The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-24

and the nations are now reaping the
consequence. China as a nation IS
wondrouslY and terribly cOnceited. This
must always be borne in mind when
Chinese matters are consi6e cred. Most
serious international complexities there
have been due TO this Chinese trait
Every time oreign vigilance Is relaxed
China arrives at the conclusion that
she has grown powerful enough TO dis
pense with foreigners and unpleasant
incidents of all sorts ensue.
THE mistake of 1860 might have been
remedied in 1895, just after the Jap
anese war Then japan should have
assumed the responsibility of modern
izing China, but Russia interfered,
and as a result, China, having recoV-
cred from her humiliation, is again en-
deavoring to throw off all foreign in
duence."
Gould not the progressive Ii Hung
Chang have interviewed at this time?
Lii is progressive only when it suits
his personal purposes. He has proved
a great disappointment to many of his
friends, though he has many admirers
still. While enlightened in many ways
he is yet Chinese. But all teactiOnary
the gradual elimination of Chinese
mediaeYalism, for the leaven is there
and is working. The younger genera
ton of Chinese Will prove the ulti-
mate salvation of their country, no
matter what measures the government
may take against them"
rs China worth the trouble she is
Most assuredIy. It is no secret that
China is one of the richest mineral
countries in the world. Valuable min
erals and precious stones can be found
in many parts OF the vast empire. AS
yet little mining has been dOne-that
IS, what we would consider mining, but
the minerals are there, awaiting the
call of man. Chinas lands are fertile
and were they titled according to mod
1,yNs1sr VOL hnV 70
turns, especially il properly fortified.
Even as it is, many, If not most of
the farms in China, though they have
been under cultivation continuously for
more than a thousand years, still yield
good crops. This speaks well for Chi
nese soil, if not for the farmer"
The real object Of the Boxers is said
to be the perpetuatiOn of the Manchu
dynasty and the expulsion or death of
every foreigner The names of the
leaders of the Boxers are unknown, for
the order is strictly secret Owing 10
the general reactiOnary spirit now pre-
vailing the numbers Of the Boxers are
constantly increasing, and as the army
itself is said to be in favor of this sect
the present danger to the foreign con-
tingent is much graVer than is gener-
ally admitted.
yet China's future is not as perDlex-
ing as might seem at 7zrst glance con-
tinued DR.. Lowry. THE solution
which, to my way of thinking, must
come, IS TO nave the empire governed
by a home government, sanctioned and
controlled by the nations. In that way
alone viii China ever make a lasting
advance. 1 had sincerely hoped and
expected that to Japan might fall the
lot of undertaking China, but interna-
tional jeaiousies made this impossible. AS
il IS. we must all hope that the ma
tons may not so lar Use their heads
as 10 plunge into war on account OF
China 1t would be terrible and would
l. RI fpb
erned, and with her resources properly
and judiciOusly developed, China vii
prove a tremendous factor in the world's
affairs-commercially and otherwise.
DR.. Lowry is home on furlough, anC
as he expects to return to Pekin, hC
is forced to be cautious in his remarks
about the powers that be. The Chi
nese government is kept very well in
formed with regard to the utterance:
| of all prominent foreigners concerning
China and remarks that seem over radi
cal are recorded against those who uttel
them.