The National tribune., 1889-12-19

me that he was glad to get all the Cinnamon
he could TO settle in his country.
81 have" said he. "a vast amount of I'M
developed territory, and the Chinese the
only men / can get TO work it. They will do
anything for pay. They make money here,
and they become good citizens. As for my own
people, the Malays, they are lazy and will do
nothing.
The LATEST workers on the face of tho earth
are the Koreans. Ont of the 100000 people
in their country 100000 of them spend
three fourths of their lives in squatting and
smoking. You see them everywhere seated on
their heels in their long white, sky blue or
delicate pink gowns lazily chatting and snok
ing. Tho noble of Korea is not supposed to
even light his own pipe, and, in order that he
may not be thought of as doing so, he has the
pipe-stem made five feet long so that it will
take servant to light it for him. 1t is below
his dignity TO carry bundle, and rs for work,
he thinks that is for the slave. The fact that
slavery exists to a largo extent in Korea is ono
OF tho reasons for tho poor condition of the Ia
boring classes. There are no fixed rates of
wages and men work for what they can get,
and this is only few cents day. In travelling
into the interior of Korea passed through fine
farming lands which were very poorly Guilt
waited. j saw men pretending to work In the
fields but none laboring very hard and the
whole country seemed to have gone to seed. fla
man makes big fortune in Korea the King,very
likely borrows it; and, rs his Majesty often fails
to pay his debts, this fact rather dampens the
Korean ardor for money making. There is
little chance for poor man in the country.
The mobiles own most of the lands, and the
King farms out to them the right TO oversee
the rest, and to collect the taxes for him from
them. The result is that the small land own
ers have hard time. They are squeezed by
the mobiles, and their laborers are nsuted and
whinnad hv tho nnbIa'l 10 n
feudal country. 1t is o land which might flow
with milk and honey If il was properly cult
waited, and ii has people who would make in
dustrious citizens If the laws of labor and CAPT
tai could be regulated in that country. As il
is, all that an ordinary man can expect is enough
to eat and TO wear, and no does not try to get
more His belly is his god, and fairness in
Korea is q sign of wealth. If he gets good
job he buys a new suit of clothes, and tho
Korean is the greatest dandy on the face of the
earth. He has hat which costs all the way
up from few cents TO SIG. His clothes are Of
the finest cottons or silks and his wardrobe is
almost as extensive as that of an American
lady. The women dress less than tho men.
They are not allowed TO work, If they are of
the better classes, in the fields. and their chief
occupation is the ironing of the clothes of their
husbands. Even the low-class Korean women
do not work like those of the other Eastern
countries saw none of them bearing burdens,
and such rs ! passed in tho fields were so
modest they turned their backs upon me, or
put their hands over their faces and ran away.
Neither the Siamese nor the Burmese are
fond of work. The Burman works only when
he has to, aud does as little Of it as he can His
wife helps him, and there is closer partner
ship between the sexes in Burmah than any
where else in the world. The Burmese women
are the Susan b. Anthonys of the East They
believe in womans rights. and they are bust
ness from the word CO. Many OF them manage
stores. and all of them keep their property apart
from their husbands. IL there Is common
purse in the household, the woman manages IL.
and rs a rule she tells her husband what no
shall do and how he shall do It, There is great
deal of work to do in Burmah The country
has just been taken hold of by the English aud
Upper Burmah, where King Thehaw ruled, is
opened for work and Western civilization. Such
men rs want anything to do can have it at good
wages. and tho Chinese aud the East Indians
are coming into the country by the hundreds,