The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-11-09

small according to the nurbnn OF
literary graduates and the amo, is
us srall TAX At present Chihf oI
province IN which Picking and IT, "a
has the most graduates. It's ase44t
Will have lao members. Chineso -
kestan and Heilung-Kiang ara 1LF-
smallest, and each of them viii me
80. Kiangsu will have ia nave
C~hekiang la. S~hantung has ShF
Honang So, and Shansi So. Az
gether there will be 1877 Chins9-
members IN these state legisla+rra.
and in addition some twenty or tg,anteS'
five Manchus> 1t is probable w.
from these assemblies the future Ir1'
lament will come. Par
In order to be a member Of ~
provincial assemblies a man -
need far higher qualifications tba5nt
those demanded for election to onr
State legislatures. The Cardil.+,
must have been connected with edura~
tlonal enterprises for at least five
years. or have graduated from +bo
middle schools of either China nu
abroad, or he must be a master of arts
or a retired official who has never haan
by the cenSOrs or cash
Tered by the government. If he hos
a capital of $4,000, and is otherwisa
respectable, he may also be a candi-
date; but If he is an opium smoker
or has ever been in prison he need
not apply. Furthermore, if he is
elected he will not be allowed to de-
cline unless incapacitated by illness
from serving
The new constitution is bound to he
Of great advantage to the United
States. and in a lesser degree to all
foreign powers It will bring about
the Reorganization of business and
trade, and will lead to a larger num-
Der of Chinese students going abroad
The most Of these will be sent to either
Japan or the United States. Hun
dreds will come to our country. as
pecially by the scheme adopte for
the use Of the Boxer indemnity which
we returned to China a large sum is to
be cOntinu >usly spent in educating
Chinese boys in America. Tang Shao
Vi too over the first instaIlment
last year. One hundred more are to
be scent over in 1910, and gfty moro
each year for thirty years thereafter.
This means that for the next genera
tion China will always have 200 of
it's brightest young men in the States.
They will be studying American in
stitutiOns, making American friends
and coming back here to favor
America for China in it's foreign re-
latiOnS.
CiIOe1 Tie new CONSTITUTION t0tTt
Will be an enormous demand for ma
chinery and the other necessities OF
our western civilization, and this
should aid America in it's efforts to
furnish them. There will be q demand
for teachers, engineers and special
lists of all kinds, and as far as friend
ship is concerned Uncle Sam has the
call. Even now the Chinese students
who were sent to the United States
in 1870 fn hn advocated fbnr1 y
among the leading officials of the en-
pire. They do not hold the highest
positions, but they are close to the
top and are really doing the work OF
the new China I meet graduates
Of Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth and
other eastern colleges here and there;
and I have found several Chinese Off
Gals who were educated in California
and other parts Of the west. There
were about forty students taken over
in 1870, and others have gone from
time to time since then. In addition
to the two hundred paid for by the
indemnity fund, many others will fol-
low by force Of example, so that the
number will probably be 500 or more.
In 1907. before this fund began to
work, we had 800 Chinese students
registered at the embassy in Wash
ington. Of these only forty-nine had
been sent over by the imperial gov
eminent, and the others were private
students, furnished with money by
parents. If the same ratio be
preserved, China should have 500
students when the indemnity fund IS
in full force.
This means that during the next
generation thousands Of Chinese viii
be educated in the United States and
that they will form a force in our ia
VOr so strong that no other govern
ment or trade element Of Europe can
compete with it. They will learn to
be engineers, railroad managers; and
when they go back to China their
machinery and other supplies will be
ordered from the establishments
which they have known in the United
States.
Opening for Young Americans.
In the meantim the Chinese feel