The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-10-16


unity for labor is utterly destroyed I
y the advent of the Cinnamon even ]
hough they throng here by millions. v
The introduction of the jacquard c
Dom in Europe and of machinery IN
his country were at first resisted, be
cause of the fear that they would de !
Drive the laboring classes of employ
nent. But the result shows that ;
hey increased the amount OF pro-
auction and did not lessen the oppor.
tunities of labor. SO the influx OF
Chinese may compel large number
to become employers as well as IN
crease the range of opportunity Tor
labor" After stating that the CHI
nese do not care for labor unions,
etc. The paper concludes as fol
lows: From all this we think 1t
clear that demonstrations against
either Gheir coming or their being
furnished with employment here Is
labor lost" !
W. Independent: The idea Of |
calling the Chinese half civilized,
ETC., is treated by a writer III that
paper with contempt. We should
consider them, he says, among the
most desirable of ali emigrants."
In commenting on an unsuccessful
attempt in the Massachusetts House
of Representatives to pass law
characterizing Chinese labor as ser
vile and providing for its exclusion,
the Boston Advertiser has the follow
ing:
"A second attempt was made IN
the House yesterday to induce the
Legislature to commit itself against
the policy of introducing Chinese
labor in our manufactures. The
House refused to entertain the very
remarkable and adroit bill drawn up
for this purpose by vote OF ~ to
122. There was deception IN the
title of the bill and a want OF candor
in the bill itself. It is not 'servlle
labor that the North Adams factory
is introducing, but free labor on
terms that are entirely satisfactory
on both sides. In the bill itself there
is nothing to show that it is not a
bill of a general character to apply
to all foreign labor, but In reality II
applies and could apply only to the
Chinese shoemakers. The pre0oJIj@9
sentiment seems to be that the experiment
of Chinese labor must be tried"
The occasion for the proposed
r legislation arose out of the fact that
, the North Adams shoe factory IN
, Massachusetts had imported from
San Francisco seventy-tive Chinese
: shoemakers upon three year con
tracts for wages not exceeding $50
: month, to take the place of operators
l who had been receiving So a day
t Our local paper, the P. G. ADvER
TIsER, in 1870 had the following
! '0The four hundred millions of Chin;
are sure to migrate from their coun
try like swarms Of bees, as fast a.
thew can procure the means to so
and in less than twenty years the.
will outnumber the natives OF thu
= group and be counted in Americ
and Europe by hundred Of thous
ands, if not by millions. They ar
destined to be the laborers in Ha
t wall, America and Europe, and tn
u time will come when they will b
sought for as the best, most exper
and cheapest laborers obtainablt
. and treated as such"
e In connection with the above, it
@ interesting to read Wendell Phillips
= contempOraneous views on the Chi
, csc question published in 1876
Is He evidently was opposed o
/ principal to preventing Chimes
7 from coming as free individn;
9 immigrants but considered til
prevention Of their introductio
at the behests of capital who'll
Ie justifable.
If He says putting aside all theorie
G. every lover of progress must Sc
e with profound regret, the introdu
1T ton here of any element which WI
o. lessen wages. The handspring
IF our progress is high wages-wagt
N at such level that the workingma
r can spare his wife to preside over
''home," can command leisure, go
Y lectures, take a newspaper and Ii
1e himself from the deadening routir
le of mere toll. That dollar left aft'
N all bills are paid on Saturday nigl
ae means education, independence, sci
1e respect, manhood. It increases tt
ly value of every acre near by, fills tt
ee towns with dwellings, opens publ
or libraries and crowds them. Th
IN one remaining dollar insures pr
~ gress and guarantees Astor's- m
n. lions to their owner better than
%, score of statutes It is worth mo
to than thousand colleges and max
ge armies and police superfuous.
ed ''The importation Of Chinese lab
nd seeks to take that dollar from o.
ze workingman. The true statesms
Y; must regard such policy as ma
n ness. The philanthroplst must 1
be gard it as cruel and mad too. Even
er much of such a result as will newt
bly, be wrought by the natural il
migration of the Chinese is to be d
plored. Every aggravation of it
nc to be resisted for the sake of repu
40 licanism and civilization. If we ca
9S- not find in the armory of the Ii
ay some efectual weapon to prevent
lot our political and social future is da
he indeed, and such fate as swallow
- up Roman civilization is by
means impossible.
nd every one cries out for cheap
I'M Dor to develop the country.
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