Pending Government action the echoes of the boycott have ceased ringing among the people. here are several things the patriotic writers should learn. They ought: not to shriek out their hatred of the foreigners and urge the Government to keep China for the Chinese, railroads, mines, and all other lucrative prerogatives, while with the same pen they urge America to open wide her doors in the most unsophisticated spirit of national brotherly love to them. The Chinese are past masters at urging the other fellow to act on principles of generosity, while they can urge every partial truth asa plea in their own behalf. And yet down in their hearts, if the other fellow yields to their arguments he is immediately classed as good but stupid. They urge that the Chinese should be received into the United State on a par with other aliens. There is an apparent justice in the claim. Will they not do as other aliens do? They do not make good citizens. Again it is exceedingly humbling to the Chinese to learn that some of the proud followers of Confucius are not welcome in many social circles, even their fellow-students objecting to walking the streets with them." There is poetic justice in this which cuts deep 1m proud hearts. While offer i tions of foreigners are gr ably less; especially where foreigners are better known, those of us who frequent new fields and by-ways atill got all we can stomach. It is only Christian self-control and the desire to further the cause that saves many an unseemly self-justification.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.