The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-03-09
Chinese Cheap Labor.
0'rittcn for the Florida Agricuiturts.

Writen for the Florida AgricaHurtS
Chinese cheap labor, y in Califor,
MIA. did not become the subiectl of
crontroversy to any percephble ex-
tent earlier than the year 1858. and
then by reason OF the substitution OF
As;atlc artisans by manufacturers
and notably in the manufacture OF
cigars, which grew to be controlled
by Coolles, as coppercolored Mon
golianS were then styled. Before
the y ear 1858 the Cinnamon found
them selves in brisk demand for do
mestlc service: as cooks. gardeners,
table and chamber walters. They
Ihcy enjoyed a monopoly az iaun.
drymen. Al house service the same
man cooked, washed, made beds. at.
tended To all the details of house.
Keeping; services which had been
distributed betw cen male and female
help up 70 that time. AS miners the
| Cnlnese worked over and extracted
many million ounces of gold from
claims that had been abandoned bv
Europeans and Americans tor better
paying mines. Hence, between the
white miners and the Chinese in
search OF gold, there was no jealousy
or lrrtation 1t was as house ser.
Wants and as mechanics in San Fran
cisco, and possibly in Sacramento
Stockton and Maysville, working iol
9 great -1e>i a'seS AMI suDsisr
ing upon cheapest food and wearing
cheapest clothes and shoes of their
own manufacture it was at this
era-1S58, We thiuk--that oppoxi-
tion to Chinese cheap labor began.
1t came 10 be feared, after the
President an.i Senate had made the
the Burlngamo Chinese treaty, that
Orientals would swarm The United
States along the Pacific coast and
8tarye out white labor-th&t of 600,
100000 souls in China hords might
migrate. Chinese cheap labor en-
ahied California husbands to bring
Wllc and chilorcn TO Ide Pacific,
when before thtI coming o! Chineae
domestic labor supplemented By
very dear rents, cost Of subsistence,
had kept families separated OH
nese cheap labor enabled farmers to
thrive; 1t bailL also 1900 or more
miles o! railroad in and out o: Cali
tornla. IniS latler enterprise 9u-
terpris" eu.ascd immense gangs Of
Chinese from the vear 1862 down 10
recen; period But it was not till
early III 1871 or late in 1876 that the
Dennis kcarneY revolt against Chi
neSe Immigration developed. We
think it was when the great railway
system approached completion, and
Surplus OF ASiatic labOrers returned
30 swamp white labor in the cities.
TIE Central Pacific Railway, near q
thousand miles, and built by Nor
mons and Chinese was completed in
! May, 1869; bat other roads lar
reaching engaged Chinese labor
We mean California railway built by
owners of the Central Pacific road, a
road that connects in Utah with the
Union Pacific.
-Four years since, we lived one
winter in California, Kearney was
then in the Zenith of his agitation
and bad declared; "The Chinese
must co. this commotion led US to
make inquiries into the situation.
One farmer of wealth was of the
opinion that California had been ad,
vanoed 10y Chinese labor a quarter OF
a century. A Chinaman was his
cook, and house servant and had
been for three years. He had never
been away from his 900 acre farm but
once, and then TO attend his brothers
funeral, he managed all affairs OF the
! household and was regarded as in.
dispensable, because OF his fidelity