People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — The Chinese Are Self Helpful. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Are Self Helpful.

The percentage of foreigners in oui hospitals, asylums and penal institutions is overwhelming. But the Chinese make little call upon us for philanthropy, and that only for medical help. Little by little these people are coming to see the superiority of our medical treatment, and in cases of severe sickness they will sometimes turn to our hospitals for help. But they ask no other aid from us. If a Chinaman needs any monetary assistance, ,his countrymen help him without burdening our public philanthropies. It is not uncommon for the men of one clan or friends from different clans to band together to establish a loan fund, every man giving so much toward it week by week. This is loaned to needy men without security or interest, and when repaid it is loaned again, and thus many a man is carried through a sickness or set up in business, and outsiders are none the wiser.—“ The Chinese of New York,”, by Helen F. Clark, in Century.