The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-04

The Labor Problem
In commenting upon the coincidence OF
the arrival of number of Chinese to
take employment in Massachusetts, shoe
faetory, simultaneously with the arrival
of a large number to take employment
ona sugar plantation in Louisiana, also
owned by Yankee capitalists New
Y.rk Herald, truly loyal paper esPe-
cialy committed to the support of the
GIANT Administration, says:
Science has worked the great miracle of
furnishing such Iaborer as will revolu-
tioiize all the mechanical occupations in this
country. 1t is nothing to say that the Chi
nanan in the Southern States will take the
plae of the negro; he will do great deal
more He will free, for better occupations,
thehands of every American now engaged
in the meaner industries. The shyemakers
whose places are taken by the Cinnamon are
reported to have earned from three to seven
dollars day, and this at a labor so little
skilled that the Cinnamon will know it
completely in a month. Men with such
ambition in regard to their earnings should
also be ambitious to improve their oecupa-
ton; the Chinaman will permit them and
will cheaper shoes at the same time. At
this the whele people can rejoice. We have
country whose one great incessant de-
nand is for labor, and opposite u.s. on the
Pacific, is teeming population that cries
cut for the means to earn bread. With a
realm that is almost illimitable, and the
means of supporting a population greater
than vas ever congregated in the land, and
with that population already finding the
way among us, the end is evident. The
waveof Asiatic immigration will cover the
Pacific slope, and determine many knotty
points this side of it; and why not? Igno-
rance, prejudice, selfish greed can give
| many reasons why, but there are none that
come from better authority. The Chinese
do not yield to any people on the earth i'm
any of the virtues really proper to a people.
Their vices are only the consequence of the
conditions of life in China. They are intel
ligent Industrious, frugal; they abide by
the law always, and what is only morality
with us is law with them. They are pa
tient, they are jealous in the performance
of duties, and devoutly religious according
to their creed. Shall a race with these
qualities be ruled out of a constitution that
has taken in the depraved, slothful, stupid
and brutal African"
PROFESSIONALLY in the malarioui
swamp regions of the South, the Chimes
are well adapted to the uses of agricdl
ture, and they will be employed, not 81
much to take the place of the African
whom this Grant paper describes as ode
Iraved, slothful, stupid and brutal" bu
to supply places that are not already
filed. We have no doubt that in all tn,
essentials of patient, intelligent and in
dlstrious laborers, the Chinese come full
g |, up to the description of the Herald
aud, indeed, the facts have been demon
stated in California, where the great oh
lction to them is that in virtue of thes
qualities they compete but too successful
l. with other classes of laborers.
Outside of these malarious regions tn
pople of the South will prefer class o
Caucasian immigrants of a higher orde
f civilization, and more likely to assim
late as permanent settlers with the mas
q If the community of the same race.
9 The capital of the South consists il
Ter vast uncultivated lands which teen
With undeveloped wealth. This capita
demands labor, and the demand, soone
" later, will be supplied in proportion t
. he energy, liberality and public-spirit @
. those Immediately interested.