Carpenter's Letter
(Ciiiitlinicil from Seventh 1'iiKe.)
While in tho Connor's olllcu at tliu patucu
a few dayH at?" a Cliltiemi camo In with a
c;ilil It v;ih In clphur ami tliu man hail n
ClilncHd i'oiIo liook, wlilrli lie allowed to tho
M-iiHor. explaining that tho iiiohsiiko Ilxetl
prh'c of HiiKar In a Mk li'al IiIh mast o r
tin 1 in hand. When tho man loft thu ceti
n.r lolil me that the Cliltiemj llrm hoiiiIIiik
i hi' uililo il hi a liusliii'fiH or about $1,000,000
a tin nth ami Ihal It Hient liumlreils a yoar
1 1 ' II (allien.
I'alniii'ii lohl me of a riilni'Ho who has
rori'iitly inaitc Jl'Mi.oio in Ihuiih. I'ork In
one nf the ellli f experts of I ho Philippines
to China. At tho time of thu Insurrection
hk.'iImhI tho S 1 1 ; 1 1 1 1 m 1 1 niany of tho pnrtH woio
cli'Ki'il ami haniH lieciiiiio a ilniK In tho
imiilii'lH. TIiIh wiih ho In llio IhIiiihI of
J.evic. One of tho riilui'xc mcrclKiiiiH tlicro
ornori'il tho proiluot. Mo bought every
thing In hIkIH ami when ihu AinorlcatiH
tnili piiHHoHHlnii ami opened tho port ho
Hindi' a cool quarter of a million.
Thero aro l'lilnene all over tho Philip
pine doaliiiK in hemp. 1 suw them IniyliiK
It In HoiithoaHtorii Mindanao. They export
HhlploadH of It from Kumar. I.eyto ami
HoutlioiiHtern l,uon. They no about amoiiK
the farmers and buy up tho crop. They
trade for hemp at their Hlore.M and buy it
In ipiantlly of native ilealem and Hhlp it
to Manila. It In tho Hamo with xtiKiir, rice,
lobaci'o ami eopra, and In fact with every
thing In whlrh there Is a dollar to bo
linide The foreign tohaeco iiierclmntH tell
me the ChluoKo have cut the heart (Hit of
their prolltH ami I hoar tho mime from
the KmIIhIi and other llruiH which do busl
ni HH lu rice ami Hiignr.
Tlif s mil 1 1 Moii'n mill I'eilillerN.
Ml nf the hinnll retail IiuhIiiohh and In
deed a ureal deal of the largo IiuhIiiohh as
well Ih done by the ClilneHo. In a village,
If I here Ih a hit; oHlahllHlimoiit, It Ih suro to
belong to a Chinaman. They control thu
Initio or the Sulu group and moHt of that
nf the VlKiiyan IhIiiiuIm. In Luzon you Mini
them at every croHHroad and their pod-iIIoi-h
go abeut with p-ielm i u their backs
from lioiiHo to limine ami hIiow Ihelr wares
to the women The dry gondii man with a
load of bright eittoii tut lis alm ' as high
iih hiiuseir in his Moulder te be seen
very day in Manila iiotw l hstandlUK there
HON ( ULOS PSLANCA HICIIKST CHINAMAN IN MANILA.
are whole streets glou up lo Chinese
Helling of Hie same articles
The chief business street outside the Ka
iiillu Is Callo Itosarlo. This Is a great
Chinese bazaar half a mile long, lined with
Chinese stores packed with cottons, silks,
hardware and notions. There aro hundreds
of little eaves In the wail so full of cotton
got ils that there Ih no roem lu thorn for
Milliters or cases. The goods are piled
upon shchcH. stacked up on the Moors,
hung from the ceilings and even put out
side on the Htreet In the arcade which runs
front block to block. The stores have no
doors ami Ihelr whole fronts aro taken
away lu thu daytime. Some are net more
than six feet In width and ten feet lu
depth. Hut each has one or two plg-tnlled
clerks and all seem to bo busy.
The usual costume of thu merchant Is au
undershirt and drawers. lie Is always
bareheaded and usually barefooted, with
the exception of his low slippers, which
he often drops otf. Ho usually sits lu the
street outside his store smoking a cigar
ette while hu waits for custom. He Is
never asleep and Is always ready to bar
gnln ami soil.
The Chinese stnroH aro grouped much
according to tho articles sold In them.
The dry goods stores take up n number ot
blocks, hardware stores have their own
section and in other parts ot Manila you
llnd Htroets given up to Chinese shoe
makers, tailors nml sugar manufacturers.
Many of thorn innko sweetmeats nnd many
manufacture chocolato from tho cocao
bean. Making soap from cocoanut oil Is
another grunt Industry. H Is made in llttlo
yollow disks about ns big around ns a
TIIK
Hllver dollar nnd half nn Inch thick. Ono
Hiieh ploco cohIh 1 cunt of our money.
Tho ClilneHo do a largo part of tho ahoo
liiislness of Manila and almost all tho
Hhoo tiiemlltig. You hoo tho Chlnoso Hhoo
maker on every corner. Ho carries his
tools nho.it In a banket and squats down
and mends your soles whllo you wait. Ho
does hoiiio of the washing, but this so far
Is largely tntmopolled by the Filipino
women, who stand In tho dirty water of
tho canals and pound the dirt out of tho
clothes with a stick. Thero nro many
Chinese In the markets, where they sell
miiHt of the fancy vegetable!) ami pork,
ami In fart there Is scarcely a placo or a
business In the whtilo Island where they
are not very much In evidence.
