Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-07-28


in Coolies. The charge is wholly false.
No member ofthe company Is Is Oblig-
ed to accept place found for him If
he does not desire to do so, though he
must trust the companies implicitly,
and for the best reason that he finds
no better friends. Thousands who
come are brought by the company
fund through a previous arrangement
made by the emigrants with the agents
in China. For the repayment of this
sum they give their word. Their first
anxiety is to replace this sum. The
company keeps a record of the amount,
Of the place where the emigrant is
employed, and makes a special agree
ment with each as to the rates Of re-
payment. The company has no hold
on the labOrer whatever, except his
promise, and does not assume control
of him to any extent. But John is
honest and prompt to pay, and CRATE
full besides for the help extended
The companies take entire charge
Of all paupers, and no Chinaman has
as yet become a charge upon the State.
1t Is very easy to see what such help
and encouragement will lead to inin-
creasing the new immigration.
WHAT JOHN CAN DO.
California is blessed with gold and
rich soil and charming climate. Its
resources are beyond computation
Its best citizens speak of these, and
then say Of all their blessings that of
Chinese labor is one Of the greatest
The whole business and commerce of
the State was languishing because of
the scarcity of laborersi But Just in
the time of greatest need relief came.
But John arrived; and, though he
knew nothing of American house
keeping or cooking, he learned both
almost with single lesson. And, Ia
ken as q class, there are no better
house servants in the land to-day than
these, if indeed there is any class so
good. And they are equally as efficient
as cooks, chamber-maids, or nurses.
Show them once or twice how to do
anything within the range of their
ability, and in household matters it is
a wide one, and he will continue to
the end of his days.
But for John the Pacific Railroad
would have been delayed three years.
AS an artist, with shovel or drill f,
wheelbarrow and cart, he has proved
himself unsurpassed. He is temper
ate, has no rows, is not at home in a
riot, knows nothing of strikes, has
few holidays, bOal ds himself, cooks his
own food to his liking, does his own
washing, keeps himself clean, is al
ways respectful, contented and jOyial.
He is above all other classes a most
useful and pleasant person to build
railroads with.
And then he is good at almost every
thing else where Intelligent labor is
required. The largest wooden mill on
the coast, and in fact, one whose work
is not eQualed elsewhere, employs
Cinnamon alone. This company, af-
ter making very heavy contracts, were
subjected to the test Ofa general strike
among their white workmen. TOyield
to the demand was to lose loose large
ly; to stop work was to be ruined. In
this strait they decided to try Chinese.
Enough were selected to attend all
the machinery, and in a few days the
mill was running again up to its full
and producing its best quail
ity of goods. And here the most i'm
proved machinery known in such es-
adjustments is in use.
They do all the work in the most
shot tower in the West
They make all fine articles of gentle
mems wear where the neatest ma
chine sewing is required. They bind
books and make books. They set type
without knowing the language. They
carve with great skill. In short they
are learning all trades rapidly, and
becoming versed in the mysteries of
all heavy machinery, and delicate and
labor saving machines as well, and in
all their movements are about as aceu-
rate and regular as the machine itself.
Most Of the beautiful Photographic
and stereoseopic views which the Gen.
trail Pacific Railroad Company has
sent throughout the East, are printed,
and mounted by Cinnamon.
Such, in outline only, is their stand
ing as laborers. Such a people are an
in great country needing
even if they received
what whites demanded for similar
services. But when the question of
cost presents itself the value of labor
appears in a new and impOrtan Slight.
Speaking in general terms, Chinese
labor gets only one-third as much as
white workmen demand. Nor, ifthey
receive fair treatment, is there any
limit to the supply. China is crowded
10 Overfowing with its population
We can not stop the inrOad if we
would. Looking at the great unde-
velOped 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 in all
and cotton and rice and tea it is con-
idently believed, will be hereafter
raised successfully.
The yield of gold and silver will be
vastly increased the moment capital
sts can succeed in securing Cinnamon
admission to the mines. With the
present pride of white labor, mines
which yield less than twenty dollars
20 the ton can not be worked. There
ire inexhausible mines which will
produce from seven to twenty dollars
% the ton. With Chinese labor, all
-ock which produces seven dollars per
on, can be worked with profit. 1t
an be family seen what advantage !
o the whole country would flow from |
.ry from such change in mining.
AS yet it is impossible to introduce |
hese people into the great mines, al
hough they are gradually making |
Roadway. Where a white miner abOn- |
Ions his claim if his daily receipts |
all much below four or five dollars, a /
Chinaman thinks he is making for |
une if he secures seventy-five cents. /
There is no unskilled labor which !
hey can not perform rapidly and well. /
There is no machinery which they |
an not speedily learn to attend as ac-
as if they themselves were a
lart oft, and wages are as one to two /
md half or three. 1t is not difficult |
o understand the advantages thus Sc
.ured.
Their EDUCATION AND PAGANIsM. |
Ninty-eight per cent. of those who /
,ome here can read and write their /
,wn language. Most of them are rap I
in figuring. Their children learn /
'ur language quickly; the parents
With difficulty, though they soon
manage to acquire a stock of words
nd sentences which answer their
purposes. They show n great anxiety
o send their children to school where
English is taught, though, as yet, few
abilities have been given them, for
While they pay full school taxes, they
AVE as yet been furnished but one
ehool house for forty pupils. As a
lass there is none so abiding-not
ven the Americans, and none are
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