_ SHANGHAI, 18--.
       DEAR CHING-FOO: It is all settled, and I am to leave my oppressed and
       overburdened native land and cross the sea to that noble realm where all
       are free and all equal, and none reviled or abused--America! America,
       whose precious privilege it is to call herself the Land of the Free and
       the Home of the Brave. We and all that are about us here look over the
       waves longingly, contrasting the privations of this our birthplace with
       the opulent comfort of that happy refuge. We know how America has
       welcomed the Germans and the Frenchmen and the stricken and sorrowing
       Irish, and we know how she has given them bread and work, and liberty,
       and how grateful they are. And we know that America stands ready to
       welcome all other oppressed peoples and offer her abundance to all that
       come, without asking what their nationality is, or their creed or color.
       And, without being told it, we know that the, foreign sufferers she has
       rescued from oppression and starvation are the most eager of her children
       to welcome us, because, having suffered themselves, they know what
       suffering is, and having been generously succored, they long to be
       generous to other unfortunates and thus show that magnanimity is not
       wasted upon them.
       AH SONG HI. _

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