National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-03-18
The Pacific Coast.

Peculidrities and saperstiti0ns OF
Chinamen-CdlDoinia DesperadOes.
One Of CALIFORNIA; cnriositIes the
people in the States will some day
become familiar with through the
Pacific Railroad. | mean the Chi.
namen. California contains 10000
of them, and every ship brings mole.
There is n chinese quarter in every
city and village III California and
Nevada, for boards of Aldermen
will not allow them to live all round
town just where they choose to 10.
cate. This is not hardship, for they
prefer to herd together.
They are a people who fOndly
stick to their ancient customs. They
dress in the quaint costumes their
ancestors wore 500 years ago.
They build temples, CANDY with
gliding and hidious with staring
idols, and there they worship after
the fashion of their fathers. A strict
record is kept by their chiefs of the
name and residence of every Chi
naman, and when he dies his body
is sent back to China for burial-fOr
they can never get to their Heaven
unless they start from China. And
besides, Cinnamon worship their an
cestors, and they all want their share
of worship, after they are done with
THE world. Even whom the Chi
nese government sells shiplOad OF
degraded and criminal Coolies to a
Cuban or Sandwich Island planter,
it is strictly stipulated that the body
of every one of them must be sent
back to China after death.
The Cinnamon being smart
shrcwd people, take to some few
of orr commercial customs and viz
tues, but somehow we can't make
great Roadway in the matter of CIV
ilizing them. We can teach them
to gamble a little, but somehow we
can't make them get drunk. 1t is
discouragin because you can't re
generate & icing that won't get
drunk.
The Chinaman is the most frugal
Industrious, and thrifty of all crea
lures. No matter how slender are
the wages you pay him, he will man
age to lay up money. And China
men are the most gifted gardeners
in the world. Give one of them &
sandbank that would not support a
lizard, and he will make it YIELD
generous crops Of vegetables. The
Chinaman wastes nothing. Every
thing has value in his eyes. He
gathers up all the cast away rags
and bones and bits of glass, ant
makes marketable articles OF them
And he picks up all the old frui
cans you throw away and melt
them up to get the tin and solder
When a white man discards a golt
placer as no longer worth anything
the patient Chinaman, Away salts
fed with small profits, and never il
a hurry to get rich, takes possession
and works it contentedly for years
) The ChiIaman makes good cook
good washerWOman, a good cham
bcrmaid, y good gardener, a goo'
bankers clerk, good miner, a goo
railroad laborer--ary thing 80
: choose to put him at-for these pee
: pie are all educated, they are al
good accountants, they are yer
quiet and pcaceable, they never dis
turb themselves about politics; the.
are so tractible, quick, smart, an
naturally handy and ingenious, tina
: you can teach them any thing; the
have no jealOuses; they never los
= a moment, never require watchln
to keep them at work ; they are elf
: ed with n world of patience, endul
2 ance and cantentment. They al
. the best laboring class America Ina
, ever secn-and they do not care
cent who is President. They al
misery abused by the laws of Cal
t fornia, but that sort of thing wi
G cease, some day. 1t was found in
possible to build the California en-
:, of the Pacific Railroad with whit
men at 81 day and take care {
u all the broils and fights and strikes
G but they put on Cinnamon at do
@ lar a day and "fnd" themselve
l. and they built it without fights {
strikes or anything, and saved I'll
bulk of their wages, too. You wi
have these long tailed toilcrs anon
G YOU in ''thc States" some day, bl
c YOU will find them easy to get alon
g with-and you will like them to
o because they stand lots of abuse
= You will find them ever so conv
l. nient because when you get ma
: you cau 60 out and take satisfacti'
e out of II Chinaman. The natl
Of American negro is getting SO ins
l. lent, now, that the patriot from II
S, land cannot take a little recreati'
= out of him without getting in
II trouble. So the Chinaman i'll
Of ford needed rclief..-FrOm Ma
G. Tmains "ArOud the World"
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