Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — The Chinese Are Self-Helpful. [ARTICLE]

The Chinese Are Self-Helpful.

The percentage of foreigners in our hospitals, asylums and penal institu, tions Is overwhelming. But the Chin, ese 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 oua hospitals for help. But they ask no other aid from us. If a Chinaman needs any monetary assistance, his countrymen help him without burdening oun 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 s when repaid it is loaned again, and thus many a man*is carried through a sickness oiq set up in business, and outsiders are none the wiser.—Century.