The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-10-28

the Straits Settlements, according to
a recent traveller, arc now virtually
Chinese colonies under the British
flag They arc not merely numerous
in the Malay Archipelago, they are
also influential, the commerce of
those regions being almost entirely
in their hands. In Australia they
have obtained a footing, and can
make fortunes at the gold diggings
by working over again the refuse
heaps of the European digger. That
they are no mean competitors i'll the
industrial race is seen in the rcstric-
tions put on their entrance into tho
Australian colonies. They have made
their way to all the chief groups OF
islands in the Pacific Ocean, and
have now become an influential ele-
ment in the population Of the Sand
wich Islands, where they are fast
superseding the indolent natives"
Let MS say here that cruel wrong
to naturally fine race is involved in
any policy that would place people
with the hereditary expertness of
ages in competition with the natives
of these Islands while yet in their
tutelage respecting the arts and the
activities of civilization. The arti-
Gle from which we quote goes on to
exhibit the remarkable prominence
of the Chinese element in America,
where it has shown itself, by the per-
sccution to which it has been sub
jectcd, more than able to hold its
own in the labor market
"The United States owes to them
the construction of the Californian
section of the great Pacific railway;
and if NJ. DeLesseps should ever
succeed in cutting his canal through
Central America, it will most pro-
badly be by the aid of Chinese mus
Gle. Cinnamon are now also found
in the West Indies and British Gui-
ana while it must not be forgotten
that they are spreading westward
from China into Thibet, Mongolia,
and Asiatic Russia
The writer is of the common Opt
Mon that the sight of the wealth of
Cinnamon returning to their own
country /" forms stimulant to fur
thcr emigration, while their accounts
! of Western civilization, with its tele-
graphs, telephones, and locomotives,
must gradually prepare their coun-
trymen for the introduction into
China of those improvements in
communication. In the view of
the English people, as the Scotsman
says, it is rs great colonizing
power that China has very
special interest, and Sir Rutherford
Alcock is quoted as holding that,
taking their numbers and our own,
it did not require to carry ones
views very far into futurity to see
that there would be eventually two
races which would occupy the
greater part of the world-one was
the English-spealiing race, which
had already filled North America
and stretched into the Australasian
continent and the surrounding ISL
ands, and would very soon count up
| to 200, 100000, and the other was
the 400, 900, 900 of Chinese" The
reading of this instructive article
after taking the ground we have in
respect to the proposed admittance
of large numbers of Chinese to sup
ply the lack of labor here, has help
ed much in confirming us in the
position taken in that regard. Not
that we bear the slightest enmity
toward the interesting Chinese race,
but because we recognize the issue
as being whether this group is to be
the possession of that indomitable
| people, or remain the habitation CT
its primeval owners in conjunction
with the colonizing races who have
introduced to them the lights, and
the shadows, of a civilization better,
if not cheaper, than that of the
Chinese.
EDITORIAL MITES.