Evening star., 1902-03-04
ALWAYS Ask for Diamond Dyes.
CALL THEM BACK.
A Suggestion That Chinese in America
Return Home.
TAKE NO OTHEI

Translation In the Shanghai Mercury.
The Shen Pao says China Is the most
populous country on the face OF the earth.
DR. Timothy Richard. an English mis-
sionary. published a chart Of the races ac-
cordng TO which he calculated there were
O,G1,tU of Chinese. Seeing how numer-
Gus we are compared to other nations how
is it that we are inferior to the smallest or
them? 1t Is because the foreigners by the
use of machinery can multiply their ef1ec-
tvenesS that one man can do the work.
say of twenty Chinese unaided by mechan-
ical devices. Hence they can do great
deal in comparison with their numbers.
The producers are many, and the con-
SumerS few.
In China it is very different. The con-
sumers are many and the producers are
few. Hence the unemployed are daily in
Creasing in numbers.
OF these some are honest and have all
they can do to look out for themselves.
Others are gradually forced into dishonest
courses to keep body and soul together
Hence the dangerous class Is on the IN
crease. The responsibility for this increase
must be laid at the door of the govern
ment which fails TO nourish it's people.
How do the foreigners then manage to
nourish their people? Because they have
manufactures in addition to agriculture. We
as nation have hitherto looked down upon
manufactures. but We will have to change
out sentiments speedily. Three-tenths OF
our imports are toys and the like, and
only seyen-tenths are necessary articles OF
daily life. 1t is to these we should turn our
attention. and see II We cannot manutac-
ture them for ourselves. 1t is said that this
will take at least ten years. Now we have
thought of plan which would be more
speedy. 1t is that We write our country
men who have learned the arts abroad to
return to China at once and teach us. BY
this plan we would at once secure an army
Of Chinese instructors.
The foreigners are afraid we In America
will rob them of their bowl of rice. and
hence their exclusion laws, upon which We
have often commented. Their ill-treatment
of our people there IS not due to hate but
to self interest. They hope that the effect
of stringent treatment will be to discour-
age Chinese immigration. and perhaps final
ly cause those already there to return
home. Then and then only will their work
ing classes cease to fear Chinese labor.
Hitherto we confess. there has been no in
ducement for them to return to China. They
fear that their mother country could have
no use for them, and hence they prefer to
remain and suffer in silence. This subms-
siveneSs leads to further eXactions. until
our poor countrymen are between the devil
and the deep sea. To stay is misery, to re-
turn is impossible. They could not get on
IL they came back to China.
How necessary. therefore. that our gov
ernment should quickly provide some relief
for them either by making 1t endurable for
them to live in America, or by giving them
something to do If they return to China.
Al present we employ foreigners as teach
ers at great expense. How much better If We
could employ Chinese who have mastered
the arts in America. 1t Is usually thought
that there are few Chinese there who are
able 10 do more than coolie work. But 1t Is
not So The tobacco factories. brush fac
tories. chemical factories, tailoring and
canning factories. laundries. match factO-
ries. shirt. shoe and wooden factories, An
all these trades half the employees are white
and half yellow. This shows that there are
plenty who are above the coolle class If
we could get these men to return home. in
calculable advantages would speedily ac-
Crue to China