Arizona republican., 1899-05-06
Mines and MininQ

AN&~ V&NVANN|~ &A/O&%% 1 in rather unexpected quarter. for Wu
 Ting-FanG, Chinese minister to the
 United States, at once entered the lists
 and sustained the position taken by
 the English statesman. This he did in
 an address before the American Acad-
 emy of Political and Social Science at
 Philadelphia last week, and fr-n this
 address we quote as fo,fcws:
 Russia is like the ieviathan, which,
 having no vitals, cannot be mortally ! wounded, however severe the blow may be; with limitless numbers intTenched in her remote and unasSailable strong holds. she can neither be busted from
 her position ncr prevented from ad-
 vancing. It is madness to abate one
 particle of the issue and declare that
 something ought to be conceded for
 the cause of peace, to pretend, as do some Englishmen already weary of
 carrying the strain. that Russia, if
 given northern China. CT Constanti-
 nop,e, CT a port on the Persian gulf.
 will be content She is not striving for portions, but for the whole of Asia; when she has gained this she knows.
 and we must eventually agree, that
 nothing human can resist her For
 tunately fer the cause Of freedom,
 America has jua5 discovered that she
 is necessarily involved in the affairs of
 eastern Asia; that she has a stake in
 common there with others who she can
 already un6ersell in distant as well as
 in domestic markets; that her business
 compels her to join in the work of re-
 ducing barbarians to order and educat-
 ing them. When she realizes that the
 menaoes of Russian aggression affects not only the political supremacy of Great Britain in Asia, but the free ex- ercise of those high aspirations which are vital to the existence of every re- generate peOp-e, she will cease to inn aglne vain fears of imperialism and as- semble the utmost strength of the en- frightened west against that portentc1ls imperialism embodied in the spirit of devouring and devastating east
 Altogether Minister Ting-Fang's ad- dress was an appeal to the American nation to uGs its power and influence. together with England, to stay the inn
 peria1ism Of Russia and save China from the destruction hanging over her
 He declared that very soon now it
 would be patent to the whole world that the sine qua non of Russian de- signs is to secure China as a stepping stone to the formation of a universal empire. "Without the great wealth
 and the willing hands of the Chinese people, said he, Russia can never ac- complish this ambition, and if the world will cnly 1is-cn to the Mace donian- cry and go over and help a helpless people, the Muscovite may be kept within his own proper sphere"
 Aside from the point blank manner in which this Chinese minister called down Consul Cassini, his address was highly interesting. He discussed free ly the riotous demonstrations made in China against American and other missionaries. He says the troubles grew out of a widespread popular no- tion that some 1eep-laid political ob- ject was intended under the cover of McEt of the troubles occur ring in China have arisen from riots against missionaries, and hence it might be said that without mission aries China would have no foreign complications Supposing, said Ting Fang, that large number of Confu- sian p-cselyters came over to the Amer ican cities and met with troubles of IAO4A ON II IdISluS, Wndl WOulQ De the if, instead of taking hos tlIe C2monstratiOnS PhilCsCphically they should lose their temper. cal in the police, and report the case to the government for official interference? verify believe that such action would render the missionaries 90 obnoxious to the American people as to put an end to their usefulness. and that the A rf1.o law to be enacted against them as pub- lie ruisances
 Gently, but none the less clearly. this Chinere statesman points out another phase of the missionary troubles. They came among people who had bcen for 5000 years loyal to a religious ccsfe and began their work by assaiIing the doctrines of Confucius They said they came to preach the religion of 1 the Prince Of Peace, but at the same time the govcTEm ents which sent them were seizing Chinese tarritc.-y and by threats and force Of arms de- ] spelling the Chinese people. Tt would | be bl-ter," said Ting-Fang, ito live | among Isople W,3o practice the ten sts of CCHfucius and Mencius than | among Fseop.e who profess to believe | Tn the highest standard of morality, | ou1 do ncl practice what they believe. | The aphorism of Tennyson should be | so as to read: Better fifty | years in Cathay than g cycle in Flu | rope Christianity and civilization as | understand them do not teach people | to ignore the ri3E.s cf others. nor do | they aDprov3 tie seizure of another's | property against his will.-Kansas City Journal.