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New Forces in Old China by Arthur Judson Brown
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It is not surprising that while Chinese students are turning
in large numbers to other lands, there are only 146 in the
United States. It is a serious matter and it may have a far
reaching effect upon the future of China and of mankind when
the coming men of the Far East, desiring to place themselves in
touch with modern conditions, are compelled to avoid the one
Christian nation in all the world which boasts the most enlightened
institutions and the highest development of liberty.


Meanwhile, Mr. E. H. Parker rather sarcastically remarks:--


``The United States have always been somewhat prone to pose as the good
and disinterested friend of China, who does not sell opium or exercise any
undue political influence. These claims to the exceptional status of all
honest broker have been a little shaken by the sharp treatment of Chinese
in the United States, Honolulu and Manila.''[48]


[48] ``China,'' p. 105.


The Chinese Government long expostulated against the barbarity
and injustice of the exclusion laws and finally, finding
expostulations of no avail, the scholars and merchants of China
organized in 1905 a boycott against American trade. This
quickly brought public feeling in the United States to its
senses. President Roosevelt sternly ordered all local officials
to be humane and sensible in their enforcement of the law under
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