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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-09
MISSIONS IN CHINA.
They Are Protected by the Bur1in-
game Treaty of 1868.
International Rights of the United
States in the Present Crisis
Work Done by American
Missionary Societies.
Especial Correspondence

THE OPINION most generally
4 adopted by observers of events
is that the present trouble in
China originated in the hatred enter
tanned by the mass of natives for Chris
tan missionaries and their converts.
Those of our people who do not believe
in foreign missions have attempted to
defend the Boxers on the ground that
they are actuated by patriotism and
love of their own religion, and that
therefore the foreign powers, whose
soldiery is now trying to restore order
in northern China, are usurping an
authority contrary to the highest in
ternational ethics. They assert fur
thermore that aside from protecting
their diplomatic representatives at
Picking the United States. Great Brit
ain, Germany, Russia, France and ia
pan have no cause for interference
whatever; as, in their opinion, mission
aries are not entitled to armed pro-
lection.
Had these critics taken the time to
read the treaty now in force between
the Chinese empire and the United
States they would not be so loud in
their denunciations of our own govern
ment. AS long ago as 1858 the> two
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English Volunteers.

Englishmen noted with interest dur
ing the late war of the United States
with Spain the readiness with which
volunteers came forward in large
numbers and at very short notice to
serve their country. English volun-
teers in particular observed with adj
miration their cheerful endurance of
thirst, hunger and privations of all
sorts. in occasional circumstances of
peculiar hardship. That they should
show courage in the field was taken
for granted: but that with such short
training. and in spite of hasty and, in
certain cases, inadequate equipment,
these citizen soldiers should develop
such splendid qualities of discipline,
self-restraint and self-reliance was the
subject of much and hearty praise
among Engnsh military critics.
North American Review
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IN GREENLAND.

preamland. Dreanland, in your magic
maZeS
have lived and wandered through hap
Ply hours and long,
Flower strewn. moss mats. shine and
shadow patterns,
Boughs which bend beneath the birds
singing Natures song;
Scented breezes blowing, ever filed with
scents of summer.
Petaled blossoms bending low clad in
garments gay,
Fairy folk in happy mood dancing mid
the daisies.
Sunbeams spinning webs of gold all the
perfect DAY.
Dreamland. Dreamland. in thy leaty tenn
pies
have worshiped God and good many
a joyous hour.
10th to leave thee for this world wide
awake but troubled.
Raptured b. thy calm content, perfect
ness and power;
Angel voices in thy choirs chanting
prayers and praises,
Loving friends of other days who had
gone before.
Clasp of hands and touch of hearts true
and tried forever,
All our brightest and our best greeting
us once more.
There among them, best beloved, one
with eyes OF amber.
Face as fair as any saint in that land
of calm,
Lips which blessed me with their touch,
hair happy halo,
Voice whose notes were silver toned
singing Eden's psalm;
why should I return to earth from that
land of loving,
Why come back to earthly life with its
curse and care?
Dreamland is the perfect cline with its
sunlit spaces
Thither will I guide my barque. cast
ing anchor there.
I. EDGAR JONES.
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JOHNS GOOD SIDES.
Cinnamon Are Not as Bad as Many
of Us Think.
American Official Declares Tint the
Average Chinese Trader and OIL
cial Is Not Only Honest, But
often Has Good Heart.

