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Show THE CHINESE AWAKENING. Two Chinese Americans, or Americsn Chineae, both newspaper men, have been elected to tiie new Chinese national assembly, which is to replace the provincisl parliament after the election. These two are Tong King Chong, the editor of a Chinese newspaper in San Franciaco, end Choo Shew San of New York. That is entirely proper, becauae it was the experience of Chinese in the United 8tatcs which finally led to the overthrow of thst dynasty which so long held all China in thralldom. The Chineae, returning home, have told their fellow countrymen that the reason the United State has risen from nothing, almost, in 135 years to its present position, is due to the fact that the opportunities of the United States sre open to every man, and the breath of freedom is the tonic which in 135 years has advanced the little settlement on the shore of the Atlantic until it covers a continent and its flag iH the beacon light of all the world's poor. |