The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-07

cries shall be established in China or
not"
On February 10th the Christian Sci
ence Monitor printed a following spc-
cial news dispatch from San Fran
cisco quoting Wang Chin-chun, PHI, D.,
OF China:
In regard to the proposed estab-
lishment of brewerics in China on a
large scale by American brewers who
will soon be forced to cease opera
tons in the United States, Wang
! Chin-chun, Phi. D., managing director
of the Pelling-Hankow railway, who
is in the United States as member
of a Chinese government mission,
said that public sentiment in China
is decidedly against that proposal
1.-The Chinese government having
paid $2o,O00,o00 for the old stock of
opium and burned the whole lot said
DR.. Wang, it is not generally re-
garded as wise thing to open up
the country to the unlimited sale of
Intoxicating liquors. The fact that
the United States has found it neces-
sary to prohibit this business has
caused the Chinese to take more
serious view OF the situation
On December 10Th, referring to the
dispatch of December 11th announc-
ing the plan to build a two million
dollar brewery in China, Mr. ]. {.
Oliver Of Hangchow, China, sent the
following protest TO the Anti-Saloon
League:
Gentlemen:
Il am writing to you, earnestly re-
guessing you to use your every effort
to enlightcn and influence the public
to prevent the blghting curse of the
American liquor traffic from enslaving
China.
China trusts America China
looks to America as a friend who can
help her in this pcrilous time OF re-
construction. The word "Amercan
has come 10 be to the Chinese a syn
onym for liberty. Therefore at this
time, China is more susceptible to in
Auences from America than ever be-
fore, and the feeling is that whatever
comes from there must be for China's
highest good. What privilege
America enjoysl
/ "And now comes the base plot OF
the brewers to migrate to China and
here inhict their nefarious business
upon this unsuspecting and helpless
people. When China is looking to
America for the best she can offer, IS
America going to give her a scorpion
in the form OF the liquor traffic?
1--WE Americans in China and the
great mass OF the Chinese people will
feel that the establishment OF brew
cries and similar industries in China
by Americans is an unfriendly act to-
ward China When it is learned that
America is allowing to come to China
these industries which she herself is
prohibiting from her country, Amer
lea will lose a large place OF trusted
leadership.
China after years of struggle has
just shaken herself free from the
opium traffic, which was forced upon
her by an enlightened western nation.
VIII we then allow her to be again
enslaved, this time by the liquor in
terests from America, from our coun-
try which to the world is a symbol OF
freedom?
Under existing conditions, China
is unable to protect herself from such
industries Unless the United States
government ntervenes there is no
way TO prevent these brewery forces
from establishing themselves here in
the treaty ports, and flooding the
country with their intoxicants and the
accompanying debauching vices.
america not only owes 10 NHlHd
the best of her Christian leadership
and institutions, but she also owes to
China the protection from the raw
ages, the poverty, the misery, and the
sorrow caused by the outlawed liquor
traffic. America must perform this
sacred obligation to China's millions.
: ~. C Oliver"
Chinese Paper Against Beer
A more recent indication OF senti-
inent in China on the proposed Ameri-
can brewery invasion comes in let
ter from Chang Chow, Kiangsu,
China. to the National American Is
sue. This letter referred to the re-