Smyrna times., 1889-02-06
A Chinaman's Views of
America.

. Caucasian civilization in America
, nothing to brag of, according to lette
recently written by young China
, man IN New York to his father in Fo
0hoW, China, and translated by VIM
4. ,. Fales. Hear the Monaghan:
BELOVED AND RESPECTED PARENT
Your esteemed letter via. the s. s
City OF Para, has arrived and given me
great pleasure
The more l study Americans tb,
more l am convinced that tbev or,
mentally diseased. Instead of doine
everything in common sense manner
tney Try all they can to do it in the
very opposite way. At home, for ex-
aHple, you ana the other members OF
your Mutual Health Association nav
Dr Wun Lung and his assistants a lib.
erai salary to keep you all well, and
pay nothing when you are sick. On
thls account he and his Young men
WORK very assiduOusly in regularly
ealing and examining every member
OF the union, and all of you eniov COM
parative immunity from illness. Here
IA New York physician is paid for bv
Ihe amount of your sickness, and the
less aOle you are to earn anV money
the larger and more onerous is his hill
AS a result many doctors. am told
yield to temptation and keep their cus'
toners sick. The consequence is that
those who have the largest number of
SICK and dying are the richest. most es-
teemed and influential, while in China
they would be Ostracised and NOT al.
lowed to practice.
Inc American system of medicine is
Just as grotesque, but is more dificult
LOT foreigner to understand. Our
own Is very simple. We use the veg
etaDie slmples which centuries have
SHOWN TO be beneficial in times of i'll
ness. Here they do nothing of the
sort. They have two kinds of doctors
That hate each other in the most dis
gustlng way, and call each other hard
names upon the smallest pretext. One
kIhd uses thousands of different kinds
OF polsoEs, and yet knows so little
ABOUT them that it employs other men.
apothecarles and chemists, to make
ana explain the pOisons. The other
AIau uses sugar or water mixed with
so llttle medicine that no man in the
world can tell two of their drugs apart.
On account of the bitter war between
tue Two opposing schools of their doe
tors, the Americans trust neither.
" hen they are sick they 20 to their
meulclne-makers, a class of smart and
energetic manufacturers, who advertise
Ihelr goods in all the newspapers. So
lar as l can learn the manufacturers
are much more successful in curing the !
SICK than are the doctors proper. AS
a result the medicine-men grow rich |
very rapidly and occupy a high place |
IN the community.
Their social customs are even mora |
curious and Objectionable. When a |
woman receives other women at home |
she covers up all her body except her
lace and hands. When she is allowed |
10 receive men at home she covers her
nands ana her arms up to the elbow.
out exposes her face, neck, shoulder
upper arms, back and breast. Thew
DO TINS also in their great public build
ings You will hardly believe me
when l state that in one large theatre
where they perform music and dance.
there are often a thousand women
naked in this wise. In summer thew
go ina other opposite, and. especially
aU sea-siue cities expose the feet, legs,
arms, throat and face.
Morality depends upon money. fla
poor woman has lover besides her
husband she is very badly treated, and
II she meet him on the street is arrest
ed and put in Jail. If she is rich she
can nave as many as she pleases and no
one ever bothers her. Sewing.girls
ana domestic servants who engage in
love affairs are made Outcasts, but ac-
tors and singers are Immediately es-
teemed and hOnored, their wages being
largely increased and their companV
sought more and more by distinguished
people. 1t is improper for woman to
work. If she does labor in any honest
trade she is despised by all of her sex
who do not.
But 1t IS in regard to trades-unions
mat find the greatest difference be- /
tween America and our own land
VITA us society of workingmen en-
ieaVors to alleviate the condition of |
sach member, to secure places for those !
)ut OF employment, to keep a doctor. |
VINO IS salarled by the society, and
VINO visits, treats, gives medicine, diet '
ma dellcacies to sick members: to c
provide for sufferers from accidents Z
.nd disease, to educate the children of t
nose who are very poor or of those
Who die, and to repair the homes of e
heir fellows which have been injured c
~ fire or flood. s
With the Americans it is Just the op- il
,osite. They value men only from I
he money they can pay in dues, as I
essments and subscriptions, and the Y
influence they exert in political life.
strange to say, political influence de-
'ends not upon intellect, ability or
ulture, but on the amount of alcoholic d,
lquor a man can drink, and the extent
o which he can indulge in drunken
less. Thus, where our labor societies ,,
meet in churches and city halls. theirs u
ssemble mostly in liquor stores. a
v hen one of their members gets sick :,
nd cannot pay dues they expel him =
rom the union, and refuse to recog. v
NC him. As a result they have here :
what we know nothing of at home :
uge buildings called warehouses. 8
and lms-hOuses, which :
re crowded the year through by thou y
ands and tens of thousands of able =
odied and intelligent men. This is !
indeed a country of opposites. =