The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-04-09
Now. look at the conduct OF the government :
LA Chinnmen were arrested for

Iork"one-haif OF the population OF that great
.Ity live in tenement houscs-that are defined
by tho law ~ houses occupied BY more than
three families Living n @nH Hoi ny COOKING : 'INdr on so ,ns
lacts respecting the tenement population In
lorty years did. At thatdatc the system began
The first tell years there were seven thou
There were built In the eighteen months
following eighteen hundred. There are twen-
ty-onc thousand of those houses In the city TO-
iay. The better class Of them arc five or xix
high, and the ground foor or cellar In
often used as grOg shop or distillery: The
n physician who visited the house reported
there were thirty-two rooms receiving
light and ventilation through other roomS.
In other places it wax found that four families
occupied o room. p
TENEMENT SYSTEM ~ NEW YORK,
Mr.. Hepworth describes a room in which
only q chalk-line marked upon the 1opr. "A
city living room IL, say, Tx 10. It Is dark;
and, as q rule without ventilation. The most
populoup portion Of London does not contain
more t1lt l75So9O' but r snrrS 10 s one ward IN New
Street and the East River, that has q popula-
ton OF 10000 to the square mile. In the worst
place In all Europe there are only $4,000 per-
sons to that space In New York, 10000. In
While the most densely Populated part OF Lon,
don has less than 900 to the acre. In one block
in the Eleventh Ward, there arc ffty-two ten
ement houses, occupied by 5S families. There
is one house IN the CITY %here the number OF
to have an average OF lp souls to n house Of 81
feet frontage. DR.. Richard Derby says, from
personal Investigation, one building which
had only o IS feet front contained l2 inmates.
Why, there cnn hardly be roOm enough for
them to lie down! He declares that In the on.
tire Eastern quarter from East River n Hous-
ton Street up to FOrtieth street, there II an
o~vcrcrowding Of human beings In cOmpart.
known in any other civilized country.
Mr.. Blaine did not know Of this!
NEW YORK HORRORS.
Ah.h.h ! the trouble with the Chinese Is
that they ave no vote. Things such as the
facts stated by DR.. B. Roosn, who says 20,U00
medical students In New York city arc ut.
tracted there by the prevalence Of dI:ea.es In
York Is O good place for medical students 70
20 and study diseases, because the tenement
houses offer specimens Of every disease
known In m nature. so New
now possesses Its Chinese quarter. But q
Chinese quarter Is polluted 1t Is den com.
pared 10 four whole wards In the City OF
New York. In consequence or the vices and
crimes generated In this tenement system
As compared with the rest Of the city. In
New York the death rate Is IS per 1000; IN
the tenement houses 1t Is thirty.six. or the
thousands OF children who are born In many
OF these quarters, the medical testimony Ia
that very few Of the children survive. They
In the atmosphere that receives them aud In
the milk on which they are fed; Why. u
you wore TO take one OF those places from
the Chinese quarter In San francisco, which
they say II transferred to st. Louis or Chicago
or any Eastern city would breed tho Black
Death, and transfer II to some places in New
York, 1t would improve the condition Of
things Nifty per cent. But the great thing Ia
New York Ia largely inhabited by GerH1ahs
Italian and Irish.
WHAT NR. BLAINE SAYS.
Then Mr.. Blaine goes on to say the system
system. He asks:
ut lis not inevitable. that a class Of mer
living 10 this degraded and nlthy condition
and OIL the poorest Of food. can work for lcss
ceivc for his daily toll? Put the two clnssei
Of labor side By side and the cheap servilt
labor pulls down the more manly to ttS level
The free white lnborcr never could compete
with tho sluvo abOr OF the South. In thu
Chlnanlan the white laborer ind only anoth
or form OF servile compctition-in some re-
xpacts more revolving and corrupting thar
the African slavery. Whoever contends To-
! the unrestricted immigration OF Chimes.
which hliglts the prospect OF the white Ia
bOrer-doOming him to starvation wages
killing his ambition by rendering his atrug
gle hopeless md ending In n pioddlng nnc
pitiable poverty"
TIE REAsoS 4 cH1SAxAN WORKS CHEAP
LY.
