The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-09-07

cisco to Oberlin had taken US sixteen
| months, which is ninety-six times as
| long as it ought to be. I am sure
that can make much better time in
China if l travel on a donkey's back.
| Do you blame me for having such
| hard feelings against America as a
Nation, after the trying experience I
have above described? Can you be-
lieve that hundreds, yes, thousands of
Chinese are receiving such shameful
treatment all the time? For instance,
a high-class Chinese lady,. who came
here six years ago to join her hus-
band, who was a merchant in San
Francisco, was not allowed the priv
ilege of landing, and therefore she
drowned herself in San Francisco har-
Dor. You blame the Chinese for going
back to China with the money which
they earn by their honest labor, yet
hotels and restaurants on the Pacific
Coast refuse to entertain Chinese, and
the law of this country refuses them
the right to become citizens. The
Chinese are not allowed to bring their
wives to this country to live, yet the
State law of California forbids inter-
marriage between the Chinese and the
Americans. How can you blame them
under such circumstances? The peo-
pie accuse the Chinese of being filthy,
dirty, stupid, and rotten" in their
morals, while you allow the worst
classes from other nations to pour in
to this country annually by the thou
sands and tens of thousands.
The time is near at hand for me to
return to my fatherland. What shall
I say to my people about America?
Shall tell them, as an old lady kindly
advised me, everything that is good
about America, but nothing bad?
Shall tell them of my warm welcome
in San Francisco and my sixteen
months pleasant journey to OberHn?
Shall tell them Of the close attention
the American government paid to me,
and how kind they are not to let me
do any kind of hard labor, and thus
to injure my delicate constitution?
How can 1 keep quiet? How can
help being a faithful advertiser of the
greatness of Christian America?
Were you surprised to learn of the
trouble in China some time ago
through their boycotting of American
goods? \ The boycott was simply the
beginning of the anti-American feel
awakened from his long slumber. He
is now trying to learn his first lesson
from this country about the square
DEAL The stage of ''eye for pro-
vince and tooth for city" is past in
China. The doctrine of Christianity,
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall
he also reap" will hold true forever.
How can you expect to gather figs
Don't expect, then, my friends, to
reap good fruit from the thorn that |
you are now planting. The heather |
blindness is rapidly passing away. |
China, with her four hundred millions |
of people, is now moving toward the |
light. The injustice and humiliation |
done to her by America must soon be
ended. She will never forget the bit
terness of the cup of humiliation, of |
shame and degradation, forced upon
her by Christian America.
America, as I said in the beginning,
S a nation of which her people ought
10 be proud; but she is not in so -four
shing a condition as most of her peo-
Die think. A certain clergyman told
ne very frankly that there is a great
ieaI of devil in our country The
billion and half of dollars spent an
lual1y for liquor, the thousands of d.
'orce cases, the trust evil, the social |
vii of the great cities, may still be
he ruin of this country. There is
many a slip 'twixt the cup and the
ip."
Land of the noble free,
Sweet land of liberty
fy dear friends of Young America,
yell may you pray: II
Long may our land be bright
With Freedoms holy light;
Protect us by Thy might, HI
Great God, our King I'll