The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-09-06
CHINESE
REFORMER
TALKS
Is In This Country On
a Mission
Anxious That His PEOPLE
Adopt American Ideas
And Says China viii Some
Oay AstOniSh the World

Choy Kan. the Chinese reformer,
has again been the guest of the Pen
dIeton Cinnamon and is being enter
tanned and banquetted.
Choy Kan is a logical speaker He
was here and gave two lectures the
first of the week to his countrymen,
in which he counseled them to join
together and work for every move
toward the uplifting of their coun-
trymen.
He speaks fair English and is well
educated. To an East-Oregonian rep
resentative Choy gave the following
interview
Feel Good Toward Americans.
MY people feel kind toward you
Americans Had 1t not been for
american Intervention China would
now be entirely in the hands of for
eigners. Yes, the American and Eng
lishmen are friends of the Cinnamon.
China at a standstill.
The land of tho dragon is now ruled
entirely by the monarch. The Ameri.
can has progressed by his alertness
and education. The question arises,
is he more alert and is he more capa-
BILE of learning than his Chinese cou.
ct, a., ht,,Is l..
most been at a standstlll for the past
300 years. Look at America! What
makes the difference? The Chinaman
has the natural ability, just the same
as the Yankee, and with the same
chance would have advanced. and the
nation would have been just as learned
and as high in the estimation of the
world as America It is not our fault,
but the fault of those we have to bow
to, and IL is this idea that is getting
a hold on my countrymen today and
which will bring II to the front in the
future at an astonishing gait
Should Work for Each Other.
Look at the growth of the United
States within the last century and
then take a glance at the snaillike
pace Of the Chinese nation and tell
me the cause. Free schools have had
great deal to do with this condition
of affairs in America. A broad-mind.
ed government has done the rest The
American people have a right to de
mand their rights and we have not
This is the whole secret
Our land can be made the same #
we but have a chance and try. What
| am trying to get my countrymen 10
see is the fact that we must not work
for ourselves alone but for each other
il we are ever TO be any better on
than we are today.
Cause Of stagnation.
For instance, In China, you and ! |
each have a son. am poor. you are
wealthy. Lack of ricnes make 1t i'm. |
possible for me TO give my boy an ed,
ucation, Your child has the opportun
ity TO learn. Your child may be a |
sluggard, mine intellectual. This |
makes no difference. Because of my |
poverty my child cannot progress be- |
cause ! cannot afford to send him To
school Your son has all the chance
in the world, but ii does him no good |
That is one OF the things that is keep |
ing back our fatherland The man
with brains and intellect TO learn does
not have the chance nine times out of |
ten, while the other one has but will /
not learn or advance.
A Change Coming.
There is coming a vast change. |
That day is not far distant. We will
have a form of government fashioned
after the American way. Then. and
not until then. will sleeping China
awaken from her long dream, and
when this is done, it as nation, will |
spring forward with an alertness that
will surprise the world.
They are Deaf.
In plain everyday English, one who
does not progress and tries TO throw |
obstacles in the way of the man who
would but cannot is called a moss.
back In China he is deaf and bumb.
local Chinaman once said:
We have lots of deaf and dumb"
men. They cannot understand. and
furthermore do not care TO. This is
the drawback. You tell them of recent
inventions, smOkeless powder long
distance firearms. telephone and tele.
graph things they can see with their
own eyes and they will meet YOU with
blank stare of 4 don't believe it"
What China Produces.
i recently had an argument with
one OF these fellows. said: DO YOU
know tnat the clothes YOU wear were
made in the United States? What
uoes China produce? Tea, rice and
si'A' That is all Notice the sleeves
On your jacket. Now take look at
the sleeves OF the ccat you wore from
CHINA. The sleeves OF the one Won are
wearing now are onehalf as small as
those you wore over here. and the ones
you wore on that great bunglesome
long-tailed shirt you then had. Had
you remained In China you would
have been content 10 have lived on in