AChlnnman works cllcaply because HI
cannot get moro. Heis Just nv willing 10 e.
two dollars u dny as an lrishnan. He would
10 very glnd 10. But he comes over u greer
/ hand, he does not speak in our language, u
unaddictcd TO our forms OF industry, and un
I'll he learns them lie Is Obliged to lake thu
rate OF wages. lie Is able to live on ninet,
cents where an lrishmnn cnnnot upon twt
dollars. Why? Because the whole brook
and breed whence you and 1 caine since tn.
days OF Caesar have been such rnUrmous eat
hers OF flesh and drinkers OF every
thing stimulating, distilled or vinour, or fer
mentpd. The Cinnamon, on the other hand
arc by nature II temperate people. They liv'
on vegetables, green fruit, rice and hsi. The!
IRE Obliged to live upon those things In tiei
own country. for the reason that they canNo
get anything else. When they cOlhe to OH
country they bring their habits with them
and this food, quite In accordance with mod
crn hygienic prescription. Aatiafes them, ant
It III 50 cheap that they can live for u fri1c.
believe We have yet Thousands Of things Il
learn from the French and oriental nation
before our civilization shall complete Itself
in the way Of how t. make u ,comfortuHl'
living out Of poor ~rictuals by adding IN,
pepper and salt Of skill IN dealing with tn
ruw productions which We cook. 4 French
family will live on what We waste. It wa
said In the old times. when the German
came 10 New England, he could live on wha
the Yankee threw away. and q Jew coul'
live OH what the German threw away. Now
the Chinnman would live OH what the Jew
throws away.
%sKILLrCL COOKING.
Nothing Is po0r living provided skill make
1t pulntublc and nonrishing. We 20 10 mar
kct. take II cut of meat. put u on y griddl
| aud cut It, cat 1t vastly. v~oluininously, Vrn
| ciously. and wash 1t down with not over'bcn
eiiciul liquor. A! Frcnchman would take
scrap OF 1t, render IT, Into u nice soup. such
perfect production that nobody could go b!
his house without longing fr mn Invitation
to dine there. The art OF skillful cooking re
duces the expense Of living ut The same tim
that II increases luxury. Our population
might 1.-Two better for half tho money the>
now squaudcr in coarse riotous living. Tn
He practices daily ablutiou. lie washes hi
whole person every morning, ind ! an
afraid that Ia more than most A mcricans en-
say. He wears n peculiar blouse, but It Is al
ways clean. He has different notions o
cleanliness from ours. One whom sent to th'
well for a couple OF buckets or wafer whcl
he had been working IN the garden, In al
honesty OF idea. washed his feet In one OF tn
buckets, threw the water away, filled th'
buckets, and then brought them To the hous
with drinking water. On being rebuked 70
the unclennlincss OF II, the opaque heather
could not understand how a little clean gar
den dirt could go defile a bucket, while al
the water In the well had 10 go down through
or, there IL q great difference between twec
dledum and tweciledcc. But Some thirYi
clean In us ore unclean for them. Amonl
the Cinnamon you will ind that II they mi
.1.INrr1I. az, In fl,ntr NJ a. IN rAnttyn Nttr tyat Y
Of the fitness Of things. in their persons
their heads, fncc, hands, feet and dress, the!
are much cleaner than the average OF labor
ing people In this country.
NO DRUNKEN Or LAZY CHISANEN.
There is another reason why n Chinamar
lives clcuply: because he has no family Il
support; but then 1t should be borne In mine
that when children IRE fifteen or sixteen. !
they nrc properly brought up, they contrib
ute az mach to the household rs IN spent up
on them. Nor does the Chinaman drtni
whiskey. You never saw q Chinaman drum
In California. They are dlliscnt men; they
work early and late they are patient. inge
NOUS and initiative, virtuous and tnduStrt
ous and 1t IL because they. are ,virtuou
that they are able TO i've Dy IN
side Of foreign labor; and not rs Mr.: Blain,
time ! ever heard such q statement ~ tho
people could live cheaply because they wcrr'
Vicious! IT Is said they send back thei
earnings to their " country. i shouia INK
to know whether they send back half a
much as the Irish servant girls-to. their I'm
mortal honor be 1t ~sp0kcn-send back, q
that there IL y golden road between their ne"
home and that which they have quilted
send back to father and mother. and brothe
and sister, or sweetheart, In dear old Erin
We honor them for 1t. Is Chinaman tn be
disgraccd btcaus e he sends back bis earning
In hts family or others In China? ISL thatn
virtue In the Irish Is n vice In the Chinese
But do they send back all? IT stands upor
testimony that is irrefutable that but To-
their labOrs the Central Pacific Railroad or
the Northern Pncitlc or the long, reaching
Pacific Railroad would not have been con
structed. Did they send these back to China
It WAS their industry that built them. ant
their industry remains i~ncarnated and en-
! bodied. Some forty thOnsanu nCreS OF waste