Something, perhaps, should be said
for the Chinese from the standpoint
of a sympathizer with the celestials.
w. n. Lovatt, who has lived for 40
years in China and since 1860 has
been connected with the customs serv-
ice, is now on a leave of absence from
his post. In an interview printed in
the ST. Paul Pioneer Press he says
the empress dowager has been driven
to desperation by the encroachments
of foreign nations. She knows she
cannot successfully fight Europe, but
hopes to check the allied powers by
showing that the Chinese will die
fighting for their country. Mr.. Lovatt
believes it will be impossible to con-
quer and reorganize offhand a nation
of 400,00o,Oo0 people. He believes the
best way to solve the problem would
be for England, the United States and
Japan to restore Emperor Kwang Su
and his liberal advisers to power, and
then introduce European civilization
by slow degrees.
THE Boxers and their friends" con-
tinued Mr.. Lovatt, "are of two classes,
those that act from ignorance and
those that act from knowledge. There
are some 20 treaty ports in China. At
these ports foreigners are familiar
creatures. But a hundred miles in the
interior a foreigner from most of these
ports would be more of a curiosity than
., gorilla on ST. Paul streets.
The Chinaman is not merely hon
est. but he has often good heart.
We read lots of schoolbook stories
about the Chinaman's filial affection.
but I tell you it's an affection worth
respect when it becomes, as it really
has, the foundation of the whole Chi
nese police system. If you go into a
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been restored and indemnity collect
ed for the outrages already committed.
Should China refuse to comply with
the reasonable demand of the United
States it may become necessary to take
possession of a strip of territory and
to conduct an active war against the
empire. A country, no more than
an individual, can afford to shiril re-
sponsibility; and should the worst
happen America will be found ready
to meet any emergency that may pre-
sent itself.
The Boxer uprising has induced
many to make a study of the foreign
missionary work conducted by the
churches of our land, and the wonder
full results accomplished by the heroic
men and women who have devoted their
lives to the spreading of the Gospel
is revelation to the scoffers.
Some valuable compilation of facts
concerning this subject in general are
to be found in book by DIR. S. L. Bald
win. just published by Eaton &, Mains,
of New York, and entitled Foreign
L
DIR. Baldwin has been a careful student
of missions for many years and was
secretary of the executive committee
which had in charge the recent great
ecumenical council in New York. In
his book he discusses the nature and
scope, methods and administration of
foreign missions and then goes on to
tabuiate in historical form the origin
and work of the various foreign mis-
sionary societies.
First in chronological order and one
of the most efficient in achievements
is the American Board, which is the
Congregational missionary organiza-
ton. Formally installed in 1910, it
really took its rise from the historic
| 'haystack prayer meeting" of Williams
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BILE to the families of the hundreds of
converts murdered by the fanatical
Boxers to secure for them financial in
demnity and the punishment of the
assassins. When the Boxers murdered
a number of German missionaries a
few years ago Emperor William con-
sidered the outrage sufficient provoca-
ton for the seizure of Kiao Chou. and
no one ventured to criticise him for
this high-handed action. The moder-
alton displayed by the American gov
eminent in the trying circumstances
of to-day is therefore highly creditable.
The Chinese government claims to be
making strenuous efforts to suppress
the Boxer instruction, but the fact
still remains that the Burlingame trea-
ty would justify the United States to
begin hostilities without formal dec
Iaration of war. Instead of engaging
in a war of conquest, however, our gov
eminent, acting in accordance with the
golden rule. is simply trying to protect
the lives of the American diplomatic
and consular officers and the mission
