The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-23

2.0oa. 900 upsn. IT, and these are distrpu-
ted among several different races. OF
these. the trfbes in the interior are
more likely 20 be exter.ninated than re-
CANNED, and the Dya.ss and Malays.
numbering between them about $780,
oOV, are the only races strong enough
TO compete In industry with Cainamen.l !
Obyfeus1X there is at present room for
both N 3thS island, and the British
North BDrneo Company is stlmu at .ng
the Immigration of coolies, both from
China and from the Malay Pe1insu.a.
In the long run the Chinese, who out
nunber the Malays as sixteen to one,
who are more decidedly. industrial, and
whe<crganize where they can in a way
thai sprecludes competition, are tolera-
bly, certain to gain theN upper hand.
They may not destroy the early sett .ers
but.they viii reduce them to the posi-
tisp. of the Hill tribes in India. or of
theSAinos In Japan. Assume fifty years
heTEe that China has taken it's newt A.
bic position as one of the great powers
OF the world, and that Borneo has
poiEi alton of l0.000.000. predominantly
Cn.nese, is IL easy to suppose in such
case that the larger part of Bor..eo
wkrd stiil be dependency of the
Netherlands? or that the who'e island
would not have passed, by arms or di-
plomacy. into the possession of China !?
Assume EngiaEd-or il might BE- Ger
many, as aamiais ering the inher-t lnce
OF HCl and-to posses a nominal suZ-
erainty, would Borneo any the less be
Chinese, TO all practical p4rposes. in its
commerce. IN its political sympathies,
in its civilization. and it's influence
upon it's neighbors?
CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA.
The expansion of China towards the
south and southwest seems more prob
abe. because there is here most natu-
raj wealth to develop. and because the
c1rcumstaRceS( are specially favorabl e;
somIristrations guided by commercial
principles. and populations too w ak tc
. resist Immigration. Nothing but the
.vigilant opposition of the Australian
: democracies has kept the Chinese from
becoming power on that more remote
Continent, and at one time within ths
last forty years the Cinnamon actually
IN Victoria numbered something like
thirteen per cent of the adult male
population. 1t cannot be held however
> that The Chinese are debarred from
gaining territory to the north or west
Even II We choose 10 regard Corea ant
Thibet already Chinese. there is Ne
; paul, which might easily be annexed
, - the Indian frontier IL E gland wer'
r crippled or occupied. And there arr
r parts OF Turkestaa whicn migat b.
r wrested- under some similar conjunc
ssture from Russia; or, more natural.
sttli, China might first people and thel
; JcCupy the provinces along the lowe
Z course of the Amoor, which she c 1ds'
very reluctantly under pressure at
: tiii4e when sne was in dire need. Ther
: - - those who believe that the China
! nAn Is ni-rly to supersede the Span
4 i-rd aad Indian alike in South America
without assuming that al OF thas
possibilities are likely to be realized
there is surely a strong prssuuptio io
y that so great people as the Chimes
: and possessed of such enormous natu
\ raj resources, will sooner or later over
< flow their borders. and spread over ne,
2 territory, ard submerge weaker races.
J, THE INDUSTRIAL CONTEST.
! 1T is not, however. the purpose {
y this argument 10 assume that Eur pc
n ever likely TO be overrun by the Chi
v nese or North America subject to ir
2 surgent negroes. Each century has II
} own way of doing its appropriate worl
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