The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-26


gage applied 20 fore gnsrs thea Ia of that Kind fab
treated by knaves aud Will only pass muster among
tuo, She muck rake Of auiscity. nnpertucnce and
shaucies.nsss takan 10 dsf,nd the dunahtl OF Siam.
standardization, AMI recois with tenfod vio-
Iencn Its wieders Like blue bottles around the pu-
trdity OF native malnimin they batscn on the
poison liberty and progress never rising TO the dig
nifty of being hated. and only being despissd with mod
Grafton II 10 dn,cut to believe that Slam IL opposed
to Europeans and is more dificult to conceive that
intelligent young slam should wish ueir Withdrawal
siam might live to make the experiment OF expelns
foreigners hut she would never survive IT, and We can
only hope that the SPOKEN dsgsers against Europeans
may never no used against the siamesc."
Surely this is very terrible Moreover. IL
appears That the Siamese are poor. and who
dcspiscs poverty rs much as an English
trader? And they are pious. and who
despises piety. Pagan or Nonconformist. us
much rs an Englishman in foreign purts?
Yet some Englishman In Bangkok Is willing
that the Siamesc. and even the French,
should live. Thus a blasted scntimentalist.
undoubtedly miserable Gadstonan.
writes in the Siam Free Press about per-
sons who have the
sentiments Of bandits toward Siam and every other
Asatic country which whets the coyeousness OF the
trader siam. they say. is wealthy nnd Offers masnh-
cent trade opportunities; but France casts longing
eye oil that kingdom, SO we should either annex or
protect 1t. In fact. they formulate the dangerous
maxim that should follow trade; AMI that
because France wishes to be our rival In any part or
the wor d. therefore that part should be promptly an
nexci byu. These opinions are put forward with such
brutal trankness that would Imagine That the Tenth
Comm nnimsnt DID not exist"
This writer means well. but he is really
too slushy. Whatever else may be said OF
the Ten Commandments land we must re-
member that Jews are now admitted to
Parliament. SO that the social position OF
tho Ten Commandments in England Is
decidedly better than it was seventy
years ago.. yet nobody. we suppose. will
pretend for moment that the Ten Com
mandments are Oh the same level with the
Statute of Lubourers. for instance. and the
Coercion act. and other monuments OF Eng
lish Legislation. Then. II you had much
acquaintance with English history. you
wouldn't he SO rash as to assert that the
Ten Commandments apply to fellows like
the Siamcse.
Another pestilent correspondent writes to
the Siam Free Press about misgovcrnment
in Siam. This communication seems to us
decidedly ironical. Judge IL the writer Is
not thinking about England when he writes
these words ostensibly applying to tho do
main Of CHULALoNGKoRNl.
ITO ignorance 1t must be attributed that the masses
suffer princes and the called nobility to prey upon
them like verniin beast and the Ignorance OF the
princes and nobility likewise the direct cause that
some day the nasses--that otherwise tame AMI sub
mi.sivc social brute-will make violent attempt to
throw on the verm;n aud mercilessly destroy great
numbers"
JoHN BURNS in Bangkok? But we must
turn from the Socialist to the real. COM
planning. "niyger "-damning Englishman
in Bangkok. According to him the Siamese
swels have all the JEREMY D1DDLER accom-
plishments OF Mayfair operators:
"Deo:s" says he. are contracted by siamese mar
nhcoes trader in town. to every contractor to
every billiard saloon hotel in Bangkok They remain
unpaid for years. and polite request to them is to
by tho modest request-to leave tho coun
try. Leave the country after tho means OF doing
has been placed OF reach by tho wre:ched system
In vogue. Not foreigner in bangkok who has spent
anxious years of careful industry in Siam hut would
were for coming"
Honest British merchant! Never thought
to put up his fences so high that a little in
stallment OF the deSt would be enough to
let him go home in wealth and peace.
Surely Siam ought to bo annexed to Eng
land or England to Siam. So that the Siamese
magnificoes may be treated as the Mayfair
mugniilcoeS are.