aries and their converts. To accom-
plish this four regiments of soldiers
wave been dispatched to China, to be
recalled as soon a. order shall have
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Chinese city you never see any police
men on the street corner. The magis-
trate, or mayor, has few dozen men
up at his yamen, or Office. Then if
robbery or assault is committed and
anybody is suspected it's an easy mat
ter to effect the arrest of the party
wanted. The magistrate is informed
that Wong Yah, for example, is prob
ably guilty. A policeman goes to
Wong Yah's house. Wong is probably
absent. That doesn't matter. The po-
liceman arrests Wong's father, or
grandfather, or uncle, or mother, or
aunt. That's enough. Wong is sure to
come back and give himself up. He
may be thief or cutthroat, but he
has too much regard for his relatives
to permit them to be punished in his
place.
perhaps it's additional credit to the
Chinaman that all his virtues, and they
are considera BILE, are inculcated by
reason, conscience and training, and
not by religion. The Buddhists believe,
it is true. that they will be absorbed
into Buddha if they behave properly,
and the Tauists. who are parative-
ly small sect. follow creed of pure
reason and believe that. as matter
of common sense and reason. the man
whose conduct is exemplary is likely
to have the best of it in. another world
also. These are the abstract creeds.
But ] was talking once with an old
Tauist priest who~WSs writing mes
sage to Heaven as lie said; that is.
painting on bits of rice paper such
Information as we sat on your grave
yesterday and ate our rice-I was talk
ing with the old priest and asked him:
DO they really believe this?' Well
he answered, the women do. They'll
buy my messages" and burn them
in the temple tomorrow. But the
men don't believe. There's no religion
in China And the priest was right.
The mandarins, in fact. the ruling
class are neither Buddhist nor Tauist.
They simply initiate Confucius, who
never meddled with the affairs Of
Heaven Yet every Chinaman, man
DARN and coolie. is desperately afraid
OF evil spirits, and will never allow
himself to be caught out in the dark
without his lantern.
"Let England, America and Japan
combine to maintain the open door
Let them depose the empress, restore
the emperor and begin very gradual
Introduction of modern civilization.
A step forward might be given, for
instance, in the literary examinations
to all students speaking foreign Ian
guage or acquainted with modern SCI
ence, and so on, by degrees. In this
way China will afford the best possible
outlet to those industries on whose
growth depends the prosperity of Eng
land America and all western coun-
tries ="
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countries concluded an arrangement
which stipulated that the principles
of the Christian religion, as professed
by the Protestant and Roman Catholic
churches, shall be recognized as teach
ing men to do good and to do to others
as they would have others do to them.
Hereafter those who quietly profess
and teach these doctrines shall not
be harassed or prosecuted on account
of their faith. Any person, whether
citizen of the United States or Chinese
convert, who, according to these ten
cts, peaceably teaches and practices
the principles of Christianity, shall in
no case be interfered with or mo-
Tested"
Ten years later, in 1868, William H.
Seward and Arson Burlingame, acting
respectively for the United States and
China, drew up a new treaty, which is
now in force and which deals with the
missionary question in the following
words: THE goth article of the treaty
of June IS, 1858, having stipulated for
the exemption of Christian citizens of
the United States and Chinese converts
from prosecutions in China on account
of their faith. it is further agreed that
citizens of the United States in China
of every religious persuasion and Chi
nese subjects in the United States,
shall enjoy entire liberty of conscience
and shall be exempt from all disability
or persecution on account of their re-
ligious faith or worship in either coun-
try"
Under the provisions of this treaty
the United States is, morally response
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-09

