The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-03

Germany Looks to South America i~r
More Cotton, Tobacco, Coffee,
Sugar, Tea and Silk.
One Word Against the Horrors Of the Coolie
Traffic and Two in Favor Of Keeping German
Emigrans at Homo and Monopolixing
the Products Of south America by
Free Chinese and japanese Labor.
.[From the voss K0nigliche Zeitung.l

From the v0ss K1nigliche Zeitung.l
1t Is q lamentable fact that the progress OF
trade and industry does not IN many cases 20 hard
In hand with the interests OF humanity, but that
directly 10 the contrary, in the recklessness and
determination OF men TO create great commercial
interests the moral groundwork OF society ana the
obligations that should be imposed by the same au-
thority are ruthlessy and contemptbly set aside
But this Is not 10 be considered occasion for set
ting merchants and authorities in opposition; we
have rather, case to make out wherein both the
interests OF the commonwealth and trade are CON-
promised, and in which great injury is done to
both. This Is the question OF
THE COOLIE TRADE,
which subject seems to US to prove that our So
called ''great humanityn is as yet very doubtful.
The fraudulent trade in human flesh has been
carried on in Europe and South America by Gu
bans, Peruvians and others, and even now East
African landowners ana planters derive their
greatest profit and maintain their positions by
this same traffic. We see that these people are
deep disgrace to our civilization, II such term be
admissible disgraceful-by which the free
development OF our trade is retarded and endan-
gered. At the same time we see that In the spen-
did countries of South America, so blessed by
nature, through the corruption which the slave
trade brings with it, dscord and misgOvernment
are the penalties that to-day curse their fruitful
soil, which by extensive and comprehensive Guilt
vati0n good management and free labor could
command the commercial attention Of the world,
but is in neglected, forsaken condition, az the
deceived foreign laborers, the disguised Asatios,
are constantly fleeing back to their own countries.
THESE ASIArICS,
who enjoy greater liberty in their own country
than in the land in which they are now treated as
slaves, and where greater opportunities are
offered, will longer consent to work In the
cruel, disgraceful manner peculiar to South Amer-
can labor. In proportion to the Chinese imported
the number Of home laborers Is o hundred-fold
larger. 1t Is not conjecture, but fact, that slave
labor, from first to last, is fraught with depravty
and degradation. Has the South American
laborer by virtue Of the clemency Of the climate
the fruitfuness of the SOIL become idly inclined,
so lost to excitement and lowered by the constant
activity before his eyes Of the slave labor, that he
has conceived o horror for work which he considers
beneath him 1t is among the class we here men,
ton that the preponderattng mass OF home born
lab0rers are to be found, and thus In great
measure work is entirely neglected. the lands are
unproductive and the ability to attend to business
enter into the activity OF commercial life an ex-
ceptiOn. The general suffering under the Coolie
trade Is therefore doubled. Behold the country In
which the COoie Is robbed and
CRUELTY DRIVEN TO DEATH,
and you see land whose native labor becomes
eneminate and whose prOductiveness Is constantly
weakened. The last point, especially Is OF the
greatest Importance to Europe in a time when
economy Is the chief power that moves u.s. while
the multitude OF our daily accessible needs-foOd,
raiments. &c-are all the time increasing in the
cost OF their production. How could we have stood
the injustice so long but for the fact that in great
measure the United States have supplied them
selves and US with corn, cotton and tObaccOS How,
II at least small portion OF South America also
had not supplied as with some cotton, tobacco,
coffee, &C. How, IL her herds and nOcks had not
supplied us with meat tallow and leather, which
have so well paid our manslacturers IL Is evi-
dent that the emigration, which tends to make
North America and part OF South America pro-
ductive Is and has always been great blessing to
us, and Will continue In case the present condi-
ton OF things suffers no change for the worse.
Tie raw products OF North America are always
worked by the people there TO a great extent, and
Australia. Let England and Germany, for their
own advantage, raise South America to the same
level. We in Europe want more food more grain,
more fruits, more meat, as well as more wool, cot
ton, raw silk and more material generally for
manufacture and export. The manufacture OF the
latter must give us the means Of securing ali the
food we require. This fleeing to America may,
perhaps, retard the development OF the Eastern
the additional wool we require But that addi-
tional cotton, and especially the increase in
COFFEE, TOBACCO SUGAR, TEA, RAW SILK,
&c.-where Is 1t to come from?
The transatlantic countries, which at present
supply most of the cotton, only want hands to-
United States, six years after the abolition Of
slavery, produce more cotton than they did before
the war every year there Is an increase In the
great staple will be exported from there in man.
ufactured state. Brazil will be next in production
emancipation Of the slaves. The other tropical
countries Of South and Central America are, owing
to the paucity and disposition OF their inhabitants
and the unequal divisions OF their land valueless
as regards their products for export.
There are in these sparsely inhabited and thinly
settled countries spaces of land times larger
than those now occupied which have not yet been
broken In reality not One-twentieth OF this valu-
able and suitable land fof the raising OF cotton Is
tropical plains is not likely to be readily accom-
plished by Europeans. Probably
ONLY AFRICANS AND CHINESE
are adapted to the climate But in the first place,
after the rueful experience Of their race, 1t must
not be long before they are free colonists; then,
after the complete suppression OF the slave trade
and the greater facilities which would be offered
by increased steam communication, they would
arrive and remain Of their own free will. Thrifty,
active Cinnamon would be ready to cross the seas
by hundreds OF thousands Aye, In less than de-
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Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and
Central America, and willing to remain.
1t must be apparent that both for themselves and
the satisfactory meeting Of the demands OF the
world upon their productions. and ior success In
general, 1t should not be through all the mean
ness OF African slavery. No; these Asiatc people
must be free. The coolie trader has rightly esti-
Chinese Chimes laborer to til the south American soil,
put Tor the manner and method by which he seeks
to meet the requirements, the disgraceful
TRAFFIC IN FLESH AND BLOOD,
he dare expect nothing bat condemnation from
mankind, whose patience In the premises has been
exhausted. Europe dare longer suffer her in
dustry to be parayzed by the practical exclusion
OF Chinese labor from South America. There Is
but one simple peaceful method OF conducting the
coolle business and making 1t void Of evil conse-
ouences and that Is to permit the Chinese TO 90
and come, make and receive they please, and
give them legal foundation and protection for
the formation OF colonies
HOW TO UTILIZE SOUTH AMERICAN PLAINS.
In order to turn the tide OF Chinese emigYA-
ton from various other sources In which It. has
hitherto flown to these lands IL will be necessary
to establish companies and settlements In the
need not be extremely large; S2,000,0O0 would be-
SUFFICIENT to import 10000 persons and house.
main ain and instruct them until they co uld raise
sulcient product to begin exporting The neces-
sary territory, in nats OF from twenty to forty