The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-09-12

ana from Lnat 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 d sort of
deep superstItiOus hatred not un-
mixed with fear when they find
the pupils and converts to some
extent denationa.ized, and leaving
off antique customs, in their own
minds essential to the proper res
pcct 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,
wretchednees and ignorance of the
swarming millions, aggravated by
foods and famlnes which they
are less able to deal with, and
accordingly suffer from more large
ly than did their own ancestors ia
the bridge building and canal cut
ting epoch-when there were nc
foreigners in their way.
Bearing in mind these prelimin
AIRY remarks, the following extract
from speech delivered by
clever, Travelled Chinaman, Tsir
Chin Chung, the Governor Of the
Province, must be considered as {
very remarkable, not to say omi
nous, utterance.
At Fourth Of July dinner will
the American colony at Annoy, thu
Governor Tsin Chin Chung is re
ported by private letter to hav'
said, amongst other grave utter
ances, in reply to the toast 9Th
Emperor of China somewhat a
follows:
1t is difficult Tor a European to appre
Ciate the breadth and depth OF meanin
of ehe toast to the Chinese mind. 1t in
cludes the family, language, race, natio
and crown. l. includes literature, la
morals and the history OF fifty centuries
China, having followed its own prime
Piles of advancement during more tina
five hundred years, is now compelled
change and move along in EurOpea
channels.
1t has begun to own steamships an
railways. Its telegraph now cover
every province. 1t has at last mill;
FORCES and loundries like those of Pitts
burg China is day learning that les
son in education which Europe has OF
lged her to learn, the art Of killing, tn
science of armies and Eayles Woe the
to the world il the scholar, pclfecting he
lesson, should apply it in turn. With il
freedom from debt, its ineXhaustible re
sources and its teeming millions, thi
empire might be a menace if not tn
DESTROYER OF ChristendOm. No matte
what happens. it needs no prophetic gi
to know that the twentieth century wi
see China at the fore front OF the nation
OF the world in the East and America
the West. We'll may we pray that fc
the welfare of humanity their purpos
will be as peaceful and upright as it
to-day.
The whole civilized world IS 6
present in combination to oblig
the Emperor of China to exert b
imperial authority for the prote'
ton of foreigners on his norther
seaboard. 1t is generally believe
that the principal Admiral,
Hung Chang, now in command
the Northern Fleet, is at heart di
affected to the reigning dynast.
It is very doubtful if the Governo
and other high officials in tt
affected provinces are whit mo-
loyal, or that the army from tt
generals to the common soldier
are any more to be trusted.
Given. a triumphant revoIutio
! a re-juvenated China, the warri'
class, for time at least, uppe
y most, and it must be admitted tn
probably a new factor IN intern
i tional politics will have to be take
: into consideration.
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