The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-05
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and none of his virtues" Such as told
me by Old Mister Wong, the wise man
of North China, head of the Kailan
Mining administration, who sent his
son to Yale, spent a quarter of mil
lion on him there, and then watched
him degenerate to common coolie
upon his return here.
Really Benefit-By Turning Traitor?
Such things are common here, and
the Chinese is exceptional, who, up
on his return here can keep his head
above water and really benefit by his
learning. They land here with hand
full of dogmas, and a hearty sense of
their superiority over their brothers;
they scorn to work, and are cocksure
in all the damnable senses of the word.
They soon lose their moral fibre, their
sense of proportion, and finally end up
within a step of where they left off
when they went abroad.
The oriental mind is queer-I don't
care what your medical men say,
have observed the intricate ramific-
alton and modes of oriental reason
ing, and l marvel at some of the
processes turned out. The Chinese
mind is subjective; the occidental is
objective.
Degenerate Missionaries.
And l doubt if there has ever lived
a man who really understood the
Co &c, ha in Of
this country, that when a man lives
among them for years, cut off from his
kind, he ceases to be white, as it were,
and soon degenerates to being lower
than ever a white man elsewhere
could become.
And, altho he might savvy the
Chinese viewpoint, speak their tongue
he is thereupon unfit for use as an
analysist. Many of our missionaries
go native, wear cues, and are little
more or less than White Chinese. In.
the interior such are found, having
lost their occidental ways and really
become Chinese, living in foul, in
describable dens, and still drawing
funds from the Altogether Missed Old
Maids and Widows.
Holy Parasites.
I firmly believe that the mission
aries should beat it out of China, they
do no good, and are parasites in the
full sense Of the word. The Y. M.
C. A. is doing good work here-but
they also are more needed in the
States. in a white mans country, more
than they are here. Hank. use your
imagination; imagine a foul district
in Shanghai, narrow streets in the
native quarter, crooked on purpose to
stop devils, network of alleys and
runways; and then imagine yourself
being on raid there, busting into
a house in quest of opium.
You burst in the front door and
rush in, you kick in the obstructing
doors and kick the opium sodden oc-
cupants out of their filthy beds. Deep
in the interior of the den you bring
up in front OF door. upon which in
big character is writtend the word,
wal Kuo Kren," white Man"
"Gone Native"
You blow your whistle, and when
help comes you bust in the door, and
there. stretched on his filthy bed you
discern thru the darkness what once
had been a white man. Sodden and
crazed with opium, gone native" and
having lost all his foreign ways, this
wreck lies-gibbering in Chinese, not
even able to speak his mother tongue.
Such, such, is what China does to him
who weakens and goes Chinese. Hap
PLY few, few, fall so low; the code
out here Is 10 jail them and ship them
away before the chance arises, before
they are able TO make such gloomy,
drooling spectacles OF themselves.
Opium? Plenty of II here, in fact
seldom do ! patrol the more danger
GUS quarters there days without smell
ling necessarily that queer, heavy
smell. of burning opium. But the sup