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cipate woman as many men will go. It was Ibsen, not Mrs. Ibsen, 

 who wrote the " Doll's House." It was women, not men, who ostra- 

 cized George Eliot. The slavishness begotten in women by the 

 regime of man is what we have most to fight against, not the slave- 

 driving instinct of the men now happily becoming obsolete, or 

 even changing into a sincere desire to do equal justice. But what 

 we must absolutely insist upon is full and free recognition of the 

 fact that, in spite of everything, the race and the nation must go on 

 reproducing themselves. Whatever modifications we make must 

 not interfere with that prime necessity. We will not aid or abet 

 women as a sex in rebelling against maternity, or in quarreling 

 with the constitution of the solar system. Whether we have wives 

 or not and that is a minor point about which I, for one, am 

 supremely unprejudiced we must at least have mothers. And it 

 would be well, if possible, to bring up those mothers as strong, as 

 wise, as free, as sane, as healthy, as earnest, and as efficient as we 

 can make them. If this is barren paradox, I am content to be 

 paradoxical ; if this is rank Toryism, I am content for once to be 

 reckoned among the Tories. Fortnightly Review. 



NEW PHASES IN THE CHINESE PROBLEM. 



By WILLAED B. FARWELL. 



THE whirligig of politics, rather than that of time, undoubt- 

 edly brought about the hasty passage by Congress of the so- 

 called " Chinese Exclusion Act." Being simply " a supplement " 

 to the act of May 6, 1882, which expires by its own limitation on 

 the 6th of May, 1892, it can of course only be regarded as a tem- 

 porary measure ; and unless other legislation of like character, 

 but more well considered and permanent in its operation, is had 

 before May 6, 1892, the country will then be as open to the free 

 and unrestricted immigration of the Chinese as it was prior to 

 the treaty of 1881, and the act to execute its provisions to which 

 this is a supplement. The passage of this measure by Con- 

 gress, and its approval by the President, suggest new phases in 

 the Chinese problem. First among them all is, Will exclusion 

 exclude, as provided in the machinery of this act ? To find an 

 intelligent answer to this question, it is necessary first to under- 

 stand the causes and motives which impel the Chinese to mi- 

 grate from their native country. Until this phase of the question 

 is fairly presented, the difficulties involved in excluding the Chi- 

 nese by legislative methods will not be rightly estimated by Con- 

 gress or by the country at large. 



With an area of 1,297,999 square miles, China possessed a pop- 



