The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-22
GABRIELLE ANp rmE CllNEsE.
An Interview with the Editor OF I'll
wheeling InieIiigeneer on the Subject.



wheeling InieIiigcncer on the Subject.
San Francisco Poet, June 9th, 1850.
The following report Of a conversation
with General Garfield was published in
the Post OF December Z, 1880, copied from
the Wheeling Nv. Va.,) ISrRLLIoENcER Of
few days previous date. 1t should ef-
fectualIy set at rest all doubts as to the
soundness OF his views on the Chinese
question:
THE writer OF these lines, while trav.
cling west few days ago, fell in with
General Garfield, Of Ohio, on the cars, and
had long and interesting conversation
with him on the leading topics Of the day.
1.-THE future OF our country" said the
General, sis a great problem, and, for that
matter, so is the future oil Europe and OF
the whole world. This reminds me. he
went on to say, ''ot a conversation had
with very intelligent gentleman in New
York City a few days ago. He bad just
returned from Europe, where he had been
travelling for two years, and was in de-
spondent state OF mind over the impress.
IONS he had received while abroad. He
detailed these impressions ut length TO
me and in way that was indeed well
calculated TO make a systematic impress.
ion. 1t was the prevailing impression
among very many OF the thinking mon OF
Europe that society there was being un.
ldermined by certain irresistible influences.
In the first place, it was honeycombed by
widespread and still wider spreading inf
deity. The Christian religion is no long.
er supreme influence over the minds and
consciences OF the masses. The leaders OF
thought, the scholars OF England, France
and Germany, have popularized unbeliei,
and in France it has passed into . current
remark that only women and children are
any longer to be seen at church..
"In the second place, there isg great rest.
lessness among the masses IN regard 20
the inequalities OF society. Why should
the few be so very rich and the many so
very poor2 Is the burden OF their inquiry,
and also OF their conversation one with
another. This undertone OF discomfort !,
yisibly growing, and is finding expression
through channels that are unsettling the
foundation stones OF the whols social fab.
rio in Europe. Socialism in Germany, nj.
and Chartism in England we're all at work,
and the masses were being lesyened with
these principles. Their aversion TO king.
craft and priestcrait borders upon revolu.
ton. The whole Of Europe is volcanic at
this time. Immense standing armies are
all that reprcss the outburst. But while
they repress it they afford the grievance
on which revolution grows and spreads,
and becomes more and more irresistible
for the final reckoning. II is believed by
many OF the most sagacious minds that the
day OF upheaval is not far off.
"But this is not ALL" said General GaI-
field, "tnat my New York traveller said to
me. 1t is believed in Europe that one oil
these great historic movements Of the
Mongolian race, that in the remote past
have dispersed their people into less
densely populated countries than their
own, is now preparing. For instance, the
Russians, in passing recently upon the
Asiatic borders OF their empire, devel.
oped by actual reconnaissance a Chinese
army, of which they were totally ignO.
rant, $4,000 strong, and armed, too, with
all the effective enginery OF modern war,
including the krupp guns. These guns
had been made by their owuskilled work.
men, who had been sent to Europe ard
secretly taught the art, and Prussian otti.
GERS had drilled their armies in the use OF
them. Norman knows to-day the strength
OF the Chinese military establishment.
all We zee or know OF what is going on in
China is on the shore edges. ltis believed
that the skeleton for an army Of 70. 900, 900
already exists. 1t is believed, further. that
the idea oil conquest has once again taken
possession OF the Chinese mind, and that
the great Buddhistic family OF Asiatic races
can be leagued Tor not OnlyR wholesale
raid upon Europe, but also for a descent
upon the Pacific coast OF the United States.
Snch q movement means the possible
wiping out OF Caucasian civilization. Eng.
land has mobiliEed these AsiAtics as de.
fence against Russia's ambition in the
East; but, as Count SChouvalotf said in
the Berlin Conference, what II the Asia,ics,
taught the art oil war, should, like the ir.
resislible Turks, once again look down
upon the plains Of Europe, bearing upon
their banners the legion, we come, We
see, we conquer
"Modern war is now matter Of effec.
tive arms and Of simple and reliable
commissariat system. The Monaghan
race Is capable Of great personal proves.
Being iatalists, they dare everything for
the end they have in view. Their food is
simple, easily supplied, ard easily trans
ported. Their endurance Of fatigue is pro.
verbal. Once organized and in motion
they could swarm into Russia as irTesisti.
bly, as the locusts Of Egypt, and upon the
Pacific coast OF this continent as numer.
Gus and destructive as the grasshoPPers.
Once started, where would they stop?
Civilization would retire before them as
from plague. Look at the plague spots
In San Francisco to-day. Nobody lives In
Them but the Chinese. Nobody else can
i've in them AT this point General Gar.