The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-08-04
NTERMoUNTAN COLORADO CATHOLIC: AUGUST 1900

IN AND COLORADO OATHC
where. At that time the king of Eng
| land was cudgeling a hostile knight at
a tournament and expelling and out
| raging the Jews. China backed in the
silken sheen of an immemorial happi-
ness. ascending says. Gibbon, "by a
probable tradition, above forty cen
turtles and able to verify series of
1000 years by the perpetual testimony
of accurate and cotemporary histori-
ans"
"Scvthia" was all the Christian earth
could name China, which expelled the
Huns 200 wears before Christ. At that
time annual tribute of the most beauti-
full maids in China was made to the
brutal and deformed forefathers of
Hungary. The Chinese in the time of
Caesar were absorbing the Tartar ele-
ments into their Flowery empire The
wave which rebounded from China
nearly overwhelmed Europe under
Attila. Europe became German, or
Gothic, instead of Roman, from the
showing of the Goths forward from the
Danube by the Huns, who had left
China.
Three hundred years before Christ the
Chinese wall ran 1,500 miles, as far as
from New York to the Missouri river
While the Greeks were ascribing the
invention of the loom and distaff to the
Gods. the Chinese were weaving from
their knowledge of worms. our prepar-
ers of the earths mould, the silks
which Virgil mentions and which
clothed Justinian'S counselors. Two
monks in that Greek emperor's time
brought silkworms' eggs in a hollow
staff to Constantinople, as the Chinese
silk was traded to Persia by sea, the
fashion implanted there by their
Chinese royal bride.
Another of those revelators whose
conceit of authorship declares war
against inoffensive mankind was Ma
homet, whose despOtism was checked
by China while it still holds the best
corner of Europe. AT the head of his
Asiatic cowboys, driving the parents
of the Chinese in his van, as the wor-
shipful ancestors of a gentle people,
Gengis, the Mogul, captured Pekin,
which Kublai, his successor, rebuilt
and was ruined by Japan. China, how
ever conquered by her policy the con-
queror, who knelt to her idol Fo, and in
$50 years his dynasty was expelled,
about the year 1900.
l was lately reviewing some of these
points with a Chinese scholar at the le-
cation, and his conversation my be
put into an interview.
How did the family of Marco Polo
first reach Gilman
about 1855 they went to the Volga
Tartars to sell jewelry, and war en-
suing between these Turkistan Tar
tars, the merchants turned the Capsian
sea to the city of Kokhara, where a
Mogul noble, pleased with their con-
versing in his language, invited them
to China. which they were twelve
months reaching. The grand khan
sounded them, found them agreeable
and honest and made them his ambas-
sailors to the pope. They reached the
Mediterranean in three years. The
pope having died, and after waiting
two years without any successor being
elected by the factions, they returned,
taking along Marco, child born after
they made their first journey. The pope
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 by Europeans was the conclu-
sion of the crusades, which gave new
German Europe its first union"
What was the parent part of Chi
na?"
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
ical Rome, twenty-eight centuries be-
fore Alexander the Great. Asia has uni
formly modified her conquerors Greece
became Asiatic after Alexander The
religions are all Asiatic. The ancient
records of man are all out of that vast
continent of which China is the human
perfection
90 A thn HinHNOc nof of Thinaca non-
nection?"
In no respect. 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 pillow. These Observation-Disclosures and
their admirable rivers, $500 and 1900
miles long, formed an early society
over a land 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.OOOO00 people in a region 100
miles by 800. 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 were 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?"
ut 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
nent 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-
ion is paid to mere literature. The
oress is absolutely free where printing
preceded all other printing. The in
7entors of powder paused and rested +
1t the firecracker."
who was Confucius?"
He was a sort of Socrates who lived
80 years before Christ His mothers
cath caused him to study morals, and he
raVeled and became prime minister. BY
is one son he had in eighty generations
ONE 10000 descendants, all didactic lead
rs. He died eleven years before Socrates
1as born. He taught no divine revelation
ut the role of self-knowledge, and dis
iplined human nature. He is the author
f the rule, DO not unto others what you
'ould not have them do TO you Five
undred years afterward the 'nots' were
AIKEN out and two negatives made an
who is Fo?"
'Fo was a foreign god set up against
ne system of Confucius, an idol worship