Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-02-24


his readiness to fill contracts. The Dutch
ship-master that brought the small cargo of
negroes to the jamestown colonists, ventured
upon an experiment, but Koopmanschap has
long ago disposed of bis first ship-load, and
can draw on the four hundred millions for
such numbers as we think we would like to
have. Southern planters, longing still for
much cotton, at little cost, are putting in
their i" orders, for so many, at 30 much:
Dr. South Carolina to Koopmanschap.
To one hundred yellow human
cotton pickers at 500, $l0,060.
Or. By Cash, $4,000.
AS to their bones there is no bargain; the
planter does nothing with bones, even on
exhausted lands but no doubt, part of the
ten thousand will be set apart to carefully
gather up the skeletons.
Everywhere, our people, overwrought by
our inflated ideas of Development" and
Improvement" and strong in the desire to
escape labor, are longing to own the service
of these quiet, deft, and perseverlng work.
men, who do so much, 80 well, for so little
price. There is not an enterprising, ener-
getic man, with grand project in his brain,
be it the plan of another Continental Rail-
way, or of a system Of ship canals, or an
enterprise more modest than these; there Is
not one such man in fifty who will not earn
estly urge, If he is not already urging, the
immediate, extensive importation of Chinesel
He will tell you it will be blessing to the
country, but his true reason--though he may
not. himself, know it's one of the best for
him, alone, and one of the poorest for the
public: He has Work to do; he aoants it
cheapty done.
In the face of this powerful class of en-
ploying capitalists, stands our country, with
all it's great charge Of present happiness and
future usefulness. Chinese immigration is
forced upon us. 1t is not to be left to follow
its natural narrow and shallow channel, but
its course is be to forcibly and artiiicially
widened and deepened. The Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. whose present subsidy
from Government is S5o0,000, per annum, is
now able to land by each steamer, about
twelxe hundred Chinese, including the usual
batch of women, and it is now asked+ by
the San francisco Chamber of Commerce
for an increase OF $500,0O0 Where's single
one of these strangers, of his own choice,
would seek this country, thousands are to
be gathered, as drover does his herd, are
to be deported by the steamer-load, and
farmed out by our great "Six Companies, :"
in lots to suit the market. They were
swarming upon the Sierras" long ago |;
Engineer Sickles went to California, in Oc-
tober, to get one or two hundred for the
great Missouri bridge at Omaha and the
housewives wto are straining their eyes to-
ward this never-fail;ng supply of excellent
"help," are beyond enumeration. Where
Governor Stamford or General Fremont will
need five thousand for some new railway, a
Georgia planter may need but score and
Pennsylvania housewife perhaps three e.
but whatever the number, our good six
will furnish them.
Thus are the ''serried ranks to move upor
us. California, says the eloquent Pumpely
herald of this astonishing human tidal wave
that cholses the Golden Gate, is just finding
''how suicidal her course toward Asiatic la
"bor has been. The Chinese are now a
uwork in woolen. paper. and powder mills
u;n the borax works. in the hop plantations
fruit orchards, and vineyards; following
: "the reaping machines on farms, and work
"ing the salt-pits on the coast; doing al
"most universally the cooking, and engaged
"in hundreds of other bra inches Of indus
| g,r,
Thus arc they to be placed amongst us
=. Who is to be the gamer? Will the presen
American generation gain, by the few mil
: lions it will absorb? VIII the future whicl
may he, and we are notified, probably will
be. overwhelmed by Mongolian race large
ly outnumbering "all the other families o
"men among us ?" Will our Republic grow
!, more perfect, under this influence, and af
ford better example of successful sci
- government?
Let us come to the point
WILL THERE BE ANY SUBSTANTIAL GAIN II
= ANYBODY, EXCEPT THE EMPLOYING RIcH MEN
:. WHO WILL SAVE MORE MILLIONS, BY TIL
CHEAPER LABoRp
:, Our railway princes are already fattenin
- upon captured Legislatures, and pickin
" thcir bones in the Courts of Justice. d
- we want them still more powerful!
It. nI.--THE INITIATION OF DEVELOPMENT
~ t. is time indeed that the bubble of sDt
90 velonment." blown to false and unreason,
~ ble nronortions. were pricked by America
~ common sense We seem to be in mad has,
Va ou ,ho oor,,r, With n mt ,yorir