The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-02-25
CHINESE As COLON|STS
OVER 100000 OF THEM 1--WE
OVER SEA.
They Have Gone to Every Part of the
Globe Carrying Their Race Charac-
teristics with Them.

One of the most powerful arguments !
for the theory that the Chinaman is an
excellent citizen if left to himself is
by his conduct abroad. 1t is |
not, perhaps our habit of thought to |
him a great colOnist, yet, as
A matter of fact in numbers and adapt |
ability John Chinaman is. next to John |
Bull himself the greatest ColOnist ON |
earth. Moreover. and Notwithstanding |.
the prejudice that exists against him, |
there can be no doubt that to which |
ever country his steps turn, that coun- |
try will be benefited, if not by his |
morals and intellect, then by his labor. |
The cause of his success is also the |
cause of the prejudice; he is a hard |
worker, he is a cheap worker and he is
a sober worker
For many years past the tide of
Chinese immigration has been pouring
into Malaysia and overlooking into all
the adjacent lands. Out of a popula-
ton of 100000 in Singapore, for example
there numbers 10000 Chinese, while the
latest statistics show that in and
around the Straits Settlements there
are fully million Chinese, not includ-
ing those in Borneo, the Dutch colonies
or the Philippines. In q single year
recently more than 900 landed at
In lahore three-quarters of
nese. In Negri Semblan, a group of
several small states, the Chinese i'm
migrants form over a third of the po-
pulatiOn. In MalaCca they number 90
900, and there are over 10000 in Pc
nang. In Perak there are many thou
sands more Cinnamon than native born.
In the Dutch East Indies in 1898 there
were close upon 100000 Chinese, while
in the Philippine Islands there are no
fewer than 100000, in spite of all the
recent troubles.
In 1875 there We're only 100 Chinese in
Corea; in 1890 this number had swelled
to 1,057; in 1899 there were 3,134. In 1882
there were not more than dozen Chi
nese in Siberia; now"they are swarm
ing along the auriferous sands of the
Upper Yenesei river" to the number of
$500. In Siam, as might be expected,
the Chinese population is very great
the latest estimate being 100000
Here, as in many parts of Further In
dia, the Chinese have almost monop-
olized the local trade and the general
revenue is farmed out to them. Chinese
residents in Japan at the present mo-
ment number 1000, while they are very
numerous in AMMAN. AS to Cochin
China, which by the last census has a
population of 2,252,0S4, no fewer than
1857 are Chinese subject to the Pc
king government.
Inasmuch as Sir Lepel Griffin has re-
ported to the British government that,
in his opinion, the future of Burmah
belong to the Chinese" it is hardly sur
prising that, in view Of recent develop
ments in Peking, we should seek to
strengthen the Burmese garrison. A
large proportion of the trade of Ran
COON is in their hands, and they are
numerous in all the commercial towns
up country, as, for instance, Mandalay.
They are said to possess" the very
qualities, as respectable citizens, which
the Burmese lack = q They are the
best of all immigrants in the east"
During several centuries the western
Chinese have enjoyed commercial inter-
course with Burmah, and few hun
dreds We're Settled as merchants in
Bhamo, Mandalay, Fangyan, and other
places" but the British annexation of
this country has Increased their num-
Der so that there are now probably full
ly five thousand from Yum Nan and SEE
Chuan residing in Burmah, many of
them married to native women. The
sons of these Burmese wives go to
school in Yum Nan to learn Chinese,
and so perpetuate their habits and GUS
toms. From southeastern China, the
immigration has been of many years
duration, but until recently in small
numbers. At present there can hardly
be less than $4,000 eastern Chinese in
Burmah, which, together with those
already mentioned. would make a total
of 10000. There are 10000 in Mandalay
and p 900 in Rangoon, these being eX-
tremely moderate estimates compared
with Lord Curzons estimate of 10000
in Rangoon alone.
That part of the worlds surface
where John Chinaman has made the
most stir in his capacity of immigrant
is the United States of America There,
owing to the restriction placed upon
his entry, in force for many years past,
his numbers have dwindled to less than
100000, which is a paltry figure in COM
parisOn with the IL 100000 which the
anti-Chinese reformer Kearney, es-
timated thestates would contain of Chi
nese at the close of the century if the
old rate of immigration had continued.
In Canada, where the prohibition
takes the form of a pOll-taX, there are
11,OOO Cinnamon, they not yet having
trebled in twenty years-in 1880 there
We're 4,3S3. This, however, does not in
clude the large number scattered about
in the outlying parts of British Column
bia and in the Yukon mining region, for
the Chinese are great placer minors
Apropos it is only due to the Chinese
colonist in Canada to say that 10 his
labor is due the building If the western
section of the Canadian Pacific railway,
bulk of the laborers on the Union PaCi-
fic south of the border.
In Australia, among the Chinese pop
ulation of between $4,000 and 30, 900 are
some of the "solidest" men of the COM
munity, and, as in British Guiana and
Trinidad where there are 4,393 and 200
respectively, they number many shop
keepers and general merchants, as VIII
as miners and railway builders.
In
the Earl of Kilgore, the Chinese immi-
grants have had the grea-est share IN
its development, so far as IL has gone"
AS in Canada, the poll-JaX in Australia
and New Zealand has prevented any
great influx of Chinese. Out Of the 5000
Chinese in New Zealand, several hun
dred have become natural!zc1 and are
said to make excellent citizens. At the
present moment John Chinamal is
mourning inIn Bra Zil q IL MnXicn in nrrn