Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-10-06
The Chinese on the Pacific Coast.

cOlllc. tIti iWtli, tIltl lOll, anu earn, an
come again. Their merchants trade wit
us and our manufacturers employ Chimes
in great numbers. and propose to do so
Yet the conflict grows along the who'll
coast line. 1t Is one of the most Difficult
of social and political problems.
These poor men have become servants il
almost every flmily able to hire help
they do all the laundry business of ON
cities and Of many towns They hav,
gardens; they are tailors and shoemakers
they clean the streets, or share the worl
with few negroes and whites. They are
wood choppers. You find them clearing
land for the farmers, and in the harves
field. Some of the best weavers in the
Oregon City Wooden Mandatory, as the
agent states. are Chinlmen. They make
the tin cases and put up most of the salmon
on the Columbia river. White men will
not allow them to catch the fish, which is
done at night but the owners of most OF
the canneries, say they must and will en-
ploy them to put up the fish because they
can rely upon them. Many white men
they say get drunk on Sunday and har,il,
get sober before Wednesday and thus f:li
VIII most needed. In single montl
last season the thirteen cannerirs did no
take less tan an average OF 10000 salmon
every night, making 800. 900 for the TWEEN
ty-six fishing nights. The take ran from,
1000 to 5000 for each fishery; Il number
of them getting rs many is 1920 up t,
200 fish.
The number Of salmon taken in the low.
rr Columbia river during the first foul
months Of last season was not less thar
100000. that averaged when dressed six
teen pounds each, making l5.OOn .Om
pounds of salmon for the seasons tishinp
for canning and eating purpo cs. OF thi
number 40 ,ObO We're canned, maxine
$4,000 cases of Is pounds each, valued al
- % per case. yielding Sl.>l2.jOC. 1t i,
SAID that $500, 900 are paid to England fo,
the TIN annually consumed Chinam.1
make most of the tubs. pals. and wash
boards for the northwest coast trade und,.
the Tuid tncc of one or two eastern men
with machinery. Men fear to begin or t,
encourage manufactures lest Chin,m,l
viii uSulp the work 1t is stated that the,
make all the slippers and woman'> coars,i
shoes, and mems also. The Crispin.
struck. bat came back and were pur
upon the fine work Thus California ca,
compete with the east in The export trade
The owner OF the Mission Woolrn Mills in
sun Francisco said that he could no, ru,,
them without the chinese. With them II,
completes with the eastern mills. Tin,
Chinese miners are buying and working
protitobly he old placer claim, in Caitol-
ma and IN Oregon, hey have done mos,
Of the rough work on he railroads. arto
they m">tIy rccp the roads in repair under
the direction of he road masters.
hey earn III The aggregate vast sums of
money winch at first gor> to plv for THEN
! food hnd then 10 the ciIartcr-plrtirs who
brought them from China. and who taxi.
IL IN back, rs many Return annually. say
100 u from The Whole coast. Chimes mer
chtn's hnv c.ir|ocs of flour for G. in->..
r"n>umptI'H: Tor the u-. of oar bret,l>tuf fl
: rhpliiN l"crra~lng in China \ captain
II one OF the Pacific Mail steamers SIN,
hat three-toulThS Of their ctrmors 10 Chin g,
are flour, AMI but tot this trad the. + lin,
Gould not he kc It up. Millions of feet OF
our lulnb4 70 to lima annual for their
navy as le:rhtnt marine, fnr .heIr
Wit.'iN'> ~ ares ana houses. Tho trti..
WIFE ,!it M mas only brwun their lnfl9N L.
our coast aS lnbor,'l hH~ only commenced
Nearly "n''-tr.'h OF from s. 200 t. luO. 600
"i our -" 1000 OF population west Of the
Rocky Mountains are, Is estimated, Chi
ne-r
When the three or four continental rail
roads are done, we mrv expect to have
50oooo. They Will build the roads they
will do all the cheap work; they will TIL
many of the mHnutactol les. The Pr,.>i-
dents Recommendation To Congress to stop
" the coolle and the woman traffic " rs far
rs the treaty permits i right and we'll:
but can Congress put Il head tax of so or
$40 on these laborrrs and by such IA tariff
exclude them? They earn from - TO 20
cents per day in China and Sl.oO here. No
common tax would bar them out. They
are smart; when the white l. eftlsed to en-
ploy them in making slippers in san Fran
cisco they bought buildings and set up the
business and competed the whites out of
the market. a Chin, Sc merchant met a
manufacturer of ovrrallS and asked:
- hat do You pay women to make these"
Twenty-Five cents apiece was the reply.
We will make them for five cents apiece.
he said. He thcnceforth got the lob.
They run sewing machines with skill: over
10 Chinese were rumnin. rs many sewing
machines in the San Quentin prison in |
1868, making wooden shrs Not LONG
ago some of them Were chopping wood
and making charcoal for Il blast furnace.
There is not 4 business in which they are
not employed in some way, or for which |
thep cannot fit themselves.
They desire to improve; they attend
schools taught by Americans in the cities:
they attend the Sabbath Schools; they
make rapid progress in their studies they
learn rapidly to talk in the families some
teach them to read Three
Years ago Il Portland. Oregon, city school
eachcr went to Ro>rburg 200 miles south.
o teach in the public school; she also
,aught Il few Chinese in the evenings:
nore came and desired her to teach them.
md paid her more than >he could ct from
he district. and gave her many presents
besides. She married and gave up teach
ng. but they slill ask her to teach them.
IN the Sabbath she and her Husband
each from % to 80, who come to the
church after the other Sabbath School is
,ut
The 60 or 80 Chinese bows now in New
England schools and families. at the Chi
lrse government expense, pctitioned their
Emperor last winter to be allowed to wear
ur kinds Of clothing. They love our
God and enjoy our tables and do our cook
,g as well as we do it. They use our
peech; their labOrcrS begin to wear our
lothlng; they charter our ships, learn our
:ades and begin to conduct business in
ur modes. They are absorbing our ideas
nd slowly imbib ne the spirit of American
fe. With such facts, and more crowdny
pom us. may we not see the hand of God
fling the viii from China. and leaenvin"
tr 1000 millions with the ideas th,,t fer ,,
lent 40,OoO,OO0 of Americans p Oregon
.etter.
ENGINEERING Two THOUSAND YEARS |
GO Perhaps some of the most remark
Bile remains of ancient engineering t
re- those which were discovered by ex- i
tvations made some ten or twelve years l.
nee. short distance from Rome, and e
FAR the ruins of the ancient city of Alatri t
his city was surrounded by massive e
alls, AMI located on Il mountain, or ele- :,
,ted point, and i'll provided with water. K
bout one hundred and fifty years before ii
hrist, rs we learn from a Roman ins'rip- II
~, on1plJrt hni1f 10 IL