The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-31

have passed laws against US foreign dew
lis even landing there although we allow
you to force yourselves upon US Is there
and record in the history of China of eur
ever asking YOU to come and give US any
of the products of your newly discovered
civiliZationf
No. We had all we wanted; among
which things was China fer the Chinese.
Your people seem to imagine that your
uIstart civilization is the only one on
earth, which is only understandable by
reason of your haF-ng no knowledge OF
China.
For many centu1 les We used most OF
these things you nov pride yourselves on,
and have resained in use that quantity of
them which in moderation is useful to
great nation.
you are running riot with ali your
discoveries, your civilization is becoming
debauched with their excessive develop
ment. For instance, take the example Of
printing which we had in use centuries
before you discovered it, and which We
have used for the cheap reproduction and
spread of the work of our great thinkers,
who have labored to make life better and
happier and more beautiful.
You have used it likewise also, but
now flood the world daily with mass of
spurious stuff. hurriedly written by hur-
works of your old writer's, so that your
people no longer have time for reading
anything during the day except your
rightly named daily literature.
THE time will soon come when you will
think that it would have been better to
have drawn a line and stopped your au-
thors writing to give your readers time to
read what was written.
The Whirr of your wheels, the putting
of auG fplp-
phone bells, your street voices, are ban
ishing all repose from your lives. Repose
is one OF the blessings OF life
This came from the lips Of that immo-
bile, expressionless, smooth-shaved face,
that, except for the spectac1es, might have
been model for a statue Of the compass
sionate LcTd Buddha. That voice of
compassion deepened into tones of almost
supercilious contempt when he was led to
speak Of military matters
You look down rather on your men
who are hangmen, and also On your butch
ers. We look down also on our butchers
of nnen-soldiers. We think it higher 20
give honor 10 a man wno has eXcelled in
scholarship and literature than to him
who has successfully worked machines
that kin men,
The result Of that civilization which
you Europeans pride yourself much on
is that you now have more men employed
and more money expended on the art Of
killing than on any other pursuit of occu-
patton.
This is all contrary to our ideas. We
| aim at only having soldiers as you would
have police, ard among the families of
cur gentlefolk it is considered low to have
any of the members soldiers
The old gentleman was in his best
form when he could be induced to hold
forth on the subject of missionaries.
I'VE people of the East" he said, don't
want your Western religions any more
than we want any Of your other ideas;
yet you try to force them On US.
You send US three religions, and the
people of each say that the other two
are wrong What are we to believe?
You people can have no sense of logic or
no sense of humor to do this thing.
'It is only the lowest and most igno-
rant of people that you succeed in
peryerting from our ancient belief
Your religion does not appear to
have much good effect upon your peo-
pie, either 1t does not make them
sober, nor does it make them honor
their parents in the way in which We
believe the heads of the family (which
is the great social unit should be hon
cred
Would your people like it if we sent
over missionaries, we'll supplied with
money, to convert your little school
children in London and New York, and
bribe their parents for leave to do so
I wherever possible? %