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The noble white man of the lazy proletariat have distinguished England a hundred resorted to his traditional arguments, perse- and fifty years ago, when FIELDING des. (Daily Press 16th December). cution and persistent iltreatment. The cribed the surgeon as one wont to prognos. Messrs. PATRICK J. HEALY and No Poox poor Chinese, already used to regar thisticate that if the malign concoction of CHEW, of San Francisco, have collated n sort of thing as the state in which it had his patient's hamours should cause great mass of evidence bearing on Chinese- pleased Providence to place them, howelsuscitation of the fever, he might soon American relations. It reaches us in a before the wind. Lately, he has acquired grow deliruus, or delirious, as the vulgar "statement for non-exclusion, consisting the idea that he is not under compulsion to express it." The English were by no of 255 closely packed pages. The authors suffer all such trials as come his way. It is means barbarians in those days, yet they assert that the anti-Asiatic exclusion cru- true he has shown a tendency to push his relied trustfully then and for some time sade has been regularly bolstered with protests indiscriminately, and to invoke after upon those students of GALEN and grievances manufactured to order"; that the aid of brethren who fight not wisely HIPPOCRATES who discoursed so seeming the statements of the exclusionists are but too well; in excuse, it may be urged learnedly of the 'divellication of that "unreasonable, ill-digested, and contradic. that he is a novice in the art of revolt, radical small minute invisible nerve tory"; and that the charges of immorality When be is better informed, and has learned which coheres to the pericranium". When and non-assimilation which are constantly to avoid the excesses of re-action, we shall
we can this prospectus of the local faculty urged against the Asiatic are generally be able to sympthise with his efforts to we realise China's great good fortune made by
the very people who have no secure a share of those boasted" inalienab e bejug enabled, as the saying goes, to begin morals to boast of, and are doing all in rights of man." The Americans who wished where we leave off. At the professionin their power to hinder the assumilation which for yellow labour, asked for it on the under-examinations last August, the Chinese they allege to be impossible." Most of standing that the Chinese were "excluded students answered such questions as: this statement is directed to show that from citizenship" (ride Mr. PHILIP Å. "What are the conditions that necessitate America does not suffer financially by the ROACH's minority report on a labour Bill) the performance of (a) laryngotomy (b) presence of the Chinese, the authors con- while those who favour a "white America tracheotomy? Briefly describe these opera- sidering that "if it can be shown that the complain that the yellow immigrants are tions. "Describe tho. etiology and the American people have not been injured in unwilling to become citizens. It is entirely morphological characters of the micro- matters of dollars and cents by the presence a Trades Union question, a fight between organism producing cholera." It is not of the stranger within our gates, nearly all capital and labour, and the Chines have improbable that there are in Hongkong the other charges will have little weight been forced into the position of black- well-educated foreigners who would find with practical people." We do not think legs." They have been the scapegoats for themselves at a loss to answer, without they meant the implication to be quite so scandalous treatment, physical and other stopping to think, such iL question severe. The argument opens with a strik-wise, the American Government giving what as was put to the Chinese class in ing sentence. The casual realer who it allowed its people to snatch back again pathology. It was: "What is a squainous- thinks that our relations with China and the
celled epithelioma ? ' The cheapest Chinese began here in California at the
of the text books recommended to these time of the discovery of gold may be
students is about the Reactions of Salts. reminded that we sent ships to China for
In each subject, and these included biology, tea during the Revolutionary War, and that
(Daily Press 18th December.)
