THE CHINESE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 7, 1897

THE CHINESE.

Thrifty and patient and cunning as Jews, says Mr. L. Hearn, the Chinese can accommodate themselves to any climate and to any environment. They can live in Java or in Siberia, in Borneo or in Tibet. Unlike the modern Jews, however, they are more to be feared in industry than in commerce, for there is scarcely any form of manual skilled labor at which they are not capable of killing white competition.

Their history in Australia has proved this fact. But in commerce also they are able to hold their own against the cleverest merchants of other races. They are adepts at combination, excellent financiers, shrewd and daring speculators. Tho not yet rivals of Europeans in that class of production dependent upon the application of modern science to manufacture, they have given proof of ability to master that science whenever the study can profit them. They are learning thoroughly the commercial conditions of every country which they visit; and tho the history of their emigration began within recent times, they are already to be found in almost every part of the world.