The Hawaiian gazette., 1869-09-22
prom the London Times, July sOtA, ises,I

/ their own satisfaction that this little spot,
which is the English home, contains the centre
of the Earth's gravity. and is therefore pre-
eminently fitted to be the eAtrspot Of universal
commerce. Moreover, we have called new
worlds into existence to redress the balance of
the old, and if the Isles Of Britain are very
small. We may plead that America and Austria
LA are large enough to satisfy any aspirations.
So the race goes on growing and spreading,
digging and planting, and squeezing other ra-
I ces out Of existence. until the Red Indian pro-
misses to disappear and the aboriginal Tas-
manian has actually vanished, and the Maori
1 alone fingers on IS an occasion Of hopeless
trouble and Parliamentary discussions. which
will end only with his extinction. Who can
avoid boasting with such prospect before the
great family Of which we are all members
The English tongue and English civilization
are going forth through all lands. But Mt
this juneture there comes, as we have said. a
strange complaint from the other side Of the
earth. Another race, in an insidious wsy, dis
putes the world with us. A tribe has made its
appearance prepared to prove, in the most
practical manner, that it is capable of more
work at less cost of sustenanee than ourselves,
and is therefore better entitled to the occupa-
ton Of waste places. In a word. John China
man has entered the field against John Bull
and, to the surprise of all men, we find the lat
ter declaring that, if his rival is not forcibly
restrained from competing with him, he will
/ be unable to continue the conflict.
1t is from California this startling announce
ment comes. We are told the Chinaman is a
:" difficulty" in the "a Golden State" The par
ticular form the - difficulty assumes has, in
deed, very little of novelty in it. 1t appears
/ that when the Chinese land in San Francisco
they are not uncommonly stoned and beaten
| by mobs of whites, while the authorities are
unable, through fear of the popular prejudice,
| to protect them. The recently elected Senator
I of the State has declared that the importation
of Chinese into California must be stopped at
/ all hazards, and a Democratic Convention has
made their exclusion ''plank +" in the party
platform" heavy tax has already been
imposed by the State on their importation, and
is actually levied, though VIC may confess,
with the modesty becoming foreign critic,
our belief that if the impost were brought be-
fore the Supreme Court of the Union it must
be disAllowed as unconstitutional. The fact
that the duty is paid in spite of the clear pro-
hibition Of all import duties on the part Of sep
arate States illustrates the unanimity ef public
opinion Il California in diseouraging the i'm
migration Of Chinese. We may. indeed, con-
fess that the Anglo-Saxons of California follow
very faithfully the precedents of Anglo-Saxon
conduct elsewhere. The news from San Fran
cisco recalls the agitation Of our Australian
colonies some six years ago on the same sub
jeet. The inhabitants Of Victoria m anifested
the same violent dislike of the Cinnamon.
Legislation ultimately assumed the form Of an
import duty. but it was seriously proposed to
make the importation of Chinese into the col
ony a criminal offence, and while their further
immigration was 10 be prohibited under severe
penalties, active measures were to be taken to
send back to their native land those who had
crept in unawares TO contaminate the Australi-
an soil. California thus follows suit Of Wet
oria, and the unity of race in the latest colo
MES of England and America is attested by
their common antipathy to those of another
family.
What is the reason of this aversion from the
Chinese. thus manifested on the shores of the
Pacific, opposite TO their own land? The Chi
nese are a peaceful, industrious, frugal people /;
they are law-abiding they have no aristoeratic
prejudiees-at least, those have not who emf
CRATE TO California. The principle Of promo
ton by personal merit, which is the essence of
Repubheanism, is dear to them, though they
are, perhaps. Indifferent to political combina-
tions. Yet they are repealed with vehemenee,
and provoke the difficulty" of beating and
stoning them in the streets. Our Philadelphia
Correspondent expresses with singular felicity
the secret Of the antipathy they inspire. He
writes tnat tneN unuerblu the Wnlte IA
bourers, and set up their idols in q Christian
land" The secret is explained. We care trans
ported in a moment from California to Lanca-
shire, where Irishmen undersell the home-born
labourers, and practise idolatry in the shape Of
attending mass and, taught by the Protestant
Conservatism of Lancashire. We understand
some of the IN olives of our kinsmen in Califor-
MIA and Australia. These Chinese, who are in
every other respect, as we have said, peaceful,
industrious, frugal, law-abiding, "underbid
the white labourers, and set ~p their idols /" in
a Christian land" We are inclined to believe
that the charge of " setting up idols" is inven-
ted as a happy figure of speech by the politi-
clans Of California, but their is no question
about the truth of the allegation that they I'M
derbid the white labourers. All evidence con-
firms the charge brought against their mar
vellous economy. They would settle down in
Victoria on a digging abandoned as hopelessly
unremuneratiye by tine best miners from Eng
land, and, without discovering any new veins,
contrive to live comfortably on the produce
they extracted from it. A stream washing
which had been washed over and over again
until no glittering point remained would be
undertaken by them, and their microscopic
acuteness would realize a wealth of metal.
Alone among the races of the world they con-
front the Englishman, and produce as much
found TO work for less wages than the English
labourer, but they prove in the end the dearer
workmen to employ. because of the insufficient
cy of what they turn out. The Chinanan in
a large range of enployments overcomes this
difficulty, and shows a balance in his own ia
YOUR, and the resentment of the manual labour-
er be underbids is a necessary consequence.
We cannot live the Californian in effect says,
upon that which satisfies a Chinese" and in
pursuance of that self-preservation which is
the first law Of nature, he proceeds to beat and
stone him in the streets.
We venture to think the conflict Of races in
California will not be solved by import duties
or street outrages. 1t would appear that in
California itself there are persons who find the
presence of the Chinese useful and convenient.
The California sections Of the Pacific Railway
we're made with their assistance, and while the
work was thus cheaply done it bears COMPARE
son with the sections Completed by navvies"
from another world. The same mail which
tells US Of the vigorous steps taken in Califor-
MIA, informs as that a Convention has been
held at Memphis TO devise means Of bringing
Chinese into the cotton. sugar, corn, and rice
fields of the South. The Mississippi and Mis-
souri, valleys, the mines Of Colorado, Nevada,
and Arizona, the praries still haunted by In
dian tribes. may be contested between Chinese
and American immigrants. 1t is impossible
to suppose that the Chinese can be kept out,
and speculation may be better employed in
contemplating the functions they may hereaf-
ter discharge in the wonderful polity into
which the States determined to grow. In
heriting civilization more ancient and econ
Omie, methods more perfect than the European
can boast, but destitute of that strength and
toughness of moral fibre which supports
authority, the Chinese may be welcomed as
assistants in colonization they need not be
feared as the dominating race Of the future.