The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-03-01
VOLCANO MARsHALL's COAT OF ARMS.

toward it; in the contact he has never
been uplifted; he has always pulled
down, and pulled irresistibly hard,
The Great Wall. skirting China on
the north, was built to keep China 80
ssclusion. Occidental civilization, in
trade conquest, approached China from
tue ocean. And what is the result?
Today many countries are building
walls to keep out Chinese invasion.
1t threatens the world. UnobstrUcted,
the Chinese would overrun the world.
And when they do, it is as certain as
the revolution OF The earth that the
world will return to barbariSm. Where
else can 1t go?
| In a conflict between Chinese civiliz-
alton and white civilization, the latter
will fade and perish from the earth.
! The white nation that succeeds in
inducing Cinnamon to leave their own
country and go to it in large numbers
is lost. Time will obliterate it from
the worlds map.
| With China, history has never re-
peated itself. Other nations have risen,
achieved greatness, and fallen. Not Sc
with China; yesterday she was the
same as today. and on the morrow
there VIII be no charge. Keep her in
the letters of isolation and she is safe;
burst those letters, and Occidental civ
ilization is lost, irretrieyably and for
ever lost.
The Industrial sights that have
seen in this wonderful landi - condi-
tons which make the land wonderful
to me.
In this immense city there isn't a
truck or a dray, Everything-heavy
iron castings, rollers for street work,
huge building stones, bales of cotton,
silks and furs-is hauled or carried by
man; men are cheaper than horses and
far less expensive to keep. In Chinese
oldtown, with a reputed population of
600 persons, the streets are mere
lanes, the widest being less than seven
feet. Devious and tortuous are the
alleys, crowded with people who show
tllei.. 20 tired of foreign white devils at
every alleys turning. IE this congested
mole, reeking with filth, odoriferous in
a thousand and one stinks, not rick
shaw can enter. Here the industrial
sights are marvellous. There are carvers
of ivory and of wood, polishers of preci-
Gus stones, workers in gold, silver,
brass, copper, tin and iron, dyers of silk
weavers of gorgeous tapestries, fur
riers-the eye is bewildered by the null
tifariousness of Oriental occupation, at
the callings of these Mongolian children
of Gideon.
The visitor stumbles on and on in
wonderment. Wherever his eye rests
everything is being made by hand.
There isn't a lathe, there isn't a piece
of machinery, there isn't an electric
motor-every thing is hand. hand, hand
labor! It's nothing but work, work,
work, from childhood to the going out
of LIES candle. Hoods Song of the
Shirt" pathetic as it is, is nothing
when compared to the wall of indus
trial China.
All. how often in touring Chinese old
town did I stop to ask myself what is
life to these people! But, like them
selves, I could get no satisfactory an
swer But why look on the dark side
of life! Industrial China has but one
side. 1t is dark, it is black, penetrated
by not one small hope, infnitesimal
though it be.
Chinese humor is demoniacal When |
in Chinese old town there was a payer /
removing a badly crushed fag-stone. |
asked him how it was broken. Lin |
he DONE" pointing to a boy down the |
alley. AS I approached the boy I saw |
that he was blind. What a picture of |
squalor he, in his rags, presented! Be
hind him was a girl. malformed, denud-
ed. She was singing for aims. The /
sightless boy accompanied her wailing
by violently beating his head on a flag
stone. The ground shook from the in
tensity of his action.
That was their calling in industrial
China.
There were beggars every where.
Lepers, women with babes at breast,
boys, girls and men-everybo was oc-
cupied in making something, even the
beggars.
What is a comprador?
1t was that that I tried to find out
the other day and succeeded. What
put me in quest of the information
happened this way: 1 had written a
number of articles for the North
China News" which is the London
Times of the Orient, and I went 10
discuss money and the prevailing rate
Of exchange with the manager. The
News building is an imposing three
story structure on The Bund Broad
way of the ORIENT. 1 found the man
ager, a genial gentleman, in back Of
ice and made known my wants
Why" said he, we pay our editorial
every six months"
l was astounded fell helplessly into a
chair, overcome, and remained so for
several minutes. Regaining somewhat
my composure, I told him that I was
a pupil in poverty's school; a stranger