Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-07-17

INC lue 8U0 soul OF commerce of the
| country. In the native provinces they
are still the farmers Of the revenue.
having formerly been so throughout the
island. |" A'fA 1'- aflr
Beginning on their arrival as cooIie.
and lab0refs, they soon accumulate
enough 10 work Independently, and many
of them nmass large fortunes. They
have obtained nearly the monopoly oi
the native produce and an uncontrolled
command of their market for foreign
commodities. Their industry embraces
the whole system of commerce, from ths
greatest wholesale speculations to the
most minnie branches of the retail trade
ID their hands are all the manufactures.
distilleries, potteries, etc, and they have
large coffee and sugar plantations. Their
means are increased by their knowledge
Of business, their spirit of enterprise.
and their mutual confidence. They are
equally well adapted for trade or agri.
| culture.
In the English colony Of Singapore
10000, out Of population Of $4,000,
are Chinamen, chiefly from the Island OF
Hainan. Here the Chinese have OBJ
tanned strong foothold, and, under the
full protection of English law, are accu-
mulating great fortunes. Nearly all the
trade is urdcr their control, and this
represented, in 1867, $35, ,oO0, 900 imports
and S2e, 200, 900 exports. Carving with
them and retaining their innate clergy
in a country, where both the natives and
Europeans succumb, morally if not ply
sically, TO the eneryating climate, they
are absorbing every department of labor.
The writer was told some Years since
that the English owners Of 3 large ma
chine shop at Singapore were gradually
removing their English Rorkmen and
replacing them with Chinamen, having
found the latter more docile, sober and
enduring, and, with the same amount of
instruction, equally skilliuL So snecess-
fui Is their competition that Parsees Jews
and Europeans can retain no foothold in
face OF it. - ~ 1i .15tl
The growth Of Chinese population and
industry in the East Indian Archipelago
is already matter of great significance.
In 1t we may see the coming solution of
an important problem. The vast areas
of tropical lands, insular and continental,
have hitherto been, comparatively speak
ing, closed world. And yet "the warm
regions yield larger returns of those
plants they have in common with the
temperate zones, and have peculiar plants
which yield more nourishment from the
same area. Thus maze, which Yields
fortyfold in France, gives one hundred
and fiftyfold, on an average, in Mexico"
"Humboldt estimates that an arpent.
(five-sixths of an acre), which will barely
support two men, when sown in wheat,
will feed fifty with bananas
1t is this excessive bounty of tropical
nature that feeds southern races without
labor. And the absence, during ages, of
the necessity for labor in these regions,
has nnfitted the natives for active par
ticipation in making their countries con-
tribute their full share to the needs of
mankind. But the time must come,
sooner or later, when these vast forests
and jungles will be the granaries from
which the deficiencies in the production
OF their lands will be made good; when
they will stand in the same relati IN to
other countries that our prairies and the
wheat-felds of Russia hold to manufac-
turing England, or that Siam is lust be-
ginning to hold to China; and when the
great wealth of raw material-greater
by far than we yet appreciate-which is
contained In the vegetable world of the
tropics, will be a necessity to countless
manufactures, supply comforts and luxu-
ries TO largely increased populations over
the whole world. a-
The Chinese alono - ali ~oo1, lo,xo
shown themselves able to maintain Wig
orous moral and physical vitality in the
unwholesome and eneryating climates of
the Sonth. Wherever they go and are
allowed q fair field, they turn their at
tention to the discovery and develop
ment of the resources of the land in ev-
cry direction known to their experience.
and with fully as much good judgment,
energy, and success as are shown BY the
European. Indeed, they possess, in an
emineht degree, the qualities that are
essential in colonizers, especially that
strongly gly-marked national individuality
which enables them TO retain the best
characteristics of their race in the midst
OF the effeminate customs of the inferior
natives. The ability TO thrive in the
most extreme climates is remarkable
characteristic of this people. We have
Just seen how well they resist the enerva-
ting and unwholesome climate of the
tropics. The writer has also seen them,
collected from different parts of the Chi
nese Empire-.pursuing, in considerable
numbers, the different branches of their
industry, 'on the confines Of Tartary and
Siberia, where the mean annual tempera-
ltuIe is thirty-two degrees (Fahrenheit)
aud where the mercury sinks. every win
ter to sixty degrees below zero. aais5r
Whatever may be the future of China
proper, it is perhaps not too much Ito
foresee ~ the mutual adaption which ex-
lists between tropical regions aud Chinese
colonization, the germ of growth in
which the best elements of their own
aud the Western civilizations wall Blend
to raise the offshoots of China to The
rank of great Powers in the councils of
the world. - al875s IdlJosq .iiw Ela,iI
While the amount per capital of our
national dobt is sos, ,o5 in gold, that of
Great Britain is SI26 rs. and thai of