The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-04-03
CHINESE CALLED HOME
PRESS SUGGESTS THEIR
RETURN.
Army of Chinese Instructors in Foreign
of Foreigners

The Shen Pao says China is the most
pOpulOus country on the face of the
earth. Dr. Timothy Richard, an Eng
fish missionary, published a chart of the
races according to which he calculated
there were $50, 600 of Chinese See
ing how numerous we are compared to
other nations, how is it that we are in
feriOr to the smallest of them? 1t is
because the foreigners by the use Of
machinery can multiply their effect
ivenesS so that one man can do the
work, say, of twenty Chinese unaided
by mechanical devices. Hence they
can do a great deal in comparison with
their numbers. The producers are many
and the consumers are few.
In China it is very different. The
consumers are many and the producers
are few. Hence the unemployed are
daily increasing in numbers.
OF these some are honest and have
all they can do to look out for them
selves. Others are gradually forced in
to dishonest courses to keep body and
soul together. Hence the dangerous
class is on the increase. The response
bility for this increase must be laid
at the door of the government, which
fails to nOurish its people.
How do the foreigners then manage
to nOurish their people? Because they
have manufactures in addition to agri-
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 seven
tenths are necessary articles of daily
life. 1t is to these we should turn
our attention, and see if we cannot
manufacture 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 COuntrymen 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 discourage Chinese
immigration, and perhaps finally cause
those already there to return home.
Then and then only will their working
classes cease to fear Chinese labor.
Hitherto we confess, there has been no
inducement 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 submissiVeneSS
leads to further exactions, until our
poor cOuntrymen are between the devil
and the deep sea. To stay is misery,
to return is impossible. They could not
get on if they came back to China.
How necessary, therefore that our
government should quickly provide
some relief for them either by making
it endurable for them to live in Ameri-
ca, or by giving them something to do
if they return to China. At present we
employ foreigners as teachers at great
expense. How much better if we
could employ Chinese who have mas
tered the arts in America. 1t is usual
ly thought that there are few Chinese
there who are able to do more than
coolie work But it is not so. The to-
bacco foctories, brush factories, chemi-
cal factories, laundries, match factor
les, shirt, shoe and wooden factories
i'm all these trades hald 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, incalculable adj
vantages would speedily accrue to
| Translation in Shanghai Mer-
curry.