Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-07-10

accident, but recognized institution
In proof Of it we find shepherd there
experimenting the grazing.
i have ridden straichs through the
city in all directions and found the
ocean Of houses coming TO a stop miles
this side Of the great wall in south and
north east and west. Peasants tilling
the soil can be met IN all localities, and
in the southwest especially one might
imagine himself removed TO some great
farm district or the Chinese city one
half is park. lake. acre or cemetery
The parks of the Temples of Heaven
and of Agriculture are enormous; there
seems 70 be land enough 10 grow cereals
for the entire population. II is claimed
that the original founders of Picking
laid it out with view to possible long
sieges. II that is true they showed
great wisdom. From the commisariats
standpoint there isn't another city in the
world so well fitted for long siege than
Peking A great part OF the population
is carrying on agriculture now. Every
rich man owns one or more parks,
miles IN circumference, and the many
city squares and the numerous empty
lots afford even now meadow and gar
den land.
As there are also many natural and
artificial lakes, il would be well nigh
impossible TO starve out Peking, particu-
larly as it is out of the question that the
Powers viii send an army big enough
to completely surround Peking, as Paris
was surrounded by the Germans in 1871
Picking, reckon, can be taken only by
storm, after part of the wall has been
laid low. but this denohshing process
requires enormous guns. If the district
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undated-and it's possible to food it
how will you bring up the siege gunsl
THEIR POINT OF VIEW.
A New Yorker who lately ate dinner
in Chinese restaurant in that city,
talked to the waiter, and quotes him as
follows:
We are pretty fairly Well informed
here about what is going on at home, w.
said he. in reply to my suggestion.
While our people are are not great cor
| respondents as d class, we are in close
touch all the time through various
! channels. The news is spread through
all Chinatown every day. We read your
papers, but we know how much to
believe and what not to believe in them.
Every mail brings us direct news from
home, and this is spread bY word OF
mouth and bulletin.
China Is all same as United States.
You don't waut the foreigner here; we
don't want him there. Foreigner comes
Just the same We have as much right
to say YOU shan't come to our country
as YOU have to say we shan't come here
We have mobs in China same as you
have them here. The ignorant and
prejudiced people have risen against the
foreigner here We kill you kill Both
make big row.
But the Boxers are an organized po-
litical and military party.
SO was your knownothing party. 1t
was against the foreigner. Its war cry
was all same as the Boxers America
for Americans China for Chinese.
And your knownothings prosecuted and
murdered people who didn't believe as
they did. Lots of your people are as bad
as the Boxers, and would murder if
they dared-worse than the Boxers, be
cause we attend to our business and
don't harm anybody.
We are not trying to destroy your
religion; we are not grabbing land and
running new kind of roads through your
graveyards and seiZing all sorts of con
l cessions through corrupt governmental
officials. We are not trying to turn
your country upside down and make it
like our country.
Go among my people here and see
how they live. They work hard and
live poorly and mind their own business
and hurt nobody. Chinatown to day is
more orderly and gives the police less
trouble than any other quarter of the
city. You know that There are bad
| Chinese as there are bad Americans and
| bad people in any country. But the
trouble among rs is not made by Chin
| ese. The Chinese are quiet and order
| ly people who love to keep to them
selves.
The only reason we are not wanted
here is because we work and live cheap
| ly, and you are afraid Of MS because we
work In my country we are afraid of
you because you steal The foreigner
in my country is a robber-he robs us of
our highways, of our nationality, Of our
gods We are called heather here; We
there consider you the heathen. But
we are an older civilization than you
than all the rest OF the world.
The missionary dosen't usually hurt
/ anybody, l put in.
The missionary is really at the bot
tom of all the trouble between China
and the foreigner. You say he dosen
hurt-he wounds at every step. He
hurts more bian guns and swords, for
! he treads upon our sacred religion, up
on the most cherished institutions-ins
stitutions under which our people lived,
thrived and were happy and multiplied
exceedingly beyond the restof the world
| before your Jesus was ever heard of and
while your so-called Christians were
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and terturing each other wherever their
Bible was known.
we are no longer helpless in our for
mer blind security An army of 100 900
men may be landed and marched into
China, may take Peking; but wherever
they are they will be prisoners, the same
as were the English and French who in
terfered in the former rebellion They
will make no more impression on the
Chinese people than you make by stick
| ing your finger into pail of water and
drawing it ont again. The attempt TO
| conquer China will solidify the nation
and make more difficult the conversion
Of the Empire to Western ideas. The
habits and customs and modes Of
thought that have prevailed for count
less ages are not to be changed in day,
and there is where the foreign party in
my country have made mistake. 1t is
the common fault of the intellectual
class anywhere and in all times to thus
precipitate changes.
The science of government among
intellectuals is mere fad and does not
take into full account the inert masses
of mankind, with whom TO be success
ful they must deal. Even when their
theories are correct and beneficial to
these same elements precipitation ruins
all.
Now, there are undoubtedly many
things here which might be introduced
in China to our b-nefit, but this process
must, as / say, be long and unobtrus-
i've one You can't unmake and make
over again a population of 400, 900, 600
people in a breath. It will require
centuries
Family Reunion.
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