594 TRAXSACTIOyS OF THE AMERICA X IXSTITUTE. 



as America, witli te:i of a better qnalitj tlian China produces ; for it is 

 a Avell known fact tliat tlie Chinese adulterate and color the tea? 

 exported, and not nnfrequently have tliey been once used and then 

 doctored np for the home markets. 



The quality and quantity, herein stated, can be nearly doubled if 

 the land be broug-ht under a high state of cultivation ; and if 

 machinery, now invented, be brought into use, the manufacturing 

 charges co^ld be reduced one-half. This, then, is convincing proof 

 that America ought to be one day the greatest tea-producing country 

 in the world. 



Inducement to Immigkation. 



Once the tea plantations are established iu the State of California, 

 there will be an inducement to the surplus population of the old 

 world to emigrate at a far greater rate than they do now. It takes 

 one man to two aci'es, and that alone to produce the tea ; there 

 would, therefore, be 500,000 men, women and children as an 

 immediate increase of population, the transit, increase of railway 

 traffic and river boats, besides the necessary augmentation of the agri- 

 cultural portion of the community to grow.food for the former; alto- 

 gether it would be the cause of an addition of 1,000,000 to the 

 population; and labor is at all times, to a new country like Cali- 

 fornia, wealth. 



Intkodvction of Chinese. 



In China there are hundreds of able-bodied men who would be 

 ■glad to avail themselves of the opportunity to quit their land of 

 oppression, and take service on the ifliores of California, more 

 especially with the prospect of getting such work as the growth and 

 manufacture of tea. They could be engaged for a term of from 

 three to five years, and would be valuable men, much more so than 

 any other class, for tiie manufacturing department. Strong, healthy 

 men would be required for Jtoeing and jt>/r>iy«w^, and women and 

 children for the plucking of leaf. The Chinese are a race of clever, 

 ingenious people, and, if treated well, are good servants, especially 

 when under the laws of a country like the United States, which 

 recognizes all inen as entitled to an equality before its tribunals of 

 justice. 



The Permanent Laborer. 



This class should, if possible, be looked up(>n as part of the great 

 family ; that is, they should be housed and fed at the expense of the 



