The Washington times., 1902-04-12
UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME.
Mr.. Green on the Chinese.

Representative Henry d. Green of
! Pennsylvania is one of the most delight
ful story tellers in the House. And he is
always sure to have crowd around him
in the Democratic cloak room every
morning. for the member from Pennsyl-
vania is always obliging.
Mr.. Green is "agin the Chinaman." lie
wants the willy Celestial to remain in the
| Orient and. therefore, is in favor of Chi
nese exclusion as provided for in the bill
recently passed by the House.
The gentleman from the Keystone State
was one of the Congressional party that
last summer visited China and the Philip
pines. Speaking of his visit to the Flow
cry Kingdom. Mr. Green yesterday drew
this picture of Canton:
The most unique city in the world Is,
to my mind. Canton. which has two and
a half millions of inhabitants; and not a
single wheel moves there, not even
wheelbarrow. with no beast of burden eX-
cept man. More than that. We were un-
able TO get through the streets in this city
except in a sedan chair, carried by from
three to four coolies. The streets of the
city are between six and eight feet in
width; they rarely go beyond that. There
is an immense amount of property in
the shape of merchandise in that town.
The people are most Industrious work
men. Every kind of hand work that re-
quires a skilled artisan is made in that
place. l saw embroidery there that must
have taken skilled women at least from
three to six months to make. and it was
sold for the sum of from $3.50 to 81 in
gold. and that. of course. took in the
value of the materials which entered into
it. which were of the finest Skilled arti-
sans live here on 81 per month.
Il have not time to go into the details.
but wherever you turned the fact that
labor did not count forced itself upon
your attention. :Nerythng YVES cheap. but
labor was the cheapest. | asked at Hong
kong how much the British government
paid a day TO work on the roads in the
heat Of tl'~ sTilmer. and l received the
reDly that men were paid % cents MeXi
can. which is equal to 12la cents. and
women half as much.
IF we want to bring the American peC-
PIE down TO the plane OF life that that
exemplihes. all we have to do is to open
our doors to the hordes who know too
much of the wealth and the large wages
that can be earned in this country.
The Chinaman has many points by
which he will drive out even the American
worknen should he come here. People
make a great mistake who think he has
q
none who has greater or more. / will men
tion just few. In the first place he is
temperate.
You will never find drunken China
man at work. The drunken Chinaman is
where the Chinaman uses opium. and
that to no great extent, | Will say. il
respective OF what we may of it in
San Francisco and perhaps other towns. !
But throughout the Chinese Empire the |
Chinaman is temperate in the extreme. |
His temperance goes beyond that; he is |
really abstemioLs, not only in drink. in |
smoke. but in food alike.
AT Shanghai l visited the opium joints, !
halls, and places where the ma /
tives gather for amusement and enter !
tainment. The hour was not later than |
about 10 o'clock when | left, and by that /
time all the opium joints had shut up and |
their patrons departed, for they were |
empty. Few. comparatively, of the Chi
nese in China use opium to excess
It is just these facts, Mr.. Green said.
that makes it necessary to protect the
American worldngman against the COM
petition of Chinese labor.