The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-03-11

"Flowery Kingdom" and paying for the
privilege heavy sum, DR.. Williamson tells
now miners we're treated in China. In
volume one, page va, be says
"IAc European @ihcts WHO, IL 1868 went
unto the interior ~ search for gold ahabted
upon valuable ere, containing lead and tWeu-
ty per cert. OF anthony, about fifteen miles
east by south Of Ohee-foo. They tried hard 70
Vo E.t Int the mauj rims prevented the ma
uvcs t.om selling them food, and 80 starved
hem
~ much for TIE quality Of the Chinese
! Now as 70 quartity.
As before remarked, numerically they
comprise more than one-third tho entire
human race, and outnumber our own peo-
PIE tcntold flat IL To say the total popu-
lation Of The United States compared 10
that Of China /, only IL proportion VI that
Of the State of New York TO the pOpula-
ton of the entire Union. We are all, |
presume, at least, sufficiently satisfied with
tile condition and institutions Of our coun-
Try. Notwithstanding any changes and re-
forms We may desire To have made or
adoptcd, to prefer it, Oh the whole, to any
other. The vast majority believe, as |
have always believed, that European mmi-
grafton las benefited the United States,
anl rejoice thai It has equally benefited the
Immigrant. but TIE prospect, workings
Of That foreign influx were alwa. y, IS they
are now. a matter, not of abstract principle
but of degree or quantity.
THE highest tide Of transatlantic immi-
grafton has never cast more than about half
4 million human beings on these shores in
one Year. but il instead ol half a million
there had been annually imported two, OF
three, or five millions of those very Irish
aul Germans whom now even the most
y.o.en. Cf TIE American " Kuow-Nothing
order recognize as good and useful citizens
--.t this had been The case, are there any
Of us who most zcalOusly opposed the
kuoW-Nothings who would nor instead have
accepted their doctrines, ~ fur as immigra-
'ion was concerned, when il had become a
question Of being overwhelmed by an i'm
migration greater than ". could absorb or
a--,mjla'c. which would have out-yotcd us,
J which would have plunged Us into anarchy
auj ~wamped our institutions before they
bal time q understand or appreciate them:
We must remember that within genel-
.ton, say thirty-three years, less than four
million immigrants have reached Us from
Europe-une -tenths of these from portions
~ ireland and Germany, the population Of
which countries combined, did not exceed
twenty millions, or about one-twentieth Of
the population oil China; that the principal
part 81 these people came under Pccuniary
difficulties, and with their own painfully
collected resources.
Me must bear IN mind that when o-rcss
from the Chinese empire was prohibited,
uud when Chinese cmigrated they had to do
% with their own means and IN clumsy old
vessels, called junks ,yety tbs scattered and
settled by millions on the islands Of the
Indian ocean. What may be expected
. with the ports ot China open, immense
lines Of steamships and other passenger
vessels plying between them and Is weekly
and daily, and their passage paid for them
to our shores What the Chinese tLem-
selves eXrect to 90 in our case Mr. Choy
Chew. a Chinese merchant in San Francis
co, himself tells us. ! quote from the
speech Of Hon. James a johnson, Of Cal
iforna, delivered on this floor in January
last:
ST. ChoY Chew, when lu-cryi WI iu New
Yorf, was asted, 'W.u the TIDE 81 emigration
from Clioa continue to iac:e-sc 4" replies, Il
.hiuk ~ California Uii. ab~y.b several million
C..-v-e 3el ra -eu years.
That i California only just think Of IT,
And under Republican amendments to Tie
Constitution, all can Be voters, all can hold
Office aud The men who beard their breasts
70 the storm; VINO crossed the plains and
endured all the hardships and privations OF
: 4 pioneer life; who carried our laws, our
/ religion, ana our civilization with them
who are part aud parcel Of ourselves. who
fought to preserve this Union; who have
made that young State one OF the brightest
! stars il our galaxy these men IRE to be
oveuun within ten years BY several mil
lion Chinese. God forbid |, for one,
am ready to oppose this, 'peaceably if We
can forclbly if We must.
But | see by the papers that the author
tiles Of the present Administration have
arrested some Of its own officers II that
State for attempting TO collect some kind
Of a mining tax from Cinnamon, 50 anX
ious are gentlemen for the introduction
and well-being Of John Chinaman.
10 an overwhelming influx, amounting
annually to tens of millions, there art
among other things, the following exraor-
binary incentives and inducements multi
tudes in that country, struggling without
hope for a scanty subsistence, which any
day may fail them, know OF believe that by
few years labor they may acquire a com
uetgncc on which TO retire or establish
i themselves at home. This in the main j!
\ true. Rumor widely czaggcrltcs the pros
pcctivc advantages I have recently seer
transactions Of the published advertisement
Of Chinese agents at Canton which would
do credit To amy Of our patentmedlclno ven
y doris or any travelling circus or menagerie
i | 40 not remember whether they were sign
, Ell Try The great coolic contractor Of SaI
\ Francisco, KoOpmanchap, or some other
Q chap. The means Of cmgration from China
a are not only facile to procure, but the emf
" grant ~ tempted instead Of impeded. With
e unrestricted intercourse ana unconditional
4 Chinese emigration, such as now exist, The
time cannot be fan distant when the CHIEF
part Of the capital of the country, which
now sets and keeps labor in motion, viii
gradually have been invested in Chinese
" bones ami muscles, an arrangement which
\ viii undoubtedly hc mutually advantageou,
(, Up the capitalist investing and the Lhinest
# invested in, There will not lie wanting 10
I, creased facilities between the immense de-
y maud and the still more immense supply
h The form Of 70 betweens or agents, both
W. Caucasian and Chinese A vast navy
+, foreign, OF even native, % comparison L