New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-09
A WELCOME FROM CHINA
WI TING FANG INVITES AMERICAN
! MERCHANTS
WORDS OF INTERNATIONAL INTEREST Ut
TERED AT THE SILK AssOCIA-
TION DINNER

! TERED AT THE SILK AsSOCIA-
TIoN DINNER
/ Il glad TO find that it is not the purpose OF
i this great Republic 10 depart from its tradi-
tional policy and adopt a policy of territorial
aggrandizement in Asia but that you are going
! in for expansion Of trade there; and on that ac-
/ count welcome you" said WI Ting Fang
the Chinese Minister to the United States, at
the dinner of the Silk Association Of America
last night at Delmonico's. 1t marked the So
/ ciety's twenty-eighth anniversary. and WI
/ Ting Fang made the speech of the evening
ILLNESS OF MR.. TILT.
! In the absence of President Albert Tilt, who
is so ill., it was said. that the doctors despair
of saving his life, the first vce-president Of the
association, c. Lambert presided. Others at
{ the guest table with him WI Ting Fang
Jutaro Komura, Minister of Japan to the
United States ]. B. Pioda, Minister of Switzer-
land to the United States; Timothy L. Wood
ruff, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of New-York; Foster
NJ Voorhees,. Governor of New-Jersey; Wilbur
f. wakeman Appraiser Of the Port; Judge j.
Franklin Fort, the Rev. DR.. r S Macarthur
ex-AIayor William l. Strong, Edmond Bruwaert
Consul-GeneraI of France; John Foord, secretary
of the American Asatic Association; George
Wurts, Secretary of State Of New-Jersey; Glo-
vanni Branchi, Consult General of Italy, Silas
D. Webb president Of the China and Japan
Trading Company; Everett Frazar, president OF
the American Asiatic Association; William f
King. president of the Merchants Association
of New-York; Congressman James A TaWney
and William r Merriam. Census Director.
Letters of regret at their inability to be pres
ent were read from Governor Roosevelt, Gov
ernor Lounsbury of Connecticut, j. c Burrows
and Albert Tilt The speakers were Governor
Voorhees, who replied to the toast The state
of New-Jersey"; Mr.. Woodruff. for The State
of New-York"; WI Ting Fang. for The Ash
attic Question; Franklin Fort, John Foord
the Rev. Dr.. Macarthur and Mr.. Merriam
SPEECH OF GOVERNOR VOORHEES,.
Governor Voorhees, said among other things
In her potteries. in her cutlery, New-Jersey has
established reputation known tne Worq [oSlJ pih
and the fruit of her labor The products of the silk
looms 50 Of New-Jersev today rival those of any
country In the world in their artistic merit, in
is the industry which has gTown from the humbleSf
its output the imperial sum OF S4SOo'"N-
INTRODUCED
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Woodruff came next. He
made an eloquent expansionist speech which
was loudly applauded, saying in part:
have lust come from a dinner in honor Of Ad-
rniraI Dewey Dewey is all silk and yard wide
Gaughter), and it was he who opened the 4ooF f
the raw material which you manufacture here into
finished ed pToaqst oy y Piahhg where e he said he
hoped to God il would float IoreveT ,4 And t7v 9L AZ
know Of none more than the n Ba5 6 e tGls tb
last to advocate giving up the islands which he
Conquered Cries OF Never! NevergD
and Great Britain and Russia should divide that
great country Of ChlnS wl5n @ us doo IN 1 m ae
of the American merchant, have you given full
%s hs Coming f3 'o o te
and simultaneously the independence OF CUBA ana
States of America is assured not only TO consfruct
sGI9ss LaS nm paciAC u and the Ata1tic commerce
Louisiana which has been carved into more than a
dozen States now Inhabited by more than 10000 900
of people and give Us back the s15, 10000 that we
take take Back Texas and The Territories of Arizona
9nd T4611 reon gahd ana no Rs Rns RG pe2 ae 10 give
Us back the 100000 we paid for it, and take back
aska d n in9do n9T l, ana his band Of g e Fi
doh 70 a e. sar+iI IL Ill iIe,9 % , i se II
sources of the Philippine archipelago. Indeed
might well ask England and Russia and Germany
and France to go on and carve % up China We might
cffc "a bles and the commerce of the Pacific Ocean
we might as we'll ask England Germany TO come
lignr a. & S @ bsIle assun1ed ~ n ne us OF ine
of the affairs of Cuba We might as we'll give up
our grand position as the paramount Power Of the
and leave f to ess tid hands than those of Of Aer
lea the carving out of the great destiny of the
world in the twentieth century that Is coming.
CHINESE MINISTER WELCOMED.
After Mr. Woodruff came the Chinese Minis
ter, who was warmly received by the silk manu-
facturers He rebuked the European nations
for their treatment OF China but welcomed
Americans to his shores, saying IN part:
When any disturbance or trouble has occurred IN
China OF elsewhere in the East not only does the
the outrage, but beyond that they demand and OBJ
-
trouble such missionary trouble TO exact ad-
vantages and concessions which may have no ref
erence 10 the matter in point In saying this I do
not condemn the missionaries as a class in China.
There are a good many pious and noble mission
doing good work IN every country IN the East; but
there is q black sheep in every flock. you know.
daughter and applauSe)
So ~ a disturbance should occur TO them il a
riot should happen what IS the consequence? Their
that but, in addition TO that, they obtain some
thing else. That being the case. gentlemen. can
you wonder that the Chinese and the other Asiatic
people at = loss to understand your policy and
the policy OF the nations in Europe? Nations who
profess Christianity nations who send missionaries
teaching lowliness of heart of whose doctrines
is that II a smite you on your right cheek you
should turn 10 him the LETT; and who, instead OF
doing that demand more than the right cheek
they want double cheek! daughter and appause)
ONE OF THE SOLUTIONS
Therefore y those nations want solve this
Asiatic question one Of the solutions is to make
declare to China and the other Asiatic countries
what their policy is. what they mean; they should
missionaries or merchants they will demand this
that Then il this IS all explained to them
mean But if. instead Of doing that. under the
cloak of sending missionaries TO preach the Cos
aries (which in any nation you cannot help; some
times my countrymen here have been murdered or