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Great VicerOy Would Open China
to Foreigners.
BUT SAYS HE STANDS ALONE
Opposed by the Empress aud Wanda
rms Dictates a Letter %
Hls Ora isOn.

Chicago, June, ia special dispatch
to the Chicago Record from Honolulu,
June 5th via san Francisco Cal, says;
Leung chi Tso. the Chinese reformer
has received a most remarkable letter
purportlng TO have bsen dictated by Ii
Hung Chang THE stand old man Of
China in which the objects sought by
the reformers are com nended, and they
are advised 10 continue their efforts
with patience. but with carefulness.
The letter Is signed lg a grandson Of
III Hung Chang and bears the grand
sons private scat H. r. 10 answer 20
an open letter TO the great vlceroy
written some months 81 0y Leung chi
Ts0
In his letter Leung chi Tso reminded
III Hung Chang that Tess than two
years ago, when the rFormer was sent
into exile, III Hung Chang sent word
10 him through Count Ito bidding him
look on his exile as an opportunity 10
study Occidental ways and modern
methods OF government, as the time
might soon come when China. under
happier conditions, would recall the
sons she was sending into exile 10 help
reform and remodel hor ancient instltu-
lions ii Hung Chang was reminded
that IN concluding his message he had
babe Leung Chi Tso To be- faithful to
the ideas for which he had been eXlled
Leung Chi TsO asked II Hung Chang
II he had been faithful 20 the sentiments
Of that message. II De had done all In
HE power TO bring about that happiest
time for China. The reformer said he
would not upbrald him for the efforts
he was now making In the province OF
Canton 20 hunt down and execute the
reformers Tor N thai he vas only obey
Ing his sOvereigns order but he wanted
90 be assured that he was not himself
inspired with the spirit OF those orders.
The letter received by the last steam
err purpOrtng 90 be ~ Hung Chang's
reply to this open letter. contains about
900 words. Some Of the most import
ant portions Of the letter are az follows.
For over thirty years III Hung Chang
has been a believer ln opening China 90
foreign Influences. but he stood an alone
In the DAYS OF The Tai Ping rebellion,
which IA Hung Chang helped 10 sup
press, he learned that the foreigners
were more skiilful than ~ 1ntrymen,
ana he came % the stclugon that
Chilla should learn frons re outside
world. But no one else held those
views. and one man could DO nothing.
Then fifteen years ago came the war
with France Before the war Ii Hung
Chang smoke for peace. He told his
that France was TOO power
ful for them, and tried 20 point out
why II was that her soldiers were more
skilled. but the mandarns wanted war
and the result was some territory and
a lot of Gunboats were taken The
same thing happened before the war
with Japan, which II Hung chang
tried to prevent.
"All this time ii Hung Chang has
believed in educating Chinese In for
eigu ways, but he has been alone
among the mandarins aud could DO
nothing. Now he Is old and cannot do
what the young refOrmers are doing for
their country. He has only sympathy
for them IN their work. II Is not Ii
Hung Chang who has ordered reform
ers beheaded. nor are his agents after
them. II Is the empress. and Ii Hung
Chang cannot stop u. The prosecutor
NJ the reformers. who was shot IN
Shanghai the other day was not an
AGENT OF Ii Hung Chang, az has been
said. but of the empress.
Ia Hung Chang Is stlll alone among
he mandarlus In believing In foreign
education, and what can one old man |
lo2 lie wants the young reformers 20 |
tee: on with the work and hopes they |
gill succeed IN the end II China Is |
'ver 90 have good Government a must /
come through such efforts as the young 1
men who are working now in the out !
ilde world for the cause Of reform are |
making
Let the work continue. The REFORM |
rs must not be IN o hurry to do every |
hing at once Let them work with pa |
ience and nerhaps there will come a
lay before long when they can work
more freelv."
When this letter was first received |
opinion among the reform element of |
he Chinese here was divided as 20 /
whether the letter was what Il cur-
'orted 10 be, or a friend perpetrated by
ONE one who sought either 10 injure
Il Hun. Chang or 10 mislead the re-
0rmers However Il Is now generally
ccepted among those who are In a DO
ition 20 Judge that Il IL genuine: that
was dictated by II Hung Chang. but
written by his grandson, 20 that In the
vent Of 10 ever coming TO the knowl-
dee or the empress III Hung Chang
onla IgBts the uuthoVrif,.