The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-31
HONGKONG EDITOR
VISITS SALT LAKE
Celin Mcdonald Smart Runs the
China Mail.
FUTURE OF THE EMPIRE
FOREIGNERS FAVOR THE OPEN
DOOR POLICY.

Newspaper life among the Chinese is, in
most respects similar to the routine on
an American daily. according to Colin Nc
Donald Smart, manager Of the China
Mail &c HongkOng, who is at the Knuts-
ford. Mr.. Smart, with Robert Mitchell,
chief designer Tor the shipbuiiding com
pany that pat the final toGches on
De~eys fleet Before the battle o. Manila,
is on his way back TO Scotland. Five
years of life in China have satisfied him.
and he viii return TO his native city Of
Perth. AIR. Mitchell has been in China
seventeen yeers and expects to return
after a long period OF rest and . visit 10
his old home at Dumhfe.
'Hcrg&ong has population of about
10000 Cinnamon and pea.ly 5000 British
said Mr.. Smart. THE population sup
Chinese papers. We get 10 cents a copy
Tor our paper. and carry n large amount
81 advertising, largely from London. Al
thouBh there are 80 many Cinnamon
there, a reporter or 6uy other person do
ing business with the Cinnamon does not
nave 10 know their Language. / have
been ont there fiVe years and do not know
word Of Chinese except n few slang
phrases that ! have picked up. The prin-
cipal language Their Is pigeon English.
d YOU run across e. Chinamau who can.
not talk II, u Is cary TO hail another
Chinaman and talk through him. for he
ia PRETTY sure 10 be able to understand
you.
IN HOnSkong comes through the police
we have correspondents a I the principal
news centers near HopgkOng and at other
Places our correspondent IN Pekin at the
time Of the siege was shot He was a
finished Chinese scholar. and thought he.
could parley with the Chinese who were
surrounding the legation. His immunity
was only fancied, and he was killed
Future of China.
The English-speaking people at Hong
Kong and IN China generally do not look
Tor a partition of the empire. The keep
ing OF the empire intact with an open door
policy is what we expect and what we
desire. What we wcpid line TO sec Is to
Japan a3d } on ha nntsa and Ssf S
SYST on this policy, and IL would come.
stumbling block right along They could
not get out OF Pekin quick enough after
the legations had been relieved. and that
slSes the Chiuese tue impression that
rhey are afraid.
The United states will never be able
TO develop the Philippines under the pres
cnt policy one mistake is the exclusion
90 Chinese. White men cannot work i'm
shat climate. and the only labor that can
be utU'z Is Chinese.
"Hongk0ng Is congested now. partly
because of the Chinese exclusion from the
yfn..lpnes ana partly because of the
recent troubles IN China aNhen the dis
turbanCes became serious, q large num-
Der Of wealthy Chinese bought houses I'm
of refuge' They crSevded fst foTefe.n 1s1s
out, and sent rents 80 high that man
cannot get = mouse that IL mt to live in
for less than $3.50 q month Mexican. or
SO OF your money. Tsen the coolies
crowded in hoping 90 get to Manila.
Elnding that they could not enter the
Philippines, they became stranded IN
zOngkonE. Tie demands of the army at
Manila have made food double in price
since the fall Of Manila.
The educated and wealthy Chinese are
not a bad sort of people at all. They are
very different from the class YOU get ia
this country HongkCng is in many ways
81 pleasant city toelives in although ex-
psnses are bigh.e The social life is en-
1oyable, Aud wet get plenty Of good at
fractions in a. theatriC al way. Companies
a regular circi.it, Most of the companies
we see arc Australian. but they contain a
large amount OF good talent.
overhauled Dewey's Ships.
Mr.. Mitchell said the United States
battl1shlp Oregon WAS just being locked
for repairs at the yard OF hts company as
he was leaving ffpngkong
our company gave the American Sbins
an oVerhauling just before they lcft under
Dewey TO capture Manila" he said
Since then Wa have had prett near, All
Of them Up there for repairs including
me captured Spanish ships. In this wayfU
nave become pretty well acquainted WITH
a large number Of american officers
'Hongkong has become. in sixtv-fiVc
years one OF the greatest ScapOn s i'm the
world When 1T was taken by the British
IL was merely barren rock. Now it has
n greater tonnage entering ana clearing
the port than has Liverpool"
MessrS- Mitchell and Smart will leave
TINS morning for Denver on their home