The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-03-04
"THE HEATHER OHINEE. "
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HON. WIN. MUNGEN,
I'm TIE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
JANUARY Z, 1871.
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JANU AIRY T., 1871.
CONTINUED.
When the British advanced up one Of
the Cbinsc rivers, and All the strongholds
oftle Ceestials had been carried and the
invading expedition was about to attack
large city-the name does not occur to ne
now-afer having found tbtir guns, stone
walls, and gongs inefectua in arresting
the advance Of the barbariahs the Chinese
htsratj fell On the expedent Of scattering
brief proclamations among the British SOL
diers and sailors, which, being in the Chi
nese language, they could not read, but
which were to this effect: E'YOu come
from a distant country; you must have
been long away your mothers and wives
and families must want to see YOU Let us
advise YOU. 60 home. We do not wan
you here.
We are told, and truly too, that the
Chinese have made great progress in the
useful arts that il this respect there are
many things We might learn from them.
The minute attention they give to husband
ry, the quantity Of produce they extract
from he soil, the care with which they Re-
store 70 It The most Insignificant element,
and the manner in which they economist
that produce, arc no doubt emincntly wor-
thy of our attention and imitation 10 this
country, where We 20 prOdigally misuse
the soil and 50 Wastetully misuse its pro
auctions.
Tr Min, MIR, bt7v,,,, Oh. ~; ~ III
small account; where civilization, such as
II y, II % old flat more than two thousand
years ago (214 B. CD a stone wall fifteen
hundred miles long was built to keep out
the Tartars where the gardener and the
dyer ana thg paper-maker follows to-day
the same trade bis progenitors did then, AZ
thousands had done for countless genera
tions before them, it Is no wonder that they
have dyes that We cannot give and PAPER
mdche that we cannot initiate, and oak tree,
dwarfed no higher than the knee, and flow,
ering cactus plants that grow in thimble,
and flowers colOred to anv hue in mannel
aa '-te '" wo envy of our
Thee a- r, other ASH
rude w ar.yu. VI the Caucasus
.4 -e h..t..uf- lt middle Asia, or amonS
VIM Tur, mans. .ua IN India, who wort
steel Of a quality unattalnable by all tbs
science Of the Vest, and never approaches.
BY the Chineee and ID Lahore, and in othc,
places, wooden, hair, silk, and cotton fabric.
uuattained by the Chinese.
Within a generation the Caucasian mine
has devised culuvators, and steam-uows
and Teaplng machines, and mowers, wbic.
enable one man to do the work Of humid
red Chinese; and, besides a score of otb3
valuable products, extracted from coal
which the Celestrals neglected, many dvc,
and colors more brilliant and fully as iastina
as his. Whatever our opinion of him ma
be, there is, however, no doubt of bis opin.
ion Of Us. Whether wearing bat sur
mounted BY the right 4 Ind Of button. ana
nearest to the throne, or boatmaD. so moor
and low that be was borne, raised, lives,
and will die on a raft On some canal or riv.
eT, because too poor to pay the tax, as oce-
ours with hundreds of thousands of then,
he regards us all with ingrained, ineradicE.
be contempt and hatred as al inferior raca
Of odlous, miscbleyous, and ridiculous bar
barians.
There i q gentleman now, I believe. n
this city well acquainted With China and tie
Chinese, and also familiar with the peiob
boring Asatic nations, who visited an the
members q The Burlingame mission wban
here In answer to the remark made at
the time, that when its Chinese members.
coming BY way Of California ana travelling
the width ofthe United Sta es, should have
listed all the capitals, of Europe and Wit
messed the marvels of Caucasian and Chris
uan civilization, great ana favorable m
preston must be produced On their miods.
he gravely shook his head and said that
from bis knowledge of Chinese charactor be
Was satisfied that the opinion, even Of The
Travelled individuals, On questions rel9ting
TO as and our civilization, &c. would re-
main unchanged that they would 5DIv
chuckle az having Outwitted the barbar.ar
or having enlarged tBeir personal kLowI-
euge Of the means OF so doing that tc cx-
pect any permanent br beneficial result from
that mission was a dclusion that the hostjl-
ity Of the Chinese from the highest Of
their herati down to the mob and raIhl4
toward foreigners Of all descriptions was
only restrained by fear, md whenever that
restraint was removed their innate hatred
would break out in violence and Untold
cruelties that the learned, through policv
and Cd principle, instead Of attempting II
modify the antipathy which they Shared
With the llliterate, secretely fOstered that
feeling, as we'll as the preiudees Of the
vulgar, il which they were too enlightened
70 openly participate that the last thing
the ruling classes desired was the establish.
ug of railroads, telegraph lines, the work
Ing of coal mines, &c., as We fondlJ ana
perhaps toolshly conceived, or any cbqngc
which would raise and improve the eondi-
non of the Chinese masses To tbe leyel Of
our civilization, if that were possible, BE-
cause the attempt would prove the source
OF increased anarchy, and if practicable
III All would be adverse to ana destructive
NJ lneir class interests and supremacy.
ln TACT 1t appears now that this famous
mission was merely a pageant and show
without any significance, gotten u ~ tbe
ntngues Of an Englishman and On tr,sb-
man for speculative purposes. Ia which tbo
CnInese were persuaded by golden srgu.
ments and wage idea that i would esabio
them to temporizo and play off ons At If
foreigners against another, for they have M
partialihes for or belief in any.
a oustom-house had been established
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