The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-26
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brought into personal contact with the
Chinese. We are told by writer in
MacMillan's (November) that the popu-
lation is divided into two sharply de-
fined classes, the very rich and the
very poor, the middle class being an
insignificant quantity, and that though
the poor, with all their ignorance and
superstition, are the more amenable to
external influences, for good as well as
for bad, they betray, in common with
their rulers, a rooted aversion to for
eigners. The writer says:
The days of Chinese exclusiveness have
departed, never, we believe, to return,
but the supreme sef-complacency OF the
people as whole, their lofty pretensions'
and more or less beneicent power, are
still one of their most striking character,
istics and while naturally more marked
in the words and actions Of the oflicial
wretohed coolie who loads a ships bunk-
ers with coal. The latter's Unborn am,
mostly toward strangers does not Oh
course show itself much outside emma
where the conditions are naturally re-
versed. 1t rather develops into an unut-
tered contempt, and determination 70
get the better of the foreigner In every
eonoeyafle way II 1t be only Iyyse "
this luminosity is famed and kept alive
by the expressed contempt and the act,
i've opposition of the governing classes.
In reference to the high moral code"
OF China, we quote:
Confucianism has no doubht wrought
much good in its time, but 1t has QUIZ un,
lived Its moral power; its body Is sun
there, but such soul as 1t had seems 10
| have departed out of It. Confucius threw
no light on any of the questions which
have worldwide and eternal interest,
ne gave no real impulse to religion nc
nad no sympathy with progress. II docs
not seem, however, as IL DR.. Legges
prophecy that his influence would wane
H y likely soon to be fulfilled PUTTING Thims
would assuredly fare better II she Ioi-
| lowed out her great philosophers prin,
| ciples 1t Is because her people preach
| lect to practice them, that the Empia ne
Is the morally rotten body that we seo
| 1t to be.
Ought women to be sent to China as
| missionaries. and are the missionaI.iseoo
sufficiently careful not to inf1ame IN
passions of the people needlesslyi
These questions are asked, and are ""
| swered as follows:
We must reiterate our co9yi,c ain VINO who
| will be shared by nearly al laymen t waI
have Visited China t9nta she aSSye excite
almost completely nullify the good ,n rdey
more favorable conditions. Their entnus,
siasm and devotion, their bravery. ana
| Gas a general thing their tact, their TIRE
| less and unceasing labors In lonely pro-,
| vinces where everything but their ow ms
steadfast belief In their cause ve,s
against them, make their relative iaiiuas q
all the more pathetic. Still, baoiy e q,
| Chinese men think of the Western Woined,'
| who go about among them unrcstrainsSuis,
| the Chinese women are more ame.ah o,T
| to feminine influences, when once, tls nd
natural prejudice has been removed, a snr
there Is a marvelously wide field here ~,
| female energy. 1t Is possible tnat our
| women do more GOOD among their o ~.
| sex In China than we are generally vi
| posed to admit; but II Ii certain tle n.
| presence Is an ab0minatlon to the PEI v
| pie at large, and until China has PRIV
| erly awakened, sporadic outbreaks Mts :
more or less serious results are ineVnius s-
BILE, The other question, as 70 ths oS us
erection OF the missionar les OF both sex,s ,,s
sr.nisrers 10 PeRing and OF consuis q, %
the various treaty ports any time ours al,
| the past thirty years or moro. AFTER III
must be remembered that China De
we 20 tne Chinese. and that we wnei
\ are oniv rs,a,, beyond the treaty po, ~,
anorities do not want us there. and the,
t whouiu turn Us out II they could and II
| ssn ny uareu. Given rooted antipathy L
aoreigners and missionary whose yea
outruns his discretion. and disturbanc
II IN, sns. Tost natural result In the world
men we send out to preach the Tosne
IN China that collisions with the ofi,ciei
and the people have In circnmsta !, ~
tending. very readily to enmitv 49,, ~
relatively few and the converfs 40 rais
lively numerous. w 's'''