The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-02
The OPENING MARKET
Great Opportunities Offered by
the Changes in China.
,spAn is MORE INDEPENDENT,
!. ". Bash Tells Of His Oriental Tour
a MiSsionaFy's View of the
Awakening OF China.

4. u. Bash, of Port Townsend. vrna
80 inst returned from a four months
sns,,.exs trip in China and japan. ts Ia
- CHS on a visit 10 mis- 5rother-i1s-Iav,.
hamilton Plat. and tells some interest
- facts about the prospects of opening
,-sde relations between Puget sound and
- Orient. as well as many incidents
connected Win the war ana the peace ne
rossafions.
rr. Bash said that there was promise
~ 4 greater amount of trade with China
,san japan. as japan was bent On doing
~ own developing and was able 70 look
= her own interest, while China could
a. little until ner territory had been
esened up BY foreigners. AS soon as
rsi;rosd building began an immense i'm
.et,,s would be given to trade in lumber
ard machinery. Enormous Quantities OF
,,ss would be needed. as well as heavy
ss,aber for bridges and other eonatruc-
siaus. and from nowhere csuId China bury
mare eheaply than from the Sound coun-
syy There Is much uncertainty across
,he xafer as to when this DEVELOPMENT
xeuld begin. Some of the foreign mer-
chants in China looked for a speedy
saenlng ~ Of the country. while others
ssa,ght that IL would take time for the
fsreigmers 10 come to d thorough under
s..rding as 10 the best methods OF pslr-
ssiag the work. There were many En-
ssssh and German merchants already In
fhe field especially Englishmen. who had
ken there long and were familiar with
he problems 10 be solved. The Germans
had been advancing their interest more
rapldly OF late than the English, but
there was an impression among the Chi
nsse that they had not been fairly treat
"a by the Germans lately. particularly
n the matter Of army contracts so that
n evident v,fltfFs-~racu ~.
10 America, IL Americans would meet
them half way. Business methods in the
sar East were much moro leisurely than
here with us, and Americans like l.. s. ].
Want who have m ore push and activity
rsll certainly get ahead of their English
competitors as soon as familiarity
With the conditions Of Asiatic trade has
been acquired Japan. though she viii
not need Americas aid TO anything like
fhe extent of China. VIII still need iron
and heavy timber. and will look TO the
Puget sound country for sfch ~Ilppiies
Mr.. Bash reached Shimoniseki just as
The peace commissioners arrived there
from China, and made the acquaintance
Of the principal officials who took part In
The negotiations. He was standing on the
yersnda of his tea house with a friend
Watching the commissioners leaving the
council chamber after the moving ses-
SION when viceroy Ii was shot by the
crazy student, and witnessed the whole
affair He heard the shot and saw the
vceroy put his hand TO his face and lean
forward with the blood streaming from
between his fingers down upon the yellow
Jacket The wounded statesman was the
only person I'm the crowd that maintained
any degree Of calmness. all the others
being wild with excitement The Chinese
officials wished To so aboard their ships
and return home. but Ii insisted upon re-
naming on shore, saying that the shoot
ing was the work Of one man. and not 20
be taken as an expression of the japanese
people who bitterly deplored the mad act
With the other foreigners in Shimoniseki
Mr.. Bash was confined in his hotel for
three days following the shooting. and
was allowed TO go out finally through the
kind Offices of Mr.. Dennison, the legal ad-
wiser OF the Japanese foreign Office.
Afterwards when ne was I'm China MIR
Bash dined with the viceroy, who was
greatly interested on hearing that Mr..
Bash had seen the shooting, and spoke
Of the poor Workmanship of the fanatic.
who had aimed at his heart bat had
wounded him in the head.
Mr. Bash brought home with him the
Documentary history of the peace negotia-
fions with the text OF the treaty of peace
bound in orange-colored paper, together
With a copy OF the Picking and Tientsin
Times of June 20 containing the official
report of the Interview between III Hung
Chang and Count Ito, which Is very inter-
estng reading.