The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-09-09


The Green Bay Adcocote says: The
Newest problem presented to thc Amer.
can people tor solution, IS, what is TO be
t.e effort upon this country, lis Institutions
and is physical Development, Of the in
coming horde Of Chinese and other Asiafc
nos landing upon our Pacific shores, and
finding lis way eastward? Hitherto the
overflow IF the old word upon US has been
only those elements which promptly assim-
Hated with the liberal and progressive
character Of this new country. The people
OF the German states, of ireland, and 9TH
ers who have thronged here from European
countries, where in part imbped With the
Emeric spilit before leaving home. for
they came here to escape the oppression Of
old and badridden styles Of the govern
ments, and to acquire those undergraduates
Of fortune which the systems of business
in those countries almost to ally prohibited
from being obtained by those born in Il e
poorer ranks Of life Thus it has resulted
that, however rapidly ship loads Of emf
sh ores, they have foated off upon the broad
lands Of Western states, aud within few
years have so imperccptIbly mingled in
with the native element and assimiated
with the American character that there is
no trace OF tie mixture
But here comes an element, beginning
Ike a rIVulet, enlarging to a river, and
promising to increase to q food, which puts
at fault all methods by Which we have
been accustomed 10 treat with other foreign
ilfows. In the very start, it violates all
precedents in the direction Of its coming.
In all the worli's history, if we remember
rightly, excuses Of populations have oyer
flown toward the West, and gone to new
lands in the direction Of the setting sun.
But this old people, as If to demonstrate
Its difference from all others, emigrates to
the eastward All others have sigualizca
their change Of life and purpose by casting
off their connection with everything per-
tanning to the governments of the old
world, and taking the oath Of allegiance to
that Of the new; but the true Chinaman
lives in the hope that some day he will go
back, gold and silver clad, to the pleasant
fields Of the FlOwery Kingdom; or if dying
here, lis body shall be sent home for final
rest. lie dosnt wear our kind ofclothing,
nor eat our style Of food, nor learn our
language and it seems 70 be matter of
some complaint in California that he does
not steal, quarrel, fight, nor get drunk
alter the American style. What is he here
for, and what is to become of him These
are questions to which general attention is
beginning to be turned, but to which no
answer is yet made plain.
Under the good Providence which seems
to have selected the North American con
tlncnt for marked expression of its bene-
fclent workings, this singular people are
coming here to fill some detail in the grand
scheme to the fulflment of which we are
assigned. What it is, the most far-seeing
minds OF the nation are engaged in spccu
lating upon, without as yet reaching a so
luton. The breaking up Of Southern
slavery, and the scattering of the former
slave element III to wider field, seeking for
Other and easier modes Of life, has left va
cant field into which it is thought this
AsIatic labor may flow but it would seem
to be more fitting that such genial climate
such rare exceliencies of soil, landscape
and all attractive features, should rather lie
enjoyed by the higher and more cultivated
races OF our own people. Some Of them
may silt into the Eastern States, but in no
numbers beyond few here and there in
mental cmpIoyments. On the Pacific slope
they cannot always be miners nor railroad
employees, for the mines are mostly coming
TO be worked BY machinery, and railroad
building is Intermittent and not lasting.
In our opinion, as mere speculation,
We arc to look for the final grouping of
the vast body Of the Asiatics upon the
great plains Of tie West. These are now
sat, arid and rainess. The true American
will never enter upon them except hurried
y in search of gold, or to hasten across
on the journey to better lands beyond -
But the patient Chinaman, who can live
and thrive where a Digger Indian would
starVe, may come in upon these deserts ard
make them TO blossom as the rose. And
here, iuclosed as it we're by walls Of Amer
lean peoples on all sides, pressing inward
upon them as they make the earth fit for
the occupancy Of "a higher grade, even they
will finally assimulate with. or be grated
upon, the native growth Of the county.
TEXAs.-The Ne,es says, "a plumber of
Radinal Tcxans ara IN n ash;....Lnr - 80.