Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-06-27
AsIiTIC ASSIMILATION
Los Angeles, Cal,

Los Angeles, Cal,
June IS, 1918.
Editor Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
Sir.-In recent issue of the Oregon
Daily Journal and many other west
ern newspapers, Dr.. C. E. Cline is
IQu0ted as saying, at meeting of the
Methodist Ministers Association:
There is no room in this country
1 for the Asiatic-Tlo use for him. and
| for this reason am profoundly in
sympathy with the Galifornians. 1t is
my opinion that our efforts to convert
the ,Asiatic, through our system of for
eign missions, are largely responsible
for the trouble we in America are now
having with these people. Our mis-
sionaries have awakened within them
e desire for our system, for our homes,
and even inspired them with coyet-
BUSINESS for Anglo-Saxon women. The
Asiatic cannot help the AnglosSaxon-
ia mixture of the two bloods produces
Ian inferior race. My experience as a
city missionary m Portland taught me
that the average Asiatic comes to the
| city missions chiefly for the purpose
/ of meeting the attractive white teach
ters. Asiatics should not be allowed to
own a foot of American soil, and
thope the California legislature will
stand by its guns. ?
Having been thirty years connected
with Chinese missionary work, / ap-
peal, to you. as fair-minded and
fearless publisher, to allow me to re-
iply. through the columns of Your pa
| per, to the gross contradictions and
imisstatements of fact which character
| ize these prejudiced utterances of the
Portland minister, as his opinion has
been widely promulgated. These ut
iterances afford a most remarkable in
stance of so-called Christian minis
ter flagrantly ignoring and violating
the most fundamental teachings Of the
Savior. A false premise always leads
| to false conclusion Thus the logic
tof ignorance" betrays its sophistry.
DR.. Cline is presumably a doctor of
divinity" engaged in preaching and
teaching the Christian religion. But
what is there divine, or Christian, in
! tbs abuse of the; Asiatics? What does
DR.. Cline find in Holy Writ to justify
+ his prejudice against Asiaties?
The enemies of the Asiatic, like DR..
Cline, say they won't assimilate," but
1.-The lie of REPRESENTATION was ex-
tploded many years ago. 1t was re-
| futed by the laws which the Asiatic
Exclusion League declared anecessa-
tryv to prevent Asiatic children from
going to white schools. and to prevent
other forms of assimilation, such as
fIand-holding, intermarriage, etc.
What does DR.. Cline mean when he
says he is in sympathy with the Cali
lfornians % What Californians? Does
he imagine the whole state was repre-
scented by the anti-Asiatic agitation at
Sacramento? Does he know that the
sentiment in California is almost even
! " divided for and against Asiatie i'm
migration, and that it is much-moot-
led question whether the anti-Asiatic
land law would be defeated or adopt
ed if submitted to1an initiative or ref
lerendum election? DIR. Cline should
investigate.
| IF he is to abuse, malign and exclude
| the Asiatics, let him join the Asiatie
Exclusion League, if not already a
member of that organization, and pro-
mitigate the doctrine of Olaf Tveitmoe
| of San Francisco Otherwise, DR..
lCline's status as Christian will soon
be on the decline. Lastly, would
suggest that he read and read again
the tenth chapter of Acts, that he may
know that mo man is unclean," be
he Jew or Gentle, of the east or of
the west. To Dr. Cline, / can only
say, in the language of the Master,
I''Ye do err, not knowing the Script
ures.
/ beg to remain,
Yours very respectfully,
CHAN KIU SING,
Acting Pastor Chinese Methodist