The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-04-10

friend that the Chinaman has had He
writes books for him and translates books
for him. He has written for him whole
series of readers and arithmetics. The
Chinese, as you know. are devoted TO
books. There are more books I'm China.
perhaps. than anywhere else in the world.
Attack, IL you please the male mis-
sionarfes as Mark Twain and others seem
10 be doing now, but spare the lady mis-
sionaries, spare the sisters of charity. spare
the American Protestant women. OF all
the lives anybody in this world leads the
most laborious, the least remunerative
and the hardest is the life that the woman
missionary leads in China Ii she ain1
a teacher she is nurse. Think of be-
ing nurse in China, If she amt nurse
she is doctor and has from forty to
sixty patients TO take care of every day.
1 can't conceive of China without
the missionaries How you going to
overcome this antagonism that exists be-
yond all question if you have not some
body there to teach them? In the Brit
ish legation they had $500 Chinese Chris
tians. Not per cent. OF the Christians IL
China became false TO their faith in the
cent uprisings. They were the people that
tore down their curtains and took off
tneir bed spreads and s1do made them hem into
placed as barbados in front of the lega-
ton
SAFETY FOR FOREIGNERS.
Colonel DENLY declared that of the
most important things to do in China
is to provide absolute safety for foreign
ers, and he said the best way to do this
is to have the government hold viceroys
and rulers of districts and cities and towns
responsible for riots "Cut off the heads
of the officials if they permit riots" de-
clared the lecturer. He said the vceroy
of ChungTu saw the Boxer army pass
his doors bent on destruction of foreign
property and did nothing to stop their
progress, although he had at his command
twenty thousand soldiers.
The next important thing to do is to do
justice 10 China, said the lecturer. THE
nVe great powers have taken territory
from China because they have had power
TO take 1t. We are the only government in
the world that has treated China fairly.
v. are the only government in the world
mat won't allow opium to be taken into
emma and sold. | got that law passed my
self. The next great thing, beyond
taking care and protecting our people is
Tor the conclave of the foreign ministers,
who are now regulating this affair 10
solemnly agree and promise that there
shall be no more partition of territory
1hat is the specter that haunts the Chi
nese. That is the real cause of these dis
turbances. The twenty-five thousand for
eigners now living in China will never live
safely among those four hundred millions
OF people unless we determine to do justice.
The man who soils his conscience leads a
felons life. The nation which without
cause or provocation Expresses weak and
unprotected neignbor will never reap any
reward from its dastardly conduct. WHAT
we nave got to do is to announce, as the
United States government has already
been in favor of announcing, that the gov
eminent Is opposed to partition. If the
partition takes place there will be endless
war with the Chinese and ii won't be long
time before war will result between the
foreign powers themselves. In spite OF our
selves. ladies and gentlemen, and almost
without our intending ii, we have become
what for want of a better name, Is called
a world-power We have acquired Hawaii
at the crossroads of the Pacific. where
ships from Australia cross ships coming
from the Orient. We have acquired Guam,
the Philippines and Porto Rico. For
hundred years we looked across our two
oceans, taking care of the affairs or no
other people but our own, but now the
time has come when, whether we will or
not, must perform the obligations we
have assumed. we must pay the penalty Oh
national greatness. Some OF us, L know,
are anti-expansionists: some of us are anti
acknowledgements some of US arc
anti-religious- expansionists; but all OF us,
/ fancy, are in favor OF commercial eX-
pansion. we all want to see our country
become greater and greater. She is to-day
the greatest commercial country in the
world; she has exceeded England in her
exports for the first time in the history or
the world All of us. | fancy, | believe,
want to hear the hum of countless looms
and the rhythm OF innumerapie wheels OF
commerce. | have faith in this great
patriotism / believe that we will abide
by every principle Of honesty and Justice
and | believe that the flag, wherever IL
flies will fly over no man that Is not a Tree
man."
Colonel Denby's entertaining lecture was
listened to with the closest attention
throughout and at its close he was gwen
an ovation. The chairman then announced
that the session of the Athenaeum would
be made informal and the remainder OF tne
evening was devoted 20 social conversation
aud refreshments.