osteology, and nine or ten other abstrusities, the desire of the English Colonists in North
Doctors don't advertise, and the Hong. every candidate is examined oral'y and America to get tea at reasonable rates kong College of Medicine for Chinese makes practically. Although the few scholarships was one of the contributing causes which
no flourish of trumpets; but the "Calendar"
seem smil, and the inducements by no led to the R-volution and finally to our for 1906 just receivel reminds us once
means gaudy, apart from the unceasing Independence." The history of American more that We have in Our milst glory that must surely attend each graduate, overtures to China in the early forties, organisation which is attacking the learned
we notice that the present year has seen when the habit of "coming in after the ignorance of China a' a vital spot. There the addition of five licntiates to the roll of fight was over" had caused a mandarin
is a good deal of exaggeration, perhaps, of the college. In four or five years after to dub the Americans "second-class in the Common stories about Chinese the college was founded, the list began to Englishmen" is amusingly set forth. In medicines; and the pr. scriptions that grow, and we note that Hongkong is given the early settlement of California, the include toads' eyebrows, rhinoceros horn,
as the place of residence of thirteen, while Chinese were regarded as invaluable; | cockroach tea, and the like, are no doubt the rest are scattered abroad, in Japan, many writers refer to the services rendered confined to the ubiquitous quark and the Perak, Penang, Selangor, Singapore, Manila by the Chinese in those early times, and inventor of faceti The Chinese
and Shanghai. If these young men have there is a general agreement that his labour given credit for having used anothetics really learned all that their examiners have was a blessing." So far so good, but the long before the Western world had given them credit for, and there is no reason authors of this statement appear at a loss recognised their value; and in some of to doubt it, their influence must have a to show the period and reason of the chauge their simpler remedies, the Chinese doctors tremendous leavening effect in time. of opinion. They suggest as
two share the successes of the causes
herb doctors" circumstances with which the Chinese hal of English country places. Except for nothing whatever to do-land speculation their admitted ignorance of human physiol and the exhaustion of the gold field. Inogy, the Chinese medicine men and their the case of the latter event, of course, the patients sufer most from the little know- suggestion is that the services of the ledge which is dangerous, plus the much Chinese, being no longer indispensable, superstition that is more so, If we were stirred the resentment of a people incapable to argue from the standpoint that the of gratitude; but that is hardly a “cause.' proof of the pudding is in the rating of it, As a inalter of probability, the origin we might be justified in saying tha, so far of the trouble, which had already become ns wholesale results are concerned, the "the Chinese question' in 1852, was general condition of the race that is, the the excessive immigration of worthless foreign doctors have little to brag about. whites, attracted by the stories of gold But the stamina of the average Chinese, finding. There was not a fortune waiting like the much prated-of decadence of the to be picked up from the ground for European, is in spite of, not because of, all of these; and they had, perforce, to medical practice," Greater knowledge in think of earning a livelihood." As they Europe has not overcome the tendency were mostly of a class who prefer wages to self-indulgence, against which medical to be big and work little, it is not difficult science pleads and fights iu vain; while to see how they would at once regard a in China it is the other way round: the people who were content to work hard for acupuncturing the messes and mess ng small wages. One of the “inalienable rights of the medicine men, cannot work permanent was discovered by the GOVERNOR harm to a race which in the mass is given of California, the Hon. JOHN BIGLER, to be to simple living and inured to hardship. that of choking off competition by prohibitive There have been Chinese themselves who taxation and legislative exclusion. After had some glimmering of true causs and that the story is simple. Employers effects, or else whence came the native naturally preferred satisfactory labour at saying that “medicine cures the man who||was "uneasy." The stoning of the Ger rates satisfactory to themselves; and it is fated not to die"? China is, however, became a fixed and burning "question."' passing out of that phase which seems to
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THE ANTI-FOREIGN RISING AT
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(Daily Press, 19th December). We fear that the state of things at Shang- liai has not been exaggerated by the telegram we sent out early yesterday alternoon. At first we were disposed to liope that in the excitement natural during the first demonstrations of the mob our correspondent had taken a too serious view of the affir; but the details given, and the careful wording of the statement touching the origin of the lawbreakers, put that out of the question. Later in the afternoon, other messages reached the Colony, placing beyond doubt the fact that
serious auti-foreign outbreak was proceed- ing at the northern port. Ono business firm here was notified that at noon business was at a standstill, the message adding the significant phrase: "Revolution broken out here. Then there was the news that H.M.S. Bonaventure, coming here, had been tele- graphically recalle 1. The outbreak further seems to explain a mysterious message received earlier, to the effect that Shanghai
man CONSUL has as much special signifi. cance, we imagine, as the wounding of the
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