Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27

| The coolie has found that the white
man is vulnerable and is beginning to
despise him. This is a dangerous sit.
uation, for the coolie is excitable and
quickly aroused to mob violence.
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THE younger generation of Chinese
deeply resent the attitude of social
superiority affected by the foreigner
Chinese bank president in Hongkong
recently said: We have decided it is
not necessary to do business with peo-
pie who treat us with contempt. That
attitude brought on the boycott which
has cost Britain SO much. We
are willing to see whether this is a
language the British can understand.
1.-Two recent events account in part,
for the loss of the prestige of the
westerner. First, the sending of
coolie labor battalions to France dur
ing the war. Here the Chinese saw
the white man at his worst and dis
covered that his feet were made of
clay Second. the entry of white
Russian wdr refugees into North
China in 1921. The plight of this
remnant of imperialistic Russia is a
tragedy of modern history. They have
sunk to the level of the Chinese coolie
and are competing with him as ped
dlers, street sweepers and cart drivers
Some of them live on the earnings of
their women in brothels. Four thou
sand of them form white brigade
in Chang Tso-Lin's northern army
and have been used as shock troops OF
his campaigns. I met some of these
Russians in Tsingtau barracks dressed
in Chinese clothes, hopeless
wretched lot. They receive the same
private, earning three cents (gold) a
day. The Chinese roundly despiss
these poor fellows and call them whit!
dogs and treat them accordingly Bit
terness toward the Russians among
the residents of North China is very
marked. 1t is based on the conviction
that they have betrayed the whole
white race in China.
THE cat is out of the bag in China
and the whole Far East for that mat
ter, and she will never be chased In
again by anything the white man
can do"
For a long time the Chinaman has
held the white race in a contempt
equal to the race superiority the white
| man has felt over the Oriental.
The Chinese government doubtless
smiled in its sleeve 65 years ago Wher
it coded the worthless mud fats or
the Whangpoo River to Great Britain
and France. In these years there has
emerged from the mud one of the
worlds greatest cities and it's second
commercial port. The internationa
settlement of Shanghai, which ha.
been under attack by rioting bands
of Cinnamon, has about 80 900 western
residents. A great native population
attracted by the commerce of the city
and numbering nearly a million, has
| grown up in the settlement. The
| Chinese residents own a very large
| amount of property and do an i'm
menSe business.
| Although the Chinese in Shanghai
| have come to vastly outnumber the
westerners and also have come to pay
| two-thirds of the taxes. the municipa
! council is made up of foreigners.
| Not so very many years ago the
late julius Kahn, who so ably rep
resented San Francisco in Congress
remarked that China had only one
| friend in the world-the United States
| by the same token" he added
"the United States has only on.
| friend in the world-China."
| Whether this holds good with tn,
younger generation of Chinese remain!