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

Translation In the Shanghai Mercury.
The Shen Pao says China Is the most
populous country on the face of the earth
Dr. Timothy Richard. English mis-
sionary, published a chart Of the races ac-
cording TO which he calculated there were
$50 GDO,tsN of Chinese. Seeing how numer-
Gus we are compared to other nations. how
is it that we are inferior to the smallest of
them? 1t Is because the foreigners by the
use OF machinery can multiply their effec-
tiVeneSS so that one man can do the work.
say, of twenty Chinese unaided by mechan-
ical devices. Hence they can do a great
deal in comparison with their numbers
The producers are many. and the con-
SumerS are few.
In China 1t 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
1ICuce 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
Hourish 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 sentimo nts speedily. Three-tenths OF
imports are toys and the like, and
only seven-tenths are necessary articles or
daily life 1t is to these we should turn our
attention and see If We cannot manufac-
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
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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
iucement 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
If they came back to China.
HoT necessary, therefore that our gov
ernment should quickly provide some relief
for them either by making it endurable for
them to live in America, or by giving them
something to do II they return to China.
AT present We employ foreigners as teach
ers at great expense. How much better IL We
could employ Chinese who have mastered
the arts In America. 1t is usually thought
that there are few Chinese there who are
able TO 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 coolie class. If
we could get these men to return home. In
calculable advantages would speedily ac
Crue TO China.