Arizona republican., 1900-07-15

ates. yet acted all the same after the manner of their kind.
 Some Sinologues even deny that the Chinese are exceptionally treacherous, believing that though suspicious they are when once they confide as faithful as any other Asiatics, and quoting in proof of their assertion that they are rather punctiliously honest in business. The Chinaman lies till the bargain is concluded. but he will then keep it even to his own hurt. They deny that corruption in office is universal or even worse than it is among Ottomans, Per sians or Russians, and maintain that instead of being without patriotism the Chinaman has a high sense of patriotic pride, often leading him, as it leads Frenchmen, to unrsasoning dislike and scorn of the foreigner, but still acting as a very strong motive power. As to his faculty for combination, they point to the secret societies which he main tains in all lands and under all circum- stances; and as to his capacity for self government, to the fact that he has governed himself for countless ages, dilu IlEtS llIpOSEu upO4A HcLAllA5 NAApNls as Europe has never done, a single method of communication which super cedes all differences of dialect and lan- guage. a single system of administra- tion based on superior culture, and T single set of ideals acknowledged by al Chinamen alike to be in the abstract incapable of improvement.
 Finally, they deny even the charge of cowardice, alleging that Chinese inabil- ity to succeed in battle is in no degree the result Of physical fear, from which they are rather exceptionally free, as the history of the bandits, pirates and revolutionaries among them conciu- sively proves, but is the inability inner ent in every mob, aggravated by the fact. peculiar to China, that the classes which would otherwise furnish leaders hold violence of any kind to be exceed ingly .ungentlemanly. They say that the Chinese converts whether to Ma hometanism or Christianity have ac- cepted martyrdom more readily than any other modern converts: that the Taipings in our own time fought as well as Mexicans did against the early Spanish conquerors, and that General Gordon. many officers since his time and all who have commanded Chinese sailors agree that once disciplined they can trust them at least as well as any second class fighting men. The Chinese they admit are not 'Tommies" or Zou- ayes, or Pomeranians, or men of the Russian guard, but they are as good as average European militia.
 We are not Anglo-Chinese, still less Sinologues-the latter a class, we mus add, for whom we have a deep respect but events have compelled the pres ent writer to study the Chinese and to form a definite opinion as to their char acteristics. We believe them to be a people of great original strength, formed at a very early period by the superimposition of a rather thin film of white Aryans upon an aboriginal race-in other words, a race we know nothing about except that it was not Aryan-which accepted from teachers of whose names only a f-w survive, les sons which produced a civilization that in the course of a few generations pen etrated to the bottom, and became in reality a religion, the only one which a singularly earthly people ever sin cerely embraced. It became to them W IldL iG= pGItdiJIllty IS lO many Ol us, English, the final rule of conduct the solvent Of ideals, the one test to be ap- piled to every new proposal, effort to advance, or novelty in circumstance. To the Chinese mind it is incapable of inn provement, the one thing to be rever- enced, the one system which must never be abandoned or seriously changed,
 It probably might have produced q better people but that with this civili- zation, perhaps as a result of it, cer-