Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-14
Why the Chinese Students Go.

The departure OF the Chinese stu
dents from the Eastern schools has
been the occasion of many surmises.
The opinions are various. TIE WASH
ington Post of August 20,h ssys:
Young Wi Chaing, the Assistant Com
missioner of L iucation, will Start for
China on Monday With another party
of Chinese students mum 5ering forty.
1t Is said, also, that in September Com
missioner Woo will return with the
rest, ana tie establishment OF Hartford
will be closed up and deserted. Young
Wi Chaing thinks bis Government will
eventually send on another lot of boys
70 be educated. He denies that his
Government is removing the students
because they are becoming American
lied, bur be says that the boys came
here when about 10 yeara old, sud row
have grown up till they all range from
ID to II years of age, and it is tine
that some use was bring made Of them
They will all be put ut work on the new
telegraph Iin- fran Picking to Tientsin
Some of them who have been here since
they were ID years old have forgotten
their own language 10 such an extent
that they eau with difficulty carry on a
conversation in it. He says, further,
that the Chinese Government has de
cided to adopt - military systt IN
modelled after West Point and it will
be located at T'eutsin.
There is another view, however the
Chinese side. This is presented 10y a
correspondent of the New York Herald
writing from TleDtsin, China, July 10 b,
who gives what he calls the inside
facts which have caused the recall of
the students. Hs says:
You in America are already informed
of the breaking up of the Chinese Edu-
caticral Mission. 1t is great pity to
discontinue so useful and promising a
work. The people in America are
familiar with the circumstances Of its
establishment through the influence
aud under the auspices of the educated
Cninaman, Yung Wing, who WAS grad
uated ct Harvard College and married
an American wife. He induced the
Chinese Government to appropriate
about 81 .O00, 600 from the customs rev
enue for senting some boys to America
to be educated IN military and naval
science and in other scientific branches.
The mission was established in 1872,
and in three years thereafter 12O boys
were at school in America.
Ever since that we have always heard
that these boys were doing well in the
schools aud colleges Of America, as re-
CARDS both scholarship and conduct,
so that the Government was satisfied
and had not thought of interfering with
the mission or of disseminating it.
But when the present Commissioner,
Woo Kia Shin, went to America. about
year and a half ago. he began to send
back adverse reports. He is scholar
of high rank in China. having the title
Han Lin. which is among the most i'm
portant literary degrees. But he seems
to belong to the conservative class Of
Cinnamon and to look with disiavor
upon the social customs and education
al methods of America.
All his reports were OF disparsging
and fault finding character, and he con-
timed to assert that it was quite i'm
possible to improve matters, go that he
recommeded lis adjustment.
Attic beginning of the present year
the Minister ut Washington, Chin Ian
Pin. WIS instructed to investigate The
matter an1 report TO the Government.
In this repor. "a" says: Mr.. Woo says.
| Although ''IH bays have not learned
all the useful arts and sciences, they
have already adopted all the bad GUS
toms Iof America. From what Mr..
Woo says judge tnat this mission will
be Of more harm than advantage to the
Chinese Government. There is no
need for the boys to stay longer. for
they have such beginnings of knowl-
edge that on their return to China they
eau perfect themselves. I judge that
the mission should be abolished
immediately"