Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-29
LET Us HAVE CHLNESI

/ LilE hCdlllllGSl anu lJpoL 5AANICcSAul III
liens Of San Francisco, dated the 18th
inst, on the subject of Chinese labor
for our cotton fields. The writer is a
? man who has control of one of the larg-
est commercial enterprises on the Paci-
fc coast, and now has in his employ
hundreds of. these laborers. He says:
" Experience in California has shown
the Chinese to be an industrious, hard
working, obedient and frugal people.
They never get drunk. They readily
adapt themselves to the manners and
wants of Americans, and are as useful
in domestic service as in the more la
borious occupations of the field. The
supply is ineXhaustible." On the
F subject of the best and most prac-
ticable mode of getting them here,
he says: "Their services can only be
obtained through their own contract
ors-their principal men. a special
proposition made to one of these men
will be satisfactorily Unanswered" Here,
then, is an idea for the meeting which
assemblies tomorrow, to act upon.
Let such IL plan be adQRted at this
meeting, and Memphis w1l begin to
receive her quota of these much de-
sired labOrcrs in forty days.
CUCuTT HEFHLuES.
We think we have discovered in
certain quarters u~nmistakable indica-
tons of a desire, if nOt-a purpose, to
arrest the functions of our City and
and County Government, by the in
terposition Of legal process and the
appointment of Receivers. The city
OF Nashville has just been subjected
to such degradation, and the fact, tele-
praphed to all parts of the country,
has done more to impair the character
of that city, we Opine, than the endur-
ance of many of the worst evils of
government. We sincerely trust that
We may eve have to write of Mem
phis, or Of Shelby county, that a well
directed public sentiment has failed to
secure such protection of the rights of
our people as to make them willing to
await the change in rulers that the
ballot-bOx will surely bring.
Those men who counsel violent
remedies are not safe guides. More,
they are not honest guides. They are
reckless characters, in most cases,
who hold no interests in property,
hut who delight in turbulence, and
in any sort of revolution.
They have nothing to lose. ,
Much as we have condemned ex-
travagance in the administration CT {
our city and county governments, and {
shall eve condemn it, we are not {
without hope of an early and saiutary 7
One thing we know: the I
franchise will certainly be :
enlarged within a year, and power Y
viii return to the hands of those most :
Interested in the welfare of the State. q
Can we not be patient ? il
Again: there is hardly a reasonable /,
loubt that the crops of this present O
easOn, soon to be marketed in the Il
south, will be pouring their tribute of 7
into Southern treasures, and n
them of the bankruptcy that y
las so long affected them. Memphis a,
nd Shelby county will, in a month n
r two, feel the impulse of renewed a
I%nancial strength, and will rise, of te
heir W force, above the reach of T
hylocks, who always prey upon 81
hose who have to borrow. 81
Shelby county, we all know, has n,
attained a much stronger po- az
than she held one year ago. al
credit is palpably improving. tn
,et her floating debt be funded by the On
sue of the bonds authorized by the w
legislature, and the county taxes will
: once be paid IN money, and this pI,
ngle fact will reduce the county ey- O.
anSes by at least forty per cent, or or
One-haJ of the present amount. di,
There IS no good sense in raising a wi
lie and cry against officials without am
TO consider the difficulty they IN,
I've to deal with. Let the County sol
)mmissioners fund the floating debt tn,
the county-a debt entailed by the III,
ar-and we verify believe in one DO.
ar thereafter, her ordinary revenue sun
id in cash, will not only meet every wi
ultimate expense, but leave a hand me
me surplus in the treasury. tho
These zealots who would embarrass for
e Commissioners in the discharge of ant
cir duties, and throw our county az to
rs into turmoil, are most likely tax ern
yers who refuse to bear their por- VIII
of the public burdens by paying say
sir taxes promptly, and hope by me
Others, to draw off attention oni
M their own delinqnencies. We me
glad to see that some of the Com nor
ssioners are not disposed to let their tho
ATLANTIS go unchallenged and unre- the
ed in their attacks on the admins wit
ton of county affairs. issu