Charles Crocker Quotes
Let’s give them a try. They built the Great Wall of China didn’t they?
Crocker’s railroad was way behind schedule for laying of track. The problem was an acute shortage of manpower. Someone suggested that they try Chinese labor. However Crocker’s superintendent of construction, James Strobridge, felt that they were too small, not strong enough, and inexperienced at construction. Soon Crocker had 11,000 Chinese workers. The Chinese were wonderful construction workers and the Southern Pacific Railroad thrived as other employers also began using Chinese workers.
Charles Crocker, 1822-1888, President of the Southern Pacific Railroad, California State Legislator, Response to James Strobridge
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The great wall of China was built just as much to keep the Chinese in as to keep the barbarians out.
The Chinese 1st Emperor had unified China by brutal war. His troops and government were more sophisticated than the others and they were particularly sophisticated about drafting soldiers, forcing the civilian population to manufacture weapons for the huge military and to levy and collect taxes. Many people in the conquered provinces fled from China. The Emperor responded to the outside ‘barbarians’ and the fleeing Chinese by connecting the many walls that existed on the Chinese border into one unified wall as much to keep his labor force in China as to keep others out.
America’s Promise Ministries is one of America’s ultra-conservative, hate groups. Like most of these organizations, this one did not realize that all so called “whites” descended from Blacks who were the earliest humans.
Most of us have little idea of many of the benefits that have come from the native, indigenous population of the Americas. And most assume that it was only Europe that interacted with the “New World”. China however obtained the sweet potato from South America and its productivity and nutritional value benefitted those areas of China not ideal for rice cultivation.
At the time there was no Western City of comparable size.
At the time, the President wanted to get Chiang to fight aggressively against to Japanese when he was taking large amounts of American monetary aid and military equipment but using it to try and exterminate Mao and his Communists who were fighting the Japanese. FDR was clearly trying to flatter Chiang and his wife and gain political points with the China Lobby but it is not known whether or not he really believed this and other statements. Chiang was a vicious, cruel, corrupt military dictator but he had become a “Christian” and always spoke of the importance of democracy of which there was none in China. Our intelligence from China was very bad at the time, with the secret reports of General Stillwell (the senior American military man in China) and that of a few state department China hands were in total contradiction to the Public information that the President was receiving from Henry Luce and his Time Magazine and the large China Lobby, much of which was ironically paid for with the American AID money given to China. So it is not known whether Roosevelt actually believed this and other statements or was just being diplomatic.
Charles Crocker was an American railroad executive who was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad, which constructed the westernmost portion of the first transcontinental railroad, and took control with partners of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
