Year: 1870

under such circumstances is no test Of what they
can do. The South is clamoring for the Chinese,
and bringing them in here and there but the
South offers no elements for fair trial Of their
value. Opposed by one class because they are
the advance guard Of new inferior race"
and sought by another class for the very reason
that they have, as is supposed, no political nor
social ASPIRATIONS the Chinese will come to South
Carolina freighted down with just the same obsta-
ces to any kind of development as the negroes
we're loaded with previous to the last decade. But
New England receives them in another spirit.
While the strangers are hooted at and threaten
ed in every way by the members of league con-
irolled by foreigners from the other side Of the
world the native New Englander as if by in
stinct, and with no need to stop to reason it
over welcomes them with large tolerance such
as they could receive nowhere else on the globe.
Here they may stand up to their full height and
fear nothing and show US not only what they are
but what they may become. They are at least
model citizens in their respect for civil law, i'm
bibed through scores Of generations Of orderly
ancestors.


They come to us already educated, and knowing
the value OF education, eager to learn in our
country what will put them on level with their
requirements iu their own land In these two
respects. at least they have an immense advan-
tage over the cl IS of emigrants who have lately
gone through the wheels of the New England
civiIizing mill and in all respects it is a wild
,rfar
England receives them with such welcome as
implies confidence that they will remain with
US. that they will bring their wives and surround
themselves with families, that they will be open
to the Influences of our churches as well as to
those of our schools. There those who,
striving TO look further, think they see a possi-
bty that China may overflow us instead of be-
ing absorbed in US. remembering that the crowded
Asiatic empire might spare enough people to
quadruple the present population of the United
States and be a crowded empire STILL hardly
missing those who had gone from its cities and
villages. But those who have faith in the strength
and the destiny of our institutions laugh at such
forebodings. and see in the future an America
only more grandly American for every infusion OF

new blood into its veins.


Thus from many points Of view close watch
will be kept upon the progress of the experiment
at North Adams and other kindred ones which
may follow it. If the patient, hard working la
bOrers remain at the end of their three years
where they have begun, except for facility IN shoe
making. if they are content still with row of
berths in factory, if they have not mingled with
the community around them, if they take no steps
to establish themselves in families, if they do not
seek to exercise the privileges and enjoy the Dig
mites of American citizens, then we may look at
the Chinese question question Of labor ard
economy only. If on the other hand the venera-
BILE civilization of China solid as the everlasting
hills but having in itself no elements Of progress,
sends forth shoots capable of new life in new
soil, if the laborers taking root here teach US
some new skill in agriculture, some niceties in
workmanship and impart to us some virtues and
some wisdom as well as gain much from us, then
we may regard the step which has been taken as
the first of one of the most important movements
in our history, and the boldest philosopher may
hesitate to predict all the results to which it is to
lead