THE OLD CODGER ON THE CHINESE.

Evening Post, Volume LXI, Issue 16, 19 January 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE OLD CODGER ON THE CHINESE.

"I can't say that I admire the Chinese much as a general rule," said tho old j codger acridly. "I am not particularly attracted by aai animal that has his head I and tail both on the same end. I don't like their looks any too well, but I'll j have to admit that I'm considerably prejudiced in favtmr of a few of their methods. I'm kinder stuck, for one- thing, •op thejr habit of killin' reformers. They chop the reformer in ,two at tho neck, a,nd he ceases from troublin' for evermore, and the weary are at rest. But in this country we have to listen to the reformer^ till we are talked into agreeiu' with him, or in self- defence pay him to quit. A reformer is a person who, bavin' no business of his own. to mind, and no mind to mind his own business if he had any mind to mind it with and' business to mind, makes it his regular business to mind other people's business, despite the fact that 'it is none- of his business how other people run tboir ow.n business. Them Chinamen are heathens, of course, but in somo things they appear to know emphatically where they are at." — Judge.