Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-03
The Cneua NO Larger shan . MANS
Hand.

downright dismay In England at
the advent, in the Thames, of o
Chinese ship, Differed and
manned by . Chinese crew, loaded
by q Chinese exporter, and sent to
. Chinese consignes in London.
John Bull, enjoying, as he does,
the bulk of the carrying trade Of
the world, may we'll look with
alarm upon this sudden and almost
development of . Chinese
commercial marine prepared to
enter the lists with any nation Of
the werld. To the premier carrier
Of the globe, Great Britain, this in
cidsnt suggests itself as the acorn
from which the tall oak was to
grow, as the tiny hole in the en-
bnnkment which was to herald en-.
gulphing floods, or as the entering
wedge which was to split asundsr
the mighty trunk of the oak. In
these provisions they are perfectly
correct. The immense Mongolian
hordes, disciplined for centuries to
privation, and to sustaining life on
the very minimum of possible ex-
istence, with no element of self.re-
spect to complicate the problem,
offer to the Chinese capitalist a
leverage of which no Caucasian
shipper or merchant can boast.
Trained to a submissive fatalism
from time ante-dating the dis
covering Of Moses In the bull
rushes, all the lower grade China.
man asks for is b mere subsistence,
with guarantee OF escape from a
number of insupportable ills. I'm.
Aunity from torture 10 to him hap.
pinsss. Appropriatipg, as the
Chinese are now doing, and al
they are foolishly accorded every
facility for doing, the scientific &C.
quirements of the Caucasian race,
the Chinese capitalist will coon b.
in condition to control not only
the carrying trade of Asia, but t.
drive the bold BrIton from the
high seas. We use the word "soon''
In q comparative sense. In the de.
velopment of nations decades
count for nothing; and centuries,
even, are AZ nils-stones. To the
clsar-eyed vision the process OF
compromising in arithmetical and
geographical ratios is apparent at
. glance; and, with such an i'm.
mense factor as the five hundred
milliens of Chinese behind this
marins-commercial development,
IL 10 not dtflcult to forecast the fu.
ture Of the carrying trade, unless
the arbitramsnt OF war is invoked
at an early stage Of the expert
ment, and the project is crushed
out by main force. However, 1t
would be very difficult to arouse
more than languid interest, in
this phase of the subject, amongst
the American people, as eur carry
Ing trade has already been practi-
cslly reduced, by the policy Of the
Republican party, to next to moth
Ing. Unable to build iron ships
At homo, forbidden to buy them
abroad, where they can be built
cheapest, We have seen our mer-
chant marine dwindle, day by day,
till now the sight of the gay and
garish flag Of the United States,
unless where it IL displayed,
through International comfy, on
foreign vessels, Ia rare even in our
own hsrbors. But the aspect OF
tho Chinese question which ought
to commend itself to the people OF
the United States, and which does,
In most demonstrative way, on.
gress the attention of the inhabi.
tants of the Pacific Coast, Ia the
practical Reorganization OF our
social fabric and the undermining
OF our Industries, by the
torrents of coolie Chinese who,
during the past thirty-thres OF
four years, have been hurled upon
this Coast. They come, to employ
grim satire, as sort of "Cslss-
tial" Ishmaelits, with their hands
turned, from their frat advent,
against the lahOring classes of this
State and Coast, although 1t il
only of late that these wronged
Caucasians have turned theil
hands against them. It would en-
ploy the genius of far profounder
political economist than we pre-.
tend to be to compute the millions
of money lost. the hundreds OF
thousands of people repealed from
this Coast, by the multitudinous
presence and the rafting disorga1-
Of this element. 1t is
probably within bounds to say
that they have sent to China, dur
ing the past thirty years, an aver
age Of $4,000, 900 annually. Think
Of the agencies Of development
that would have been az work If
this money had been retained in
our midst, and had been largely
Employed In building dwellings.
school, houses and churches, to say
Of the thousand compeund-
Ing agencies for the reproduction
Of wealth which would have been