The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-12
CORRUPT gHLESqIAbS.
Bribery the Cause of china's
Downfall Japan HUI
name Motives.

BOSTON. March u. iSS5s4-Len Chew.
a Chinaman, a well known Boston n,er-
| chant and a man educatedt ~ America,
Just returned from Chinas talks as fol-
lows Of the condition of things there
"While did not go to the seat Of war
in the North at all. Ifdid9spend some
time in Shanghai. only about 400 niles
from the seat Of war. Though the COM
mon people know nothing about the war.
yet the educated people, the merchants
and those who have had connection with
the European inhabitants know, all
about 1t and far more. than the govern
ment desires.
T Government takes all pains mag
Unable to keep the. people from knowing
anything. let alone the facts concerning
a disastrous war. There Is no free press,
no post office. and the railroad and tele-
graph lines there are carefully watched.
The Government will not allow the COM
mon Cinnamon to be educated lest they
should equal the European or Anieri-
can. and that would lead to q revolution
cowardly crew of thieves and black
mailers called the Government of emma
from the face OF the earth.
eminent are there any. genuine Chinese.
They are Mantchus Of Monaoiians. No
Ghin INA Is is Or r. can bs osti Ea ;S ssts Mann n
his way up BY a carefully graded system
BRIBERY RAMPANT.
First. g br.be must be given to the
servant of a petty official before he will
The master deman6s a bribe, and a fat
one, and passes the applicant on to an
other. After a series Of steps, the ap;
he takes ali the money the man has left.
and he enters upon his official career
penniless. Thereafter he b~iackmails
side.
ATTACHED to this course of bribery is
a course of competitive examinations.
If a man wants to be captain of a bat
tleship he must lift, or try to, a big
square stone weighing about 800 pounds.
stone he may try on a lighter one a.
he is passed as successful. Then there
is the bow and arrow test. An applicant
rs ma gave Wit ien e. gfro of them hem heHis h marked
80 per cent. If he hits with two he mus
pay 500 for eachfone that misses till he
has reached a percentage sufficient to
pass him.
AFTER he is captain of a ship he APP
points his officers in the same way that
oficers he appoints them and at the
first opportunity DISCHARGES or SENDS
away some Of them. The payron is made
out In full, though. a spa,,,a 81 eapsaa ga pec Is
the officers. The chiefs of squads do the
same thing, and even a colnmon soldier
m m t s lasky hi Il P re- s wtsh a NJ 1iihesr' Is ans &
any wonder such a mass OF IN
competent thieves are no nlareb for the
yell-armed. wen-equIpped, : the Rfoughly-
drilled a Ra1 asFnSEt m SspAN,.
MANY people uppose that the only
reason ensn w roF b Inc 5sulara desire ID Humble
China. The real reason is much more
creditable to the japanese. They are
s hggm t the TIL ea Ghine efs S stgsaaaasen h had
Of plumber and bribery that they had
tn f6s 5gnsn aga s shs i fpisasly VIA Aaas them,
caught the Infection of ciyiflzation from
them and began e ACETATE g t. dorsa sha are
crushed, and it was in assisting the Cor
cans in their very proper, course that the
Japanese were forced to DECLARE way;
band of half-paid, haif-starved. fully
cheated Mongolians are pitted against
them.
enrich some few Office holders, who live
after 1t. if the Mantchu dynasty Is not
DESTROYED. # that gang e s see nc els
unreasonable benefit to mankind. Why,
the Emperor himself, the Son of Heaven,
has not dared to faceAsthe chance OF
death, for he fed from Pekin nearly two
months ago. Some al he Is at Hankow,
but at any rate he is not In Pexin..
eli Hung Chang may suppose that he
tiate peace with Japan. but If he does
he is only the tool of the sdowager. the
Emperor's mother.
ION the Imperial throne there sits a
craven image. not the Emperor himself.
When Ii Hnug Chang Visited the EN-
peror. as he supposed, or he pre-
spoke to another and b on till the efflgv
was reached. TheManswer returned was
the answer of the Empsror's mother, and
are all blood relatives Of the Emperor
there is no interest for 81 one of them
to betray. the. mother. but 1t could not
Pekin it was whispered about among
the educated Chinamen,s who hate the
whole Mantchu people,the sMongol Tar
tars."