As a Chinaman Saw Us: Passages from His Letters to a Friend at HomeHenry Pearson Gratton D. Appleton, 1904 - 324 עמודים |
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עמוד 282 - The United States of America and the Emperor of China cordially recognize the inherent and inalienable right of man to change his home and allegiance, and also the mutual advantage of the free migration and emigration of their citizens and subjects respectively from the one country to the other for purposes of curiosity, of trade, or as permanent residents.
עמוד 308 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
עמוד 189 - That for ways that are dark And tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar: Which the same I would rise to explain.
עמוד 286 - Chinese laborer brings here neither wife nor children, and his wants are limited to the immediate necessities of the individual, while the American is compelled to earn income sufficient to maintain the wife and babies. There can be but one end to this. If this immigration is permitted to continue, American labor must surely be reduced to the level of the Chinese competitor — the American's wants measured by his wants, the American's comforts no greater than the comforts of the Chinaman ; and the...
עמוד 309 - The great God has conferred on the people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invincibly right. To cause them tranquilly to pursue the course which it indicates is the task of the sovereign.
עמוד 284 - ... abundance of cheap labor, and how cheap ! Mr. Bedloe, Consul at Amoy, in his report for January 1892, gives an interesting table of the earnings, cost of living, and mode of life of the Chinese people. In that report, he puts the average earnings of the Chinese adult employed as mechanic or laborer, at five dollars per month, and states that this is ten per cent, above the average wages prevailing throughout China. The wages paid, according to his report, per month, to blacksmiths are $7.25 ;...
עמוד 286 - ... throughout China, while the cost of living of an adult is estimated by him at six cents per day. Here is a condition deserving of attention by all friends of this country, and by all who believe in the protection of our working classes. Is it fair to subject our laborer to the competition of a rival who can measure his wants by an expenditure of six cents a day...
עמוד 287 - ... sufficient to maintain the wife and babies. There can be but one end to this. If this immigration is permitted to continue, American labor must surely be reduced to the level of the Chinese competitor — the American's wants measured by his wants, the American's comforts no greater than the comforts of the Chinaman ; and the American laborer, not having been educated to maintain himself according to this standard, must either meet his Chinese competitor on his own level, or else take up his...
עמוד 200 - ... children. This is carried to the extent of making it an offense not to send those above a certain age to school, while State or town officers, called "truant police," are on the alert to arrest all such children who are not in school. The following was told me by a Government official in Washington, who had obtained it from a well-known literary man who witnessed the incident. The literary man was invited to visit a Boston school of the lower grade, where he found the teacher, an attractive woman,...
עמוד 288 - LITTLE TO BE GAINED FROM CHINESE TRADE. He gives figures to show that there is nothing in the Chinese trade, or rather in the loss of it, -to alarm any American. He says: "We would be better off without any part or portion of it.