New-York tribune., 1900-07-13

THE PASSING THRONG.

engineer London.
couple OF years railroad building in China Speak
ing therefore with knowledge OF
SAYS NO Oriental affairs Mr.. Melen said at
CRIME Is the Hoffman House yesterday: In
IOO BASE the two years put in railroading
FOR THE In China, coming I did in con
CHINESE stant contact with the Chinese
whom we used In every possible
way, learned vast deal Of their character Prior
TO this had also come in contact and intimate
contact with Cinnamon in the West where they
fern a large part of the population The China
man cannot be judged by a Caucasian standard;
his method Of life, habit Of thought religion and
the tenets of his faith are all diametricaTy and
absolutely opposed to those Of the white races I
am not prepared to say that he may not be right
and we may not be wrong. Certainly an empire
that has existed for sixty centuries and during
that time has maintained a vital and living govern
ment, which still exists gives pause to the Western
civilization which apparently to-day is arrayed
against it. Leaving this question aside for the
moment, mo- rent want to say that from my knowledge Of
America and ~ pre'iqas b IN
them In their own country, they a cruel, a
base for them to commit he phrase SO constanG PG
used IN the press the foreign devil Is exactly and
selves. They recognize no other faith, no other re
whom l have come also in contact designate an
aliens as Rooineks,' with them term Of absolute
d foreign devils as such to be hated and if the
i the i TohalIlpn or aHars IN ChneSe thought to-
Gayc m Inc only thflng fg now that holds the Chinese
HeWes a,ey, himself strong enough determination OF
Il do not think the people of the East especially
In New ork. enter into full appreciation of the
trend of American thought in other sections of the
United States. Without wishing to criticise your
tRat In the Revoltion SewYoT r9n or 70 Snj in be
War OF 1872 we again find she the wrong
the Mexican War the same story is again told, and
| is repeated In the Civil War In the late Spanish
| resentatives OF New-York and the East. if the
Empire State is to be considered the leading state
| as she is from wealth and influence, again find
| the United States on the wrong side, and in this
possibility of an accredited Minister of the United
with the more awful fate reserved for the Ameri
! can women who We're so unfortunate as to be in
other sections of the United States only await the
If uPns out 1t f' be Pns PI wn tR MT ong of e
gan the official and accredited Minister Of the Gov
| eminent OF the United states TO the Government
| of China, has been slain in Peking, the American
other reparation of that dreadful wrong than that
troops of the United States; in and of themselves
shall exact full and complete repaTation from what
| when at the head OF their columns the Stars and
Stripes are borne in and through the streets Of
| Peking'
Judge W. B. Hepburn, who represented idaho
on the Committee of Notification which yesterday
| in Canton officially informed Presi-
IDAHO JUDGE dent Mckinley of his re-nomIna-
ON NORTH tion by the Republican party,
| WESTERN when at the Fifth Avenue
| POLITICS. Hotel Tuesday, said of politics
that I can safely say that Mckinley and Roose-
| welt will carry Idaho at the elections this
| fall; although certain local conditions which
exist in Idaho may influence the election, possibly
defeat the ticket and carry Idahos electoral vote
into the Democratic column. IN 1896 large numbers
| of Republicans believing then in the silver dogma
cast in their lot either with the Populists, Demo-
Gratis Silver Republicans To-day these men,
almost without exception, have returned TO their
| first love and have renewed their allegiance 10
the Republican party reluctantly, however Tor
|
| l believe and predict that Idaho Will go Repubu-
that there are certain local conditions which may
Offset this gain to the Republican party.
In Montana Democracy is divided against It
| self by relentless war which IS being waged by
two great factions. the one headed by ex-senator
believe that, bitter as this hight IS the Democracy
of Montana will allow 1t to interfere with the
carrying of the electoral vote OF Montana INTO the
Democratic column and that such dlIerehceS a.
now exist will be subordinated on election day
and the chances are that Montana WI, VIII go Demo Demo
of possibility that the copper State may go Re
publican. which is my hope.
I'm the State Of Washington element enters
into the elections that has never been fully under
stood in the east The discovery or gold IN I, m the
KlOndike and the greater aIter dScoVerleS az cape
Nome and other sections Of Alaska have brought
rapidly increasing and lasting popGilatlG3n on, o.
States, where they vote at the November cleo
tions. They make doubtful voting element
which it is exceedingly hard 70 reckon on WltH
certainty; but I think nevertheless that Wash
ington win cast It's vote for MCKINLEY and Roose-
Welt Even the members of the Democratic party
on the Pacific seaboard hesitate to agree with the
extreme anti-imperialist doctrine Of their party
Western expansion means proGt ana progress IoI
the Pacific Coast Democracy haggles over a dis
| tincton between terms and seeks to delude and
| Ism and anti-expansion. The voters of the North
west are an intelligent body Of citizens and they
Of anti-imperialism to confuse the Western States
as the fact that their best interests lie III lhe
direction of expansion