Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-06-02

treme to that which we arc accus-
toned to consider as the highest
form Of Caucasian society. The
Chinese have invaded every depart
mcnt of industry, and Chinese ex-
ecutive ability has mlrshallel tina,
labor into the most effective oppo>i-
ZION to the industrial classes of the
, whites. Every here, except among
the wealthy, the white man has gone
t" the wall i'll the competition with
the Aeiatic.
This Is most conveniently illus.la.
ted by reference to the various
branches oi industry on the PHc. iic
coast; for the manufacturing inter
es's that, with IL normal develop
ncnt of society, wodld have been
Luiit up by White labor, have Wiz
, tually passed into the ban Dis OF the
Chinese. Tue result is, not only
that laboring men as such are thrown
out of employment, or reduced 81
wages Insufficient for comfortable
maintenance, but all those occuUa-
tIUi ) Whlch, even i'll the most crowd
IL frugal Sustenauce to women and
c!iIidrei, are munUpo lZed by the
Chinese, For example, i'll some
portions of the Eastern States, as
also in England, the season OF pick
my hops is one as festive in chaIacteI
as the vintage of France or Itay,
because it affords unusually high
wages during thlee or four week t.
women aud children whose Labor
at other seasons has little money
value. Wherever, east Of the
Rocky Mountains, hops are grown.
the hop-picking season is looked for.
ward to by thousands of young
girls and by needy families as of
fcrins q means of ready money,
the use of which is often extended
throughout the remainder of the
year. In California the hop picking
Is done by the Chinese to the exclu-
sion of all others. SO also, in many
portions of the Eastern States, the
season of berry picking affords an
opportunity for The earning of mon
ey, which to the poor so!tens the
hardships of other and more scanty
seasons. In California, berry pick
ing, which at one time Was awaited
of by women and children, has been
entirely absorbed by Chinese. The
weaving, which formerly was done
almost entirely by women, is now
done by Chinese. In the making of
Undertaking, Chinese do the work
which in this country and Europe is
performed by seamstresses. The
laundry work, the dress-making and
niillinery-work have been passed to
the Chinese. The manufacture of
shoes for women and children is en-
tirely i'll their hands. The gather
ing OF fruit, the digging of pota oes,
the care of gardens is for the most
part done by them. The handling of
the immense crops of tie coast calls
for the use of muhy tens of thous-
ands of srain-bags, which are all
sewed 10y Chinese. In the large
dairies, some of them having from IL
thousand to thirteen hundred cows,
the milking and other dairy work is
performed by Chinese. The seat
ing OF cane chairs, which forms the
last resource for poor women in
eastern cities, is in California given
over to Cinnamon.
When white labor is thus crowded
away from the minor and poorer in
dustries, it follows as a matter of
course that other and more remun-
eralive occupations are filled in the
same way. The Chinese are en-
ployed in the woollen mills; in the
tanneries; in fisheries; in the cam
ming of fruits, etc; in the varnish-
ing of furniture and the like; in the
building of entertainments for the re-
demption of overlooked lands; in
railway work, the making Of road
cuttings, and the digging of tunnels.
There is scarcely a manufacture in
which they do not constitute the
whole or the great majority of the
operatives. In one establishment
in San Francisco (the Mission Wool
len Mills), five hundred and fifty
Chinese have been employed at one
time. In a neighborius spring mat.
tress factory, not single white man
found work, and. near by, the oakum
factory in the city was also Chinese
throughout. In placer mining there
were four thousand in one neighbor-
hood, near Oroville; and in many
localities they have entirely exhaust
ed mines which although incapable
of profit with the wasteful methods
in vogue twenty years ago, would
have proved by this time sources of
revenue to the whites. There are in
San Francisco fifteen thousand boys |
and girls, between the ages of
fourteen and twenty, who. in east
ern communities, would find active
but they cannot COM
pete with the Chinese, and are for
the most part idle.
To be continued.
A PRESBYTERIAN Church, with nine
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