Show A USE FOR FOK work that white men man cannot be ba hired to do here Is a proposition which might alight tarnish nah a partial solution of the g chinese problem some days ago the portland oregon ian said if we had bad at this moment forty thousand more chinese in the pacific in the northwest to do the work which white men will not do and which yet is necessary for development of the country the result would be good for everybody A correspondent writes that he would like to be informed what the nature of that tha t w work 0 rk is and the oregonians oregonian Ore gonian thus cespon responds ds the occupation in which chinese labor would mainly be useful is that of clearing our heavily timbered lands this is labor which white men will not or do not to any extent perform thus far nearly all the work of clearing 0 our ur lands has been performed by chinese but it has come to a stop since chinese immigration was suspended it has become impossible to get labor for this purpose higher wages are demanded by chinese and no owner of timber land can afford to hire it cleared it is easy of course to assert that there are plenty of white men ready to perform labor of this kind and to denounce the owners of the land for employing them buethe but there re is a test of this matter that nay may be very simply made there are immense immense areas of this land yet open for settlement government will give gi them away to all citizens who app apply ly but our workingmen refuse to take these lands and subdue them they clear the lands for the gift of them doubtless because they them think they can do letter and many of them may be right here then is a line of 0 work in which chinese would not be in the way of white labor and there is nothing more necessary for development of the country than the clearing of large bodies of these lands the work is now practically at a stand eland again chinese labor would be useful in market gardening and fruit growing oregon and washington do not grow vegetables enough by byone one half for their own consumption what we have in the way wa y of market gardening now is largely the work of chinese facts like these are facts in spite of all declamation As a people the chinese are not a desirable class since they are unfit for incorporation into the citizenship of the country but in every respect ct they are far less objectionable objection ab le and dangerous than tens of thousands from european countries who are admitted without v i phout question every year anarchists agitators beggars mountebanks mount ebanks and criminals of every degree the country can do without chinese of course but much work that would d contribute to its development win will remain undone there is no probability that chinese will ever be freely admitted again and this too in au ail circumstances is well since the ence of on an inferior race among superior beings being like ourselves is always a source of discontent which political agitators continually inflame in al all 1 circumstances therefore exclusion 0 of f the chinese is advisable or even necessary but still a word now and then on certain phases of the subject dictated by candor and common sense may not be intolerable |