Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-29

In the House OF Representatives. and
asked us to carry n message from him
to the President, smiling as he said.
You may tell him that l feel have
right to send him a message as an
equal. because II China were repub-
lie and her people elected n president
] would be the president OF China The
following Is Ii Hung Chang's message
to the President.
"'Your eXeelIency having attained
the summit of human ambition by the
silence which Is golden, ! trust that
you viii now feel free to serve your
people by the speech which Is silver
at was not bad message, was itY"
THE SILVER QUESTION IN CHINA
II wonder, senator. whether your 60
Ing to China has changed your opin-
ion on the silver question:"
No; 1t has not" replied Senator
Cannon. MY visit there has only
broadened the Views which | held be-
fore. l believe more than ever that the
people of the United States are mem
aced from all quarters of the. world
and that unless we guard our own we
shall perish. think that the first So
luton of international difficulty for the
American people and the first solution
of our internal difficulties, which are
more important than those abroad, is
the restoration of money justice to the
American people. China viii gain
great deal by keeping the silver stand
ard. She will have one hundred per
cent advantage over the rest OF the
| producing world by SO doing. AS fan
as could learn. 1t is the present inten-
| ton of the Chinese statesmen to main-
| tain the silver standard. By this stand
| ard China now gets one hundred per
cent bounty on everything she exports
| and protection of one hundred per
! cent on everything she imports. with
| the low wages and the industrious
character of the people. we can never
compete with the manufacturers
| Chinese under such conditions. You
may raise protective tariff wall
higher than the Washington monu-
ment about the United States. but the
Chinese. with modern machinery, can
make things so cheaply that she can
| pay your duties and undersell you.
! tell you that this is one of the greatest
dangers our country has to face"
THE DIVISION OF CHINA.
what do England, France and Rus
sia want of China?'
| They want a place to DUMP their
goods. They have an idea that the
Chinese Will be great consumers and
their desires are commercial rather
than territorial. / believe they will be
disappointed. The Chinese will be
great producers. but It viii be long
time before they will be great con-
sumers. They can live on almost moth
ing. i visited mills in China where the
workmen were paid twenty cents day
in silver. This sufiiced to support their
families. l saw men making boilers,
doing work for which Is paid from 81
to SO per day in our country, who were
getting twenty-five cents in our money
there. They did as good work as our
boiler makers, too. Farm laborers get
less than ten cents day. They don't
know what luxury Is, and they are
economical in the extreme"
But Will they not be changed. sena-
tor by the foreigners coming in?"
=. think not China will always be
| CHINA no matter who the rulers are,
don't believe they care much who rule
them. They think that they are the
greatest people in the world, and al
though they have been subjugated
again and again. they have gone on
In their old ways and made their con-
querors adopt their customs. China
the seashore of time.
THE tidal waves OF revolution sweeu
over II, but when they 20 back they do
not carry with them any of the sponge
but the sponge has absorbed some OF
tne tidai wave. Take single Instance
When the Manchus who are now rul.
ing China first conquered the Chinese
they passed u law that every China.
man should shave his head and wear
n pig tan as u mark OF suhjugatlon
Ihe Chinese protested. Hundreds OF
tnousards OF them refused and had
their heads cut of in consequence. Al
last, however, they adopted the custom
ana they have made IL 80 necessary IL
sen-respect in China that the Manchu,
themselves now also wear the pig tail,
and shave their crowns.
"The Chinese are different from an,
race in the world" Senator Cannot
/, Went on. we produce our results b,
expulsion and aggression. The Chimes,
, brings about his results by absoiut,
, passiVlty. by the wonderful force oil
non-resistance and eternal waiting. A
mans life Is pin point in the Chimes,
idea of time. If thing does not ha n.
pen now 1t Will come in the time OF
his great grandchildren. and he feel.
; that he can afford to wait. The motto
of our civilization is Now and II no,
now. Never. The Chinaman looks n,
I his family record for generations bacl
and believes that his children for gen.
, erations to come will worship at hi,
, shrine and have the benefit of hi.
, patient waiting
HOW CHINA CONQUERED JAPAN
2 II should think the war would hav,
e taken some of the conceit out of tn,
| Chinese, senator?"
7 1T did not" replied Senator Cannon
| In the interior of China. 80 per cent o
I the people did not know that the wa
I ! was going ON, ana the other 10 per cen
{ firmly believed, and still believe, tina
! China conquered, and that the Japan
ese have been compelled to pay tribute
/, Celebrations are now taking place 1,
: the back districts of China in com
7 memoration of the great victories
which their soldiers won over tn,
Japanese"
t THE EMPEROR AS SEEN BY TIL
D nt. SENATORS.
, did you see anything OF the Chimes
. soldiers during your stay there?"
No much" said Senator Cannon. i"
don't think much OF the Chinese army
| remember seeing the emperor's bod,
guard as he made his way from tn
!, summer palace to his palace in Picking
J, and two OF our party Incurred IN
:, danger Of death by looking at tn
: emperor, The emperor's body guar,
was 100 per cent worse than Falstaff'
:. army in appearance. a Kansas COW
boy could have captured the whole To-
of them. and the emperor into the bar
gain. Why. II was more like n conf,
opera than like the guard of nm EN-
. peror who rules one Of the greatest ma
/. lions in the world. And still these Chi
= nese would make good soldiers II the,
" We're well trained. / saw man GU
= pot hunting near Peking who had {
. gun which had neither sight nor lock
u He held THE gun in his left hand an,
!, discharged II by touching the prime
= with u taper IN his right hand. He al,
= | this while he aimed Mt the snin- an,