Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-07-22
THE oH1NRsr LABOR QUESTION.

The Boston correspondent Of the
Sacramento Union, writing under date
of July 18th, says:
Since the completion of the Pacific
Railroad the future position Of the Chi
uese in this country has been generally
discussed on this side Of the Rocky
Mountains, rs we'll n in your State. 1t
seems to be the opinion Of the best au-
thorities shat these people are to be the
laboring class par excellence in the At
lantic States within o very few years.
Irish immigration is rapidly falling OF,
aud labor is becoming scarce in many
departments Of industry. It is almost
impossible to obtain good house ser
wants; American girls are too proud to
occupy that position; Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick servants, excellent when
they 6rst arrive, soon get above their
business; and the Irish, who rule over
most of our kitchens, are tolerated
merely because no better servants can
be had. If the reports Of the docility
and efficiency Of the Chinese which
come from your State are true, surely
an iucursion Of a few thousand OF them
would DO a boon to New England. A
letter from San Francisco 10 the Journal
discusses this Chinese question with
| great ability. The writer, a New Eng
land man, has taken pain, to study the
subject, aud his conclusions are so in
teresting that I copy a couple Of para
graphs from his letter:
sin view Of existing facts aud newt
able tendencies, l can safely predict tina.
in 10 years there will be hundreds oil
Chinese operatives in Lowell, Lawrence,
Manchester aud every largo manufacture.
ing town Of New England 10 Boston,
New York, Philadelphia aud oil the
great Atlantic cities, thousands Of these
'Celestials,' With long cues and yellow
couutenanees, will DO doing the kitchen
aud chamber work now bunglingly per
formed by the daughters of the Emerald
Isle. In the rice aud cottoc fields o.
the South these sallow Mougolians will
supplant the ebony Africans, and tht
negro, now so potent, politically, viii
be ordered to move on Superior in
dustry aud the force Of numbers viii
drive Nun 10 tue wall.
Politicians on this coast have talkeC
Of making laws to prevent Chinese EN-
igration. Let them frat pump dry the
broad old ocean over which they cross
to this continent. There 10 a higher
law which, is bringing the Oriental rse'
to our shores, aud you might ss well at
tempt to measure arms with the Al
mighty as to prevent il. It would seen
rs il, tired of waiting for Christianity
to 60 into all tho world, Onnipoteucs /:
bringing the heather world and placing
them down in our midst, in the shade o
our temples, by the side Of our affairs
in order that Christianity aud Plagiarism
in this age Of power, shall be brough'
into close and deadly conflict. The Law
Of assimilation is one Of Gods laws
sure and inevitable in Its development
These two civilizations cannot remain
for a long period in such close coutac
without becoming nor and moro alike
Either we shall lift them up or they viii
drag US down. This latter cannot b.
the result, unless indeed it is writer
that the youngest born of the natioui
must in its early manhood, follow th'
path and meet the doom Of Babylon
Ninevah and Rome, and leave to som'
new and stronger race that higher an
nobler development which it 10 ye
within our province to achieve"