New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-06-30

sive in the world. It's forms of civilization
governmental polity, social life, and morality are
here establshed-we have hoped permanently.
With this race, under those conditions the Republic
has grown great in all the powers forces, and
splendors of modern civilization.
There is to dread the result of the infusion
and TRANSMISSION of the Chinese Monaghan or Yellow
race with the white American race. The Monaghan
blood is a depraved and debased blood The Mongo-
Ian type of humanity is an inferior type-inferiOr
in organic structure in vital force physical energy
and IN the constitutional conditions of development
On this point all anthropoogists and etnoogists are
agreed-Now, there is not the slightest doubt that
II the influx of the Mongolians is permitted they
will gradually incorporate themselves with the
blood and being of the country. Chinese immigra-
ton is almost wholly Of the male sex; and no one
viii believe that after these people have settled In
our towns have been engaged in our great indus
tries anG have enjoyed che opportunities of associa-
ton they can be compelled to refrain from the in
termixturo which will result in the growth of half
breed Chinese American type. ltis asuggestiyefact
that the first organized bodies of industrial Cinnamon
have been taken 10 the State of Masaohases-a State
in which as we are often told there is ayast pre-
pOnderance Of the female element of the population,
and from which we constantly hear of schemes for
equalizing the numbers of the sexes. make no
comment on the fact preferring to leave others TO
. draw suCu UCuuCilOnb US lLtJ pltNoS. Out Ndh W.
afford to permit the debasement of the American
race-types by intermixture with an inferior racef
Can we afford to permit the TRANSMISSION into the ma
tional veins of blood more debased than any we
have known7 Can we afford TO offer the Opportu-
nifty for this sort of mongrelism If there be any
truth whatever in Darwin's scientific theory of Nat
ural Selection il must be admitted that q nation
like ours would run fearful risk from
the degradation Of its Tace-existence. We
have never had any ntermixture with the
Indian; and though the negroes number one-tenth
of our population the fact of intermxure has been
but local and so partial as to be quite napprecable
1t through the presence of the negro race in our
country that we were plunged into the only great
struggle and trouble have had since national
exisencea trouble which we have not yet got over,
and win not soon DO relieved from. In tho Spanish
colonies this continent, the European LATIN race
mingled with the Indian and the African; and we
need nothing more than the direful and dismal his
tory of Mexico and Central America as common
tary the fact. The Mongoan or Yellow race is as
radically different from the European White race
as the Red race or the Black race; and from such
limited data are within reach, we have to
believe that intermixture with the one would be |
quite a. degrading and destructive as intermxture
with either of the others.
Primarily then, on the ground Of race profound
and al-coyenng, object to the continuance of the
Chinese influx TO America.
2.-THR GROUND OF INDUSTRY.
The purpose and object of Introducing the Chinese
race to America is to cheap ia60-cheap labor
for American factories workshops and. households
for railroad building, bridge building, and.uumerous
other works, public and private There is o3portu-
nifty for an incalculable amount Of labor ih TINS ,
country and China furnish an unlimited supply I
Of labOrers. As we have previously said, Chnest {
u. IL
the most effective. The Chinaman in his own coun-
try knows nothing Of eisht-hour or ten-hour laws
hut works patiently and obcdiently during 12 10
hours for pittance less than one-tenth of what
would be demanded by the poorest class of American
wOrkingmen. On our Pacific coast the Chinese have
worked for about half the rates Of white men; and
il appears that in the Massachusetts, experiment,
also. they work for about half the price paid TO
American operatives Now, it is an assured fact :
that If Chinese shoemakers cotton spin !
ners, or sewing-machine operators, chair !
makers, OF carpet-workers, printers, can be OBJ
tanned onehalf cheaper than Americans, the Chinese
will supplanithe American wOrkingmen in these and
other industries unless, indeed. the American can
DE induced 60 lower his terms and underbid over
work the Cinnamon. But in competition of this kind
the Chnaman would still have the advantage. He
could afford 10 cut q half from the half price at
which he had previously been hired he could do
this and still be three times better off than when in
his own countryside can do il because the conditions
of his life and labor are different from those TO which
the American has been accustomed, and which he
considers essential to his welfare. 1t may not be
literally true that the Chinaman finds the means Of
daily life in the rats which he entraps during the
night time but il is certain that be maintains the
battle Of existence - kind of strategy which
Americans would not easily be induced to practice,
and which would be destructive of many things held
10 be valuable in the household, in the family, and
in society Take one OF two facts by way Of illus
tration:
vfsii.,d when in Havana some two years ago,
several Of the great factories in which large numbers
~ Chinese Coolies are employed for, within the last
few wears there have been brought TO Cuba tens OF
thousands of Cinnamon on the ground that they can
perform sem-skied labor cheaper and more expertly
than even negro slayes) i found many hundreds OF
them in the extensive cigarette establishment oil
81 In Honradezp and in the cigar factory OF that
most excellent Spanish gentleman, Senior Romero
In these places life and labor were organized IN a
way that had never before witnessed or conceived
For the convenience Of sleeping on the part Oh .he
Coolies double hunks were erected tier above tler
In long lines divided by narrow passage ways IN one
mart of the factory For the convenience Oh eatihg
the Coolies were provided with immense tables sup
pIied with cheap food, which they deVoured
with startlng rapidty and voracity' FOR the CON
venience Of washing, &c. another place was pro
;aed and in all Of these places there was commune
is,n Of provision and supply, which seemed u Is
time the crude necessities Of an Impoverished exist
once hut which reduced humanity itself to pitnu
plight A.. cu,i,ovoor
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