SHANGHAI, 18-.
DEAR CHING-FOO: It is all settled, and I am to leave my laden and
overburdened native land and cross the sea to that noble realm wherever all
are free and all equal, and none maligned or abused--America! America,
whose precious privilege it is to call herself the Land of the Free and
the House of the Brave. We and all that are just about us here look over the
waves longingly, contrastive the privations of this our birthplace with
the deluxe comfort of that happy refuge. We cognize how America has
welcomed the Germans and the Frenchmen and the stricken and sorrowing
Irish, and we cognize how she has given them bread and work, and liberty,
and how grateful they are. And we cognize that America stan