Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-08-18
CHINESE need A
change OF DIET
MERCHANT DECLARES
QUESTION IS ESSENTIAL.
Too Much Rice and Not Enough
Meat Eaten BY Celestiah Il
Opinion Expressed Problem Of
Industry.

are TO raise their pnysical emciency,
said the intelligent Chinese merchant
whom met on the steamship Siberia,
writes F. NJ. Freedman, in the Chicago
News. 1--WE eat altogether too much
rice and altogether too little meat"
he went on to say when I asked him
, for particulars. "
For the scholar and the abstract
thinker light diet, not interfering
with the intellectual processes, may
or may not be requisite. As to that
I am not prepared to speak. But GER
tainly for the physical worker II is a
dctriment. Anyway, the age for men.
tai abstraction has passed; for too
many centuries has China lost itself
| In the mists of meditation"
How can a better diet be secured
unless the earning capacity OF your
countrymen Is increasedT' ] inquired.
81 understand that they are beset with
terrible poverty"
my answer to that he said. lis
that we must develop our Industries.
We must introduce factories and open
avenues for employment of Installing
machinery. or course. the revolution
would be grave and fraught with
serious consequences unless &c were
to come about gradually, for in a coun-
try that is as densely populated as
China you cannot substitute machine
for hand labor without displacing
thousands temporarily and causing
infinite suffering for the time being.
, But that change Is coming about and
It may be fortunate that 1t Is coming
slowly.
Japan Too Rash.
Japan swung over to the occidental
base too quickly and I think 1t is SUI.
fering today from its rashness. Japan
did In decade what 1t might better
and more wisely have extended over a
century. Its development has been
too sudden to be healthy or normal
China, on the other hand, is slow
cautious. and conservative. In the
long run II may be far better of for
Its caution and conservatism. Still,
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slow, that We have delayed SO long In
starting that now It may all be toe
late.'
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passing through his mind that he pre-
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