The Cheyenne Daily Leader

THE TRUE REASON.
Why the Chinese Students Were Ordered Home.

Chicago, July 30.—The Journal publishes the reasons which actuated the Chinese government in recalling its young men who are students at Hartford. It seems that a year ago the emperor despatched a mandarin of high rank to Hartford to inquire into the workings of the educational commission. This individual had never been outside of his native land, and possessed only book knowledge of foreign countries. On reaching Hartford he was horrified at finding that the wards of his nation had become Americanized to an alarming degree, some being so acclimated as to have parted with their pig tails. The shock was too great for the nerves of the conservative functionary. Yung Wing, the able head of the commission, failed in his efforts to clear away the prejudices of his visitor, who declared the effect of the sojourn was to alienate the boys from their country and its customs, to undermine the most sacred national principles of the government and socially to implant and foster seditious ideas which would become the germs of social if not civil and religious trouble among his own people. The whole influence and tendency of the commission was pernicious and dangerous in the extreme. He, therefore, recommended the immediate abandonment of the enterprise and the recall of all the students and this course has been adopted by the home government. It is understood that the Chinese government was very largely influenced by the fact that the colleges and scientific schools in America do not furnish practical industrial education, and was also misled by the special envoy declaring that the machinery and manufacturing products in the great mills of the country inferior. The students, therefore, should be sent to France and Germany. The Chinese officials, resident in this country, are trying to convince their government that the statements about the inferiority of our machinery and products are unfounded.