The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-07
HATE AMERICANS.
Chinese in Singapore Despise
United States Tourists.
Miss Mateel Howe Has Expe-
rience Along This Line.
NEARLY MISSED SHIP.
Wherever the Atchison Editor
Goes, Whisky the Drink.
Admires the Manner in Which
English Control Natives.
MISSED SHIP.

Friday, December p.
We got away from Singapore yes
terday evening at 5 o'clock. The
Atehison girl had quite an adventure
there. 1 went uptown with her, but
firing of sightseeing early in the after
noon. returned to the ship, leaving the
girl in the care of Mrs. Williamson.
The two went shopping. looking par
ticularly for a small Christmas tree
There was no such thing in the stores.
so the Atchison girl and Walker, Mrs.
Williamson's maid. took rickshaws,
and went out to a nursery in the sub
urbs- They found the tree, and started
to return, but the Chinese rickshaw
men We're slow. and the time for the
departure of the ship rapidly APP
preaching; so they left the rickshaw
and engaged a carriage, paying the
rickshaw men for two hours, although
they had not been out that long. But
the rickshaw men were not satisfied,
and held the horses attached to the
carriage. The situation was becoming
decidedly interesting, when a strange
American came along, vigorously kick
ed the two Cinnamon, and the carriage
driver hurried away to the ship.
The Chinese are in the majority at
/ Singapore, and the American boycott is
worked there for all it is worth. When
| a business man wishes to injure his
rival, he starts a story that his rivals
business is backed by American cap
/ itaI. I saw deniaIs of several such
| stories in the Singapore papers when
1 was there. The Singapore street rail-
way was said to be owned by American
/ capital, and business at once fell off,
! so the manager offered to forfeit a
! thousand pounds to a Chinese hospital
/ if he could not prove the story untrue;
! There are so many nationalitieS and
I religions in this section that a business
man must be extremely careful. A
/ story was started that a certain brand
/ of condensed milk was made of pigs
I milk: an absurdity, of course, but eX-
/ tremely religious people are always
/ looking for insults. Certain of the
/ sects look upon the pig as unclean, so
/ they quit buying that particular brand
| of condensed milk. The manufacturer
/ is in a rage, but he can do nothing.
A Chinese play now being presented
/ at Singapore represents the story OF
/ the Chinese boycott of American goods
/ in a manner calculated TO infame the
passions of the Chinese. The Chinese
/ boycott of American goods, according
] to business men, is assuming very
serious proportions. Tt began. as yot
/ know, as a retaliatOry measure be
| cause of the American act excluding
| Chinese from American territory. AS
/ China is expected TO advance rapidly
in the near future, American manufac-
turers are furious. It is generally be
lieved here that the American ex-
clusion act should be repealed. but Of
course it never will be. We admit
worthless people of other nations, by
the million. but viii not admit the
! Chinese. who are always industrious
/ economical, and we'll behaved. The
/ Chinese exclusion act was adopted tC
! please the hoodlums of San Francisco
and we will never get rid of it, al
though the best people of California
say the state is suffering because OF
the need of Chinese industry. The
/ Chinese are needed in the Philippines
and in many sections of the west bu
the politicians are cowardly, and viii
stand by the exclusion act
In a Singapore paper I picked VI
yesterday, I saw a statement that
tiger had been lately killed within
few miles of the town. Thirty o.
forty years ago. when Singapore was
village. tigers swan across from thu
mainland of Jaypore, three mile
away. gorged themselves on natives
and then returned. In Ceylon. wher'
IL expect to be in a few days, they tel
a bigger story than that: A lot o
men erected a large stockade, ran