Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-10-17

State with but little knowledge of our
language, customs or modes of labor
that they learn to speak English and
learn to work at nearly all the trades
within as many months as it has taken
years for American men and women to
learn them. Thus in three months
they become cooks, and now number
the majority OF hired cooks in the
states of California, Nevada. Oregon
and the Territory Of Washington, hav.
ing taken the place of women and men
cooks of our own complexion.
The same condition OF things exist
IN regard to laundry work. and women
have lost this occupation. The great
est number of toilers In the mines, or
in our factories of wool, cotton, leather
tin and every industry requiring many
hands, are Cinnamon. The largest
number of men engaged in shoemak-
ing, shirt making, clothes making,
broom making and everything made
by sewing machines, ever to the under
wear ofwomen, are Cinnamon.
They raise, harvest and can nearly
all the fruit that is canned, and they
are the greatest number OF our gard
ners. There is scarcelya trade. occu-
patton or manufacture known among
US in which they are not sufficiently ex-
perts to displace white laborers. They
act as bankers, insurance men, mer-
chants, mechanics. lahorers, fishermen,
miners, gardners, farmers. sfiremen,
sailors, and in almost every capacity
that white men or women can act
Their ability to initiate almost amounts
to genius, while their ability to de-
ceive has never had a parallel.
PRODUCERS, BUT NO CONSUMERS.
The Chinese are wonderful in their
ability to seize any and every thing
wherein there is profit, but they are
Interchangeable in their dress, manner of
eating, their habits and religion. Thus
the Chinaman of twenty years resi-
dence in California is the same in
these things as if he arrived yesterday.
Therefore, with their prosperity, it is
idle TO talk of their making market
for European goods. On the other
hand, China, Japan and the British
Indies will export tea, grain, jute, cot
ton and other products OF the cultiva.
ton of the soil. They will also send
their manufactured cotton, wool, silk,
lutte and metals to every country now
supplied by England, France and the
United States.
Why should they not? History tells
us that nothing is more migratory than
manufactures. They had their abode
one among the natives of Asa and
Africa, but found their perfection in
Europe and America. They have
moved from one country to another
according as the better facilities are
offered, Abundance of coal-labor al
one fourth of the wages of European
labor, with people whose industry,
thrift and application has no parable
in the world. will carry the plant O
the factories from England, France and
the United States to the Pacific Coas
of Asia.
1t is N process of fulfllment at thi:
very hour. How little do we compre
bend the future of The storm when We
only see the first clouds forming?
THE JAPANESE AND THEIR sKILFUI
WORKS.
Let any of your readers enter one o
: the Japanese stores, and there careful
ly examine the workmanship in the
different articles they find on the
shelves. Take that piece of porcelain
!. regard its shape, gliding, colorin&
and marvellous painting. Take il
your hands a work in bronze and ex
anime its wonderful chiselling and in
laying OF gold, silver, or other metals
Look at the carvings, ivory, wood o,
marble. See the patient labor bestow
ed upon embroidenes OF silk and gold
Now do these not show capabllity
which, when properly directed, vii
make them good artisans and mechan
les T? Do they lack any thing but cul
tivated taste with proper machinery te
become rivals to French manufactures
Suppose the English, French and Ger
mans furnish the machinery, and give
to them the models, they being won
derful creatures of imitation, what is te
prevent them from becoming success.
full manufacturers Japan has as much
coal. iron, copper and TIN as Scotland
and England have, and contains {
population of IS 100000 who can ane
do work for one-fourth tine wages paie
in Great Britain.
WHAT A PROTECTIVE TARIFF DOES FoE
THE LABoRER.
Why the workers from every part o
the world come from their free trade
birthplaces TO protective Tariff United
States, as seen in the following table
is because of the difference in TIT
wages of labor between free trade ant
protective tariff countries
Arrived Males Females Total
In ISL s5ssf9 I I5s59s sss 8
miss $685. 2sS,sss s Ss.ss
Totals l,273. lo6 rs, 2s9
Making grand total of 2,O5l "a,