Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-02
JAPAN AND CHINA,

10 the EDITOR.
Twice, and with deep interest, I
have listened to Senator Cannon lee
ture on the people of the two countries
named above. The gentleman has
made good use of his time and comes
to us laden with very different story
from that which has been told for
years and years by the representa-
tives OF foreign missions sent out to
make converts of the people on the
other side of the world The mission
aries have told us that the difficulty
in converting those people was because
Of their depravity, barbarism and gross
immortality. But Senator Cannon,
without saying so, makes it very clear
that the people are superior morally
to the Christian missionaries who nag
them to come to Jesus" 1t Is fitting
that the representative of n people
who have been so shamefully misrep-
resented by Christian missionaries in
the Unitd Stats should bring us tn
truth in regard to the Japs and the
Chinese. If what Mr.. Cannon says Of
the Japanese is true, and / believe 1t
is, it would be more appropriate for
them to sent missionaries to Christian
lands to convert their people to purity
of life than vice versa.
1t has been said of Sir Edwin Arnold
that he married Japanese woman
because he is gross. brutal scrub of a
man. But after hearing Senator Can
mons description of those women and
their lives it becomes clear that Sir
Edwin il a man of good taste and eX-
cellent judgment.
l,.,, .t,nr 81 hos M DtNe nal
seen in the new light, with the greedy,
grasping. swndling, lying money
WOrshipers of the Anglo Saxon race
we may we'll ask If so-called Christian
civilization is not largely a fraud. II
to make all happy in unselfish con-
tentment; If to make all lives mild
beautiful and honest, is the true aim
of civilization, then Japan stands
above Europe and America.
DR.. Livingston, the celebrated Afri-
can explorer once wrote from the
wilds of the Dark Continent to friends
in England that II was useless to send
missionaries TO the heather until after
the schoolmaster had done his work.
i believe that Is true In all cases. II
the American school system could be
introduced and made effective in those
countries it would be the greatest
good that could be extended to them
by those who are SO eager for their
conversion. But that would he
harder work as well as "a better one,
than to make Christians of them and
yet leave them In the condition of that
Jap who told Senator Cannon that he
was "a Christian" and yet, when asked
what he believed, innocently replied,
nothing, nothing"
But when Senator Cannon by his
own showing places both japanese and
Chinese. IN some important respects,
above the Christian world and then
N.a1
into our country, Is he not stultifying
himself? There was formed in Chi
cago few days since an organization
representing $4,000 Chinese now in the
United States and for the purpose of
effecting the repeal Of the Geary law
and securing citizenship for the people.
They say they are Americans: their
interests are here; they do not want
TO go back to China, and they want to
become citizens. If they are of those
Chinese of whom Mr.. Cannon spoke in
such terms of admiration, / see not
how he can oppose their wishes in
this matter.
As to the fear so often expressed
that the people of Japan and China
VIII very soon become n DESTROYING
force in the world of manufacturing.
agriculture. wool growing and COM
merce, think there Is not much in it.
There Is too much money at stake in
the Occident; there Is too much avarice
in the Christian world to allow of such
thing. see in the growing enterprise
of those people only the sure approach
o trouble for them. The money!
lenders, the trusts and combines that
can enslave Europe and America will
not hesitate to capture. burn and dos
troy all that land and kill off those
hordes of industrious people to keen
down any danger they might he
come to Christian countries. Christian
commerce and Christian government,
Look at Spain and Peru and Mexlcol
Recall what Christian occupation did
in those countries and expect to see
1t repeated on vaster scale In Japan
ana Chinai Already Germany has
begun the work. The others will fol-
low. II the United States were in truth
the grand nation we would like TO be-
lieve 1t, here is n God-glven opportun-
ity for it to show It's humanity bv
becoming the friend and protectors OF
those millions who by their own excel
that viii one day shatter them, But
instead of being a great nation and n
Godlike people we are standing like
scrubs to watch Spain starve the
heroic Cubans on our very door sill,
deaf to their appeals. and at the same
time too dumb and incompetent 10
compel the Jews of London and the
Shylocks OF New York to respect our
rights under our own government
Alasl Poor japan and China. there
are bloody days in store for YOU, and |
all because you will not Come 10 !
Jesus" and let the Christian world |
swallow you. CHARLES ELLIS.