that Asia will have to civilize the West over again.
I am not bitter or sarcastic, but I do contend that there are yet many things

that the white races have to learn from their colored brethren.
In India, in China, and in Japan there are institutions which have a stability

unknown outside Asia. Religion has apparently little influence
on Western civilization; it is the corner-stone of society

in all Asiatic civilizations. The result is that the colored races
place morality in the place assigned by their more practical white confreres

to economic propositions. We think, as we contemplate the West,
that white people do not understand comfort because they have no leisure

to enjoy contentment; THEY measure life by accumulation, WE by morality.
Family ties are stronger with the so-called colored races

than they are among the more irresponsible white races;
consequently the social sense is keener among the former

and much individual suffering is avoided. We have our vices,
but these are not peculiar to US; and, at least, we have the merit

of being easily governed. Wherever there are Chinese colonies
the general verdict is: "The Chinese make good citizens."

This is what the late Sir Robert Hart, to whom China owes
her Customs organization, said about us:

"They (the Chinese) are well-behaved, law-abiding, intelligent,
economical, and industrious; they can learn anything and do anything;

they are punctiliously polite, they worship talent,
and they believe in right so firmly that they scorn to think

it requires to be supported or enforced by might; they delight in literature,
and everywhere they have their literary clubs and coteries

for learning and discussing each other's essays and verses;
they possess and practise an admirablesystem of ethics,

and they are generous, charitable, and fond of good work;
they never forget a favor, they make rich return for any kindness,

and though they know money will buy service, a man must be more than wealthy
to win esteem and respect; they are practical, teachable,

and wonderfullygifted with common sense; they are excellent artisans,
reliable workmen, and of a good faith that everyone acknowledges and admires

in their commercial dealings; in no country that is or was,
has the commandment `Honor thy father and thy mother',

been so religiously obeyed, or so fully and without exception given effect to,
and it is in fact the keynote of their family, social,

official and national life, and because it is so their days are long
in the land God has given them."

The cry of "America for the Americans" or "Australia for the Australians"
is most illogical, for those people were not the original owners of the soil;

with far greater reason we in the far East might shout,
"China for the Chinese", "Japan for the Japanese". I will quote

Mr. T. S. Sutton, English Secretary of the Chinese-American League of Justice,
on this point. "The most asinine whine in the world," he says,

"is that of `America for the Americans' or `China for the Chinese', etc.
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ignorance and prejudice. No man, no human being who calls himself a man,
no Christian, no sane or reasonable person, should or could ever be guilty

of uttering that despicable wail. God made the world for all men,
and if God has any preference, if God is any respecter of persons,

He must surely favor the Chinese, for He has made more of them
than of any other people on the globe. `America for the aboriginal Indians'

was once the cry. Then when the English came over it changed
to `America for the English', later `America for the Puritans',

and around New Orleans they cried `America for the French'. In Pennsylvania
the slogan was `America for the Dutch', etc., but the truth remains

that God has set aside America as `the melting pot' of the world,
the land to which all people may come, and from which there has arisen,

and will continue to rise, a great mixed race, a cosmopolitan nation that may,
if it is not misled by prejudice and ignorance, yet lead the world."

Although Mr. Sutton's phraseology is somewhat strong,
his arguments are sound and unanswerable.

I now pass to some less controversial aspects of my theme,
and note a praiseworthy custom that is practically unknown in the Far East.

I refer to the habit of international marriages which are not only common
in cosmopolitan America but are of daily occurrence in Europe also,

among ordinary people as well as the royal families of Europe,
so that nearly all the European courts are related one to the other.

This is a good omen for a permanent world-peace. There have been
some marriages of Asiatics with Europeans and Americans,

and they should be encouraged. Everything that brings
the East and West together and helps each to understand the other better,

is good. The offspring from such mixed unions inherit the good points
of both sides. The head master of the Queen's College in Hongkong,

where there are hundreds of boys of different nationalities studying together,
once told me that formerly at the yearly examination

the prizes were nearly all won by the Chinese students,
but that in later years when Eurasian boys were admitted,

they beat the Chinese and all the others, and generally came out the best.
Not only in school but in business also they have turned out well.

It is well known that the richest man in Hongkong is a Eurasian.
It is said that the father of Aguinaldo, the well-known Philippine leader,

was a Chinese. There is no doubt that mixed marriages of the white
with the yellow races will be productive of good to both sides.

But do Chinese really make good husbands? my lady friends ask.
I will cite the case of an American lady. Some years ago

a Chinese called on me at my Legation in Washington accompanied by
an American lady and a girl. The lady was introduced to me as his wife

and the girl as his daughter; I naturally supposed that the lady
was the girl's mother, but she told me that the girl was the daughter

of her late intimate friend, and that after her death, knowing that
the child's father had been a good and affectionate husband to her friend,

she had gladly become his second wife, and adopted his daughter.
Those who believe in reincarnation (and I hope most of my readers do,

as it is a clue to many mysteries) understand that when people
are reincarnated they are not always born in the same country or continent

as that in which they lived in their previous life. I have an impression
that in one of my former existences I was born and brought up

in the United States. In saying this I do not express the slightest regrets
at having now been born in Asia. I only wish to give a hint

to those white people who advocate an exclusive policy
that in their next life they may be born in Asia or Africa,

and that the injury they are now inflicting on the yellow people
they may themselves have to suffer in another life.

While admitting that we Chinese have our faults and that in some matters
we have much to learn, especially from the Americans, we at least possess

one moral quality, magnanimity, while the primal virtues of industry, economy,
obedience, and love of peace, combined with a "moderation in all things",

are also common among us. Our people have frequently
been slighted or ill-treated but we entertain no revengeful spirit,

and are willing to forget. We believe that in the end
right will conquer might. Innumerable as have been the disputes

between Chinese and foreigners it can at least be said,
without going into details, that we have not, in the first instance,

been the aggressors. Let me supply a local illustration showing how
our faults are always exaggerated. Western people are fond of horse-racing.

In Shanghai they have secured from the Chinese a large piece of ground
where they hold race meetings twice a year, but no Chinese are allowed

on the grand-stand during the race days. They are provided with
a separate entrance, and a separate enclosure, as though they were

the victims of some infectious disease. I have been told that a few years ago
a Chinese gentleman took some Chinese ladies into the grand-stand

and that they misbehaved; hence this discriminatory treatment of Chinese.
It is proper that steps should be taken to preserve order and decency

in public places, but is it fair to interdict the people of a nation
on account of the misconduct of two or three? Suppose it had been Germans

who had misbehaved themselves (which is not likely), would the race club
have dared to exclude Germans from sharing with other nations

the pleasures of the races?
In contrast with this, let us see what the Chinese have done.

Having learned the game of horse-racing from the foreigners in China,
and not being allowed to participate, they have formed their own race club,

and, with intention, have called it the "International Recreation Club".
This Club has purchased a large tract of land at Kiangwan,

about five miles from Shanghai, and has turned it into a race-course,
considerably larger than that in Shanghai. When a race meeting is held there,