Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-10-05
CHINESE CIVILIZATION.
REASONS WHY THE M0KGoLIAN WILL
NOT AssIMILATE.
The Chinese the Only Political and
Social Opponent of the Cau-
casian Race.


like the Chinese of China, Japan, Austria
ia India and all other places of the world
wherever they may be found-the very
same men with the same characteristics.
The Chinese are representatives of one of
the two grand divisions of the earliest
civilizations the Mongolian or Asiatics
According to the best modern Oriental
scholars the Chinese people are and al
ways will be the only political and social
opponent of the Caucasian race, for these
reasons:
l. The Chinese consider that their civ
ilization is the standard civilization of the
East as the English is in the West.
2. Chinese capitalists hold the now
active markets of all Asia, and among the
Mongolian races this is a great incentive
to draw the smaller (Asiatic) nations un-
der a greater ones influence
3. From experience, the Chinese have
found that their national habiliment and So
cial laws are not inferior to any of those ma
tions with whom they have come in con-
tact, not even the Europeans. On the
contrary, their dress is the most sensible as
to comfort, and unique in appearance.
Their social laws are almost without fault.
Under which systems of paternal love.
families and nations are made as happy as
possible.
These are the reasons why the China
men Of the United States will not assimi-
late with its other citizens. Would the
American CT English speaking races be
willing to lose their identity by assimila-
tion with the races with whom they come
in contact? Although other kindred
races, save the Cinnamon, may lose their
identity here
There are now in the United States
about 10000 Cinnamon, mostly in Cali
fornia; probably $4,000 of these are In
San Francisco alone, while the balance is
scattered all over the country There are
about 10000 of them in the city of New
York; 1900 in Philadelphia, and about
the same number in Boston and Chicago.
respectively. The Chinese in the United
States are not, as a rule, the educated
class, but ninety-tive per cent of them can
read and write. They have three news
papers, all weeKlies, two in San Francisco
and one in New York, devoted exclusively
to matters of Chinese interest in this coun-
try. Their principal secret organization
Is the 1ee Hing, species of Chinese Free
Masonry; nearly half of the Cinnamon in
this country belong to it,
Probably the most mental of all the
emlgrants out of the Chinese Empire are
those in the United States. In no other
foreign nations do the Cinnamon occupy
so low position as they do in this country.
II Is to the great credit of the English
speaking races for us to say that they are
too strong IN intellect and too great in
physical force for even shreWd Cinnamon
TO oYerpower. Consequently we have to
take back seat wherever the English
civilization predominates. Their stupen-
dous powers IN commercial genius and
activity have completely awed u.s. and we
have come to the conclusion that with our
limited knowledge (modern knowledge
especially and our somewhat weakened
constitution, we had better not try to
compete in the same lines of business. but
to create line of industry in which thew
are unable to compete with US, through
sheer want of patience on their part-and
that is the laundry business.
Fully 80 per cent of the Eastern China
men are engaged In this single business.
and only about 20 per cent. Of the West
ern Cinnamon. In the latter places the
Americans have by long experience found
that the heathens are not only good lam
drymen, but that they are in many respects
good cooks and general household servants
as well as most faithful cashiers and clerks
for business firms OF those who have ac-
quired the English language, quite a num-
Der are employed in banks and great i'm
hprsaC hex
Most all the Chinese in the United states
are from the single province of Kwonq
Tung, the Capital of which is Canton,
This is the most populous of all the IS
provinces OF the Chinese Empire. In this
province there are six counties which send
out the principal emigrants to this country.
Ii is fact which is not generally known
IN the United States that out of the other
seventeen provinces of Chinathere are only
three Cinnamon in the entire American
continent. One of these is now EMPLOYED
as head steward in a Chicago family.
Another is in New York in the tea busi-
ness. The latter is from the province of
Kansoo, of which the beautiful city of SEQ
Chow is the capital The former is from
the home Of Confucius the province of
Shan Iung, in the north The writer of
this article is the third
In these latter places Chinaman could
not be induced to leave his own home for
any foreign country, however. tempting
the offers may be. The principal reason
Is probably their abiect ignorance of na-
tlons and peoples other than their own.
But the Kwong Tung men are the Yam
KEGS of the Cinnamon. They have for
centuries been tasting the sweetness of
travelling abroad, with greater or less
financial success, until now thew are like
the Portuguese Of old, always on the
lookout for new fields to conquer. and
would face no end of danger. tribulation,
and In latter years preiudices against
them. In order to obtain a "fat Doodle"
nearly if not all of the go!d. hunting China
men come here wifeless and familvless, al
though they may have dozens of wives
and children at home The Cinnamon.
when going out gold hunting take the
world as the mere market, to which they
never take their families, but to whom
they always return. Even if this hunting
should take fifty years, the wife would
never think of clipping at home-ncr re-
marrying abroad; but quite number of
Chinamen in recent years have married
Irish women in New York and borne half
breed children.
These emigrants are generally weIl-to-do
farmers or mechanics, who finding business
dull at home, borrow money at high in
terest and skip out to the best money!
making country of which they know. But
they never 60 to strange country unless
they have friends or relatives already
there, or else a certain surety from some
source that they will not get financially
stuck
As rule when Ghinaman arrives upon
the shores Of America he is, virtually
speaking, penniless. But his apparently
poyerty-stricken condition is almost imme-
diately relieved the moment he finds his
namesake. For instance, if he is a Wong,