CHINESE IMMIGRATION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 124, 28 May 1877, Page 4

CHINESE IMMIGRATION.

The Auckland Star of Monday last Bays:— A gentleman passing through the city on Saturday, en route from San Franoisco to Sydney, called at our office (o warn colonists against leaving here for California. He says many persons have been attracted by glowing accounts of the prosperity of that State, and their friends can form no conception of tbe hardships which some of them have undergone. Within hie own knowledge, industrious, respectable men, unable to obtain employment, have been arrested for stealing food from the swill barrels at the rear of. restaurants, to satisfy the cravings of hunger. Shortly before leaving in the City of New York, he had made a tour of the whole State, and fonnd wide-spread distress. Thousands of men were on the tramp, and working, in many instances, for their food. This number was con tinually swelled from the overcrowded labor markets of the Eastern States, and the invasion of Chinese. The last ship from China alone brought nine hundred more Mongolians to compete at peppercorn wages with European labor. The Chinaman is übiquitous. Employed at first in all sorts of domestic capacities, and in laboriug work, he has now forced his way into factories, and every field of labor and trade. Living huddled together in a wretched part of San Francisco, undertaking none of the duties or responsibilities of citizens, possessing naturally remarkable powers of imitation, these people are able to under-sell any working man of European race. The discontent at this state of things is deep and widespread, and occasionally developes itself. in isolated outrages, but the system is maintained by capitalists and speculators. At a Commission ordered by Congress to inquire into the working of Chinese labor, these patriotic gentlemen appeared to give evidence of the vast benefit which had been conferred on the country, particularly in the construction of the Pacifio line, by Chinese labor. One capitalist went so far as to declare on oath that he would prefer a Chinaman to any American working man at the came wages, and so impressed had ho been with the docility and industry of tbe race that he felt almost constrained to become a Pagan. Our informant solemnly warned the colony against allowing the importation of Asiatic labor. His conclusions drawn from the circumstances of California were certainly of the most convincing character. The attempt to promote a country's prosperity by introducing an element that cannot fuse with the rest of the population, must in the long run, end in disaster. And when, as in the caee of the Chinese, the people introduced are enabled, by the absence of domestic ties and responsibilities, and by their h<ibits*of living to cut under tbe bone and sinew of a nation— the class upon which all countries depend for their stitnint — a bitter reaction must sooner or later ensue, such as that which appears to have come in California. In Queensland, as reported by cable the other day, the evils of an alien, race are already felt in the armed bauds of Chinamen who are spreading terror through the Northern districts. The warnings thus conveyed are such as deserve weighing by our own Parliament, in view of the targe influx of Chinese into Otago.

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