The Hawaiian gazette., 1870-08-03
SerViIe Labor.

We are happy to learn from the p C.
Adretiser of last Saturday that there
are no no Coolies in Massachusetts. We
supposed from what we read in the late
papers, that seventy-five such characters
had made their appearance in the town of
Worth Adams, in that State, and because
of that event, newspaper reporters
had flocked to the place, to inform the
public all about it /: while telegraphic mes
sages had been sent far and wide in re
spect to the sudden invasion" 4" and that a
general disturbance was being gotten up
about the Coohe invasion
The Rev. w. GLADDEN., who appears to
be resident of North Adams, says: we
quote from Mr. Lyons personal friend.
'',The work-people, generally, are bitterly
hostile to the COOLIES :" and again, "It has
been reported that Mr. SIMPSONS agent
hired these COOLIES of firm in San Fran
cisco;" and again, The General Court of
Massachusetts has paused in its squabble
over Hartford and Erie long enough to con
slider a resolve relating to COOLIES. and
even Congress itself has heard of the
strangers in North Adams, and has listened
to the outcry of the Pacific Coast against
their coming" The correspondent of the
New York Tribune, who interviewed
them, calls them Coolies, and the papers
all over the country call them Coolies;
but on the other hand, Prof. Eggleston,
of Williams College, says "They are of
very different class from those known as
Coolies. They are from the southern part
of China" Ergo: If they had come
from Hong Kong or Annoy, probably
the Professor could have seen it. We do
not pretend to know if the Massachusetts
Coolie is the same kind of parsonage as
the p. c. Adca1iser Coolie: in fact, it is
pretty difficult to determine what people
in various parts of the world mean by the
term Coolie, except that they suppose it
Is significant of some mysterious iniquity,
and clap it on Cinnamon whenever they
may be found outside the Flowery King
dom. If he has his passage paid across
the sea, he is a Coolie, "sure pop" and if
he chances to be working under a written
agreement, made in or out of China, for
a term of years, he is Coolie, and there's
no rubbing it out.
Many people in the United States be-
lieve that Coolieism Is getting a footing
in the States on the Atlantic slope. as they
verify believe that in California, and on
the Pacific slope, it has been domiciled for
several years past They believe that
Chinese taken thither, under contracts,
have served out their terms in labor
which would have been servile, in the
apprehension of most men except that
it was expended on railroad building.
SO many of the Massachusetts, population
now believe that they have got lire Coolies
in their midst We do not take it upon
ourselves, as the 4dca1iser does, to deny
the fact, seeing that they declare it for
themselves; neither are we responsible if
they, of that highly educated State, don't
know Coohe when they see him! The
chances, however, are, that the good
people of that State will soon come to the
acumen equal to spotting a Coolie, with
out any help from this quarter of the
globe. The working men, whose craft is
threatened by the irruption of the Chi
nese, dub them as Coolies, every time. and
charge them with being iniquitous intru-
ders; the politicians are certain that they
are Coolies; while other classes of the Com
monwealth are somewhat mixed, as to the
proper descriptive appeIation.
The contracts under which the North
Adams Chinese serve, are set forth in the
\. Y Tribune, thus:
''Seyenty-fye men are engaged. A foreman to
keep them in order and up their work. provide for
their needs, and command them generally at 500
month. and two cooks, wko act also as eounsellors
and advisors. being Of rank and experience, at
the wages oflsborers, all the producing mem
bers Of the company. The will all stand at the
bench and make shoes They viii receive S23 per
month each the frst year. and SO month the rest
Of the three years they bound to stay. In addi
ton this, aud to the expense Of bringing them here
Mr. sampson supplies the heat for their cooking and
their hunks ranged in four tiers about the distance
Of ordinary sleepng-ear and furnished with mat
tyesses All the rest the themselves provide,
boarding themselves according to their and
fancy. The employer has advanced money TO furnish
them with hats, Undertaking. stockings. dishes
Though most Of these they brought with them.) and
cotton cloth for various uses but this be worked
out and deducted from the FIRST wages paid If any
Cinnamon dies. his bone. are be home by ex-
press"
This sounds ike a Coolie contract;
whether it can be enforced in Massachu-