What he found even more tragic, he wrote, is that "I can feel that in the future there will be more and more wasted lives like this in Taiwan. Under the policies of the colonial regime, the poorer the Taiwanese become, the more lower class families will be disrupted, and the more children will grow up bereft of proper moral instruction."
更可悲的是，「我感覺著以後的台灣，無賴漢是越來越多的，因為這樣的殖民地政策下的台灣人，經濟政策是越貧困下去，下流的家庭是越散亂，子弟的教訓就越荒廢。」