The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-10-20
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The Chinese quarter on Mott street i:
getting to look as much like Il Chinese
city as Sacramento street III San Fran
cisco. In New York the Chinese arc
fully protected by the police, and most
OF them are earnest scholars IN Sabbath
schools. They are watched over care
fully by the churches. There is no species
! Of RIGHTEOUSNESS visible in the entire
quarter. They have their Joss houses
or GOD houses where they go to pray, as
we go to our churches. Their faith is
about ike the Unitarian or Jewish faiths.
They believe in one God, who has such
attributes as omniscience, omnipresence
and potentiality. They reject all prophets
who claim to have a spiritual con-
nection with God. They say God is too
great to need prophet or assist
ant Their food is usually rice, peanuts,
oil, sugar and cheese They live on
about eight cents per day, and are
healthy and fat. They are al learning
to talk English. They never fight un-
less first assaulted, and then it is for pro-
lection. The Irish are fighting all
around them, but the Chinaman is only
curious spectator Yesterday an Irish
man and his wife were fighting in front
OF the JOSS house. A reporter asked one
of the twenty Cinnamon who was watch
ing the scrimmage why the Cinnamon
didn't fight too.
'You wantee know why Ilishman and
Mclean man likee fghtee?" asked John,
avoiding the spirit OF the question.
"No, I want to know why you China
men don't tight?"
''Ilishman and Mclean man. said
John, still avoiding the question, "him
fghtee cause he haid of him wifee.
Mclean velly fond stay out latee. Him
wifee get heap mad-taka poka-say,
Me giyee him ft'-takee pitchee lice
wata-sav, Me coolee him off. Bimeby
Mclean man come home, takee off him
shoe, stealee upstay-say, Me foolee ole
woman ALE same him wifee open him
eye-say, :Ha! why you be SO latee?
W-ha time you think him be?' Den
Mclean man him say, You BETA leavee
me lone-me vclly bad man. Me see
tightee ale night-Patsee Hogee-Paddy
Lyan. Me heap sabe Sullivan-knock
YOU out in minute Me sabe Muldoon
-givee you fal-bleakee you neck.
You let up; me velly tough man-muchee
wosec man Sullivan.
':What does his wife do then, JoLn?"
asked the reporter.
''Den him wifee catchee polka. Hittee
him veIly haid. Flo icee wata all oyel
him. Takee him wipe de flo. Mclean
man yelle, SIudda! fl! f. pleece.'
"And then what?'
':Nexa day newspapa heap muchee
talkee, veuy bad on Mclean man
Mclean man, him 60 Chicago, get
divolce, catchee nudda wifee, sabe heap
money, all velly nappee. ="
Three apparently bright young men
totally failed in their civil service exami-
nations for positions in the Custom
House last week. The young men now
lay their failure to the fact that they did
not attend the public schools, but, being
Catholics, they attended private Cathoz
lie schools, where they were not taught
thoroughly. One candidate who failed,
a Mr.. Mccullough, was very indignant.
When I asked him if he blamed the civil
service examiners, he said:
'sNo, sir; l do not. l blame my pa
rents for taking me ont Of our splendid
public schools, where everything is
taught through the Normal school sys-
TEN, and where all the teachers are Nor
NAL school graduates, and sending me to
4 school where was taught more re-
igion than geography
"Then you do not think the average
Catholic church school is as good
place for boy to get an education in as
our regular American public school?" 1
inquired.
SCertainly I do not. / shall hence
forth send my children to the New York
public schools. am a Catholic, but l
am not willing to cripple my children as
1 myself have been crippled. If [ had
gone to our public schools I would now
be in the Custom House at l,6O0 per
year. Instead failed in my examina-
ton and go back to q menial place
where l only make $500. No boy who
graduates at the average Catholic school,
where they have old fashioned books,
old fashioned systems and solemn and
shallow teachers, will be able to pass
these civil service examinations. We
Catholics are hurting ourselves. We are
keeping ourselves in the mud through
ignorance when we could go to the pub
lie schools without money and without
price, and fit ourselves to cope with the
rest Of the world. Ii We want to take a
place among educated Americans We
must quit all nonsense and 60 to Ameri-
can schools and colleges.
ELI PERKINS.