The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1903-12-12
SOME OPINIONS Of CHINA
What They Think Of Themselves


900, and China is large than the six
teen countries Of Europe. The pre-
cious metals in our mines have nc
equal in the world. Yet. though we are
SO numerous we are despised, insulted
and murdered bySther people. The
Chinese who live beyond the seas,
numbering at least 100000, are also
daily insulted and abused by those
among whom they live. Their govern
ment cannot protect them.
But who are the government? China
has no parliament. The power is all
vested in one person. During the past
thirty years England, France, Russia
and Germany have all extended their
boundaries and increased their pow
er. China alone has refrigerated. Who
has done this?
This is all the doing OF the empress,
the work of one woman vino has profit
gately and disgracefully chung to the
old ways.
Chinese learning is moral; Western
learning is practical. Chinese learn
ing concerns itself with moral con-
duct; Western learning, with the af
fairs of the world. What matter it
then whether Western learning is men
toned i'm the classics or not, if ii
teaches nothing repugnant or antag-
onistic to the genius OF our books; if
the Chinese heart throbs in unison
with the heart OF the sages expressing
the truth in irreprovable conduct, in
hlial piety, brotherly love, honesty, in
tegrity, virtue? IL government is loyal
ty and protection, then let government
make use of foreign machinery and
the railway from morning to night, and
nothing untoward will befall the dis
ciples of Confucius.-Translati made
for the Literary Digest.
An EneIishman's Opinion
when the Chinaman," says the
London Times, comes into the pres
ence OF a white population in a eli
mate suited to their requirements and
favorable to the full development of
their energies, the most signal effect
OF his presence is to degrade the low
est class of the white community to-
ward his own level, to lower wages by
a very undesirable form and degree of
competition, TO reduce the standard of
comfort. AID. generally, he tends to
become an clement working for evil
in the society into which he has been
introduced. and to which he speedily
becomes hateful lie is never absorb
cd into the general population around
him, but is always an alien. worship
ping strange gods, following strange
customs. aud believed to be addicted
TO the most DEGRADING vices. lis per
sonal fifth exceeds that of the lowest
European poalations. Literary Di-
gcst.
The Opinion of Mrs. Bird Bishop
The alleged decay of China is not near
ly so apparent as most people in Eu.
rope imagine. One OF the best judges.
Mrs. Bishop tnee Miss Isabella BirdD
has shown in her book, The Yang
tsze and Beyond. that this decay does
not exist as far as the masses are con-
cerned. The Mandarins fulfill their
many duties on the whole very faith
fully. That they receive extra fees.
which are not even always regarded
as brides by the people. is due to the
system which allows them the most
wretched pay. The mass OF the peo-
pie are very free in China. and rarely
come in contact with the official
world except when they pay their tax
es. With regard to his family life. his
business his pleasure, his daily wants.
the Chinaman is the freest citizen of
the freest country in the world. Were
there half as much interference on the
part OF the government or the police
in a Chinese city as we stand in West
ern countries, the people would rise