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Show CIIINf)!. lull IlltJ.IU One of the paucngers wbo pitied tbrouli Utah on n train bound for Man Kranclrco tbo first of the present week waa Uharlcs 11. Carlisle, ol Itlo do Janeiro, Urar.ll. lie Is on Ills way to Chins nnd Japan U complain arrangements ar-rangements for a stupendous oolonlta tlonjroject (or Hiulli America. Ho Intends to secure laborers far tho vast co(rreplanlBtlonaorilraill,audexpccU to bring In It) ),00J Chinese nn I Japanese Japa-nese eaoli year for tho next rlvo or six years. Mr. Carlisle Is aingulno of turceiF, and thinks ho has solved the problem ol what shall be dono with tho Utile yollow men ol the orient. Tho lesson assigned (or this vast schemo ol Importing laborers Is the straits to which Iho largo colleo plant-eta plant-eta o( llraill ro driven to aecuro em t loyes. The native laborers mid former form-er slaves (rout Africa, It la said, no longer erditra the tasks set for them. Tho Africans congregate In little villages lu the woods, nnJ labor only n sulTUIent length of time to obtain mtanaol existence In n sort of semi-bar semi-bar I orous fashion; whllo tho native Drsilllan aro csrcful t avoid, where-over where-over ieslbl, Iho grinding toll that Is expected cf laborers ou tho plantations. planta-tions. The statement Is made that during Iho past year there weru lost In llraill, brcauso of lusufllcle. t help to harvest lists crop, rcr 01)0,003 bags of coflee, whllo In other Hauth American countllts another O),00) bags went to wiate. This amount rcprn.oiils to tho lltntcraauaitiiallossol $S,OJO,000 lo 510,000,00). rias waste In the two I receding years was even In excels ol Hut, but the last year this was reduced somen hat by llio Importation of Herman Her-man and Italian laborer. II Is statu 1 that during two years 183,030 Italians nud half that numbsr of Hermans wtre brought over. The firm with which Mr. Carlisle has bccia connected now hat a contract with tho government govern-ment fir 10,000 moro Uermans and Italians. In securing these people iLey are ottered free Ira spirtitlon and all ex, ecse paid alter they laud nnd uu II they aro engaged to won. There Is oue feature, however, which la sum to mako ttio 1-uropsana ob'cci-tlonablo ob'cci-tlonablo ns contract labors. That Is, that the mil arliy ul tlieai, aftor they bare been in tbo country one or two years, or lonj uuotight) gnlu nn understanding un-derstanding ol utlalrs, ooncelva an Idea that they can batter thoraselves, and embark In their own entirprlsos. lu this way they gradually drift Into thocltlca or estates of their own, and thus (lantatlon laborers booams a scarcity. The llrailllan government lias taken a step lu the way of encouraging Immigration Im-migration from China by arranging (or consuls lu every Important city la the Chinese empire, llarou de LaJrlo, at tbo head of an embassy from llraill, Is now In Kuope, ou Ills way to Teklu, to negotiate a treaty with the emperor and I.l lluug Chang, A stipulation Is to be made that the laborers Imported Im-ported aro to bo free, though their labor lata be secured ns cheaply aa possible. pos-sible. A lino of steamers with government auppoit Is also to Iw put on between llio deJauelro nnd Hong Kong, going via Capo of Good Hope. Four vessels have already been chartered chart-ered lu London (or tills purpose. They aru expected to carry is freight from llraill coLTee, sugar, caooa and rubber; anil on Ihu irturu from Chlnre will brlug coal, r loo and coolies. Thosteam-ship Thosteam-ship lino la also uuthorltoJ to open up a tradowlth New Urloans nnd along tbe coast at ojuvenletil ports. Whether the Importation (JUIneso nnd Japanese laborers to Houlh America Ameri-ca will furnish to tho plantations the cheap labor duilroJ, miy boun open question. Tho fstt U that tbu planters ol llraill have not ytt loarncd to treat their laborers other than m serfs. Tho emancipation of the slaves by Horn Tedro seems not to liavo dawncl In Its (ull force ns yet upon the plantation owners. In 1691 a large number of laborers from Uoglaud wero taken under contract to llraill. lust year the llrlt'sli government govern-ment brought them back, or what was left ol them. The sun hots told a tale ol horrible sullerlug. They staled that they wure placed uuder taskmasters taskmas-ters who drova them 1 1 work llku so msuy caltlf, and used olube and whlS lo them utter tho "uljgtr.drlver" ta.lilon of palmy slavery times. Uuder this treatment women aud children sank and died under tliu most painful circumstance, nnd even elrong men sjou collapsed. Iflhoaamu methods ure jursued with tho German lend Italia n label ers, and from Information received there Is no doubt they are to agrrntixtent, tbe cllirt ol Ihuo clarets to better Ihemielves mills not so much from n eloslro to i'et luto the cities or broaino vstalu owners as from desperate eagerness lofreo thuiKilviw from n buudngu that Is gulling lu the txlreme, beluu sluviri In fait It not lu name. It is lo I e lii'I ed that with tho Mongolian Mon-golian tho Ilrailllauoolleopliiiterwl.i havo uu belli r success thun with tin I.uro tun. It Is not likely that bo will havu for long. Ho needs to bo educated educat-ed up la it standard Wheru be will nuluo tint slavery Is u thltnr ol Uu last. At (resent ho Is beneath turn iUui,nud tbu llrailllan govcrnmen' In giving nld to thu ichtmei for tho lmporlullon of c n nut law Isusrrylug out a h ml-.lmery oil tllit merllii severo c uduiiiiilioii, 1 maybe well Hint thu ese,inu ' , now lo bo tried with lt.u liiiueic; lar, bbbbbbVbbbbbbbbB Judging by the native cunning whloli this oriental rsco has exhibited In the United 8'ates, It will not be many yeara before the "heatben Chinee," If congregated In Booth America In such numbers as Is proposed In Ibe prcsayit soliemr, will ahow the colleo plantsra a lilck worth two ol pressing them Into aerfdom, and will themsalvea lcomo plantation I roprlelore and com-pelltora com-pelltora In such n way that tho llrstlll-ana llrstlll-ana will be (ar moro casrlo get rid o( their presence than they now are to secure their cheap labor. |