The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-14
CHINA AWAKEANDALSO ALERT
NJ PODN CHEW. EDITOR, on
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Publishing . DaIly Waite Paprr.
wen wears agO NJ POon Chew. a Chi
's..f. VIM hat coIns ~ ihis country az the
... % 10 and had been educated in a col
..r ire California. dccidcd that u would
.. 0 good thing to establish a Chinese
.l newspaper la Kan Fraucisco.
Ne will lei you have money In small
...r.-. said his friends. hut We do not
u-. eve that we shall ever get Il back
hu Ng POon Chew felt he was on the
.nt track. lie established the Ckuno
50 az -. the first Chinese daily pub
.''i IN this country. and began Co hustle
I." first year the paper paid it's stock
'.. i"rs a dividend of 10 per cent. The
,.ypud year Mr.. Chew smiled and handed
t.. iriends ~ per cent. Another year he
VIZ able to ray them a dividend Of rs per
cent. In the FIRST ten years the stock
holders of the paper got back SOO per cent
nU their Investment. and Chinese news
Iapers have come to be- considered such
laying property In the far West thar
nan Francisco now boasts Of two other
allies in that language. while two have
sprung up in Honolulu and two In VAN
coiver. and the number Of weeklies and
-sml-weeklies IL large.
This is the story Of the CAHn0 Sal Yat Pc
a. its managing editor reviewed IL yester-
iay at the Waldorf. Mr.. Ng having just
c"ine from Washington. whithsr he had
gone in company with two other repre-
s~ntatives Of the Chinese Chamber Of
commerce Of San Francisco and the Six
companies 10 try to obtain certain modiG-
cations in the application Of the Chinese
exclusion act. which was asserted To work
unnecessary hardship for some who came
under IL provisions.
Ever since the exclusion act went
into effect said Mr.. Chew yesterday.
'aIl Chinese going back 90 China haveehad
to ne infinitely examined in order 20 get
certificate permitting them to return
To this country. Not only iahorsrs come
under thls rule. hut also the five exempt
classes. merchants. travellers. students,
q achens and officials. There used 20 be
an office in the city Of San Francisco 20
facilitate this examination. but when the
Government opened the immigrant sta
ton at Angel Island. which IA several
miles from the mainla il closed tho ONCE
IN san Francisco. and this has resulted in
great Inconvenience to the Chinese out
there.
A trip to Angel Island and back takes
ar the greater part OF a day. and u in
frequently necessary to make more than
ono trip. An appeal was made to the
We were sent to lay the matter before
The Department OF Commerce and Labor
We Sere most courteOuSly received. and
after hearing the case from Us the De-
partnent agreed to reestablish the Office
on the mainland. where all departing
exempss may be examined and where
the incoming exeTnpts instead % being
taken TO the island may lie examined
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ing additional Investigation being sent
to the island
This concession was very satisfactory,
hut We wanted another The lmmigra-
ton Commissloner OF the port used TO
permit the evidence and affidavits %
all white witnesses must he two
Tor every Chnese-to bs taken on
the mainland. hut since the establish
'nent 81 the station on Angel Island the
r'Ihng has been that all witnesses must
go there. both Chinese and white II !
10 hard Ia get bus ness men who are will |
ing to give up their own business for |
on@ or two days oT more To make trips
10 Angei island TO get a Chinese ont 81 :
uole and we wanted "A concession in /
tins case We finally appealed 10 the
President and after hearing the case
he told us to give the new arrangement
n far trial and Il it was found - be work /
ING a hardship hs would tak" up the
matter and settle u. NJ W. arr sat SIZED . /
Mr. Ng is a short. stOcklly but man. !
with hair that ~ just turning gray and
a short gray fnu-tache He has been !
in this country thirty years. lie - a
Presbyterian and SAYS he is an American F.
N everyt hung bat citizenship. He seems
% take great prde IN the fact that al 3
though he cannot become nattIrahZei all
II MS five children are Americans through !
having been born here
The Chung SdI IGi T'o which means
'rine-e daily paper, has circulation .
LOW Of 400 and goss az over the nit"d .
Iag~s daily Ny friends who furnished
me money said that the Chinese would .
n~v-r read H. but | retoTted that the .
hue-e had acquired other hal habits,
-fch az opium smoking and gambling.
and there was no reason why they shp.id
uHf get the newspaper habit. | 10 not
tempt 20 make the pape- sensational
l'e0Dl" knew that We who started the
IaUsr were Christians and believed what
ge Wrpte Murders and such things are
merely mentlonsd
Their. are a gTsai many yellow fap"rs
tuned out by white men, but here -
anti" paper being turned ""t by yellow
men. We have = great deal Of adveTtis-
~ not only from Chinese merchants
rIf fron merchants Who are after hines.
rarrDnage. We get direct cables from
ina, although We cannot get press rates
f.~.tllSe ~ our having to receive every
% z IN Chinese code. AZ some ~ our
cores p1ndeuts don't write English and
here are a lot ~ Chinese names you can
rrr pat into English charact@rs, We
fsv~. ~ course, reporters in Ran Fran
go and the general news Of the country
40 q the world Ne get from the evening
gap-rz.
A. had got all my education in this
country, nv tastes and ideas having com
r.~'@.y changed. | got the idea 81 educat-
~ 'uA Chinese in this country by means
= newspaper. ] am at heart more OF
ar American than a Chinese, though
aTuot become a CiTIzsn. The Chinese in
t.s country ars nov wide awake. They
Y--f IN he very conservative and super
st'lrIs and while ] cannot claim that
-" ohanKs In them has been brought
aHDgt by my paper but there 10 M doubt
~ y contributed its share. Il
Ally - PER cent. 81 the Chinese IN Cali
'N-uA now have their queues cut. l had
Iu.rs cut ~ In 1851 Soon aftsrWard
sft9ndad a nesting at which I. ono Chinese
W'-r present. and bs,sidss myself thors
v"r- present only tWO persons without
1.-n.~. Tho sunday before ! left homo
- weeks ago ! Was in oar church, where
Nor" w"r' 2OO Chinese msn. and only three
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