Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-09

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| shaped hats Of black They shave their
heads and faces and are but liuIe rr.
! spcgicd by The people They are. / ana
/ told by The best OF autborifiet ber.'
/ igiorant, low and immoral The most
Of them are opium smokers, and they
| are the contempt and rid.CuIc of the
/ better classes Of the Chinese Buddhism
] On China is. IN fact, n RELIGION gone %
] seed. u had 49, run in hines past. and
/ about n thousand odd years ago the
/ greater portion OF the Chinese were
/ Buddhisi8. 10 was then the center of
culture and learning, and now there are
I few SO poor TO do Il reverence. the
Cuincsc are full Of supcuiiu1ns, but
/ 'hgir religion b. more 20 sysiem of morals
than One OF theology, and they have ls
] MANY pure inhdcls and agnosuCs a. any
people in the world.
Speaking Of Chinese morality De.
I lisvc there IS as little crime here 90 the
| population a5 there IS anywhere, End
| the people, os q rule, we'll behaved, and
] ana surprised every day at The CONF
mon dccuncy with which they treat
each other THESE Chinese cities have
/ many streets not over four FEET wide.
/ In those Of Canton you can stand in the
center aud touch both wal With your
two hands. There are no more thronged
places iu the world than these streets,
and The crowd which moves through
| them Is Of all grades and of aIl occlpa.
tons. There arc mlgdarins in chairs,
who are preceded by their servants. who
carry board, 10 front OF them bearing
the titles OF their masters. There are
coolies wheeling great bJruwH. which
almost hll The sire from side 10 side.
There are donkcys hy the dJz %. aUd
men loaded with 40 SORTS eft heavy
burdens. somc ui which they carry upon
their backs and Others which they have
hung To- the ends Of poles. There must
be necessarily much pushing and crowd.
Ing and such scene he America would
include hight ON every block. Here
there Is nothing of the kind. The
scholar and the gentleman give way. ass
a rule. 20 the heavily loaded laborer,
and the workiugmlu's rights are gen.
orally resp cited. n they are not the
trades unions are such that they bring
the officials and people To time. "A
slricking instance Of this recently hap.
pcncd a. Marking, The Chinese you
know, have no such things as sewers,
and ull Of the slops Of each household
arc collected every Cay by men and
carried out into the country TO be stored
In watts aud aitcrward used as liquid
manure, Not drop nor a atom OF any
thing oi a icrtilizing nature Is allowed To-
10 10 waste, and Stops have their fixed
price in the market aud are bought and
sold. The collectors Of these slups are
the most Offensive characters OF "a
Chinese city They go about with two
iour.gallOn buckets fastened 20 the ends
OF a long bamboo pole, which rests upon
their shoulders. Carrying with them q
smell worse than that Of buncdust
factory, they belong 10 the lowest classes
Of the people. The other day one Of
these men was rapidly walking through
Marking when he happened on turning
a corner TO run into a high mandarin
aud spaltercd him with the contents of
his buckets, The mandarin ordered him
10 be arrested, and he was taken %
prison the head Of the slop union
objected aud demanded that the man
be freed. II was not douc, and the slop
carriers struck in q body. The five hun.
dfcd thousand people Of NlnEIug had
no way 10 get lid of their slop5 aud th1
danger OF an epidemic disease was
imminent. Suppose you should for in.
stance, for n week stop up the sewers OF
Jour city you could then appreciate
something oil the stale Of Marking aL
this time. Marking, however was ilr
worse OF, for IL has no sewers at all.
The result was that the mandarin was
so besiegcd that he let his prisoner 80
tree and RENTED his fine. | hnl that
the Chinese have q fair idea OF Justice.
They will fight against wrong, and there
Is as much Of a democracy here IN this
respect rs there 10 In America. There
Is no place where debts are so punctu.
ally paid and where credit Is so easily
gotten by all classes Of people Honesty
and integrity are above par in China,
and foreigners tell me they would rather
deal with the Chinese merchant than
with any other Guinness man IN the
world, He never goes buck ON his
spoken or written word, aud Mr. Even
Cameron. one Of the leading directors
OF the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank,
au establishment which does the hlggest
banking business ON the western Pacific
and whose capital amounts 10 millions,
ON leaving China not long ago said that
In the dealings OF the bank with Chinese
merchants Tor a period Of more than
twcnty.years and in sums agErcEaing
hundreds Of millions of dollars he had
never met with deIlu'ting Chinlmln.
Since this statement was made the
bank has been delpuded 10y Chinese
cashier In general, however the state.
mcut IS correct.
The penalties Of the law are often
very severe and the Chinese frequently
take the punishment into their own
hands All along the Grand canal and
the Hangtse you may see at the villages
here and there boats cut IN half and
placed upon ends j asked what these
were, aud was told that they were the
boats Of thieves or pirates who had
been caught stealing, The criminals
had had their heads cut OIL and their
boats were thus set up as warning to
others. In Shanghai ] saw a dozen men
with great boards four feet square and
weighing as much as forty pounds each
fastened about their necks so that they
could not move their hands to their
faces. nor brush oil the flies, They
were thieves. In Wuhu there Is a beg
par who goes about on the stump Of
his legs, which have been cut Oh just
below the knees. lie was caught sew
eral times stealing, and this was the
penalty of his crime. Ia some parts OF
The empire a man is punished with
death at his third conviction OF theft,
and pirates are always behcaded. Law
and order are, however well preserved,
and. believe that human life and prop
erty are as safe here as theJ are in
America.