Evening star., 1925-07-19

</IT SEEMS" remarks the mis-
- ses, that those Cinnamon can
never behave themselves. I
i see where they has killed some
more white folks
Cant behave themselves, eh?"
comes back. "Where'd all this trouble
happen? In China?"
"Of course" snaps the frau.
"Whered you think it happened? In
Joe Sweeney's back yard?"
From the indignant way you
talks" remarks. IT thought maybe a
bunch of them slant-eyed babies came
over to this country, crashing meet
ing of the Tuesday Sewing and 1-Told-
You-So Society in Railway, n. j., and
massacred seven or eight Of the prom
inent members"
What are you. talking about?"
scowls Kate.
I'm talking sarcastic" I tells her
Did you ever wonder what business
the English and the Americans and
the Japanese is got being in China
anyways"
That's silly shifts the wife.
"They got as much right to be ovsr
there as Chinese laundrymen is got
to be over here, haveA't they?"
Just as much" / agrees, but no
more. That's where the trouble comes
in"
How do you mean?" she inquiries.
There's four hundred million
Chinks in China I tells her, and
not more than a couple hundred thou
sand whites. Just the same the
whites run all the big towns and the
ports and treat the yellow boys like
they
That's because we got more brains
i 81. y,o IN he frat
Let it go at that" I agrees; ''but
does the fact that you got more brains
and a better shooting eye than the
other bin give you right to walk
into his parlor and spit tobacco juice
on the davenport"
us that what it all started over?"
asks the misses.
"How many more brains did you
say you had than a Chinaman?" I
sneers.
Twice as many as you got, If any"
shoots back Kate. "How did the
trouble start?"
'I don't know just what touched
the fuse to the present explosion, but
the Chinks have been sore for about
seventy-five years" I returns, land
like a volcano they burst out every
now and then when they get too hot
under the collar to stand it any more.
And you can't blame EN-"
HyXIHAT a fine Nordic you turned
w out to be- shifts the frau.
"You mean to tell me that you ap
prove of Chinese infidels killing white
Christians?"
mo, I don't" I shifts right back,
"and l didn't say I did. / merely said
/ couldn't blame 'em for being peevish
I,oS haoYo
I wouldn't blame a dog for getting
sore about a kid tying a can to his
tail, but that doesn't mean I'd stand
around and give three cheers If the
pup turned around and gave the kid
hydrophobia. How would you like
somebody. to walk into this house,
knock you down, take the best room
in the place for his own use and only
let you in the room when he wanted
the floors scrubbed?"
Not much" admits the frau.
"Well," replies, that's just what s
been done in China since England and
Germany and the rest of 'em found
out that the Yellows didn't care much
about fighting and would take 1t lying
down. What do you think happens
if an Englishman in Hongkong, for
example, commits a crime against
lot of Chinese?"
Goes TO jail, L guess, dHSWeIS
Kate.
"If the English send him there, he
does" I tells her. THE crook
wouldn't be tried by the Chinese
courts, but by an English court. Can
you beat 1t? It'd be just the same If
seme Italian pulled a second-story job
in New York and was tried by an
Italian judge and jury Of Italians
not Italians that had become Amer
ican citizens, but Italian subjects.
Can you blame the young Chinks that
have been going to English and Amer
lean schools, learning all about de.
mocracy and the rights of all people
| to run their own governments, self
determination, and the rest, getting
het up over the situation?"
There hasn't been much trouble