Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1913-11-14
For TIE herald.
UNCLE SANS ExPERIENCE
In GOVERNING ORJENTALS

IN UUuLNNINu UNDEN IhLS
BY ALEXANDER SIDNEY LANIER.
Late Assistant to the Attorney Gen.
eral OF the Philippines.
Continued from last weeks issue)
We tread softly, speak with
unctions courtesy, and are al
ways ready with concessions.
But the poor Chinaman, he can t
defend himself, and his corrupt
and worthless government affords
him no protection, is the foot
ball of all nations, and by us ex-
cluded from our country and
possessions. and when he lands
is herded by us in detention
stations like cattle.
It is the universal experience
and opinion of all white men who
have lived in the Orient that the
Chinese are superior Of all the
Oriental races; and for the bere-
fit of the American people, who
seem to be laboring under an
hallucination in regard TO the
japanese, it may be we'll to set
down a comparison between the
two peoples, based upon a social.
business, and official experience
with them for over four years.
The Chinese are the very An
tithesis of the Japa nese in all
those virtues and qualities that
we regard as indispensable to the
making of the true man. The
Chinaman is honest, the Jap is
tricky and utterly unreliable.
The Chinaman is truthful, whilst
too great reliance in the Jap will
prove disappointing. The China
man will fulfill his contracts
even though it may mean his
own bankruptcy, but the Jap
keeps them only so long as he
finds it to his own personal i'm
terest to do so. The Chinaman
has high sense Of personal OBJ
legation. while the Jap has none,
and so on through the whole
catalogue of virtues. Whilst the
Chinese woman NAV not occupy
a very enviable Or independent
position she is never bartered by
the male having authority over
her for purposes of prostitution
as is so often the fate of her
Japanese sister. The China man.
under whatever government he
lives or with whatever people, is
quiet, law-abiding, Industrious,
and pays without murmur the
last farthing of his quota of the
the taxes. He never interferes
in the politics of the country in
which he may be domiciled, or
Sc eks to give trouble to the au'
thorities; whilst the Jap is
MANAGE in these respects to the
peace and good order of every
community in which he lives;
and since the Russia u-Japanese
war he has become a menace to
the peace of the world, all of
his protestations to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
If anything is to be excluded
from our shores it should be the
Japanese in preference to all
others. An hundred Cinnamon
would be less Of a menance than
one Jap. The japanese are an
admitted menace to our interests
in the Orient. and, yet, we admit
them freely to the Philippines,
while the China man is excluded.
The sleeping lion (China) will
awake some day very much to
the discomfort of the nations of
the earth, and let not our people
think that he will. fail to remem-
Der past years, and do unto others
as they have done unto him.
Whatever justification there
may have been for excluding the
Chinese from the United States
there was no necessity or reason
for their exclusion from the
Philippines. 1t is in fact a mis-
taken policy. for the islands viii;
never reach the development they
are capable of without the aid Of
Chinese labor, and the same r ~
be said of the Filipino, for he
needs the competition of the
Chinaman to make him work.
and then too the Chinese inter.
marry with the natives, thereby
greatly ,impfoving the race bott
Intellectually and physically.