The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-29

elected. Gregory x sent friars back
with them. but these were scared by
the fall of Jerusalem to the sultan Of
Egypt The grand khan adopted Mar
co, the young man. The discovery of
China BIZ Europeans was the conclu-
sion of the crusades, which gave new
German Europe its first union"
What was the parent part of Chi
nap
1.-The northwest. The Chinese are of
Tartar origin. Their authentic history
begins 5000 before the Christian era. or
twenty-five centuries before the myth
zeal Rome, twenty-eight centuries be-
fore Alexander the Great. Asia has uni
formly modified her conquerors. Greece
became Asiatic after Alexander. The
religions are ali Asiatic The ancient
records of man are all out of that vast
continent of which China is the human
perfection"
Hindoos Are Different.
Are the Hindoos not of Chinese con-
nection?''
I'm no respec,. except that Buddha
has followers in both countries. The
Chinese were Tartar herders, who
turned their camps into cities, invented
friction fire, cooked, counted by knots
IN cords, discovered iron and first made
the Dlow. These instrumentalities and
their admirable rivers, $500 and 5000
miles long, formed an early society
over a lanG eight times the size of
France, with additions four times
greater
In the great plain, which is seven
times the size of Lombardy, have long
lived 1S0.o00.000 people in a region 700
miles by 500. A grand canal of great
antiquity drains the plain. China
taught the world canals. The raw in
stitutions of the shepherd tribes are
seen and felt in the existing society,
which should have been born anew.
Man is not improved by his antiquity.
If it We're possible to. remake the Chi
nese and destroy all their knowledge it
would be easier to teach them. Adam
in his garden preserved by his Chinese
obedience would have eliminated an
idiot When he heard the command to
go he saved himself"
What is the religion of China?"
1T is divided into the state religion,
the emperor alone worshiping for all
the people, and the superstitionS made
by the people for themselves. In addi-
ton is universal filial piety, or graft
tude to parents and progenitors. This,
like all the virtues, has its abuses and.
looking far back with reverence. the
Chinaman omits the future. Having
been conquered, the political govern
ment of China is corrupt and sus-
picious. There is no Sabbath. Taxes
are light, under 81 per head They
speak the baby monosyllables of man.
$50 extended fourfOld by infections
Low taxes and general education have
kept peace in China. Too much atten-
ton is paid to mere literature. The
press is absolutely free where printing
preceded all other printing. The in
Ventors OF powder paused and rested
at the fireCracker-"
Who was Confucius?''
-. He was a sort of Socrates who lived
59O years before Christ. His mothers
death caused him TO study morals. and he
travelled and became prime minister. Bv
his one son he had in eighty generations
some 20000 descendants all didacfic lead
ers. He died eleven years before Socrates
was born. He taught no divine revelation
but the role of seif-knowledge and dis
clplined human nature. He is the author
of the rule, Do not unto others what YOU
would not have them do to YOU Five
hundred years afterWarG the 'nOtS' We're
taken out and two negatives made an
affirmative"
Who is Fo?"
"Fo was a foreign god set up against
the system of Confucius. an IDOL Worship
made up by grating Buddha upon the re-
actlohary superstition: 70 is worshiped by
bells, beads, tapers, incense and images
Eos priests are Vegetarians, believe in
the soul migrating through animals and
becoming purified to finally rejoin God.
The pagodas of China represent the
stages of this ascension
Are the Chinese found in many other
countries?'
In all They are in Siam and Java by
tens of thousands. Aguinaldo is of Chi
neSe origin. They are the Germans of
Asia, ever redundant and emigrating. Of
ten guilty of infanticide from motives of
mercy So thick is life that in Canton
alone 100000 people live on boats, and a
tenth of the Chinese are fishermen. The
mountains of China carry perpetual snow
Rice is raised by irrigation on the terrac-