Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1889 — The Chinaman at Home. [ARTICLE]

The Chinaman at Home.

Tlie possibilities of the future of Asia and of Europe were never more patent than just in this year 1889. This wonderful Empire of China will undergo a great change in the next generation, and the great questions of our economic future are to be fought out on Asiatic soil. The day will come when these 400,000,000 of pig-tailed, squint-eyed, Jersey-creamfaced people will enter the manufacturing markets of the world, and with their power of doing as good work as the best of our white-faced, straight-eyed brothers will, on their own soil, be more formidable competitors to American labor than the cheap laborers of Europe have ever been. The Caucasian can never live on from 2to 10 cents a day, and the Chinaman ear. save a fortune on what would be starvation to him. Ido not believe that the difference in the natural skill and in natural intelligence, or rather intellectual power, is much in our favor, and no thinking man can come to China and not be struck with the imminent danger which the awakening of this great race might bring upon the rest of the world. The Chinese who are ssnt to America

are not a fair type of the people here. They are the lowest of the low, and the poorest of the poor. They come from the Southern Provinces of China, wh;r» the climate is detrimental tb manly growth, and if they have alarmed the people of the United States, how much more should these Chinese giants of the North alarm them. There is as much, difference between the sections as between England and Italy, or as between the Northern States and South America. The Chinese I see here are entirely different from those I saw at San Francisco. They are taller and stronger. Many of them are fully six feet high, and they are big boned and stronglimbed. They show in their’ faces different characteristics. They have larger noses and straighter eyes. There are many noble.and intellectual faces among: them, and they have as many differenttypes of features as have our mixed people of the United States. —Letter from. Peking.