The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-27
OUR CHINESE RELATIONS.
Colonel Denby and the Mission
to that Country.
THE GRAND ARMY.e
National Encampment at Portland,
Me.---A Most Imposing
Street Parade.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 93.-Congress-
man Townshend said to-day: 81 was over
in New York last week introducing Colonel
Denby to a number of gentlemen who are
deeply interested in developing the COM
mercial relations with China, and who have
a great deal of Information that will prove
useful to our new Minister to Pekin.
have taken great interest IN this matter
OF increasing our commerce with Asiatic
and South American counties, and this is
the result in part OF having in New York
a number of friends who understand the
subject. and are anxious to see something
accomplished. The time is ripe for draw
ing
THIS COUNTRY AND CHINA CLOSER
together. 1t is not necessary to give sta
tistics. Every one knows that China buys
enormous quantities of manufactured
goods from foreign nations, and that we
have a very small part of this trade. We
are China's nearest neighbor among the
civilized nations, and we have no political
designs upon China, and she understands
that we are the best friend China has among
the Western nations. A great deal can be
accomplished by having progressive man
such as Denby is, at Pekin. If the Chinese
ENCOURAGING RAILROAD BUILDING,
and think she soon can be, it would be an
enormous benefit to us. We can furnish all
the materials, rails, rolling stock and bridg-
es and all the engineers she needs for car
rying on the work. There is clause in the
Buringame treaty, by which we obligate
ourselves to furnish China with all the en-
gineers, whenever China is ready to embark
on a system ofinternalimproveme That
clause has been wholly imperative hitherto,
because, since Burlingame's time, we have
been represented in China by
BROKEN DOWN POLITICAL HACKS.
'"The Chinese Mission is really the most
important mission we have. European
legations we could dispense with, without
any trouble, but in China, Mexico, and
the Central and South American States we
not only need legations, but we want the
very best men we can get for Minister'S.
Then, too, the Chinese army needs reorgan-
ization and arming. The Chinese Govern
ment begins to realize that there is no Eu-
ropean nation that can supply China with
officers to organize and drill her army and
with weapons for arming her soldiers SO
well as we can and she would be perfectly
safe in putting this work into our hands,
for we cannot possibly have any designs on
the integrity of the Chinese Empire, while
almost every European nation may be ia
tally suspected OF seeking to
INFLUENCE THE POLITICS
of the country, or get a slice of it's terri
tory. think a man like Colonel DENLY
can make these things clear to the Chinese
Government, and although it will take
time to effect it, 1 believe, with a proper
representation at the Chinese capital, we
may accomplish great deal for the benefit
of our export trade. l know that SO far as
the general trade goes, not a great deal can
he done NATL ave can sell China the goods
she wants cheaper than England, France
and Germany. In some directions, changes
in our tariff laws will be needed to accom-
plish this, but our manufactures have
NOTHING TO FEAR FROM CHINESE
competition or the competition OF the ma
tions south of us on our own continent,
and SO far as these countries 60. There
fore our manufacturing interests may be
relied on to support such notifications in
our tariff laws as may he found necessary
without waiting for that. The right kind
of an American Minister can do much to
increase the friendly feeling OF China with
the United States and prepare the way Tor
closer commercial relations. We have al
ways been friends OF China, except, per-
haps, in the passage OF the Chinese immi-
grafton act, and the Government at Pekln
is quite Indifferent to that. That Govern
ment would much rather keep it's subjects
at home than have them come to this coun-
try"