The township of Humanity, a viii
lage between Scarborough and Brid-
lington in England, will in future be
lighted with electroid gas. Electroid
gas is acetylene with the admixture
of inert matter and proportion of
oxygen. Its manufacture is simple,
and the gas can be delivered through
any ordinary gas main pipes at the
ordinary pressure. 1t can be meas
ured by means of gas meters and
charged for in the same way as is the
custom where ordinary coal gas is
used. 1t is light of great purity and
I...ancy-Scottish American.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-09
Curiosity of ACCIDENT Inrurnnc..

Accident insurance companies do
more business when times are hard
than when everyone is prosperous"
says an insurance man. THE work.
.ngman thinks he should insure his
family against danger when he is out
Of work"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-08-09
CnnnibaI, Like Roast Pork

In the new Hebrides human life has
been made safer by the introduction
Of pigs into the island. The cannibals
are said to prefer roast pork to roast
man
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-11
NATIONAL MANHOOD.

He who rules himself well only for his selfish
good is shrewd, but not necessarily noble. IL IS
when the faculty Of wise ruling comes TO be
employed for the good Of others that 1t first
commands respect and honor. That use or
capacity lifts both men and nations to nobler
impulses and higher conceptions of duty.
New responsibilities are already making this
a better and nobler Nation. Wasteful use of
opportunities for our own benefit when there
was no other avenue for their employment was
in a measure excusable; but there are millions
who begin TO feel already that it is different
matter to throw away opportunities by which
the whole world may be helped. Thus, II peo-
pie want for postmaster of their village some
worthless fellow, it may be loosely said that
they are only playing the fool with what is their
own But when 1t comes to selecting even the
least important representative of the Nation for
administrative work in the Philippines, the in
slant thought is that it is shame not to give
these helpless wards the best government we
can. The greater the responsibility and power
intrusted to any representative of the Ameri-
can people the more sternly they insist that
it shall be given only to one who will do them
honor. There is reason to hope that this feel
ing will soon react upon the administration OF
affairs at home, and that the people will begin
to demand for themselves in all places, from
lowest to highest, not less worth and capacity
than they would demand for the care and
government of the Nations wards And the
same uplifting process is going to affect all ex-
pendtures of public money. nation of vast
wealth has been prone to feel that it could
throw away a few millions without feeling it.;
but when ideas of worldwide usefulness begin
to tug ut the pursestrlngs there will be economy
in many things where there has been waste
fulness.
The boy who reaches mans estate and shout
ders the responsibilities of a man soon shows
whether he has in him real manhood or not
If he still prefers his personal indulgence and
wears burdens lightly as he can the world
quickly discovers that there is no good in him.
But what men are more highly hOnOred by rich
and poor alike than the sons Of millionaires
who set themselves to do a mans full work and
bear a mans full burden, with all its sacrifices
and discomforts? This Nation inherits vast
wealth, but is beginning to take up the work of
grown men. Other nations are not slow to see
It or to expect large results
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-11
A GOOD RULE TO ADOPT.

The new Assembly rule proposed by Mr.
Green, of New-York, on the opening day of the
session should be adopted without delay Its
Importance will be apparent to every one ia
mlliar with legislative methods, and doubtless
Mr.. Green was prompted TO action by some in
tereSting experiences. He moved to amend the
rules as reported by adding rule to be
known as Rule No. A." to read: mo Senate
bill shall be considered By the Assembly I'M
less the new matter In the printed bill shall
"be UNDERSIGNED, and all matter to be eliml-
mated by amendment to existing law must be
printed in its proper place in the bill nclosed
lin blackfaced brackets"
Every bill introduced into either house bears
on it's title page an explicit statement that new
matter is underscored and matter in an old
law to be omitted is Enclosed in brackets: and
generally this statement is correct. This is of
great Importance TO members who care to know
what they are doing or are asked to do
brief study OF a new bill shows exactly what
changes are proposed, if 1t is an amendment
and If it is a new bill that fact is manifest If
the promise Is not kept members are easily
thrown off the track and may vote for they
know not what.
The strongest testimony to the Importance of
these markings has been occasionally rendered
by sponsors OF bills the real purpose OF which
1t is desired to hide from the men who are to
transform them into laws by their votes. 1t
sometimes occurs that a bill gets printed and
laid on the members desks, the vital words or
paragraph in which are not UNDERSIGNED, al
though the usual formula appears on the title
page A typical instance of this sort of con
venient printers error was discovered in the
proceedings of the Legislature Of 1897. bill
amending & section of an old law was intro
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-11

