Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-05-19

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those. when eXis ing obs ructons to
C.ines" riIi~rttjon are removed, the
pOpull'jon u China must rs natur.
ally flow a he waters of pen6 up
rivers flow 10 al accent lowands
when The. lt.v4c~ IN. broken luwn.
Tins tie prospect of the near future
0pr ti,tv or Il hundred Years are
hih Il brief space ii tn" life of ma
tIon~) is that the on flow OF this
great people with its ingrainel char
a.tcr.s;icS and its hoarv institutions
vii sweep down upon the slightly
settled western portion of this con
tln"nt, especially upon that richest
part OF the Pacific slope where the
presence Of the Asat:cs has already
produced mischief and discomfort
Peculiarly pertinent to this phase
of the question is the fact that the
Chinese have never retraced their
way from any region where they
have once established themselves.
tn" dra eon ia has nev"r been
more tnri temporarily lowered from
any countrv where it has once been
planted Time has been within the
past few We rs when China pno,t sseI
nothin, bat her own area. the Cen
tr!l Kin sdpm. 70 day he has ob
tanned, citu4r by peaceful acquisi-
zion OF by conquest, the control of
the countries of Mppgolia, of Mani
churia, of f. rs ern Turkestan, and
nf Tbibc'; whilr her reputation i
st.u AZ IA " :'..n. II : M, ~
t: ~, ot H. lil, aud the complete
con,rrl of FrmpSa Is but questi III
o. tim". More than this. in he
philippine isanls, the first foreign
land 10 feel the uoXlohs effects Of
Chinese Immigration, neihtcr stale
or fl nor slaughter has been suffi
cent to uprnot the peaceful invaders.
Merry three hundred years ago, at
prr.r when the Spanish residents
oT the Philippines were only about
EIGHT huntred, the Chinese mum
brrpd nearly twenty thousand. A
wrll-foua icl fear on the part of the
handful of Europeans led to con.
,,st lii which the Spaniarls, pro-
viie1 with firearms, succeeded in
Strengthening nearly the whole num-
Der of the badly armed cele tails
Yet within thirty years thereafter,
the Chinese population had increased
through new immlgrLtions to thirty
three thousand These were in time
detected fomenting rebellion, aud
the work of the previous generation
was repeated. Fully two-thirds of
the Chinese were destroyed. After
this, legislation limited the Chinese
III The islands to six thousand; and
in ITO they were all expelled. and
trade with China was prohibited.
With all this, it has been impossible
keep :herh away, tl'e'e beins at
the present time about ninety thous-
aud Chinese in Manila.
The meaning of this incident in
the history OF Chinese emigration. is
Emphasized by the admitted fact
that the outflow has occurred in de-
tilnce of the authorities of China.
and not by their favor. With wise
forecast, the policy of the Govern
ment, since the rise of the western
powers, has been to keep the en-
pire intact. and to prevent, SO for as
possible, the involulion of it's people
with those of other countries. As we
snail see further on, this policy,
sound and considerate in itself, has
been broken down only by the per-
>isten' efforts of the foreign powers,
to whom our own country has acted
ns depu' Y assistant in no very dig
nified manner or degree. The en-
forcemeut of Chinese law has been
suificient to restrain the Inhabitants
of the interior from seeking foreign
outlet, but this has been Intellectual
rs c~ncerns the outer provinces.
The Calnese population on our Pa
citic coast is about one hundred and
tifth Thousand, yet all of these have
been derived from an area of but
fifteen thousand square miles, en-
braced wi hin the Province of Quanc
J tunS, this area having population
of about five millions An emi IRA :
, ton, in the same ratio of population
from the eLtire Central Kingdom
would launch upon the Pacific coast
population of ten millions, which
would reduc- the Caucasian com
, munity to the proportion of six ger
cent. of the total Bot 50 grea. and
SO leuse is the population of China,
that the loss of ten millions, of her
inhabitants would make no percep-
tible change IN her resources, or In
her industrial, social or political con-
tiljlon. These emigrants are from
the agricultural and Iaboring classes,
not more tha1 two per cent, accord
ing to official data, being Of the liter
; AIRY class; but all. owing to the pecu-
liar educational institutions of their
country, more or less disciplined by
study and instruction. The reports
from which these statements are
!, taken, show that, then average
| Wage s at home may be reckoned at
less than three dollars a month";
, 1t is to the con sentative policy of
, :he Chinese Government, and to this
E alone, that the western coast Of
America thus far owes even its com
, parative immunity from the over
|, whrlming influence Of Aaiatic immi-
grafton. | use the term compare
p tive immunity" advisely. If China
encourages the outflow of her peo-
pie to the same extent that she has
discouraged it, the Chinese question
, would have been alread,' settled be
vond recall. Reverence for the Wis
dom of their ancestors in binding
each citizen to his native land by
, indls>olubIe ties, has until lately led
f China to maintain q policy, the re-
, suits of which have been even more
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