Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-10-25
JOHN CHINAMAN
Z. AWAY FROM HOME.
He Has Settled in Many Countries
and Has Gotten Rich in o
Remarkably short Time.

II Is not only in the last few years.
since China was opened up by Euro
peans, that Chinese emigration has be-
gum. Chinese sailors have understood
the principle Of the mariners compass
for over eight hundred years, and their
early undoubtedly took them
as far as the west coast of America on
me side and Arabia on the other. In
the early days was the
Chinaman's aim; to-day john emf
CRATES because he finds that the utter
" incomprehensib!e foreign devil"
will pay him a from three to five
times as large as he can get in his own
crowded country, and will, moreover.
suffer snail robberies with the most
surprising calm.
GETS RICE QUICKLY.
Very naturally, the white laborer
has kicked, and kicked with consider
able emphasis, whenever he has found
yellow men ready to compete with him.
John Chinaman is rich on ages below
those of a common European farm la
borer. How much more then must he
undercut h daily pay commonly paid
in this country for unskilled labor?
Yet America does not suffer much
loss by the presence of Cinnamon, as
in the whole of the United States, out
of a population Of over 70, 900, 900, there
are less than 10000 Chinese. And
this number is increasing but slowly.
In Canada there are some $500, while
in British Columbia and Vancouver
they are rather more plentiful.
Cuba and Porto Rico alone Of the
West Indies harbor any large umbe
Of Chinese. There are just under 50,-
900. In British Guiana the estimated
number is 1900, and here they are de-
creasing. In Chilli there are but 1920
yellow laborers, but Peru has no less
than Al, 900.
A FAvORITE WORK.
Sugar culture has always been fav-
orite work for Chinese coolies. In Ha-
wall Is, 600 Chinese japanese are
SO employed, and Queensland has 1000
engaged in similar work.
Rut all these figures are Insignificant
G~GmsnaEed With. those Of the swarm
since Br1tlSh cOrIrrUT gave s6rery w.t.
and property. The Straits Settlements
have 900, 600. In zone yea over 100, 600
landed at Singapore. They outnumber
the native populations all through the
coast territories.
In Johore, out of an estimated pop
ulation of 200, 900, $50, 600 are Chinese.
The whole trade of Burmah is In Chin
csc hands. The Dutch East Indies
possess a quarter Of a nail1ion Chinese
Inhabitants, and the Philippines have
10O,O oo. All the inland trade of the
latter stands is conducted by Chinese
peddlers.
In Siam the Chinese population
reaches the figure Of 1,4o0,-
900, and there, as elsewhere in the
East, they are traders, not laborers.
The Australian colonies have no very
large or increasing proportion of Chi
nHse immigrants. There are 5000 in
Victoria, 3,000-in South Australia, Ia, 900
in New South Wales, and about 5000
in New Zealand. New Zealand was
the first to put a poll tax Of fifty dol
lars IN Chinese immigrants. The 9TH
Ell. Australian colonies have now done
the same. and SO has the United
States.
Even Europe is. threatened by a yell
low invasion. In Hamburg there are
many Chinese dock laborers while most
seaport have a Chinese quarter. In
fact, looking at their numbers, it does
not seem unlikely that they will event.
uaIy control the labor market of the
world.