, 1900-09-24
A CHINESE LEW
GRADUATE OF AN AMERICAN
UNIVERSITY
Discusses the Present Anti Foreign X =
volt In His Native Land and Points
Out the Causes That Lie at the Root
of 1t.

The causes of the present anti-for-
eign revolt in China are intelligently
discussed by a Chicago Chinaman, Y.
P. Cheng. a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Michigan. Speaking of the sit
uation he says:
1T may be true the Chinese are not
a progressive people and they are slow
to perceive the full value of improve
ments. 1t is true our country is rich
in natural wealth, and my people see
foreigners come into the land, taking
unto themselves what they call
spheres of influence and then behold
the results. The intruder develops
our country in sundry and divers
ways. The natural wealth is taken
from the ground or mountain. But of
every 800 of this wealth the China
man gets not more than $40, and the
balance, or 800, goes to the foreigner.
The foreigner spends comparatively
no more money in our country than
the Chinese spend here, yet there they
make many fold more than the people
of the land. while here the Chinaman
is still the under dog.
The Chinese have had demon
strated to them in a thorough and
practical n by the improvements
CT Foreigners that their natural re-
sources can be developed and add great
wealth to the nation.
They have become envious of the
intruders who carry away the wealth
under their eyes with little ceremony
and no apologies.
The Chinese want their country de-
vcloped. but they wish to wait for the
time when it can be done solely by
Chinese. who will reap the full re-
wards of their labor without seeing the
major portion of it stolen away by
those who have usurped the rights of
others to gain the rights which they
falsely claim to themselves.
THE Chinese people are simple in
many things, but they are not to be so
easily fooled after all. They know as
well as anybody knows that Russia's
great desire to build a railroad through
our empire is marked both by com
mercial enterprise-the tendencies of
the times on the part Of the world
powers to expand-and also to be af-
forded an avenue for military opera
tions from ocean to ocean in times OF
both wal and peace.
This great agent OF civilization
this gigantic railway system necessi-
tates the maintenance of a standing
-, in anu,try Tho rnoI 10 MOT
completed. The army is necessary
now; when all laid and ready for the
running of trains a much larger body
of armed men will be kept in ouI
midst. The Chinese know what this
means. They know what bodies Of
Russian. German, French and English
troops kept in permanent quarters
signifies for the future They fear II
bodies i'll for them. and they may be
right.
The soldiers Of these armies, es'
p~ecially the Russians and Germans, ap
propriate to their personal use the pri
vate property of the Chinese. In
stances of this kind are not rare, bu
of common occurrence. There is NJ
i'TIN' ~ liShio VI oNi'iS. ~
country is crowded. a nation tina
KEGS SO many Of its inhabitants II
hOuseboats is not n ready to fur
nish those ousted from their premise:
new homes.
Again, in building the big Russian
railway. what you Americans call al
air line was constructed. Their RICH
| DF ,V1V fhpp no--,it.pi M ono tn n1pS
ton. If necessary they won their wa!
by force of arms. They ordered peo
pie away from their homes and If they
did not leave. tore away the roof!
from over their heads and levelet
their houses to the ground. And from
this there was nc redress.
Where the family and the forefath
ers had lived for centuries is a place
held sacred by Chinese. The parenta
roof is not to be despoiled or de
stroyed and the occupants left home
less and have them make light of thu
whole affair.
Human nature Is the same thu
world over, and self-preservation Is
Law that ~r&as all men. The Chinese
are no different in this resDect from
anybody else. The great bands o
steel that are fast girdins their sec
ton of the earth Is to them an evi
spirit. 1t may be the pathway o
progress All civilization and an active
agent to raise the Chinese to a more
prog. essire stage. bat hat view is no
held by my people"