A NEW CHINESE TREATY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3160, 24 September 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

A NEW CHINESE TREATY.

Speakino of Chinamen Ah Sin is giving us trouble says tho New York correspondent of tha Horbart Mercury. I can't say that I am at all infatuated with my Mongolian brother; but, if I must welcome him to mv wigwam, give him to me as a pagan, pigtail and all, with a shirt on tho outside of his pans. Notwithstanding my Christian traiuing and the doctrine of the universal brotherhood of man, and while cheerfully acknowledge the relationship dating back to Noah's Ark, I confess I don't take much stock in Ah Sin either as a Christain missionary or a Christian convert I may be wrong ;if I am, Heaven forgive mo ; but Christian Ah Sin always looks to me as if, when you shoo* him out, the pigtail which you thought he bad cut off as a necessary Christian sacrifie, was carefully plaited an.-l tucked down his back, and his sleeves -were full of aces and bowers A number of churches havo started Sunday schools here for the especial benefit of Ah Sin and Wong Lee; but the only conditions on which Wong or Ah would consent to renounce the teachings of Confuctus were, that his Sundayschool lesson 3 should be taught him by a pretty young Melioan galee, and that a liberal lunch should be provided after tho Sunday school was over. No lnnehee, no Melican galee ;no Chinaman, sabee ? At last the flirtations between the almondeyed heathen and their teachers became so scandalous that several ministers werecompelled to cry a halt, and one of them, a former missionary to China, denounced it ronndly from his pulpit. Then a Chinaphobist jumped on the offending pastor, and declared that he was worse than a heathen aud a publican. Tho result of the affair has been that in three weeks American girls of (rood education and fair prospects have married Chinese laundrymen, and a Brooklyn beauty of IS ran off with a saffron coloured Celestial, who has a wife and two children in China. What are you going to do about it, if the girl wants him ? I'm blessed if I knowArrest her for smuggling contraband goods, or ship her to China with her husband.