Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-08

80 y HIM. y ~
time time ~ inform some and fcnihd
others al your readers st this ancient,
historical. artistic and industrial PEG,
pie.
But our account III them AMI thels
country must DC given IN a conden'
ped form. Ill ne loss " great wealth
Or knowledge. because 81 lack n space
in Tho Optic
China includes i territory az iafE@
ii fhe United States, With A %poptila1.
tion estimated to DO twelve times AZ
great IA This country. Professor
williams says with al their vanity
they never bethonght themselves q
rating The population higher than hey
gnpposed II ID 10 for the purpose q
cxalting themselves In the eyes q
strangers or In their own,
China is i yast country, and ~ e2t
tent, lii time, perhaps, II stin yaster.
lis written history u claimed @ cx.
tend over four thousand years, n
these simple annals In general have
escaped the legendary and mythical
ways M % other peoples. which
still nra held by Jews. Christians and
several other rellgionistss y has
been truly saia that the Chinese are
the type of permananee In The human
world, for II was d thousand years BE-.
fore Greece that they were o people
and 4 Kingdom. "Thc gospel accord.
Ing To China Ii industry
Samuel Johnson says on The
gates 81 the celestial Kingdom " plain.
NJ written DO not ask what myatars
les have been fathoned. but behold
What realities have been achieved
No many years aeo i certain elass
of American citizens under the leader
ship of one Dennis kearney cried out:
'.The heather Chinee must Eoi they
reduce the price Of labor because they
live 80 cheaply Very true. indeed.
bit are not their near neighbora, the
Japanese, rice eaters and what pee
pie are more enduring under the hard
labor and long marches and terrible
fighting? The world has never had
brayer soldiers. Those rice eaters
undertook 10 50 10 war with Russia
and tho annals of war do NOT
giye accounts Of 20 great battles.
And YET today when the wages
Of unakilled d well ns skillcd work
men are HIGH indeed. thousands,
tens Of thousands of men OF the labor
unions ~pcrsecute n~onunlon men, boy
colt thcm and those who employ them.
Show your union card or dnit work,
A glimpse VIII show how many
large and beautiful cities are there.
China contain yast eiiles that rank IN
size with the great cities Of the globe,
For instance. Pekin il 4 huge fortress
with walls fifty feet high and proper.
tionally broad. making n clrcumfer
encc of twenty miles. Nanldng. the
Flower Of China Ii girdled with sever.
al leagues Of wall. But the city Of
Handehan. the grandest and most
bcautifui In the world. d city Of we'll
paved streets, innnmerable bridges.
stately squares and splendid palaces.
Hong Kong III tho Victoria portion.
alone a cosmopolitan city, has two
hundred thousand people. as has also
Canton. In the nth century d French
traveller yisited several cities as large
a. Paris. eighty equal 10 Lyons. and
over a thousand of lower grade.
u seems i me the principal char,
acter who onec figured as a prophet
Of politics, should not be left OUT 81
th,is paper confascius.
Perhaps y small episode may nj,
flee 20 ahoN The character II this
man
IN travelling With hia disciple
through ,hc land, not ~ / c~urlpsity
seeker. tut ns an itinerant schuol
master BE saw y POOR wanial !,
grave meaning for . husband and i
son who Nete Killed q ire II,
said % iier why Do tnu not Ttmaya
from such i counts. She replied.
Hero Il i'd oppressive government
Turning % ga disciples M sa'd no.
member this my children. ppfqfstyc
government y tiercof than d Tiger.
VIII The csnr give heed?
tn The nan Nho. four hundred
years teforc Christ eaSe Us lie cold,
IN RuI The most mistaken flls Y,
all ~ 4 virtue Or morality. ~ il.
che foandatlsn Of public and iadii1 ds
- social morality that ia what Nv
Aant ~ cone 70 yoursclf 10 aot III
others"
His t.inits Of virtue con ,lIfn, W
-compsss.oa, +. onomy. Hnmill.y."
II IL said that tho deyout China
man wears five buttons on hfs Goa,
earh IL r.mind him II 0nf i'll.