Evening star., 1899-03-27

can work practically only with advanced
races" and not with children, or childish
races.
1 have met with. but have not at hand for
quotation, certain sentiments upon another
point. substantially as follows: I'VE learn
that the Chinese are crowding into the
Philippines. When that group is annexed,
what Is to prevent those Chinese from
swarming over into America? It is eyi-
IDENTIFY necessary to check that Chinese i'm
migration to Manila "Our American work.
men Will not permit themselves to be
crowded out of employment by more Chi
nese.
1 have no objection to offer to the last
proposition 1t does not seem to be for the
welfare of Americans to be compelled to
compete with a race of workers like the
Cinnamon, who are of abnormal industry,
exceptionally sklllful and able to subsist on
an extreme minimum of outlay. If intro
duced IN any large numbers into the United
states, they would inevitably depress great
~ the well being of American workers by
thelr reSlStlesS competition. ! do not how
ever, apprehend that any proposition will
OF the united States, or to make their mon
Srel and debased population our fellow citi-
zens. Those people are beyond question
incapable of being trained or educated by
any possible process into political manhood
by less than many centuries of the best dis
cipline.
Chinese Needed in the PHILIPPINES.
The idea ! wish to PROFOUND is this; and
1t Is derived from long and somewhat inti-
mate observation of the Chinese mind and
character as compared with both the Poly
nesian and Japanese races with whom they
are in close contact in Hawaii No avail
able element for the Improvement and ele-
Vation OF the various weak and backward
races of the Philippines can be so valuable
ana efhcient as a large admiXture of Chi
neSe blood. The greatest possible encour-
asement should be given to the immigra-
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their intermarriage with the women of the
Malay peoples inhabiting it.
In the Hawaiian Islands the very best
results of crossing the Hawaiians with for
elgn blood are gained by the cross with the
Chinaman. rather than with the European
race Now. the Hawaiian is a sort of
Malay, closely allied in race to the peoples
of the East Indian Islands, and sharing
their elements of racial weakness What is
true here is probably true in the Philippines
1t is a very marked fact here that the off
spring of the Chinese man and the Ha-
waiian woman is not only vastly superior
TO the pure Hawaiian, but generally su-
perior also to the half white Hawaiian. To
some extent this may be attributable to the
peculiarly assiduous care which the China
man bestows upon his family. in which he
vastly eXcels the average white husband
of Hawaiian woman. But I have often
observed the same superiority in illegiti-
mate half Chinese. who had never enjoyed
any care except that of Hawaiian home.
1t is not in the training; it is in the blood.
Fruit of an Older Civilization
Now, while the Chinaman Is inferior to
the European in that splendid force, en-
ergy. valor and enterprise which gives the
latter the dominant position among the ma
tiOns, he is fare more thoroughly trained
and tanned man. He inherits and has in
all his fiber and blood a more thorough and
deeply rooted civilization, derived from
many thousand more years of civilized and
careful living than the European races
have enjoyed When our Teutonic ances-
tors were half wild barbarians, the Chi
neSe were enjoying an ancient and most
pervading civilization.
Thus the Chinaman is a thoroughbred
stock. Whatever superiority he has. he i'm
parts to his offspring as the less bred Eu
rcpean cannot do. If you want to breed
capable, careful, thrifty orderly men from
the lower stock of the Philippines, the Chi
nese are the stock to breed from and moth
ing better could be done to grade up the
weaker races all over the world than to
turn in upon them millions of the civilized,
thoroughbred Chinese. By all means fill
the Philippines with them.
This is Il very large and ramified topic;
I may take 1t up again. I would add here
that Chinese blood supplements, as the
European cannot, what are peculiar defects
in Polyuesian character, namely, lack of
diligence. of persistence. of punctuality. of
exact adherence to task work. I never
knew a Hawaiian who could plant
straight row of beans: / never saw China
man who could plant crooked one. The
European blood fails to correct the irregu-
lar and violent impulses of the savage race.
The Thoroughbred Chinese blood does not
fail to do so. KAMEHAMEHA.