The Portland daily press., 1894-05-08
ao.inst Chinese sunday-schools.


Press dispatches bring the intelligence
of trouble in Chicago over the Chinese
Sunday school question. If Chicago en-
ters into internal discussions with the
same torrent of energy which she dis
plays when combined against common
enemy, the prospect of a general falling
out there cannot but make the hardest
shudder; bus possibly the present dlfn-
Guilty may be settled without vigorous
measures.
The trouble in question seems to nave
been brewing for some time. the actual
outbreak being precipitated by recent
banquet rendered their teachers by the
Chinese Sunday school of the FIRST Tres
byterian church. We need scarcely say,
perhaps, that it is the Chicago men VINO
are rising p against the Chinese sunday
school. Already they are organized un-
der the title of the Anti-Chinese Sunday
School Society. The society proposes TO
aagitate against the custom Oh allowing
Young girls to act as teachers IN SUNDAY
schools where each Chinaman has a
teacher TO himself" This certainly
does seem like wanton extravaganza III
girls. The visible supply OF girls Is
aIways limited-in fact. there is gen
eralIy a distinct shortage in girls, as I'D
most other good things-and When IL
comes to drawing off girl Tor eacn
Chinami.n it leaves an actual strlngency
in girls which is positively painful. Inc
young zen of Chicago ASK WY one glri
WON'T do for ten or dozen Chlnaneh.
Their idea is that at least as many
Cinnamon as this can listen to the ln-
struction which fall from the lips OF
oirl Sunday school teacher as we'll as
one. But the Chinese have different
views. and vigorously adhere TO the one
Chinaman one girl tenet. In IacG 6hey
won't come to Sunday scnooi ao all IN
der any other conditions.
The Anti-Chinese Society,", however,
does not base its crusade on the depleG-
ion which the system makes IN the rank
of the girls. but on the charge that the
mild and guileless children OF Mlodle
Kingdom are unmitiagted scounurels,
who come to Sunday school solely W on
low the society of the young women
teachers. one teacher to each unmlt1gaG-
ed scoundrel. AS a horri Bile example
thev hold I'D Mr.. Mock Moon, the presl-
dent of the Chinese Christian Endeavor
Society On the very day of the banquet
he had been arrested and released. Ine
childlike Moon, however, explains 1nls
by saying that he was arresteo because
he refused to give cigar to a policeman;
and II cannot be denied that, heathen
though he be, he has, in his poor bind
wav hit upon story with a certain
amountsof usibility in 1T. 1t shows that
a man NAV bow down to wood ana stone
and still make a considerable study OF
policemen out of the corners Oh MS
eyes. u+ +ha now
society has a good-sized job on its hands,
because not only are the Cinnamon OPP
nosed to any change, but the teachers as
we'll. There are in the school forty
scholars, and as many teachers, all put
five of the latter being young Wonen.
These five are men, and the Chinameh
under their guidance are said to com
Main bitterlyn and hold on at all only in
the hope of better things. The thirty
five Young women are reported as en-
tbusiastic over the Chinamen," Wnom
they find siusI lovely" and gentle as
children They of course rally around
Mock Moon and applaud his nopie f.
fusal to give, the uncrupulous oinGer 1ne
cigar. even though he knew that ne
mist suffer arrest in consequence. just
how the ANUS" are going to work Is
NOT. stated. beyond the. somewhat linden.
mite remark that they Will agl5ate'
Agitation will in some cases 90 great
deal. but it can never accomplish inucn
against thirty-fve determined young
women. A young woman is probably the
most discourging thing to agitate
against which there is. She, may fire.
o11ently be successfully coaxed, but sell
dom agitated against. The society
should be on it's guard lest the young
women begin themselves to ag!tate ana
agitate it out of town. The police, TOO.
shonld cease to make demands upon the
bland Mock Moon, or they also may get
a taste of agitation The public at large
is looking on with interest-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
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