The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-26
Is NOT ADVANCING.
The Chinese Still Resent All
Foreign influences.
BRITISH CHAPLAIN IN SEATTLE.
Rev. =. A Baylee, Late OF HonRkong,
says LIE Tour VIII Not
Modernize China.

Rev 8 a Baysee. chaplain IN ne Brit
'Sa navy, ts "a Seattle FOR the first time
arac- Ike a. vislts~s. IS charmed with the
CITY lie has been stationed for three
years 81 H9ngkong. and IS now on his
Hay 10 London. where he Will receive
1e* assignment from the admiralty. The
term for which a chaplain 5 assigned ID
three years. Prior TO MS so5curn a.
hongAorig 4r. Bayiea was chaplain on
the nat<lesEip Edlnsoro IN the Mediter-
ransan.
The admiralty allows him three months
from TIRE date OF mis- leaving Eongkoag
IN wfaacn TO report for duty. He has a
BROTHER living near Oregon City. and Is
taxing advantage of as briet vacation 20
pay MS brother visii- After q few days
On the farm he RTlll return 10 Seattle.
where ne hopes 20 remain or Gay or TWO.
Thence taking the Canadian Pacific ne
VII visit another brother az Manitoba.
and 60 or - England va New York
Mr. BAysee Is man OF engaging per-
soualty. he has the sturdy strength Of
the true BrIton. mellowea and sottensd
by eontac. wi:h many nations The
stafehy Stiffness of the theological sem
mary has long ago been taken out OF htTa
By the SEA 5Fee3e. lie has had good op-
porEaRities for observing men and things.
and he hes turned MS opportunities 70
good account. His running conversa-
c. cultured gentleman whose three
years reslaeuee IN China gave him tie
right TO form independent judgments.
Perhaps the most significant o; these IL
his opinion that ia It's eighty years Of con-
tact w'ita China. Great Britain has made
no pe-ceptlh!e impression on that archaic
people.
1T Is a mistake" he said. "to say that
China is yielding 10 foreign civilization.
She Is not. few OF the products OK
modern civilization have found lodgmeat
III the great cities. a few merchants have
opened limited lines Of commerce. and
that is al. Csius as a nation stu re-
sents foreign influence from any quarter.
It's whole mode of life and thought Is an
tagonistic 20 ours. AT Canton when for
e!gner passes, the natives, IS soon as his
back is towards them. turn and spit at
him. The act il not meaningless IL ex-
presses the altitude % China toward the
foreigner. The ordinary name for a for
elgner IN China is foreign devil.
You AK whether the result OF the war
with Japan has made no impression on
China as 10 the superiority OF modern
methods. Not IN the least, The truth b
that. outside OF the upper mercantile
class. few Chinese know what the result
cf that war WAS. Many Of the interior
masses have never even heard OF the
war. and large part Of the urban popu-
As newspaper man You can rot blame
them. their newspapers. or seulileions.
told them So These bulletins contained
the mos; fabulous accounts OF Chinese
victories ali through the war. With pc
lures OF japanese vessels being blown sky
h.gh by the Chinese navy.
No. | don't think II Hung Chang car
ries back favorable impressions Of Eng
land and America. and don't think the
tendency OF his recent tour VIII De 10
uodernlze China The distinguishing ma
tiona quality OF the Chinese Is self-con-
ceit. They are the Incarnation OF ego
iism. l have seen many OF their repre-
sentative men who have visited Europe
and America. They return To China liiled
The ways or the rest OF the world are
there could be no greater condemnation.
II other people live on a different plan
or plane from theirs. so much the worse
for other people
Mr.. Eaylee had many kind things 10 say
about the Chinese especially commenting
their Kindness toward their boys. In the
same hrea n. however, ne had 10 condemn
81 unms3sured terms the cruelty thas kills
the female child n birth. His obserya-
tons Of Chinese life and his renlem-
braEces nf his own residence In China
have a Hfe-like touch. and his converSa-
ton is both interesting and instructive.
He caught sight Of the burned district
az Kobe "a he passed that city. and says
that the newspaper accounts have by no
means exaggerated the disasters that have
befalien Japan this year.