden Gate,
and to-day they dig the mines and the
canals, build the railroads, till the
vineyards and the gardens, fill the
household duties of cooks, laundry
men and male servants, throng in the
factories, the foundries, the mills and
the machine shops, and are ready to
undertake any kind of labor, heavy
or light. In fact, to them is due the
great revolution in productiOni in Cali
fornia, which enables home industry
and skill to supply every
public want, and contribute to
the rapidly increasing wealth of
the community. They are industri-
Gus to a high degree, frugal and shrewd
in business, keen in finance, and will
create wealth where others would
starve. Their intellectual culture is of
a high order, and the moral precepts
of their faith assimilate in a high de
gree with those Of the Christian reli-
gion."
4 writer in the current number OF
the GdhurY says: 1.-THE development
and cultivation of our vast tracts of
waste territory now lying outside the
busy circle of the worlds activities,
and the settlement OF the unnumbered
acres of fertile land between the Mis-
sissippi river and the Rocky Noun
tains, will demand a largely increased
foreign acknowledgements indeed,
than Europe or Great Britain can sup
ply; and it remains for the cheaper
races CT Asia to make up the def
cheney. Against the Chinese we need
entertain no prejudice. California is
already beginning to regret the adOp-
ton of the purse pursued towards
them; and as this rigorous policy Is
modified, her material prosperity will
be advanced. Chinese workmen are
already found in the wooden, paper
and powder mills of the Pacific coast,
as well as the boraX works, hop plan
tations, vineyards, fruit orchards,
grain fields and salt pits, which now
employ many thousands. Such i'm
migrants are by no means to be de
spised, and since the negro has failed
to meet the increasing demand for Ia
Dor in the South, the Monaghan can
best supply his place in the manufac.
tories, the rice fields, and the cotton
and tobacco plantations of that sec
ton"
The San Francisco Chronicle no
tees the favorable impressions of Chi
nese labor derived by Senator WADE
from what he has seen of the Asiatic5
in California. The Senator "stated
that he had visited many factories III
various parts of the world, but had
never seen any class of men Is well
adapted for the manufacture of wooden
fabrics as the Chinese. They are pa
tent, ingenious, and reliable, and
have their minds so little attracted by
outside matters that they appear to
be as mechanical in their movements
as the machinery they attend. Both
the Senator and his party thought the
people of California were standing in
their own Lightly rejecting this very
useful labor. He thought. other
States in the Union, as soon as they
understand the character of this intel
ligent, patient and industrious race,
would expend millions of dollars in
obtaining them"
From a pamphlet entitled " Ameri-
can Interests in Asia" a copy Of which
has been furnished us by the. author,
CELsO CEsARE MORENO, New York,
1869, we copy the following: 1.-THE
Chinese are the most expert, lab0riOus
and industrious people of all the Ash
atics; they are the soul of the colonies
in Asia; and the prosperityisi in proper
ton to the number of Chinese inhab-
iting them. The go, 200 Chinese living
in Singapore have rendered it of much
importance; they are not particular
respecting their caste; they exercise
every profession, eat everything.
Even hogs flesh, so much detested by
other Asiatics, is their favOrite dish.
The Chinese live at little expense, and
earn much; work eighteen hours of
the twenty-four; they are not inven-
tors, but possess the art of imitation
in the highest degree. The Chinaman
viii undertake anything, and it APP
pears as if Providence had created him
for the express purpose of acting as
the mediator between the Asiatics
and the people of the West, and he
discharges himself admirably of his
W. take it that this gem
tleman ought to be here. We want
him and all who r intelligent upon