Year: 1870




going on in a way that will sorely dis
appoint sothe people. He manifests
none of those hideous barbaric traits
whereof certain wind bags discoutsed
with the noisy glibness that comes
only of ignorance of what is talked
about. He hasn't built Joss house
nor set up his queer idols in our midst
Neither has he INDUCED in other
heather practices that were told Of
him, nor in opium, wFiskey OF tobac-
co. He works faithfully, repels all
inducements to break his contract,
and is model ih the way of minding
his own business. Instead Of living
on three cents a day, whereby it was
was foretOld he would oblige our la
borers to come down to the same rate
OF living, he spends his money quite
literally, betrays no appetite for roast
rat, and is sighally disposed to vary
his rice diet with juicy beef, which
better supplies the aliment required
by our climate, clothes himself well,
and, discarding his own workman
ship, indulges in natty,. custom made
sewed boots. In addition to this, he
goes to Sunday School regularly, and
in proportion to his means, ID aims
giving generously rivals his Christian
neighbors. And these products Of a
decaying civilization, under which
for centuries the movement of their peo-
pie has been retrograde, seem already
awakening to an appreciation of the
blessings of this land of freedom and
plenty, as incomparably preferable to
the Flowery Kingdom. A significant
evidence of this is the fact that when,
The other day, one of their number
was stricken incurably i'll, and for
life incapacitated for work, and COM
pahiohs raised the thohey to send him
home, with tears In his eyes he be-
sought them to let him remain in
New England, aud benighted heath
ems that they are, they assented, and
have agreed among themselves to sup
port him there.


Then despite all the gloomy predic-
tions to the contrary, John hasn't ta-
ken the bread out of anybody's mouth
as yet. At the Bellville laundry
none of the Irish girls have been turn
ed out to make room for the new ar
rivals, but are actually instructing the
Celestials in the mysteries of washing,
Istarching, and ironing, and there is
employment for all Of them. Next
Bridget will be marrying John, if
somebody does not keep sharp look
out. Al North Adams the striking
shoemakers, whose places were taken
by the Chinese, instead of being de-
graded by the beathen competition,
have been impelled by that spirit of
enterprise which always comes of COM
petition, to set up in business for
themselves on the cooperative plan.
They found little difficulty in obtain
ing the necessary credit; do better
work; will waste no time in strikes,
or efforts to reduce the hours of labory
provide themselves with employment
for the year round instead of only du-
ring the busy season, and secure to
themselves all tho fruits of their own
labor instead of sharing with capital
lists.


And now the spirit of hostility to
the Chinese in Massachusetts is dying
away. Already it is confined to the
lowest and most ignorant. But at
last it must dawn upon them that
there is plenty of room ih this codhtry
for both themselves and the Celestialsg
that the latter are consumers as we'll
as producers, will increase the demand
for whatever they eat, drink, or wear,
and by precisely the excess of what
they produce over what they consume,
will add to the general prosperity.
Such now bids fair to be the solution
of the great Chinese problem, over
which owlish wisdom and owlish
blindness, has croaked, as once it did
at the prospect of the abolition of
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