The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-08

with faded green plush. the frames being
of mahogany.
The floor was covered with mating. and
from the ceiling hung a cage containing
canary birds. To com?lete the picture of
affected poverty, the weeks wash was
swinging from lines drawn along the out
side gallery OF the apartment,
In such mean surroundings lives China's
greatest statesman. her CIOesus OF Croe-
suses. owner Of the richest mines. the most
powerful banks. of liTnitless domains and
coolies without number They say that
Rothschild would die with envy II he knew
the extent Of LIS wealth. yet to contradict
the accusations of his enemies, the Niceroy
lives like a small merchant spending his
declining days In modest comfort after
working hard for a competency.
Ii Hung Chang entered the reception
room after NJ. Wolff leaning on the Shout
ders OF a tail man servant. He was dressed
in q tunic of yellowish white linen with 4
belt of the same kind. held together ~
white metal clasp. Ills manve-cciored pan
falcons were fastened over his white wool
en- stockings by black ribbons. He wore
black velvet half shoes with felt solcs-
Here are the great Viceroy's words. az
spoken to America through this newspaper;
Copyrighted. 1900. by ". r. Hearst)
Viceroy Ii Hung Chang says:
The Powers regard China as pic from
which they intend 10 cut themselves slices
according to whim and appetite
big guns give no title for the posscssi N
OF a country. The will Of the people Is th ;
title. The Chinese. remember that want To
remain Chinese.
Chinese View of Life.
"Our views on life differ ~ much from
yours as heaven and earth. In our country
the individual man lives and works for his
family; In your country he lives and work
for the State.
Because We are essentially famiiy-lov-
ing people. We detest war. aud are fright
ened at the prospect of any change t.at
may take q man out of his proper sphere.
from his home. from the ground he tbs.
We have troubles OF our own. We have an
ample sufficicncy OF them and don't wan:
any social question In China. Can you
blame US for that? In the countries Of the
great Powers and the small Powers. too.
the social question il the nucleus of the
most far-reaching troubles that confront the
governing classes In all the European en-
pires tia social question predominate-.
ask you. can you honestly a'ir!se Us t.
burden ourselves with SUCH an octopus sim
ply because IL is the fashion?
You complain that we are aVerse to for
eign influences but forget that al the very
beginning Of our intercourse with clyillzI-
ton 2e,Oe0 Chinese settlers We're murdered
on the Island of LuZon in one week The
Spaniards did that. and ! assure you this
massacre encouraged US In no way to open
our doors to your civilizers.'
"Why should you regard Us rs 'savases,'
anyhow?
You throw up to US the murder OF white
men within our borders. Is murder unknown
In Europe and America?
Attitude on Christians.
You speak OF the persecution Of Chris
dans. Well, let US assume that couple OF
hundred of our Buddhists went to your
country to convert your people and to
preach that, for instance. thai unless they
want to be eternally damned they must re-
fuse to submit to compulsory army service.
merely because the new religion they have
imposed upon them says so.
Your missionaries ask our people every
day in the year to break the laws of this
country and 20 refrain from oceying the
laws. As TO the persecution or Christians.
our Government has never engaged In any
nor encouraged any. Christians have been
killed just as Chinese are Killed in San
Francisco. New York. in the Dutch Indies
and where not?
I'VE employ no missionaries. no proselyte
makers of any kind. We are not proud. but
we are too smart 10 prescribe to anybody
the fashion in which he should pray TO his
God. We never asked living being to wor-
ship e. go Dc. Que Of the moss Essnicious