The Chinamen said they would not
attend another session of Sunday
school unless American women
taught them, and they didn’t. They
insisted also on a teacher for each pu
pil. At first the demand had a tendency
to stagger the church council, but
the Chinamen have won out, because
it was considered that, as the class
sessions were held in the Sunday
school room and only on Sunday
mornings, there could be no objec
tion to the plan proposed by the Chi
namen. Yesterday the Sunday
school strike was broken and each
Chinaman was in his place with a
white woman as tutor.”
Now what do you think of that?
Do you really believe that the Great
Originator of Christianity ever con
templated that it was necessary to
furnish one young American girl as
a Sunday-school teacher for each in
dividual rat-eating Chinese coolie
that gets into this country on a
money-making tour? In China an
unmarried man never associates
with young women. These carrot
faced little opium fiends are as
treacherous as a he hog, and care no
more for the Christian religion than
a monkey cares for rhetoric. The
very idea of appointing a separate
female to instruct these miserable he
washerwomen in the religion of
Christ is such an outrage that the
Government ought to forbid it. If
these alleged religious cranks haven’t
enough sense of decency to discon-
ANOTHER “DREAM-CHILD”
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Thos. Watson Owens
Born July 19, 1908. Died December 31,1909
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tinue the practice, they should be
forced to do so by law. I have al
ways been of the opinion that the
man who would leave the United
States with its thousands of poverty
stricken unconverted natives and
chase off to Africa or China, ought to
be in an asylum for the feeble
minded. But even this clan is eclips
ed in imbecility by the person who
endorses the practice of furnishing
every lousy Chink who sneaks into
this country with a special young
female to teach him how to get to
heaven. I wonder if there is a lu
natic asylum in Greensburg, Pa.