The Chinaman here has been of grout ad
vniiliigo to the army, although Uncle Sam
N now trying to dispense with him. Ho
has been the litter bearer, going bravely
out Into the battlefields under the lire of
the Insurgents to carry off our wounded
and dead. lie has done a greater part of
the transportation of gooilH during tho
march and has handled the most of the
KooiIh of the tpiartermaster's department
at Manila. II Is a common Hlght to see
a I rain of llfty Chinese currying great
boxes on poles from ono part of the town
In the other nnd you find them loading and
unloading tho transports. Thero is no
doubt hut that they aro far superior to the
Filipinos as laborers and It Is a serious
iiiestlon whether Uncle Sam Is not making
a mistake In trying to oxcludo them from
the Islands.
Tho dovolopment of tho Philippines will
rcqulro Homo oilier labor than the Filipinos
can furnish. What Don Carlos Talanca has
said about their unreliability Is undoubt
edly true. If tho United States Is to build
railroads and public works wo will need
the Chinese, if wo nro to manufacture
hero for Asia we must have them, and If
the mines, which seem to exist in the
mountains, are to bo developed It can best
bo done with Chinese labor. Tho question
hero Ih not the samo as at homo. Our
people cannot stand hard work In this
troplcnl climate. They will not work for
thu wages that aro neeessnry In these
Asiatic HtirroiindlngH nnd it would seem
that tho Chinese nro tho only solution of
the labor troubles which aro to confront
us sooner or later.
As to the danger of tho country being
overrun by tho celestials, they have been
here for 300 yenrs nml at present they do
not number one-eightieth of thu popula
tion. They havo not materially Increased
from year to year and nny great lullux
could easily bo controlled by future legls
In I lou.
At present about 1.K0O Chinese arrive
ami depart every month. None can come
lu but those holding certlllcntes showing
that they have been In tho islands before
Haeli of these certificates gives n descrip
tion of its owner, but thu Chinese look so
much alike to us that they are often sold,
the prlco In Amoy bolng, so I am told, from
115 to J.10 pur'curtlllcnto.
The CIiIhc-mc .Xi'dtlru,
Many of tho Chinese who como to tho
Philippines return to China, but n great
number remain hero and take Filipino
wives, or, more often, concubines Don
Carlos tells mo that hundreds of them nro
1 1 vlut; lu concubinage who would have
married had the laws of tho Spaniards not
provided that to do so they must become
Christians und bo baptized Into tho church.
This, under thu old regime, mndo n wed
ding cost all tho way from $100 to $1,000
and as a ceremony seemed decidedly high
The Chinese, however, tnko good caro of
their chlldron, wjiothor thoy aro married
or not, and todny some of tho best edu
cated and highest of tho Filipinos have
Chinese blood In their veins. Indeed thu
most of tho leaders of tho Insurrection are
of this class. Agulnaldo Is a Chinese
Mestizo and his wlfo has Chinese blood
mixed with tho Tagalo In her volns. Tho
niothor of Pedro Paterno is a Chinese
lLLTSTHATliD lSlili.
Mestizo. (Jenernl Ignin to I'ana has more j
Chinese than Filipino In htm nnd the same
may bo said of others of thu Insurrection
leaders. FHANK (1. (WIU'KNTKIt.
Assimilation
Detroit Journal. We reproached the Lion
with cowardice in attacking the Hoar,
thus:
"llenovolcnt assimilation, merely!" pro
tested thu Lion.
"In the senso that you nro making a
hog of yourself, poHHlbly!" wo sneered, ns '
warmly ns possible.
We fancied that tho Lion winced at th s
but perhaps he did not.
AT Till; GATES OF PEKIX
Civilization Refuses to Halt at tl:o
Great Wall.
NO BACKWARD MOVEMENT PERMITTED
On In I'cklii 1m IIic Will elm nril of
Clvill.iitlini, tin SIiikhii of
I'riiKi'cNS, (lie I'eiui of
10 ll 1 1 K ll ll III I'll t .
It Ih a fixed determination of Furopo nnd
America Hint Oriental conservatism shall
not defy tho light of tho west. Civilization
refuses lo halt at the ureal wall of the
Celestial empire. Iloxers and non-pro-Kresslvos
shall not refuse to recognize the
power which brightens and ennobles the
great enlightened nations of the earth.
i'ui:sii)i:nt mckinm.kv.
with a statesmanship which wins the
encomiums of the globe, lias announced his
policy and the Chinese government must
not reruso to accept the terms proposed.
The salvation of the ancient kingdom de
pends upon the promptitude with which
tho Mongolian princes and the empress
dowager move forward. No backward
movement will be permitted.
1. 1 IIUNC. CHANO,
I'rince Imperial, chlcfest of the viceroys of
China, best known of the leaders of tho
Far HuhI. undorHtnndH the conditions and
America wults, confident that every for
eigner now In I'ekln will be rescued and
the allies will then assist the Chinese
government In crushing the rebellion.
1MIKSIDHNT It. II. UOIHSON'
of the Hankers Reserve Life Is engaged In
a less momentous contest, but he Is equally
determined. The Hankers Reserve Life
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