The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-10

South and furnishing sufficient for the inaugura-
ion OF new enterprises, II will enable all who are
capable to advance and keep pace with the gradu-
al withdrawal OF their competitors from menlal
labor to higher positions.
1t Is the opinion Of welnformed Chinese mer-
chants, who are close observers, that the annual
savings RENTED to China by the 65,0O0 Chinese
now on the Pacific coast do not exceed $50 to
each man; against which, as State, we have the
profit on %, 1876 900 days. labor and all permanent
industries developed through their presence,
which afford further employment to pure white
laborers. A very large portion OF even this sum
sent 70 China generally goes to assist in bringing
more neighbors and friends to this country and
contributes largely to support American shipping
Eight out OF every ten ships plying between
California apd China are American, Chinese mer
chants having invariably given them preference,
even when compelled to pay war risks, which,
with all their other insurance, they give to our
local insurance companies. During the war their
merchants gave freely to the Sanitary Fund
They have no desire for suffrage and study to
keep out OF politics. All return to China, general
ly after about five years. majority return here,
bringing others with them. II tney die abroad,
their bodies are carefully prrveryed, taken 70
their native place, and buried In line at their an
cestral graveyard
If California could manufacture as cheaply as
Massachusetts,, she might retain annually sl4,
OOO 900 in the State which now go East to pay for
imported goods. Her wealth may also De large
ly increased by employing Chinese In SILK and tea
culture. In China, where the use OF SILK origna-
teu, IL was o n0teu industry 400 Years aSo-zoVo
B. G., or by Hebrew record, A. L. 1898. They are
recorded as using silk strings for musical instru-
ments, 1900 b. c. The world now annually pro.
duces silk valued ut s225, $3.50, ,0oo-over half or
which still comes from China, Japan, and the
neighboring parts of Asia. The United States
produces but 100000 worth, and imports
from $40, ,OoO, 900 to s45,OOO0OO worth annually, Of
which about S27, 900, 600 worth comes from France
which, in 1860, manufactured s14o 600 900, and ex
ported sl1O,OOO0OO, thus giving employment to
over 500 900 persons, and adding vastly to her ma
tional wealth. We can furnish America all her tea
and silk, with the assistance Of Chinese laborers
California can thus, sngy settle our national en-
changes, by q solution far more satisfactory than
England, when she forced opium upon the Chi
nese. Accessions of cheap laborers, without in
terferlng with those now here, would enable her
to supply herself and produce raisins, almonds
olives prunes oil. tobacco and wine proftably for
These fields Of productive INDUSTRY VIII
more than any present export from the gold
fields. These articles are, also, more valuable MS
exports, because annually produced and consum-
ed; while the production Of gold is single and en-
haustive and not being perishable, its relative
value to other property diminishes In nearly the
ratio Of its annually increasing value.