The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-09
THE CHINESE.

the following, which touches on the
question OF Chinese immigration
"And first, to illustrate the pres
ure that pushes them across the Pa.
! cIfc Ocean, imagine q tank full OF
water III a chamber, and Il tank as
large below, only one-tenth as full.
connect them with a three-inch tube.
fitted with IL stop-cock. The full
tank represents China, with her
tour millions Of people the lower
tank America, with forty millions
the tube is the steamship that ruiz
from China TO California, and dis.
charges Chinese at the rate Of one
thousand a month; tho stop-cork is
the possible legislation that may cut
off tins influx. The question OF the
hour is, whether the permanent wei
fare of American society requires
any Legislative handling of this stop
cock.
A common Chinaman has no 9th
Ell idea Of life than to work steadily,
do his W cooking, washing, Ton~
ing and mending, ard spend a great
deal less than he earns. HIS father
and all his ancestors, as far back as
to tho time Of Aaron or Abraham,
haG no other idea Of life. A hut, a
few yards Of cloth, a double-handful
Of rico or wheat, a slice of pork, a
fryIng-pan, and q strip of rush mat
ting for a bed, these arc 10 what he is
born and with these, in his own
land, he expects to die, and die con-
tent. When he comes TO AMERICA.
his simple ann is 10 lay up a small
sum of money, on winch he can live
at ease when he goes back. l saw
a mlner ffiy-tvo years old; he look
ed thin and worn, as though he had
never known anything but steady
toll and rough fare. He has been
here five years, and has $500 in gold.
Last Monday he took The steamer
to Canton. He will 60 home 10 his
wife, and be a man IN easy cIrcum-
stances the rest of his days. They
make 10 eight-hour protests; they
have no strikes; they can not un-
derstani what a trade union means.
They viii work for fifty cenrs till
they hear OF some man who gives
sixty. Then they go 10 work for
him till they know of Il chance to
make seventy five cents.
Though they work on railroads
and in wheatfieids, and work well,
[ think they will be found most use
full about houses and gardens, and
IN factories. They have q wonder
full aptness for dong just as they see
the Mclean man do. For eXam-
pie, the Chinese quarter in Sacra-
mentO caught fire and burned down
a few months ago. They hired an
American carpenter to put them up
one cabin. As he worked they
stood by and watched like cats
When the house was done they paid
him his price, and then fell to with
saws and hammers and put up a
row Of houses exactly. like the pats
tern. They copied him inch for inch
and nail for nail. This people do
not reason. They have no original
ideas. They do a thing not because
they know why is should be, but
because they saw it so in the pat
tern they go by. In remembering
the movements of the teacher and
following him with blind obedience
they have no equal. There is with
them but one right way. They
pound their drum in joss house
Just thirty eight times; thIrty-seven
would be impiety; thirty nine a sac
rilege. lfthey see a carpenter drive
five nails INTO a clap-board, they al
ways and ever after use five mails in
a board six would break the charm.
This blind accuracy makes them
good machinists. Thoy r very
quick to understand a sewing mas
chine, q spindle, a loom. a carding
machine and a turning lathe. POp-
derous engines and the locomotive
they do not like tc use. They seem
frIghtful, and not without cOnnec-
ton with evil but mighty geniI.-
They love delicate and marvellous
arts. The ,happiest Chinaman | saw
in San Francisco was assistant IN a
first class Photographic gallery
The alacr1ty with which he brought
out the plate from the dark room,
the JUNCTION with which he hurried
it back to the dusKy and chemical
smelling closet, tho delight with
which he studied the wonderful i'm
print of the sun, are oven fresh. and
wholly without limit. In handling
shoemakers' tools they show the ut
most facility, and learn each step
thoroughly, yet IN a wonderful short
time. So of the jewellers art
Their quick, patient and rapid touch
exactly suits Matchmaking, and |
expect to sec hundreds of them busy
at Waltham and Elgin.
For factory work they are adj
mirably suited. Quick to learn,
deft in handling machinery. patient
beyond comparison, they 500
master all tho details of manufac-
ture; and having once been shown
how a piece of work must be dune,
never vary from the original pat
tern. They are monopolizIng the
factory work on The Pacific coast.
and will gradually do SO in other
parts of the country. A class of
lahOrers industrious, patient and
skillful, who always pay their debts.
spend less than they earn, do their
work well and mind their own bu-
%sincss, should be welcomed TO our
shores"
THE Pennsylvania monopollsts
alone have, under the Radical
tariff, been paid nor than a hun
drcd millions of dollars liz three