The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1869-08-13
OUR NEW j" HAND"

The Coming Man 10 John Chtnaman, ana
not only that. be has eome. But few year
since Cbinaman and On elepbsnt wne rival
euriosities In the Unisal States, and to-day.
although, not one in IN hundred Of our forty
millions has yet looked upon the Asi"t'c,
there are nearly or fully sixty thousand OF
the CelAst;sls ON the Pscifc C0ast. In Mon.
,ana they first reached the Eastern Slope.
and latterly along the line Of the Pacific
Railroad they have reached the lower Mis-.
souri, and diverged into Colorado. Month
after nOnth the China steamers are adding
thousands to thosc already in California
Month after month their numbers increase
in the outlying Territories, and this Is but
the beginning. On the Pacific Coast they
have been recognized rs IN clement, formi'
dable enough to instigatc hostile attitude
by the lsboring element with which they
came in competition, but their industry, tract.
ability. temperate habits, and low wages,
early commended them to employers, and,
under the protection Of capital and law, the
forciblc attempts to drive them out, cannot
In the end. be other than local and tempora.
~. They build railroads and wharves, work
on ranches, in manufactures, as house ser
wants, mechanics, stevctlores, and in fact In
every branch of industry, their natural In.
genuity as artizsns and industrious cl'arac.
ter NJ workers combining tn make them
available for all the pursuits for which
manual labor il required. Already the South
has heard Of this labor element, and desires
to experiment with it ~ substitute for no
gro slave labor. Conventions have been held,
the project favora1ly considered and nego.
tiations arc pending with the agents Of
Chinese emigration looking to their intro.
duc,iOn in the cotton. growing States. There
their labor will come into competition with
negro labor, the same cnmities will cnsue
tina, has already bccn evidenced on the Pa
ciiic COast, and the eventual result will Ike
the san,e-the resources Of the country will
be brought out and there will be work enough
for all. The negro, Ms the laboring element,
has existed in but . small portion oil the
United States, and were barely adequate,
under scrvitude, to the cultivation Ut that
limited area. The late masters, t"o, do not
~ rule, take kindly to hiring them, and
those who were slaves, unsettled by their
new-given frco,lom and their visionary
dreams of the Northern States, arc gong out
from their old homes. leaving field 10 be
supplied by another class Of cheap laborers.
That class will Ike the Chinese. The new
States and Territories with their millions Of
acr,s Of land, need tho hand IF labor to de-
vcl,p their latent resources, and on those
millions of acres the rains fall and the sun
shines on un,rodden Willis; no cattle
grazc on their pastures : no plowsl'src turns
the fallow, the mine Is untouched. and
coyotes howl where bells should chime, cit
les he bu:ldcd, and tho yellow harvests nod
ob,s .ncc to the sun. The drudgcry Of this
WORT viii ne John Chinamans'. The EN-
peror can spare Of his three hundred and
forty million subjects; their earnings here
in year, low as they work, will he c"m-
pcscncc there. and though they are coolies.
and l,ca:hcn, and 'gobblc" pOor ground and
carry away their treasures from our sl'ores,
they arc yet y laboring element that laA bs,
and is being. used to advantage on this con-
tincnt. The direction of the ab"r stream
has changed 1t crosses now from the Orr.
ent, and whether We like or dislike him.
chriseianizc and cilizenize him, or he Pagan
izes rs, or neither, - John" 10 Nh impending,
issepsesaibls fixture on tho American Cont.
neat, and the inevitable Coming Man from
Canton.