Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-09-15
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barter hy lcIu. absorbed! continually
and IN cYiui,ArAtilriv small amounts
hrthr C!..n,>,. .l.,..,,l.. The arrregat,
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b., ra.,....I.u. ba,.L upou data
gathered pv John G. ulinn. L. Col.
.ortor Internal K.ycnt. ii san Fran.
CISCO. He averages, fI,m census re
turns. the number oi Chinese in Tia
country since 1850, at Isl 600. most o.
whom are on the Pacific coast and III,
data upon which he bases his calcula-
tions can tc easily verified. During
the years that the population OF cool
les was largest most OF them were en-
ployed in the mines, and received So
per day, and more, for their services
1t is very seldom that they work fol-
less than II per day, and il is far to
maAc that the avcrage-and it is Il
low one-that each Cinnamon earns
the year round, including Sundays, as
the heathcns have no respect for any
religion but their own. Deducting
the odd number, 81 GOO, for those tenn
porarily unemployed, which is large
when we consider their indomitable
industry, we have in round numbers
100000 people as class, who receive
100000 daily as a stipend for wages.
1t probably costs these coolies %
cents per day for living" food and
clothes, but very little OF this goes to
the American people, being expended
for China clothing and China rice,
which pay nothing but small per
cent. duty to our people. Saw. how
ever, that American merchants receive
the full benefit of this % per cent, it
leaves $4,000 as the net daily earn
ing of the Chinese for waces Tb;s
amount per day. aggregates 80 90.
600 per annum. Add this for
the past 80 years and it reaches
the colossal sum of $50 100000. every
dollar of which is as hopelessly buried
as if sunk in the depths of the ocean.
Nor is this the sum total of loss We
sustain from this peculiar people
During the past thirty wears, the bal.
ance Of trade has been continually
against us with this power. and Mr.
Quinn, from figures to which he found
access, estimates this balance at S.
100000 annually. In 1892 the i'm
ports from China aggregated in value
$20,4SS,2al and the exports to that
coantry S. ,663, TIC, showing a deficiency
of $14,S25,1Sl. Add to this the ne,
earnings of the coolies for that year
and we find an aggregate deficit of
u,S25,lSl for the preceding twelve
months.
1t must be borne in mind that in
those calculations the utmost regard
has been shown towards keeping the
figures within bounds. The number
of Chinese used for a basis, is far I'm.
der the actual number. Take for yeri-
fication official figures; From 1880 to
l890,tHe CENSUS shows an increase OF
1000 Chinese. The custom house
records show that 10000 had been en-
tered regularly and $4,000 had depart.
ed, making it very plain that $4,000
had been struggled into the United
States within that decade.
Then again many of the Chinese in
California have been engaged in min.
ing for themselves, and their compen.
sation has doubtless been largely in
excess of the amount usually received
as wages. 1t is safe to say that 80 per
cent. of what the Chinaman earns
goes to the land where he ships his
bones after death.
The circulating medium of the
United States is about $I,3OOOOOO 600.
During the past 50 wears China has
the enormous sum in wooes ond ,ho
difference between imnorto ord ox
norts Of s1O9a Ooo ooo uow low
will if take at This rate ~ 20, all wo
haveq Js;tnot ar,o,on, H., .h;. =
one cause of the nrescnt contract;o,
Of orr currercvp
The official records sbow tho chin
ment of 1914 600 OOO n Chin. s;noo
1880 and Il 10 sofo 70 oosrn,o .ho.
an eoual or ,oroe- err, uos so,. b.,
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