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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 20: Mongol Migration. (search)
nts than either France or Italy. If numbers were to rule, as in a Universal Republic they should rule, the pig-tails of the Five Provinces alone would outweigh the genius of England, Germany, and the United States. Are the European settlers in America prepared to join hands with the Asiatic? Living on the edge of China, gazing over the Pacific Ocean into California, stand a third of the whole human race. In arms these Mongols may be met and crushed, but how are such enormous numbers to be d. A slave of ritual, he will introduce his book of rites. His magistrates may enforce the wearing of pigtails and the worship of ancestors. Accustomed to slavery, polygamy, and infanticide in their own country, how can Chinese magistrates be hindered from allowing a Yellow brother to buy slaves, to marry several wives, and drown unwelcome babes? A Californian thinker sees that the Mongol question in America is-Shall European civilization or Asiatic barbarism prevail on the Pacific Slope?
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 21: the Chinese legend. (search)
Chapter 21: the Chinese legend. The Chinese legend current in San Francisco is a little wild; making the Chinese in America a mere gang of bondsmen, owned by the Six Companies, and governed by an Asiatic Vehm Gericht, Grand Lodge or Council of Ten, who wield a secret and mysterious power, which neither male nor female can escape. Feeling some doubt as to the truth of this Chinese legend, taken as a whole, we seek for light among persons who are likely to have ferretted out the facts-oft the Six Companies? Six Companies! Your people make mistakes about these Companies. We have, in fact, Five Companies, not six. The body called by you the Sixth Company is a committee of management and arbitration, a local body, living in America, and charged with looking after business on the Pacific coast. The Five Companies have their seats in China, and are known by the localities in which their members live. These Five Companies are-1. Ning Yung; 2. Kwong Chaw; 3. Hop Wo; 4.
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 23: Chinese labour. (search)
Chapter 23: Chinese labour. More serious are the questions raised in San Francisco by the Chinese knack of learning trades. The Mongol's advent in America has brought into the front the great struggle for existence between eaters of beef and eaters of rice. Living on rice, asking no luxuries beyond a whiff of opium and a pinch of tea, John Chinaman can toil for less money than a beef-eating fellow who requires a solid dinner, after which he likes to smoke his cuddy, drain his pot of beer, and top his surfeit with a whisky-smash. John will live and save where Pat must shrink and fall. The first Chinese who came over were labourers, and their first rivals were Irish navvies and hodmen. John drove these rivals off the field, doing more work at less cost, and pleasing his employers by his steady doings and his silent ways. John builds the chapels, banks, hotels, and schools. No room is left in San Francisco for the unskilled Irish peasant, and the movement of Irish laboure
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 28: Philadelphia. (search)
are now dwelling in marble palaces. The thoroughfares are rising into pomp and show. I do not speak just now of public buildings of exceptional character and excellence-such edifices as Girard's College, the most perfect classical building in America, or of the new Girard bridge, over the Schuylkill River — the widest, perhaps the handsomest, iron roadway in the world --but of ordinary structures-clubs and banks, churches and law-courts, masonic halls, hotels, and newspaper offices. Two or ch a statesman and a moralist ought to ask. It is not enough to ask whether, behind these banks and palaces, lie Field Lanes and Fox Courts; it is of more importance to see how the average classes of mankind are housed. In no place, either in America or out of it, have I seen such solid work-such means of purity and comfort — in the ordinary private houses, as in Philadelphia. There seem to be no sheds, no hovels, no impurities. In almost every house I find a bathroom. Let no reader thin
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 29: fair women. (search)
was worth a thousand dollars to the republic. Women are worth as much as men; in some parts of America more than men. Suppose each female landing in New York is worth a thousand dollars. What is thehe United States? Eight hundred million of dollars: two hundred million pounds sterling! But America is suffering, morally and socially, not only from her absolute and general paucity in female l mother! Three years ago, the Bureau of Education printed a paper on the Vital Statistics of America, which passed like an ice-bolt through the hearts of patriotic Americans. This paper showed that the birth-rate is declining in America from year to year; not in one State only, but in every State. The decline is constant and universal; the same in Arkansas and Alabama as in Massachusetts a can readily account for the disturbance in her social system; the whole excess of male life in America being due to the fact that, in the ten years from 1860-70, four hundred and fifty thousand more
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 30: Crusaderessing. (search)
Iberians work and fight. Alike in what they do, and what they fail to do, the emphasis of a strong original character comes out in them. Alike in England and America, we have tried a hundred methods of repression. We have tried fines in money; we have tried exposure in the 3r3 stocks; we have tried imprisonment in jails. Ouler responsible for the injuries done by drunken men and women, and in many more they have allowed the plea of habitual drunkenness as ground for a divorce. In America, as in England, the results are so far doubtful that the efficacy of such measures can be plausibly denied. Taken as a whole, America consumes more whisky than ee original twenty-five cents. And how would you prevent such incidents? Well, I guess the sale of liquor should be made penal. Surely it is nowhere in America penal to sell such wines and spirits as are freely sold in every town of Europe? No, not quite, yet very near. Have you ever been to St. Johnsbury, in Vermon
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 36: Outlook. (search)
Chapter 36: Outlook. Is there no writing on the wall? The wounds inflicted on America by the civil war were fresh and bleeding, even before they were reopened by the grave events in New Orleans. The two sides seem as bitter as they were a month before the fall of Richmond. Cincinnati, where I write these words, is a greae wallowing in riot and drunkenness, threatening our country with a new secession, and lifting up their heads against the will of God. It never will be well with America until these gentle and pious coloured people have obtained a fixed and lasting mastery in the Southern States. Yet there are signs that this bad state of feelies, and a population counting more than four hundred million souls. But what a change has taken place! China has been standing still, while England, Russia, and America have been conquering, planting, and annexing lands. Look at the group of powers which occupy areas of surface counting above a million square miles each:-- Gr