The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-09-15

tives know little and care less
about the missionaries, as such, the
head and front of their offending
is that they are foreigners, outer
barbarians. and from that point OF
view are neither better nor worse
than other foreigners, though in
some districts where the missions
have been established for some
years and have met with some
degree of success, there is sort oil
deep superstltious hatred not I'M
mixed with fear when they find
the pupils and converts to some
extent denationalized, and leaving
off antique customs, in their own
minds essential to the proper res.
pect to ancestors and ancestral
beliefs which stands with them in
the place OF a religion.
The real exciting cause of the
present disturbance is the poverty,
wretchedness and ignorance of the
swarming millions, aggravated by
floods and famlnes which they
are less able to deal with, and
accordingly suffer from more large
~ than did their own ancestors in
the bridge building and canal cut
ting epoch-when there were no
foreigners in their way.
Bearing il mind these preHmin-
airy remarks, the following extract
from q speech delivered by a
clever, travelled Chinaman, Tsin
Chin Chung, the Governor of the
Province, must be considered as q
very remarkable, not to say omi.
nous, utterance.
At a Fourth Of July dinner with
the American colony at Annoy, the
Governor Tsin Chin Chung is re-
ported by private letter to have
said, amongst other grave utter
ances. in reply to the toast The
Emperor of China, somewhat as
follows:
1t is difficult Tor European to appre-
ciate the breadth and depth OF meaning
of the toast to the Chinese mind. 1t in
cludes the family, language, race, nation
and crown. 1t includes literature, law,
morals and the history of fifty centuries.
China, having followed its own princi-
Piles OF advancement during more than
five hundred years, is now compelled TO
change and move along in European
channels.
1t has begun to own steamships and
railways. Its telegraph now covers
every province. 1t has at last mills,
FORCES and foundries like those of Pitts
burg. China is to-day learning that les
son in education which Europe has OBJ
liged her to learn, the art of killing, the
science of armies and navies. Woe then
to the world if the scholar, perfecting her
lesson, should apply it in turn. With its
freedom from debt, its ineAhaustible re-
sources and its teeming millions, this
empire might be a menace, if not the
destroyer of Christendom. No matter
what happens. it needs no prophetic gift
to know that the twentieth century will
see China Mt the fore front OF the nations
of the world in the East and America in
the West. Well may We pray that for
the welfare of humanity their purpose
will be as peaceful and upright as it is
to-day.
The whole civilized world rs at
present in combination to oblige
the Emperor of China TO exert his
imperial authority for the protec-
ton of foreigners on his northern
seaboard. 1t is generally believed
that the principal Admiral, Lii
Hung Chang, now in command of
the Northern Fleet, is at heart dis
affected to the reigning dynasty.
1t is very doubtful if the Governors
and other high officials in the
affected provinces are a whit more
loyal, or that the army from the
generals to the common soIdiery,
are any more to be trusted.
Given, triumphant revolution,
"a re;juvenated China, the warrior
class, for a time at least, upper
most, and it must be admitted that
probably a new factor IN interna-
tional politics will have to be taken
into consideration.
The fine map of Pearl City and
Harbor, which accompanies this