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CHINESE RELIGIONS AND INSTITUTIONS. 163
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and egress from the empire were governmental regulations.
The policy was eventually changed ; and Chinamen are now
everywhere in the great cities of the world, and the out-ofthe-way
islands of the Pacific,— servants, agriculturists, artisans,
as circumstances demand.
Every Chinese dealer, buyer and seller, has his own scales.
They can not trust to others. They live cheap, except on
feast-days, and keep their valuables in tall stone buildings
called by Englishmeii "pawn-shops." In detecting counterfeit
coin they are experts, depending entirely upon the
touch and the ring of the metal. While canals are very
common, they have no railways, no telegraphic lines, and
no insurance-offices. In money-making they excel, and yet
they are not considered miserly.
It matters little what rival Irish laborers in America
may say or do : Chinamen are certain to flock westward in
increasing crowds. Competition in many directions, and ultimately
an intermingling of blood, an intermixture of the
whitish-pink and the olive-brown' races, — beneficial perhaps
to both the Orient and the Occident, — will be the result.
There are no white men on earth. The three original colors
were pink, copper, and black, corresponding to the equator,
the tropics, and temperate zones. Already in Australia and
the Pacific islands marriages are not uncommon between
Englishwomen and wealthy Chinamen. This cross of blood
and temperament produces handsome as well as very intelKgent
children. Is it a foreshadowing of their future social
life in America ?
MURDER OF THE INNOCENTS.
China is packed with people. Though ambitious crowds
emigrate, the old hive continues crammed. The Tai-Ping
war took off infatuated multitudes ; and provincial rebellions
result not uncommonly in a wholesale slaughter. Still the
country swarms with over-population. This fact is father
to much of the infanticide. Is there as rational an excuse