New-York tribune., 1870-09-23
THE NEW INVASION.

The Chinese problem is forced upon IFS even
faster than the labor alarmists predicted. The
tawny heathens have been working quietly for
months in q Massachusetts shOe-shOp; five
hundred of them are coming to dig railway
cuttings and lay tracks in New-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 strange i'm
pements, such IA move the more delicately
organized Irishman to lofty scorn and Christian
fury. The latest arrivals menace class OF
labOrers more tyrannOus to employers ana less
skilful in their craft than any Others In the
United States "A class which needs III an
especial manner the wholesome corrective OF
connection. quite as much for its own good
IA for tho comfort of mankind. 1t ia Bridget
and Mary Ann whose domain is now invaded
for tho new corners are washermen. AT
Belevinc, near Newark, there is great laundry,
where the scrubbing of linen and the manipu-
lation of the smoOthing-iron employ hundred
pairs of hands. 1t is to this establishment
that China has sent her latest cargo OF labor
crs: and as the work is one for which the China
man has a notorious f0ndness and capacity,
we shall not be surprised to see Captain Her
vcy's example speedily initiated. and celestial
queues luttering over thousands of washboards
throughout the Atlantic States. The release
of 80 many women from the drudgery of the
tub may perhaps tend to the solution of the
"servant girl question" which now threatens
the peace of American families, or at any rate
relieve the pressing want of female domestic
labor in the newly settled portions OF the
country. -,
Captain Hervey seems to have brought his
cargo to Belleville with fearful secrecy,
marched them over baekdoor routes, and
smuggled them into the village under cover
of the night, dreading the violence of enliSht-
ened American citizens who don't believe in
liberty and human rights except in Fourth OF
| July speeches, and don't accord the privilege
of working for an honest living to anybody
| except themselves. This is very mortlfylng
fact, and the worst of it is that the violent
language of some mischievOus persons has
justified Captain Hcrvey's apprehensions. we
are glad to remember, however, that 80 far the
violence of hostility to the Chinese In THIS
part of the country has never gone beyond
threats and bad language. The strange I'M
migrants work unmolested in North Adams,
and we hope will not be disturbed in New
Jersey Whether we want them here or not,
il is clear that we have no right to forbid
their coming-still less a right to modest them
after they arrive. We founded the United
States as city of refuge for the poor and
the prosecuted of all nations and we cannot
shut our doors against an orderly and indus
| Hn nnf
of their ways. Our lands lie idle for want OF
hands to till them. Our Territories are q
wilderness because we have not men enough
to open them. An overcrowded empire sends
us hard working, frugal sons of toll, whose
labor is just what we need; and instead OF
devising means to keep them Oft we ought to
be glad to get them. AT any rate they are
here, and they are still coming in steadily
increasing stream, and there is nothing for
the dissatisfied to do but make the best OF the