Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29

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Senators Patt:grew of South Dakota and
Cannon of Utah. They left for China at the
close of the last session and arrived home
Just before the present session began.
During their travels they visited nearly
every part of Japan. spent some months in
central and north China, consulting with
Lii Hung Chang and other Eabobs in Pc
king, and took an overland trip to the
great Chinese wall.
/ had Il long interview the other night
with Senator Frank Cannon about his trip.
He has come back impressed with the
greatness of the Chinese and full of new
ideas concerning their future. Said he:
I'VE people of the western world know
but little of the Chinese. We have thought
that they were sinking back and going into
a decline My impression is that they are
simply crouching to spring at the rest of
the world. l think they will have the
a generation If Russia, Germany and
England divide up China. they will only
stimulate her productive powers. They
will organize the Chinese, and the 400 OOO.-
UO people of the Chinese empire will be-
come producers. The foreigners will intro
duce modern machinery, and this will null
tiply the possible amount of production
from five to a hundredfold. / tell you IT
will revolutiOnize the world and the
change will be almost instantaneous.
Chinese Aptitude.
"Don't you think you exaggerate the
ability of the Chinese?'
Not a Bit replied Senator Cannon.
''They are wonderful people. Take lit
tie incident that happened while we were
In peEiDp No To Wis it no
Economical instruments of what is called
the Chinese observatory on the wall which
runs about the city. There are magnifi-
cont spheres and hem3spheres of bronze
there, which were made 800 years ago.
and which are almost perfect now. We
had as a guide little half-naked. dirty
Chinese boy, not more than fourteen years
old He looked meaner and more ignor-
ant than any ragamuffin you can pick
up on the street here today. When he had
guided us to the top of the wall, he climbed
upon the great celestial globe and with his
dirty finger pointed out to US the various
CONSULTATIONS. He seemed to know all
about astronomy and described what every
instrument was for. The Chinese can learn
anything Some of them have come here
TO school They stand high in their classes
They can handle machinery and they are
believe. the best raw material in the way
OF man to be found in the Industrial world
of today.
THE resources of China are wonderful
CHINA has a greater variety and wealth
of mineral resources than any country on
earth My special attention was called to
the provinces OF ShanSee and HOnan, to-
gether as large as New York and Kansas
Those two states support by farming a
Population of nearly forty millions, and at
the same time they have more coal and
iron close together than has ever been
round in any part of the United States
Inc people are living now by what they
get out of their soil by agriculture If the
IL do
mis- a manufacturing product far greater
than the agricultural one. China has soil
that will produce cotton in any quantity
They cen raise long staple cotton and their
iautudlnal range for cotton is three times
mat OF the United States. The cotton mann
1actured In China is all native cotton. and
lhey are putting up many new cotton
i why tney raise cotton, wheat and
Deans III the same field, and was fold they
had been doing this for 5000 years"
The New Railways.
did you find any railroad building going
cn? ee
Some. but not great deaI We went over
a railroad from Tientsin to Tung-Chow on
our way to Picking. The clrs were very good
They We're built in China and they cost less
than any cars N the world. The new roads
are well built and those which are now plan
ned will open up country containing more
tran hundred million people. The Chinese
patronize the roads. and I have no doubt
out that they Will pay Well As vet how
ever. boats and wheelbarrows form the
chief freight and passenger cars of the
country In going to the Chinese wall
rode most OF the way on a donkey. 1 took
snort ride on a wheelbarrow and during
a part of my travels 1 rode in a Chinese
cart. which Is about the hardest method
OF travel / have ever known"
Did you meet Lii Hung Chang?''
Yes; We spent afternoon with him.
ana hlu long chat aDCnt Chinese
American II alters"
Where did you see him.
In Picking. Ii now lives in Buddhist
monastery there. For twenty years when
ever re has been in Peking he has STONED
at this monastery. He has his secretary
an American named Pethick with him. and
ne watches from there the affairs of the
world with his eagle eye. He has not been
degraded. although he has not the noyrer
that ne had in the past. He is a sort of n
serISiIlehtaI dlctator of China IN regard to
i6reisn affairs The Chinese cannot get
along without him. and they are cordial in
their treatment of him. He is very strons,
WIN inc emperor and the empress dow.
ager. and the robles of the court ora H.
AFRAID OF him. They are afraid Of u,b.t y
h,snt 10 IN Peking. ard also afraid of
what he might do in foreign countries
United States?'' N' the
ne showed an intimate KNOWLEDGE ~,
our political conditions He snoke 81
PRESIDENT Mckinley's formerly weiI1known
~ OiiictalllSm, eVidepPed
oy ms votes in the House OF Pr
resentauves. and asked us to CARY
message from him to the President s,,;,
hs as ne said. You may tel MIN ,hat 7
Ieel nave a right to send him a messaoe
as an equal. because If China were a %
Pubhc and her people elected a nresidant
would be the President of China J-i,a
!3hoWlng IS Ii Hung Changes message to
the President: 90ase u
our excellency having attained the
summit OF human ambition by the siIsnne
Which Is golden. / trust that Won will NOV.
Ieei Iree 10 serve your people NV The
speech which Is silver" e
1t was not bad message, was IT,,
The Division of China.
What do England. France and Russia
want of China?'
They want place to dump their goods
They have an idea that the Chinese will he
great consumers and their desires are COM
mercial rather than territorial I believe
they Will be disappointed. The Chinese
win Dc great producers. but 1t will be a long
time before they will be great Consumers,
Ihey can live on almost nothing 1 visited
mills In China where the workmen were
paid twenty cents a day in silver This
-sufhced to support their families / saw
ppen making boilers. doing work for which
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