No right-minded American can read without poignant shame,
Luella Miner's recent account[46] of the experiences of Fay Chi
Ho and Kung Hsiang Hsi, two Chinese students who, after
showing magnificent devotion to American missionaries during
the horrors of the Boxer massacres, sought to enter the United
States. They were young men of education and Christian
character who wished to complete their education at Oberlin
College, but they were treated by the United States officials at
San Francisco and other cities with a suspicion and brutality
that were ``more worthy of Turkey than of free Christian
America.'' Arriving at the Golden Gate, September 12, 1901,
it was not until January 10, 1903, that they succeeded in
reaching Oberlin, and those sixteen months were filled with indignities
from which all the efforts of influential friends and of
the Chinese Minister to the United States were unable to protect
them. Whatever reasons there may be for excluding
coolie labourers, there can be none for excluding the bright
young men who come here to study. ``An open door for our
merchants, our railway projectors, our missionaries, we cry,
and at the same time we slam the door in the faces of Chinese
merchants and travellers and students--the best classes who
seek our shores.''


[46] ``Two Heroes of Cathay,'' p. 223 sq.


The fear that the Chinese would inundate the United States
if they were permitted to come under the same conditions as
Europeans is not justified by the numbers that came before the