Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-23
BRAZIL WANTS CHINAMEN.
Crops Lost Because Freed Negroes Won't
Work-A Government Mission to China.

Crops Lost Because Freed Negroes Won't
Work-A Government Mission to China.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Charles A. Carlisle is registered a. the Grand
Hotel from Brazil. South America. He is on
his way to China and Japan on one of the
largest projects South America ever attempted.
He is going to secure laborers for the tremen-
dous coffee plantations of his country and
will ask for 100, 900 men year for a number of
years. The planters have already made con-
tracts with him TO take $4,000 of the coolies.
The great reason for this immense traffic in
laborers is tine sheer desperation of the men
who own the largest coffee plantations in the
world The native laborers and the slaves i'm
ported from Africa no longer perform the task
set fer them. The emancipation proclamation
Of Dom Pedro made the laporers unit for ser
vice. The Africans have already fed to the
woods. where they live in camps as wild and
barbarous in their native land Last year
in a single state in Brazil over 600. 900 bags of
coffse were lost simply because the crop could
not be gathered. In the whole country over
1000. 900 sacks went to waste. and the value.
amounting TO about 5000. COO toS TO- 0o0 900. was
a direct loss to the planters. For the last year
the government has been struggling TO obtain
German and Italian iaborers. During the
year more than $4,000 Italians and almost
as many Germans were brought over the At
lantic.
The firm represented by Mr.. Carlisle, which
is one OF the largest in Brazil now has con-
tract with the government. TO bring over
10000 more of the Germans and ltaiiaus In
securing these people they are offered free
transportation and all expenses paid after they
land until they are engaged to work. The Gully
difficulty. but an lnsurmountable one. is that
the Germans and Italians soon learn that they
can do better for themselves, and SO embark
in their own enterprises. In this way thew ali
gradually drift to the cities or TO estates of
their own. The trade now on foot to China
and Japan is a necessity.
Already Baron de Ladrio at the head of an
embassy from Brazil. is on his way TO the east
He is aboard the cruiser Al,nirante aud as far
on his way as Toulon, France. His govern
meBt has done what II never before did with
China. 1t has arranged for consuls to every
important ci;N IN the Chinese government and
will send reg SNrly appointed minister. Baron
de Ladrio will so directly to Peking to nego-
tiate a treaty with the emperor and Ii Hung
Chang. The laborers are all to be free. but
will be secured as cheaply as possible. There
will be many men needed for the cocoa. sugar
and rubber industries, but most of them will
work in the coffee plantations. At this time
the Dutch and Italians still pouring in at
the rate of 800 per week, but they are not sat
isfactory to the planters.
M. Carlisle has just been on a flying trip to
London. where he made arrangements to Sc
cure line of big steam vessels They will be
put on a line from Rio JaneIro via the Cape of
Good Hope to Hong Kong. Four steamers
have already been secured and will be started
very soon. The steamers will take coal and
rice from China exclusively. and will conse-
queptly take no ballast. Returning from Bra
I'll thew VIII be loaded with coffee. sugar,
cocoa and rubber. 1t is expected that great
trade will he developed with the oriental
countries. The steamers will doubtless trade