The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1870-06-16
THE COoLIE TRADE AND c0OLIE
LABOR.

les" as it is to call all natives of Ger
many and Scandinavia Dutchmen ~
more so, in fact; for, really there ar
no uCoolies in the United States
The fact is that the so called "Coolit
trade" has never been opened between
any American port and China; although
there doubtless have been some hun
drsds of Cinnamon brought to the
United States who, prior to their leav-
ing China. had entered into contracts,
at certain fixed rates of payment, to per
form for a given period of time, a GER
tain sort of labor. But of this there
are few, if any, certain proofs, much as
We hear of the controlling power OF
- The See Yup" and other Chinese
companies who have business head
quarters in San Francisco. But there
seems to be danger that the facility with
which Cinnamon, in large bodies can be
made parties to contracts to perform GER
tain kinds of labor in this country will
BE promotive Of such abuses as ought TO
be provided against. One koopmanschap
has lately figured largely as contractor
for furnishing gangs of Chinese laborers
for plantation and other labor at the
South. While this is not strictly
..Coolie" laboy, there are good grounds
for apprehension that, after the China
:nen whom Mr. Koopmanschap proposes
10 furnish to the planters shall have
once been set at work in the cotton and
cane fields of Dixie, toe old slave over
seers who will be put over them will
treat them as they used to treat the
blacks, and very soon come to regard
them as class without rights which
either white uen or black men are bound
10 respect. Great bodies of laborers
yTho may be under contract to perform
a specific undertaking, like the building
of a railway, do not incur the danger
:. hich exists in plantation life-for there
the labor is perpetual-the JOB F" is
never finished. Most wisely, the treaty |
by Seward and Burlinge me
between the Uui,ed States and China |
prohibits the importation Of laborers
under contracts and if anything ap-l
preaching Coolieism should possibly |
creep into the management of Chinese
laborers in the United States i; will ex-
Ist ia direct violation of law. We are
glad to note thai the Senate has under
- consideration a bill which looks to
he preservation of any attempt TO in
-oduce seryile labor into the country.
4 synopsis Of tha. bill, furnished by
telegraph, says of it:
Ii provides that every contract for labor,
ny Part of the consideration of which shall
e money for transportation advanced for any
lien from any foreign country, which pro-
iies for a longer period of service than six
months shall be declared TO be a contract for
ervile labor, and contrary to public policy
nd Furnishes any infrsctIon BY heavy fines.
The intent Of this is a good one and
Gch an act would protect the native
nj E1ropeau alike with the Chinese
,bos.r The point sought to be attained
to prevent the reduction of any class of
,borers to 4 condition ofreal or virtual
avery. Our ports are rs open to Chi,
csc as to European immigration. They
no would come, may and orce here
icy are quite as fnily entisled TO the
of the laws and To en- equal
of them las guaranteed \
the Fifteenth Amendment BIZ as ali i
her classes Of our Inhabitants. In ii
aiming honest justice TO TIE Chiaamen Fl
ne must protest agaius, Coolie labor. o
ooiie labor. or suythin2 that initiates ?
, is. to all intenrs and purposes, slave
Dor. To presvpPose all Cinnamon to =
; Coolies and to deny them q right to
,,npete with other iaeorers Is quite as
ijUst as to permit them to be held under =
sysrem which reduces them to r
sc;ieal slavery. These peculiar peo {
e are amongst ms in large numbers b
IL while We are working out the dill 1
,lI problem of what TO DO with them, :,
e very worst possible obstacle which c.