New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-30
THE NEW ISSUE.
THE CHINESE-AMERICAN QUESTION.
An uadsgivered Addres bv JoHs swH1Os.
THE ALARM.


the hour
1t is a question not only for discussion and decis
ion, but for action.
II is practical question in regard TO industry and
capital as well as in regard TO civilization, liberty
and morality.
1t is question not only for to-day, but which,
il wrongly settled at this time, viii be disturbing
question for ages.
1t was but the other day the country learned, by
brief Geographic dispatch from Omaha, that some
what less than 100 Cinnamon were their way
Eastward to fill contract that had been entered
into for their employment in Massachusetts, shoe
factory. few days afterward they arrived at North
Adams where quarters had been fitted up for them,
and where they Immediately set to work at the BUSH
ness of shoe-making by machinery. They had
been brought to the place by a manufacturer
whose operatives had been on the Strike against
serious reduction Of wages which he had attempted
to enforce.
The movement not only surprised the "Crispins,D
for whom these Chinese substitutes had been found
but it alarmed the working classes throughout the
Eastern and Middle States, who very quickly saw
that the great manufacturers and capitalists had
obtained possession not of a mere Chinese gong,
but of weapon, which, unless wrested out Of their
hands, would make them absolute dictstOrs of labor
in America There was as deep an interest about
the matter on the part of the employers Of labor az
widespread apprehension the part OF the opera
tive OF industrial classes Numerous agents OF manu-
featuring establishments quickly appeared in North
Adams, for the purpose Of observing the working
of the Chinese industrial system, examining into its
economy, and making inquiry as to its general re-
| suits.
There is abundant evidence that if this first ex-
pertinent give satisfaction and profit to the capltai-
lists engaged in it, there will be no time lost by the
| ;ufrnd nd
sands of Chinese workers into the industrial estab-
| lishmepts of the country. Already it is reported
that negotiations for supply of Chinese operatives
have been entered into by the great cotton manuiac
turing house of the Spragues, at Rhode Island, a
| firm which is said to be the largest employers OF
| skilled labor in America,-there being somewhere
near 10000 persons connected in one way or another
| with It's various establishments. VI course me
| weekly saving and profits TO this house would De
enormous in it were able to engage Chihese a.
| one-half the price paid to the white hands,
| and. though Senator Sprague turned up some time
| ago as the "poor mans champion" and the special
advocate of the rights Of the working classes there
| is ground to fear that his highly humanitarian no.
tions might give way before the temptation Of in
creased profit at his mills.
"Cheap laborn cry the capitalists, ave must
have cheap laborw Cinnamon are the cheapest
aborers in the world they viii be satisfied with less
than half the wages of American operatives They
are ingenious, industrious, and submssiye-quali-
ties which are of the highest value from the manu-
| featuring point of view. They can be obtained in
hmitless numbers at the rate of 10000 year, or
| 100000 year, as may be desired. The Chinese
Coolie contractor Koopmanschap, has offered to FIJI
orders for his human material any extent. China
is as near to New-YOrk in point of time, Europe
was few years ago. Until a recent date our Euro
pean immigration was by sailing vessels, which
averaged 80 days in crossing the Atlantic from
Liverpool to New-York and it is now bat 80 days
from Hong Kong to New-York by the Pacific
steamships and the Continental Railroad.
We have as yet but two steamships en-
gagged in the Chinese immigration business; but the
English ship-builders will be but too glad of IN
opportunity of placing many passenger-c carrying
steam-prOpelleTs on the Pacific Ocean as they have
placed within the last five years on the Atlantic
Ocean, There is no trade more profitable to shippers
than the emigrant trade and they can by next year
put on a score of steamers fitted TO carry such
swarming myTiads through the Golden Gate as were
never witnessed in the emigrant-swarming
harbor of New-York. Within short time past we
have heard from China that the inhabitants of
of the most densely populated provinces Of the
Empire of 400 OOO have become deeply interested
in the New World which has been opened up for
them in America, from whose golden hills" so
many Celestials have already returned with riches
and glory The impoverished swaTms of these
provinces have heard about this rich and half popu
lated continent and hundreds of thousands Of them
are eager to put themselves under the control of the
great Chinese commercial companies" which have
been organized to assist emigration, condition of
being reimbursed by the emigrants, after their
arrival here
1t is no wonder then. that in view of these facts
IN presence of the arrival of the first wholesale
parcel of cheap-working Chinese, there should be
feeling on the part of American workingmen that
here is a movement that must in its beginning be
dealt with decisively and peremptOrily. Even
already the first organized body of emigrants has
been followed by several others and it is perfectly
certain that the negotiations begun some time ago
by various parties for securing large supplies of this
kind of labor will be carried through by those con-
cerned.
i am opposed to this unlimited influx of Chinese
immigrants.
| am opposed to American workingmen surren-
dering the different branches of industry to Chinese
operatives.
am opposed to any such cheap labor we
should obtain from the Chinese.
am opposed to the movement which has been
begun at North Adams-and which threatens to in
crease till the whole country and all its interests and
prospects are profoundly affected by it.
am opposed to it on grounds OIL, Race 2, In
dustry s, Politics; 4, Morality.
1.-THE GROUND OF RACE.
The deepest dividing line between men is that Of
race. Deeper than politics or relgion-deeper than
the contemporary differences of laws or manners are
the elements of the blood; establishes itself in the
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