Wichita eagle., 1888-04-29
CHAT WITH COL, BEE,


"Gath" Talks Awhile with the Chimes,
Oficial--Our Relations with China.
1 saw the Chinese parade in honor of theil
Joss and his counterpart. The latter wa
called Kwan, understandable dragon, OF
devil In order to propitiate him, who i
also eternal, and was before the world, ever
by our version of him, they gave that ole
! pepper caster OF life, the devil, a parade, a.
If to say: "Kwan, you are a vain old dog
! matist and jealous fellow, and we'll cen ash
you to dinner and smooth your pin feathers
down, and then we'll go and dedicate joss
temple, and you won't affiict us!n
l sat during the parade Of the great dragon
whole block long, carried by worshipers
and preceded by gorgeous banners of hues nc
American procession can match, and at the
Chinese consulate, kept by Col Bee, an
American, there were ell manner Of distin.
guished people, among them the Chinese con-
sui; and was told that in the recent Ton
quin war the Chinese whipped the French in
every engagement of musketry, using Amer
lean made rifles 10 do il. The Yale col
lege educated secretary of the Chinese
consul general brought the latter in and
introduced me, and we had dignified
talk by interpreter, eating the while the
cheap and wonderful fruit Of this country
grapes Spain cannot match, pears luscious as
cantelopes, and three for a nickel, apples
equal to that one which tempted Eve, the
devil and man In one. Here is the future
Europe Of the western race-tropics and
temperate zone blended, the climate giving
the highest vitality to the mind, the society
tolerant. Talking TO Col. Bee at the Chinese
consulate he controls-we were waiting for
the great procession Of the Celestial popula-
ton to pass by and lay the evil joss-he said:
"There are only 1900 Chinese in the
county of San Francisco, only &c, 900 on ell
the Pacific coast, only Y, 900 in the Union.
About $1,000 more have returned to China
than have come out since the law was passed
refusing Them
'Did the Chinese government approve of
the law rejecting any further emigrationT'
"Yes. They do not desire their people to
emigrate They even refused to avail them
selves Of the power conceded to their govern
ment to select the parties dt to come to
America-merchants, etc. Hence no more
merchants come and those left here com
plain of the loss of trade consequent upon
the final departure Of so many Of their Chi
nese customers
"Do we still trade much with Chinag'
"Yes; we sent them 475, 900 barrels Of -four
this year. We sent them also 500 900 OF
stamping and mining machinery since the
very recent opening Of their mines to de-
velopment. They long refused to permit
their resources to be tested Now they are
beginning to tap the surplus Their country
contains copper, iron, gold and silver from
Pekin to Tonquin."
why have the Americans received tho
concession to mine, etc, in China above the
European nationsf'
because of the injustice of France and
England and the other powers to Egypt,
Japan and India-frst getting in to do works
and trade, and then making vast demands
for indemnity, and finally claiming terrific
rial compensation. Ii Hung Chang, the
Bismarck of China as Grant called him,
said that the British and French never should
receive pretexts of that kind to attack China
America said he, lis our friend above the
other powers So the Russian, representing
the Philadelphia capitalists got the conces-
sion. 1t is immense-involving the right to
lay railroads, telegraphs and telephones, open
rivers and Introduce machinery. George
Alfred Townsend in Boston Globe.