The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-22
RAILROAD NEWS.
Progress of Railway Building
i'll China.
Engineer of HankOw Canton
Railway Talks.
YILLMODERNIZE CHINA
Says Railways Will DO More
Than Missionaries.
Chinese Preparing for Another
Great Rebellion.

Grant B. Caylor, civil engineer in the
employ of the Anglo-American Con-
struction and Development company,
now building a railway from HankoW
to Canton, China. has just arrived IN
MINNEAPOLIS In an interview with
representative of the press. Mr.. Caylor
described his adventures in the CeIestlai
Empire in graphic language In regard
to the advance of railway construction
he said:
Il have been working on all sorts OF
railway surveys and similar enterprises
since l went away. l was for two years
at Kait-Chai, running lines in the Ger
man concession, but more recently nave
been hammering away at the Pekln
Syndicate route in 'Shansi For two
years 1 was associated with the Han
kow-Canton survey and construction.
1.-The Chinese don't love us Christian
pigs a bit better than they used TO- we
often had to fight our way round VII
lagos on the HanlSow proposition Ihe
natives didn't use firearms against us,
but they had all kinds of clubs and
stones. and innumerable devices for
making life miserable to foreigners.
Railway construction is going on at
a rapid rate, in fact, and if all the pa
per railways arranged for chinese ter
ritOry were built. there would be as
many miles of railway in China as
there are in the United States
THE building of railways and the OPP
ening of the country will. of course. do
more to modernize China than all the
missionaries and ministers we can send
there. A regulation Irish construction
boss who bangs a native over the head
with a shovel when he gets gay, is more
really respected than a courteous minis
ter of state.
The fact is that the Chinese laugh at
us when they are not mobbing US. The
Chinamsn has a point of view that no
white man can understand. He thinks
he has the laugh on you when you
would swear il was on him, but what
Jun is there in having the laugh on
man when he points his finger at you
and does most of the laughing HIMSELF
THE Chinese seem to be saying to
themselves: Well, we'll let these fools
Gig and sweat about here for a few
years. ard then tear their old works all
up as soon as were ready
Talking about being ready, the Chi
nese are not ready They were not
ready when they started the boxer out
breaks. but they thought they were.
The military demonstration Of the pow
trs merely showed the patient CEink
that he had been premature. so he
apologized, sat back and began his
PREPARATIONS over again. Now he is
drilling himself in European military
methods and tactics European officers
are teaching him. European rifles. and
ammunition are pouring into the cDt1n-
try in ship loads. despite the terms of
settlement, and some day-ft may be
twenty years-there will be another Chi
uese outbreak.
THE next time it will not be easily
suppressed. If at last it is suppressed
the Chinese viii sit back again. apollo
gize a few more, and make their prepa-
ratiOns on still greater scale. There
are HUNDREDS of millions of people all of
one mind about foreigners. It is impos-
sible to defeat people like the Chinese
permanently"