The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-11-09
OUR CHINESE POPULATION.
We Have a Chinese Dentist who's
Wife Plays sousa Marches ON
an Upright Piano.


1t is impossible to state and useies,
to try to guess how many Chinamer
are now in this country. Mr.. Scharf
late United States Chinese inspecto,
at the port of New York, thinks there
may be 100000, but the estimate
seems too high. The census does moi
and cannot afford any reliable data;
you might as well try to take cen.
sus of the feas. Custom house stats.
tics are worthless except to show tina.
every exclusion law passed has sti1n
ulated immigration. They canno,
take account of the thousands Snug
gled in along the $3.50 miles of Mex.
lean and Canadian border and aIont
the gulf coast. The Canadian Pacific
railway is said to bring in from 3.0ot
to 5000 annually in bond, the com.
pany agreeing to pay the dominion
government the $50 capitation tax fol-
every one that has not left the coun.
try within a stated time. The in.
spectors cannot tally those. All we
can be sure of in regard to the mum.
Der of Chinese here is that it is very
large, and that it is constantly in.
creasing. Beyond that one guess is
as good as another, writes Frank NJ
Todd, in Ainslee.
An early complaint against the
Chinaman was that he dlu not bring
his family and did not mean to re.
main here. OF late there are evi.
dences that he. is growing contented
here, as he is in the Dutch dependen.
cies, and that occasionally he look.
upon this country as his home. Our
largest Chinese community, San Fran
cisco's Chinatown, contains anywhere
from $4,000 to 10000 Chinese, accord
ing to the bias of the person guess
ing, and is noticeably. taking on an
appearance of greater permanence
When the local papers began recently
to talk of moving it, which they do
whenever the editors fertile brains
run out of other sensations" it was
brought to the attention of the NOV
ers that 9 number of mercantile
houses in Chinatown had each mil
lions of dollars invested, and that ID
would be as sensible to talk of moyine
half the retail and banking business
of San Francisco.
Nor can it longer be said that all
the Chinese women among us are here
for immoral purposes. A great many
Cinnamon have brought their wives
and are raising their families here.
From the rear of the laundry can
sometime be heard the prattle of the
Chinese infant. There are Chinese
schools for Chinese children. There
is Chinese dentist on Sacramento
street who has an upright piano in
his parlor. on which his wife plays
Sousa marches. And more significant
still, there is Chinese photographer
who testifies that the fear of a ca
mera is growing less among his coun.
trymen every day. When a Chinese
woman plays an upright piano and a
Chinese photographer can do a good
business among his cousins they
are rapidly getting out of 10 mt with
the old oroer. They have migrated in
the true sense. If they retain Xix.
ing for burial in Asiatic soil it is moth.
ing to the point. In a western view.
going home dead is as good as not
going home at all.
The volume of the overflow from the
Chinese empire is, of course, beyond
satisfactory calculation. Kong Yeu
Wei puts the number of Cinnamon
now living abroad at 100000. What
other country on che globe could lose
100000 subjects in the period of q
single lifetime and not feel that IL
had suffered tremendous depletion
of its wealth and power?