The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-09-29
The New Invasion.

The Chinese problem is forced upon
us even faster than the labor aIarmists'
predicted. the tawny heathens have
been working quietly for months in
Massachusetts shoe-shops; fiye hundred
OF them are coming to dig railway cut,
tings and lay tracks in New-J Jersey;
and in the dead Of night three score and
ten have just tramped through the
streets of one Of our suburban villages,
with their wicker luggage baskets,
their rice-bags, their tea-chests, and
stores Of Outlandish Viands, and stranee
implements, such as move the more
deIcately organized Irishman to lofty
scorn and Christian fury. The latest
arrivals menace a class of laborers more
tyrrannous to employers and less skill
tul in their craft than any others in the
United States-a class which needs in
an especial manner the wholesome COR
rective of competition, quite as much
for its own good as for the comfort of
mankind. It's Bridget and Mary Ann
whose domain is now invaded-for the
new comers are washermen. At Bel.
leyille, near Newark, there is a great
laundry, where the scrubbing of linen
and the manipulation. of the smoothing
iron employ hundred pairs of hands,
1t is to this establishment that China
has sent her largest cargo Of laborers;5
and as the work Is one for which the
Chinaman has notorious fondness and
capacity, we shalln be surprised to-
see Captain Hervey's example speedily.
initiated, and celestial queues futtering
over thousands of washboards through
out the Atlantic States. The release Of
so many women from the drudgery Of
the tub may perhaps tend to the solu-
ton of the servant girl question which
now threatens the peace of American
families, or at any rate relieve the pres
sing want of female domestic labor in
the newly settled portions of Che coun-.
try. t'-''.a
Captain Heryey seems to have
brought his cargo to Bellevile with fear-s
fu secrecy, marched them over back
door routes, and aud smuggled them in
to the village under cover of the night,
dreading the violence of enlightened
American citizens who don't believe in 3
liberty and human rights except in
Fourth of July speeches, and don't ac-2
cord the privilege of working for an
honest living to anybody except them
selves. This is very mortifying fact,
and the worst ofit is that the violent
language of some mischievous persons
has justified Captain Hervey's apre-lo
PENSIONS. We are glad to remember.
however, that so far the violence of
hostility to the Chinese in this part of
he country has never gone beyond
hreats and bad language The strange
immigrants work unmoested in North
Adams, and we hope will not be mo-
ested in New-Jersey. Whether we
Vant them here ornot, it is clear that we
ave no right to forbid their coming
till less a right to molest them after
hey arrive We founded the United
'tates as city OF refuge for the poor
nd the prosecuted of all nations, q.
nd we cannot shut our doors against
n orderly and industrious race just.
we do not like some of their
rays Our lands lie idle for want Of
lands to till them. Our Territories
re wilderness because we have not
5uen enough to open them. An over
'rowded empire sends US hard working,
ugal sons of toll, whose labor is just
,Shat we need; and instead of devising
haeans to keep them off we ought to be
lad to get them. AT any rate they
'e here, aud they are still coming ID .
eadily increasing stream, and there is
othing for the dissatisfied to do but
lake the best Of the sitaation.-N r.
fibme. sE