the other direction, from the colonies TO the
mother country. Great Britain takes 81 per
cent of the exports of her colonies, but only q
per cent of the exports of the rest of the world
And purchases from her colonies mean largely
patronage of the enterprises and investments
made there by her own home people. The
amount of trade enjoyed by her own people,
then, as a result of her colonial system which
they presumably would not have enjoyed with
out that system, runs up into hundreds OF mill
ions of dollars year. On that basis there can
be no doubt that colonization pays and that
expansion" VIII pay in dollars and cents.
A nobler side of the question is presented
when we consider the profits of colonization to
the colonies or dependencies. Mr. Austin prop
erly cites the example of India There are, we
suppose, few subjects on which more arrant
nonsense has been written and spoken than that
OF England's oppression of India The fact is,
there Is scarcely TO be found in the history of
the world finer example of benefcent rule 1t
is well known that British rule in India has
meant peace, for all the lives lost in all her
wars there, from Gives to the Mutiny have
been probably less than those lost yearly in the
native wars that necessarily prevailed there be-
fore she entered the country 1t has meant in
creasing immunity from plague and famine for
the Affections of those kinds India has suffered
RUE are as water unto wine Dy
the side Of those suffered in earlier years mo
| native prince in India built road has
| long been proverbial. But the British Govern
ment has built 10000 miles of roads. more than
one-f1fth Of them macadamized and $4,000 miles
of railroads. 1t has constructed $4,000 miles of
irrigation canals, Increased the number of post
offices in fortyfve years from 1853 to 27,9S4, put
up more than $4,000 miles of telegraph lines and
made India the sixth exporting country in the
world These facts are recalled not for the I'M
necessary purpose of indicating British rule in
India, but of indicating the possibility of max
Ing colonization highly benefcent to the colony
while it is profitable pecuniarly TO the home
| land
To say, then, that Expansion" will prove un-
profitable TO the United States and detrimental
to Its new possessions themselves is simply to
say that this Nation is unable to do what Eng
land and France have done, to say that Ameri-
cans are inferior in executive ability in enter
prise and in civiliZing energy to the people of
European nations. That is something which
at the risk of being called jingoes and indicted
for "spread-eag Ieism"-we do not believe and
cannot concede. The United States is not the
pariah of nations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-11
PROFITS OF COLONIZATION.

Webster protested against putting upon the
tA.nerican fag-as it fiOated, by the way, not
merely over this continent but in every wind
under the whole heayens'-any such miserable
Interrogatory as What is all this worth?' In
shat he was quite right Patriotism is not to be
measured with a yardstick nor computed in
dollars and cents. We have ever been averse to
letting mere considerations Of profit and loss
control or even enter essentially into questions
of National honor. integrity and justice. There
is a higher law" Nevertheless, we may not
-disdain TO accept the support Of the lower argu-
Inent as well as of the higher especially as there
are those who. while protesting TO regard only
she Hottest considerations insist upon injecting
these lower ones into the controversy and max
ing them indeed, the chief basis of their pleas
and opaganda There are not lacking those
who, while processing TO oppose expansion
upon high moral and ethical grounds, with pro-
fuse mention of the spirit Of the Constitution,
the policy of the Fathers" the consent of
the governed" and the "unalienabe rights OF
man"-in fact base their whole case upon the
sordid proposition that lit will not pay" and
make It quite evident that the question Of pecu-
MARY profit is 10 them the supreme one. Even
at the risk of answering a fool according to his
folly It is agreeable to be able 10 answer them
convincngly upon their own ground, however
unworthy it may be.
II is a perfectly safe proposition to make that
"expansion" will pay in dollars and cents. That
question is discussed, along with others Of supe-
fior dignity, by Mr.. Austin, the Chief of the
United States Bureau of Statistics, in the Janu-
ary Forum" Assuming that there will be no
extensive colonization Of our new possessions,
since they are already more densely populated
than the United States itself he considers the
question Of the prospective increase of trade
with ghem. and consequently Of industrial and
commercial profit 10 this country. The examples
of Great Britain and France are cited. In 1897
The former sent more than "a per cent of her
manufactures and other products TO her colonies
nearly $40O.0oO,0Oo worth. Nor is it to be
suned that she would have done as well had
they not been her colonies, because while she
cold 10 the colonies Al per cent of their supplies
she sold TO the rest of the world only ii per
cent Of It's purchases. Even more striking is
the example OF France. She supplied TO her
colonies 62 per cent Of their imports, but to the
sest Of the world less than 10 per cent The
Same condition is noted in the trade that goes in