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

CHINA, but Gegis Khan was benefactor,
and his grandson, Kublai Khan, states
man. In 1644 the Manchu Tartar dynasty
seized China, which was in anarchy, and
caused the Chinese to plat their hair Ike
the Tartars. Russia at once began diplo-
macy with China under the father ST Pc
ter the Great In 1892 the Christian reli-
glon was received on law footing"
Has Christianity been of benefit?'
Christianity made the opium war. In
1850 an initiation of Christianity among
the Chinese led to a Cromwellian war in
which 10000 Tartars were murdered. In
1864 this rebellion was put down. In 1856
Canton was taken, and in 1858 Pekin. The
| tea thrown overheard in Boston, which
caused the American revolution, was sent
I by the East India company from China.
The Americans are the most respected
| foreigners in China, from their respect
for Chinese territory"
Has the Christian religion been a
blessing or a disturbance in China?'
The first requests made of China were
to protect missionaries. Opium and mis-
sionaries were the entering wedges. How
can you except 900 people to ac-
cept foreign gospel under the convoy
of drunkenness and guns? The trade of
China not its conscience. was the in
ducement to enter it. The example of
India easily conquered has operated upon
the cupidity of every nation in Europe to
supersede the homogeneous government
of China. India was a menagerie of re-
ilgions. China had no passion for any
religion. Her great laWgiver, who lived
abreast of the Prophet Daniel did not in
fiict any legends OF, myths upon China
The Chinese believe in dragons and
signs and dreams, toys of the childish
mind. Their wiser few worship what
Europe is young and parvenue finances
tors. The mOdI4 operandi of the mis-
S1onar1eS is to teach something sensible,
like the sewing machine, and next to cut
a slice out of the entity of China. This
performance has been going since 1916
and every European nation has brought
aria of he
religion. The Portuguese had piracy, the
Spanish Jesuitry, the Dutch incendiarism
and buccaneering, the English opium.
Hatred of each others variation of the
same religion has been characteristic of
all, excepting the Russians. They are
most welcome in China. because they are
also Tartar people, subject for 200 years
to. a Tartar conquest. and they omit the
missionary preteXt. They say to the Chi
nese, You made your grand canal LOCO
miles long in the time of Kublai Khan;
we bring you, $50 years later the iron
canal 5000 miles in length. We. do not
care what you believe: believe in what
you shall see Thus Russia is at the back
of China; Japan in front; Germany gets
government in general lesson the kaiser
may yet feel, that length of authority is
of no reverence. America has just upset
the Spanish lease in the Philippines es-
tablished in 1543. Please send us all your
material ideas, but keep your hypocrisy
away from China! 1t is older than your
Genesis
why are the Japanese able to whip
China?"
Japan admires war; China is Quaker
Japan whipped the grandson of Genghls
Khan. Malay, Polynesian blood is in the
Japanese. That little people, twentieth
part of China, threw Asia overheard
some forty years ago and took on science
and physics. They are a brave model to
all Asia to pick UP breechloaders and
conquer Europe again. But Japan has
not the staying powers of China. Its gen.
eral leads the European armies in upon
China, but what can melt old pigheaded-
ness? China il the pig, Japan the cock
and the weatheTCock.
THE young emperor, Kuang-Hau, af-
ter the Japanese war, began to study
science and inventions, and they affected
his brain. When he pruned down the Of
fees a rebellion began in the palace, and
Tsze-Hsi his mother, a strong minded
womSn, deposed him. Her victory was
regarded as a rebuke of the foreign infu-
ence in China. and the Boxers broke
forth. You will find it out yourselves
when YOU have female suffrage