The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1888. THE CHINESE PUZZLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2852, 20 March 1888, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1888. THE CHINESE PUZZLE.

Tue United States have been wont to display a practical interest in all large public questions which has been akin to selfishness. For many a long year they have drawn their cheap labor supply from China, and now having perhaps made all the profit which could reasonably be expected to be realized from the yellow agony they have decided to allow no more Mongolians, to land upon their shores; This decision is of one importance to us because it is very unlikely that the large streams of celestial emigrants which have year after year crossedover to America can be altogether stopped. If they are not allowed to land in America they will turn in some other direction, they will swarm to some other genial soil where cheap labor can find a profitable market. Large, wealthy and old established agencies for years past have been engaged in the work of deporting so many thousands of celestials per annum to foreign shores, and these traffickers are unlikely to be abolished by the new understanding which has been arrived at between China and America. Their occupation will not be gone, and the opening up of new channels through which to pour a tawny flood will be inevitable. The colonies of Australia meet a threatened invasion of this kind by prohibitive legislation, but a new difficulty has cropped up with respect to restrictions to be placed upon the admission of celestials amongst us. The Chinese diplomatists are remonstrating with England about the injustice by which celestials aro hindered from landing on British soil, when no such obstacles areplaced in the way of Englishmen lauding on Chinese territory. England admits the force of this reasoning, and requests the colonies to be good enough to allow the Chinese free access to their shores. With all due respect to what they say in England, we believe the colonies ought to draw a line against a Mongolian invasion. We may regret to place England in an awkward position with respect to her treaty obligations with China, but the opposition we feel to an unlimited Mongolian element is more an instincS than an argument, The Chinamen are apparently a singularly quiet, industrous and inoffensive people,and a.few of them in a community seem to be almost a blessing, but by and by as they steal one by one into a new neighborhood, as they cluster and congregate together, a plague spot is developed which makes the community pay dearly for its cheap labor. To the individual chinaman the colonist entertains a most friendly feeling, but we know that if they are allowed to increase and multiply we shall be punished for pur tolerance, and even if a piece of chinaware in the shape of an Imperial treaty become cracked by our refusal to receive them, it will be better to put up with the breakage,

A correspondent, who writing of an adversary calls him "a brutal coward," asks us to publish his lotter,sayinghe does not think it is personal, He is quite right, such an epithet is of course not personal but it might be misunderstood as such, and forthis reason we deem it expedient not to publish the letter in question. The average actual cost of making cheese at Factories irj the Wnirarapais 4 per lb, so that to even pay expenses sales of cheese!must at least netfc.that sum. Besides, when it is mentioned, thatseveral Cheese Factories in the Wellington Province, and others else-where in New Zealand, are just hanging out in the hope that the aMpmehij Home will go .beyond this and realize sufficient to gradually reduce existing overdrafts, their critical position will be readily recognised. 'At present, the great handicap of the export trade, is the heavy charge of an average of 2d. per lb for:freight, brokerage, com : mission, etc. VJiioh Mai" l $* needito realise - 'per cw.fc. in .the English rawltot te ton pay eipewei, '