Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-10-05

proprietor, At the end of that time the
| debt is paid in full to the seller if no fur
! ther claims are presented. Should there
be bills presented after this last settlement
the new owners are not held responsible
as the due notices and conditions practi-
cally clear them of all further liabilities.
OF these 100000 Chinese there are
probably 10000 of them merch ants, prin-
cipally dealing in Chinese produce. As the
Chinese civilization and peculiarities are
just the opposite from that of the Cauca-
sian, so is the manner of their food-mak-
ing. Instead of enjoying the savory fat
tened young ducks of Christendom, they
will import into this country dried ducks
| feet stuffed with chicken liver wrapped
with their prepared entrails; oysters dried
| hard as stone shad in oil pork in sugar
old eggs of ducks, born almost at the
! time of Confucius; dried cabbage, salted
turnips, and hundreds of other things
which are almost unheard of by the en-
terprising American gastronomer, These
| imported articles, on account of the enor-
nous duties and freight charges for such a
long distance, are sold here at ten times
their usual home price and yet the
heathens are never happy without them
upon their bill of fare.
! Quite a number of the one thousand
or more Chinese firms of San Francisco as
| well as New York export from the United
States petroleum, cotton sheetings, tweeds,
flannel ginseng root, and many other
marketable goods to China; and six of
| these firms in San Francisco are reputed
several times millionaires, and two, Messrs.
Wo Kee and Ma Lee Wah, Of New York,
are reported to be worth nearly quarter
Of a million each, and they started in busi-
ness here less than eight years ago.
The only manufacturing so far that has
been engaged in by the Chinese with Chi
nese capital has been shoes and cigars:
the former article only in San Francisco,
generally upon small scale, while cigar
manufacturing employs larger capital.
The cigarmakers among the Chinese are
estimated to be 5000. Most of them are
in San Francisco, There are nearly 100
in New York actively employed under
Chinese capital and almost 100 more in
New Orleans. OF Chinese sailors and
cooks there are nearly $50 in New York,
100 in Boston, and dozen or so sail froui
other ports.
Although the Chinese are very clannish
and try to congregate as much together as
they possibly can, those of different voca-
tions live apart, and the sailors and cooks
form a distinct organization and seldom
interniingle with the laundrymen, except
during their purchasing in the various
stores. Neither do the cigar-makers inter
mingle with the sailors except under sim
liar circumstances. They each seem to
have their own particular pride for their
own profession.
But there is only one place of union
among them all, and that is concerning
their spiritual welfare. The Cinnamon
have no national beliefs or religion in the
sense of Christianity except their form of
worshiping, the burning of the incense.
joss sticks, paper prayers, etc. They have
temple wherein are the images of some
ancient noble characters, to whom they
bow their heads and say their PRAYERS and
ask that their petitions be handed as quick
as possible over to the one Great Being,
'Shing," living somewhere in the great
blue ethereol sky For this joss or the
images they get up roasted pigs, chickens,
and sweetmeats as his commission. But
JOSS, like all distinguished men Of Asia,
simply Acknowledges these tender tokens
of gratitude by an expressionless silence ;
then the attendants and devotees in turn
swallow the liberal sacrifices.
They have only the solid Confucius'
sound philosophy to guide them in their
actions toward men and their duties toward
God. This may be called a religion in
the Christian sense of ethics. But the
Cinnamon simply recognize Confucius as
grand and noble teacher of morals, having
no power to save men from their sins, ex-
cept by their individuality in following
the precepts laid down by the great Mas
ter. They will worship the image of Con-
fucius in the same light as they would the
letters that compose his maxims, and moth
ing more.
In this joss house all is unity, the
sailor, the washerman and the cigar-maker.
without murmur, will worship in com
mon with the solid merchant. How diff
ferent IS this compared with our more ad-
vaneed brethren, the white-faced Chris
tians-the Presbyterians, Episcopalians,
Methodists and hard-shell Baptists for
instance. Let them try Confuciusism for
awhile and see if they can better them
selves, Buddhism is now only mere
| form among the Cinnamon.
The Chinaman came, or rather Chinese
immigration began, as far as | can find
out, first in the year lS49 in the cold
mines in California 1t was said that
some Australian Cinnamon first got the
| news that there was plenty of gold in Cal.
! ifornia. In less than a year after the first
| batch of Chinese gold-seekers there were
| thousands Of Cinnamon upon the grounds
/ of the gold mines. They worked for SIS
per day, which was big amount to anv
Chinaman fresh from his own country
Some few dug gold upon their own hook
and made big money, but their white
heighbors soon stopped that MONOPOLY by
| driving the heather off from every claim
that was worth his working, and not a
| few successful Chinese operators were
robbed of all their dust after months oi
hard labor. This greatly disgusted the
| heathens and in 1867, when the Union
Pacific Railroad began its first construc-
| ton, all the able bodied Cinnamon left the
mines to work upon the new road 1t
was through this and not the gold mines
that the present Chinese population OF
| the United States owes its present dimeu.
sions. 1t was hard work and the earn.
ings comparatively smaller than mining
| but the Cinnamon were certain of their
pay, with less danger of being robbed and
murdered by their white brethren, the
| Christians.
About 1868 the great rush of Chinese
emigrants began, attracted thither by the
glittering gold OF the successful Chinese
laborer returned to Hongkong and Can
ton. At the end of the year 1868, there
We're at least 10000 Cantonese China
men in California. Every avenue of in
dustry was filled with them. Chinese pro
vision stores started up by the dozen per
day; employment agencies and contractors
llabor) everywhere in the city and towns
Of California; but it was not until 1879
that the Chinese immigration into the
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