The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-05-10
ATTRIBUTABLE HEATHER.

Mr. Ten Wing TIE Way Shin Shua
Shing TIE Way Shing Show Tan TIE
Way Keo Ton Ye Che Poh Kow Shu
Yu Lee Yeh Wong Chin Foo (barring
a few middle names left out for brevity's
sake) addressed a small audience last
Tuesday evening, in New York, on "The
Damnstion of the Heather" He said
that, whilst it is true that the Americans
and Chinese are entirely different, many
wrong impressions prevail in this coun-
try as to the latter. Among other wrong
impressions obtaining here, he said that
Amer cans had been tau ,ht that the
Chinese live on rats, and dogs and pup
pies. "Why," said he, III never heard
that rats and dogs were good to eat until
came to this countryPs
"You have been told, said the speaker,
chat We have no belief IN God, and a
critic in one Of the newspapers attacks
me on this ground, saying that there is
no word m aiming God in Chinese. If
the word sere translated into Chinese
II would mean spirit, and we believe IN
The oyor ruling spirit. The hottest word
we have is heaven, and l defy you to
fnd one amoog the $50 100000 CnIaese
who will use that word lightly, excepting
as they have learned it from the mission
aries. They will swear in English, some
the Bible to show US God. Our own
nature and ali the wonderful works OF
nature shows US that there is a God.
The very drop OF water that falls from
somewhere on top. Do you think that
there are no philosophers IN China? Do
you think that the Chinese who have
come in such numbers to America, or
even that the lecturer be ore you is
fair repI esentative of the Chinese literary
meu7 II so, you are greatly
mistaken. ASIDE from our wonderful
history look at the inventions
of the Chinese. They made the first
printing. the first mariners compass, the
FIRST porcelain, the first gunpowder, the
first cannon and the first system of laws.
And if with sll the intelligent states
men who assist in governing 100000
of people here there is so much trouble
10 governing Alright, how do the Chinese
manage TO govern their 450.0OO,000
All your intelligence, your higher reli-
pion, your greater laws and your more
excellent principles are powerless to pre-
vent crime, yet l affirm that you have
ten times as many murderers as the Chi
nese with ten times Ms many people.
And how do We accomplish this? 1 will
tell you. 1t 10 by the excellence OF our
laws. These laws lave come down
through many generations of philosoph.
ical minds. And we don't choose our
rulers by favor and by votes. Out of
$4,000 men who have studied twelve or
fifteen years, The Emperor chooses three
or four who can stand the best examina-
ton. And these men must not only
have learned the laws but have mastered
the principles. Can we not say then
that half the population must be lntelli-
CENT?
They say we bow down to stock and
stone. Yes, many of our people do ex-
actly as the Christians do. l ssws very
intelligent Roman Catholic gentleman
praying for half 40 hour in front of
crucifI once, and when he got up l
asked him If that was his god He said no,
il was An emblem. We use emblens
also, but we do not consider them gods.
Does any Christian suppose that the
bread and wine you use is really the
body and blood of Christ 1t is only a
humbugging way of representing them.
II want to make two points: l, that a
form of religion is given by the Creator
10 every nation which is suited to it; =,
that missionaries going from one nation
10 another only confuse matters in gen.
eral. The American and Chinese people
are exactly opposite in almost everything.
With You, gentlemen remove their hats
In society. With US, If q gentleman was
70 do this he would be thought q savage
You shake each others hands till you
give one another the rheumatism. We
shake our own hands when We greet our
friends. You take your soup first; We
take 1t last You have your wine iced;
ws have it steaming hot, but we don't
get 50 hot after drinking it. You ask about
the health of one another's wives. If one
should be guilty of asking Chinese
gentleman about his wife he would
would have more trouble than Brigham |
Yourg. And you show your affection
in pubic / remember how amazed l |
was when I first saw gentleman kiss
and embrace bis wife in depot. l
thought the Americans must have so
much affection that they could not con-
troll themselves. But ! found out after
wards that those people who embraced
themselves in public quarrelled with
4 hoypsalyoa in privata In China wa