The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-06-23
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John Ohinaman.

The ever present Chinese piuue
our curiosity. We must look into
hhomesT7oom simple, yet tnot over
clean or sweet-smellipg quarters, into
their restaurants and their theatre,
If 1t isin operation, and into their
"Jos' Houses" Their stores invite
us with open doors, and tempt our
pockets with all the various speciali-
ties Of Chinese manufacture ut ron
sonable prices. "A few" are men of
statue and presence, with faces Of re-
lfinement and gentle strength the
many 60 sneaking about thoirt york
Q low type Of mankind, thysicany y
and mentally, Imported here like
merchandise, and lot out to labor .uo,
der, system only half removed from
slavery itself Yet they arc an i,m
portant element in the Industry and
progressyo all this side Of the CONT
nent. But for their labor the paciiic
Railroad would have been at least
two years longer in building. Twelve
thousand of them have done nearly
all the picking and drilling and shoy,
olling and whelling Of tho road from
Sacramento to Salt Lake. They fur.
nish tho principal labor int factor.
les; they make cigars they N,iig and
work over neglected gold guluhes
they are cooks; they almost monopo.
ilzc tho clothes washing and ironing
IN all the lighter and simpler depart
ments of labor whore fidelity to a pat.
tern, and not flexibility and originali-
ty OF action, are required, they make
the best}and most reliable or workers,
at loast 10000 of them arc scattered
over these Pacific States, west Of Utah;
and though our American and Euro.
pean iaborers quarrel with and abuse
them; though the law, gives them no
rights but that Of suffering punish
ment; though they bring no families,
and seek no citizenship; though ali
their women here are not only COM
merIcial, but expressly Imported as
such though they are mean and CON
temptable in their vices as in their
manners though they are dospiscd
and kicked about on every hand, still
they come and thrive slowly, and bet.
ter their physical and moral and men
tai conditions, and supply this coun.
try with what it most needs for it's
growth and prosperity-chcap labor.
What shall we do'with them IS not
quite clear yet; how are they to rank
socially or politically, among us, is one
OF the nuts for our social science stu
dents to crack, if thoy can but; now
that wo have depopulatcd Ireland,
and Germany Is holding on to it's own
and tho oldysourccs Of our labor sup.
ply are drying up, all America needs
them; and, obey ing the great natural
law of demand and supply, Asia
seems almost certain to pour upon and
oyer us countless thousands of her
ssupcriinous, eheap-living, chang
ing, unassimilating but very useful
laborers. And we shall welcome and
quarrel over and with them, as we
have done with their European prede-
ces:ors. Our vast grain, cotton and
fruit fields, our extending system Of
public works, our multiply ing manu-
features, all need and eau employ
them. But must they vote; and if so
to what effect
TIE NEGao PRINTER AND THE Ty-
roGRArnIcAL@ UNION. We have al
ready laid before our readers tho ac-
tion of the National Typographical
Union consuring tn, cur Of Mr..
Clapp, the Congress onal Printer. in
attempting to force upon the Union Of
this city, to quote their own language.
ga negro rat" Some of Mr.. Clapo's
employees, it seems, held meeting
at the Government office last evening
and, We learn, passed resolutions de-
nouncing tho course of National
Union, 30. We are informed it was
announced that no one would beo per-
mitted to continue there at work un.
less he promptly signed these resoiu-
tions this morning. As but com par.
atively small number of tho printers
can be frightened into such q course,
the prospect is that Mr.. lClapp viii
find himself far from being possessed
of On adequate force for tho prompt
transaction Of imperative Governme ent
work, more particularly as tho prin.
ters' societies throughout tho country
demand of thviUnion here to reject
thisnegfo, and pledge their support to
them in 30 doing. 1t was announced
that MIR. Clapp's adhercnts in this
matter proposed to hold a public meet
ing at Odd Follows Hall this evening,
at, which Radical orators uneonnected
with tho printing business would, It
was said, haranguo such as saw fit to
attend; but this brilliant scheme, It
is now stated, is abandoned-vory
probably on account of thedetermina-
tion of what is believed to bo at least
two-thirds majority of the Columbia
Typographical Union to resist to the
last the employment Of negro, un,
entitled to admission, when large
numbers Of white men, before and
since his employment, have been turn
ed adrift, without reason assigned, and,
as is alleged, for no other cause than
the refusalto abandon conscientious
political views ut the behestof repre-.