The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-30
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THE Chinese Botherafion.

ss.n,;ons to satisfy all sensinie Ieopi'
mo a. hoav politic of this country Is pet
'h"' , n.ithout Chinese than With them
T IT. hnmbug mission of the late buRLiN
'ns and his worse than humbug repre-
eA If the temper and liberal tendeh
sn - ~. chinese, had Modified the feel
mos Of part Of the people OF TINS eou u, :!
.nrerss the Chinese, and amongst tlios'
."r,s had excited an interest In those ASH
p VI Rnt the subsequent manifestations
~ Tho nature Of the Chinese, shelr nc
n nrayed and disgusting prejudices' ana tne'l !
indomitab,e hate OF foreigners, shown IN ''e
terrible massacres Of Christians sao..u na's
heen sufficient to eradicate anything ,Ho A,,,,'
ceiling and sympathy for them. Aet IL seem, J,
~, 70 have done so. The New England
c,,,os cook new idol, and they are making
him ant of Chtnaman. They find him to
no cutie superior to the negro, VINO IS COM
norotiveIv forgotten in the enthusiasm for
the new object of aduiation'
we stated the other day that the run
nnou the agent Of Chinese immigration in
Roston had compelled him to withdraw his
advertisement from the papers and decline
making further contracts until ne could
ascertain whether he could supply the de-
msnd. .- s
In the mean time we have reports OF The
nrogress of the education OF the colony OF
Chinese brought into North Adams, Mass
tn learn shoemaking. We have before us
the New York Tribune, Of "Wednesday, IN
which this matter is fully presented. Inc
Tribune. referring to the full details OF its
North Adams correspondent, is quite Jubl-
liant over the capabilities displayed by the
chinese. 1t thus condenses the letter OF its
correspondent, claiming that they are supe-
rior to our Caucasian laborerS: d..
1.-THE Chinese laborers, working more
steadily and regularly, turn out larger
average of work than the same NUMBER OF
Crispins r.. e., white Americans y, anu Oh
eoual quality. The effect of this success on
the shoe trade cannot yet be calculated.
The Chinese already produce Soods at Il
cost of 3 per case less than the Crlsplns
did. and. MIR. Sampson expects inns saving
eventually to reach Sc case. This saving
win simply reyolutionize the manufacture
of these goods
Yes. and will revolutionize more than
that! This revolution is wrought to crafty
the greed of manufacturers. Their object is
to curtail the compensation OF the maker
of shoes and to increase their own profits.
It matters not whether in this process they
take into employment the Chinaman. and
turn away the white workmen of their own
type. They are seeking for the man that
works low, and, rs the letter to the Tribune
saws, "has no off days." and 'works right
along like steam engine" That's the
point for which we must sacrifice our own
people and employ the Chinaman. The
"steam engine" indeed! as he has but
little more sensibility and soul than the
"engine" has.
Here Is the point of treachery in society.
One class is willing to sacrifice another Tor
gain. But the consequences never fa'i 70
return to plague the inventors. No society
il perfect that is not built up from the
foundations of the most homogeneous ma
terials.
The letter to the Tribune goes into enthu'
siasm over these Chinese. 1t declares that
North Adams, where the Chinese first ar
rived, will be "the Plymouth Rock OF the
new pilgrimage The writer flatterS him
self that these Chinese are ''taking in
tinitesimal steps towards being national
sized and Christianized; that in all
respects Of habits and industry they are
superior to the white man, and that IN al
the matter of holidays and spreying "no
"such ups and downs are seen In the WORK
"of Wo LEE and An MY" Exactly! This
is indeed wonderfully gratifying to white
people. This Chinese superiority in the
contrast ought to be every way agreeable to
us all, 1t is so ecOnomical-and so much
increases the profits Of manufacturers.
If we could imagine wel-ordered so
ciety imposed upon lower type OF man
kind. we could at best say that it was an,
aqinary No such society ever existed
long, because it is contrary to the princi
ples of Divine providence. Labor is tn
basis of solid society. AL the higher pur
suits are replenished from the class
labor. And when society attempts t.
build itself upon foundation of labor tina
consists of beings who cannot rise or wh'
cannot be assimilated with those who I'll
the pursuits above labor, it is doomed t.
early decay. Nothing can preserve orde
in such society for even temporary perio'
but the concurrence of both law and mature
in keeping the inferior type below the s'l
perior in all their relations to the power q
government and the privileges Of the cit
zen. But even that cannot avoid the awful
consequences of driving from the State it
best blood and seriously impairing it
power and dignity, its force and spiri
amongst communities. ~-
Most assuredly these American peopl
should be satisfied with the experiment the
have made. We ought not to dream of II
PRODUCING any more inferior men 30 distins
from our people that they never can b
incorporated with them socially. The onl
true test Is intermarriage, with the entil
acauiescence, of both sides, and 'ritho1
detTimeat to either. Any two types of me
who can come up TO this test may live
peace and prosperity upon a footing
perfect equality, under the same Cover
ment, but none other. -@4<s .,a@s'
Madness, ayarice, md .maiignity ha'
led some people at the North and in Co
IA gress to hold q different doctrine from thi
- have in their blindness and male
even gone so far as to assert the supcriori
of the African race over their own, upC
which they are themselves a libel. Al
they elevated the African, just out
slavery and altogether untitled for it, to
.stota ~ ,,ol;fiooI enpolfv with tho ~, oot r