The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-05-12
CHINESE LABOR IN NEW YORK.

CHINESE LA6Un IN NEW 401Sh.
One thousand Chinese laborers have been
engaged to work upon the construction of the
Midland railroad in Central, Southern and
Western New York. This is believed to be
the first experiment. yet made in any OF the
Eastern or Middle States with these people,
and if continued swarms of the "Celestiais'
keep coming from the parent hive OF China,
the Acknowledged Mongolian viii speedily be-
come the curse to the laboring classes they al
ready have become in Caliiornia,-are rapidly
becoming in Oregon, Idaho, and all over the
Pacific coast. The h0rdes OF Zengis Khan,
Tamerlane, Alaric and other barbarian leaders
who swept over different parts OF Europe Us
with the bosom of destruction and overthrow
imperial Rome, were Insignificant, numerically
10 the millions with which China can to-day
inundate North America and never feel their
loss or miss their number at home 1t is true
their immigration is of u pacific nature, en-
tirely Pacific in its character for that matter
but the greatest consequences are certain to
flow from this continued policy OF the Ameri'
can people. China contains to-day popuia-
ton yariously estimated at from four hundred
and fifty million to four hundred and ninety
millions of people, and is one of the largest
and most populous Empires on the taco OF the
earth. Immigration of these people Is now
taking place amounting to an average OF l. oOo
souls per month or $4,000 per year aud III
creasiug Ms rapidly us means for transporta
toa offer koopmanschap, one agent, was
understood 10 hare entered into contracts for
al least 100, 900 Chinese laborers chiefly in the
Southern aud Western States. This Is pre-
emineutly an age OF railroad building, aud the
prevailing mania is TO employ Chirese labor.
ers in their construction. They next grasiiate
naturally into manufacturing establishments,
farming and domestic labor. Wherever they
90 aud obtain foothold. as in California. they
will as surely root out aud supplant the poorer
classes OF white people rs they have every
where done aud arc now doing all over the Pa.
ciiic coast They are an inferior race, 50 ere.
ated ,-pagans. -aud neither have nor can have
ANYTHING in common with the white race. IN
customs. manners. modes Of thought. or as ala
element of strength TO American sociriy. or TO
our institutions ur Government. While 81
All Wise God has made oil one blood al III.
tons and people upon earth, lie has also 10
HIS infinite wisdom created certain dcmarca-
ton lines in color. aud capacity. aud oharac-
ieris.ics which will ever remain Is dis,luc.
and we'll defined as lie has originally created
them. There can neither bu absorption. nss.
ceseua.ion. atTiiatiou or mongrcl lybrld:ssu.
much more between these various races than
In the case of the mule. Like the anslgama-
ton Of the Caucasian race with tao abogsg1nc
of America, all such attempts will prose abor
tive. and are rs false in theory as drbasIng and
degrading 10 the superior race IN practice.
Yet the experiment will be tried ii iniroduc-
ing these people like the locust. Vt Egyp. IN
number into and all over our country. Some
future day II may be repeutcd of III sack cloth
and ashes. Let them press on then with their
blood and muscle. bone and sincw in countless
hordea to wage the irrepressible conflict be-
tween capital aud labor. bound to come, and
il the capitalist engineers are hoist by their
own petard." so be it, The poorer classes OF
whites will be found to go elsewhere to newer
countries where theF can find room TO breathe
aud abundant labor to perform, and reap the
reward OF their own abors Still, the future
will come when the problem Of the wisdom of
this movement must be solved.