Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1873-02-12
A BUSY AND UBIOUITOus RAGE.

\ BDS1 AND Obl4UIIOCS RACE.
The main point as affecting the
commercial future of the Pacific is
that Cinnamon are the migratory ele-
ment in the East. Few Japanese or
ISiamese are found beyond the bounds
of their own respective countries. but
Chinameh are everywhere-in Japan,
FOrmosa, Siam, the Malayan PENN
sula, Sumatra, Celebes, Java, and the
Philippine Islands-and in all these
lands they appear as the most indus
triOus and enterprising class. Already
they are beginning to outstrip the
Japanese even in the markets of Yo-
kohama. Chinamen. therefore, both
from this aggressive spirit and from
their great overcrowding numbers are
destined to fill an important place in
the future Of what we have hitherto
called the East" but must hereafter
call the Great West.u
| The chief invoices from all the Ash
attic ports are now sent by men of this
dominant race, and as commercial ia
cilities and q free access to all lands
increase, this preponderance will be-
come still greater. Should the inte-
rior of China be opened westward,
toward Tartary, Persia and India.
| Cinnamon will swarm thither. If
mining should hereafter be carried on
in Siberia, Chinamen will also appear
there. As the soft races of the South
Sea Islands disappear, Cinnamon will
take their places, at least as a labor
ing, if not also as a trading class. On
the sugar plantations of the Sandwich
Islands they are already found, and
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developed by their hands. The Unit
ed States have nearly hundred thou
sand of these patient, orderly and in
dustrious people, and but for our cruel
treatment of them we should have
many thousands more. The sparsely
settled States of Central and South
America, also, are receiving large
numbers, and should some wise policy
be adopted regulating their immigra-
ton, great multitudes would come
and develop those States, as the indo-
lent Spanish and Indian populations
are not likely to do.
Here then we have the present situ-
alton and the future outlook. In and
around the vast Pacific, on all of its
shores and throughout its countless
islands, the Chinese race bids fair TO
swarm and swarm. 1t is to be in
numbers and in patient industry the
leading race on this vast maritime
arena.
Meanwhile, on this side of the Pa
cific there is but one nation of the
Protestant Christian faith to measure
its influence with theirs in the COM
ing moral conflict. We think we haye |
even more OF enterprise than they, !
and a vastly higher civilization. Chief |
of all we have that gospel which gave |
US our civilization, and as we are con- |
fronted with China in geographical |
position, and must hold to her a chief |
commercial relation, our responsible
ty becomes greater toward her than |
that of any other Christian nation
Ignore her we cannot. Her dark loom
ing future rises before us with over
power. We shall have to
do with China and Chinaman. They
will yet swarm like locUsts on our
path, both at home and elsewhere
Unless we elevate them, their goddess
and stOlid materialism will deteriorate
US. We shall find them very differ
ent race from our fading Indian tribes
or the Kanakas of the Sandwich ISL
ands. No other nation ON the earth
has shown such vitality and endur-
ance. Nowhere else have human in
stitutions evinced such stability
While our western civilization has
undergone many changes, and the ma
lions representing it have risen and
fallen in ominous succession, China
and the Chinese have pursued their
frugal, industrious and changeless
way for ages and ages. Judging from
heir long career and our brief one,
we might sooner infer that the United
States would hasten TO a premature
-ipeness, then as rapidly decay and go
back to baTbarism, than that China
would either decline in numbers or
Taue in power before our illustriOus
ADVANCE.
No, we have the very toughest ma
erial and if here between these two
nations is TO be the last great moral
the Armageddon of the .
worlds history. we should be chiefly !
for our own endurance and
or the wise outstanding and wise use
# all our moral and spiritual power. :
We should begin early and expect
'rOtracted struggle. We must pour
orth the light of the gospel upon :
b ase confronting shores, and at the :
anne time we must illustrate the spirit !
f that gos pei on our own shores. Cal =
fornia must not, by legalized Unjust :
&c, rear a worse than Chinese wall
long her coast. :