The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-02-02
CONSUL GENERAL AT SHANGHAI.

Last Tuesday night ut the West
Hotel in this city Il banquet was tend
cred to John Goodnow, the American
consul-gcneral ut Shanghai, on his re-
turn home from the Flowcry Kingdom
after an absence of three years and IL
half. He was welcomed to Mill
ncapolis by Mayor Amcs and to Min
nrsota by Governor Van SAINT, and in
response to the toast. "OW Intcrna-
tional Status made il speech of such
Il diplomatic character as to remind his
audience of Machiavcl or III Hung
Chang.
After listening to Mr.. Goodnow at
tentively for half an hour the Repub-
LEANS who gathered to do him honor
knew as much of international compli-
cations in China after he got through
as did they before if we can judge
from the published report of his speech
in THE daily press. Instead of throw
ing any light on the eastern question
Mr.. GOOdnow declared it was the duty
of those who had the future destiny Of
the country in their hands to study it
and get at the bottom of passing cv-
ents. THE greatest crisis in the
history Of the world now faces this
country" exclaimed the consul general
who is representing the Mckinley ad-
ministration in Shanghai ut an annual
stipend of $1,000, and who is men,
tiored for minister mt pekin in place
of Il. ii. Congcr at salary of ST., 900
per annum.
He automatically refrnined from
saying Il word about the American
troops in China or how long they were
to stay there. He only said that the
Chinese entertain the highest respect
for America since Dewey destroyed
tho Spanish fleet in Mallils, bay. Be
fore that they thought "wc were IL ma
ton of shopkeepers and could not
fight" but "when they saw what hap
pened the change was marvellous: they
took off their hats to us. acknowledged
their mistake and sal,ltcu u.s." or
course, Mr. Goodnow was speaking
met:lphorically in that crafty style OF
diplomacy which BELTS an American
consul general to China nj the present
time.
I'VE have got higher mission than
simply the mission of trade" continued
Mr.. Goodnow: 1.-The door is open for
our ideas; their old civilization is to
have the benefit of our civilization. and
this nation would be renisS in it's duty
unless it treated the Chinese with
kindness. courtesy and forbearancr,
and cn,leavored to fuse the civilian
ton" We confess that Mr.. Good
now's talk is Il Chinese puzzle to u.s. as
he undoubtedly intended it to be.
There is one portion of his address
however. which is Ineligible to our
dull comprehension. and that is the
portion relating to the American Mis-
sionaries, to whose zeal and self
nbnegation he paid Il heartfelt tribute
and for which he was complimented
by President Cyrus Northrop of the
Estate university, who is also one of the
twenty-eight vicc-presidcnts of the
American Bible Society. The Irish
Standard has no inclination to deprive
American missionaries Of any cretli,
due to them for the evangelization OF
the ''heatllen Clinee." but we ask
what Mr.. Goodnow thinks of the fol.
lowing interview with Ii Hung Chang
last November, by correspondent of
the New York Commercial Advertiser:
eli Hung Chang at once began fir.
ing questions Mt me, machine gun fash
ion.
elbow long have you been in Pek-
in?' he asked.
"'SiX days. said l.