The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-14

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IN ths United tsassa. ana tAoTe aso so~
! ~ california only abort oma half ~ wha
there used 10 bs. Tharo uan4a 20 no nonoI
Shinses IN ssan franciao0 alans. Nov
mere are only I.0oo. many having Died
| shis Others. grown Old. have nuue hnnA
70 Chiha la stay, why. twsnty year
from nov You viii have Co no 90 q inuiusun
20 ind q chinaman IN this country.
The young Chinese who gradHnsa
.rotn colleges IN this cOuntry nov havs
native country than have young AmoTi.
cans similarly egtippsd over Asro.
when they 90 back they are immasiiaoply
smptoycd by thetr governmsue Or by
cOnnpa n.es. especially u they are snGi-
neers OF somo kind. I think thsro are
now more than 100 Chinsss ssssassss hi
inc United States. Of whom $50 % 800
Nere sent 10y tho 0oveFnInsnt
what are the San Companlesl Well
ths idea has got abroad erronsoUAly that
me 70 ST. az ConPanles ySre tormsd 20 bring
panies' - a misnomer. Most Of the
Ihineas IN this country came originally
from the ak, later the eight. DISTRICTS q
anton. benevolent association Nas
started N ran franciscO rspressnting the
six districts Of Canton. A the founders
were not familiar With EnGliab, they hlt
upon the word 'companies' instead Of
society or association and the name
has chung. The society has nothing what
ever To do with immigration and n purely
Il should estimate the number Of
ChrIstianized Chinese IN san Francisco
at loo or one-seventh Of the Chinese
population Of the city. There ere i've
Shlnese churches, Presbyterian. COngo-
EatIonaii... Methodist and salvation
Army As for opium smoking. that 10
now little done in San Francisco. In the
hrst place, a can of opium now costs es0,
which - almost prohibifivs. for when
Y was - the price was considered high.
ihen education and reading. - we'll -
practice.
-of course have hopes that the exclu-
sion laws will be modified. but u Iooka
a. II u would take many years 10 bring
that about, The Chinese Government has
been advocating preventing Chinese from
coming here. a similar Arrangcment 90
that this Government hAs with the Japan
ese. This would he the only fair thing
unless this country adopts . universal
exclusion Law.
nAtlon N Of too old an order. therefore 10
takes a long time TO root up ideas there
But when the Chinese Government abol-
lshsd the old system OF educatioa on
September ?. 1877, it made ready for Q
new order: For thousands OF years the
the old Confucian classics. learning that
the weather was such and 10 nc q certain
hour $500 years before. and 90 on. but
learning nothing OF what had been going
on in the world in modern timsa. Now
hey have adopted a system which 10 an
European methods Of the day. and they
study in high schools to-day over there
almost the same branches that are pur-
sued in similar schools over here. The
chinese youth ~ required TO master one
foreign language. and 30 per cent. OF the
pupils choose English.
know the German Emperor talks of
the yellow peril, hut in China they speak
OF the white peril. They are not afraid
Of the Japanese and other heather. but
nations. which have proved barbarians
and robbers TO them. They are afraid
81 England aud Germany and Russia
and France. They do not feAr America
because they have come TO realize that
the United States il not only their greatest
but their only friend among the nations
and the one they can depend apon. Japan
| think that while japan ~ somewhat
aggressive now II IL beginning TO realize
that China u waking and will soon he able
20 protect itself Even 10 Japan did attempt
"a swallow China II would and itself the
subject Of the most awful stomach ache.
The reason why China N organizinR a
modern army. with q standing force OF
800. OOo men. Is not 70 guard itsslf from
encroachments by the japanese but 10
Pr~vent further thefts % ia territory by
European nations. don't think there will
be another Chino-Jap anese war.
There In one great difference hetweoa
reform ia China aud reform In japan.
The Iapa ueSe started 10 reform from top
10 bottom. A. result the lower clAsses
u Japanese are not enlightened at all
The Government ~ fifty years ahead Of
the people. On the other hand. reform
IN China ~ being pushed on by the COM
mon people. who compel the Government
u take COsnizanCe. A. a result the people
~ China are twenty years ahead VI the
Government. aud the results will be more
normal and substantial than in Japan.
IL wis the common people who forced
the opium reform ON the Government
by the organization u hundreds Of anti
opium ~oCietie~ Today there u far more
tyranny and despotism among the English
COLONIES ia China than in the Chinese
Emuirr itself and as I have said in a good
many lectures out West America " the
MY country which the chinese believe
80 b- troubled with such thing as a
national conscience"