The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-22
WONG KA| KAH
IS IN TOWN
\ Clever Chinaman
Was Banqueted
Last Night.

men gave a banquet last night at the
Alexander Young Hotel in honor OF
Wong Kai kah, the Chinese vice-con1-
missioner to the st. Louis Exposition.
An Advertiser reporter interviewed
Wong Kai Kah during the evening. On
meeting the well known Chinaman the
reporter remarked that he supposed
Wong had become used to interviewers
ooh, yes he replied, land I think
I know a good deal about the newspa-
per business by this time. I think in
| time l will b a newspaper man my
SELF
He stated that he was returning to
China on business in connection with
the Chinese exhibit at ST. Louis. He
will go to Shanghai and at that point
a special steamer will be furnished him
| to go to Picking and return. He win
then go back to .St. Louis escorting
Prince Pu Lun, the Chinese Commits
sioner to the fair Pu Lun will travel
via Honolulu and the occasion will be
| the first one on which a Chinese prince
will be entertained in Honolulu.
! 81 have been in ST. Louis for some
time preparing for our exhibit" he
| said. This is the first time that the
! Chinese government has sent mem
Der of it's royal house to a foreign ex-
position In the past our maritime
| customs officials have been sent with
! exhibits to expositions but because OF
our love for Americans and in recogni-
! ton of the fair play that America has
/ always granted US we are sending
large exhibit with a nephew of the EN-
peror in charge. The st. Louis fair
+, will be a grand success. The buildings
are now from eighty-five to ninety per
| cent completed. China will make
big display I have had constructed q
big pavilion for our exhibit and this
| building is a reproduction of the palace
! of the Prince. The work was all done
| by American union labor and 1t was
! good work too. The only work not done
by American labor is about 5000 pieces
! of carved and inlaid work which mas
been done in China.
f.The Prince will have with him but
a small number of people. The govern
ment made big appropriation for
the exposition and in few weeks our
exhibits; amounting to 2,000 tons, will
be shipped to st. Louis.
"You ask me why we are anxious to
trade with America. Well our reason
is that when we trade with Americans
/ we know that it is simply matter OF
! business and that the Americans VIII
not attempt to take territory at the
same time they take trade Our mer-
| chants get foreign goods at present
! through German and British commits
| sion merchants. They pay cash ana Sc
| cure American goods but they know
that these goods come by way OF Eu-
rope entailing heavy freights ana
| = MOI a
consider it wise to trade direct with
| America All goods going to China
from the United States should be ship
ped across the Pacific Ocean-the short
est route and the quickest. The Euro
peans do not fight in China simply for
trades sake they want territory. We
doknot wish them to have it and prefer
to trade with a country that does not
want territory.
"Our merchants now control vast
trade They wish to handle that trade
in the best way and in order to do It
they wish to visit America. There
they can learn the lowest cost of artl-
cles, pay their own insurance. transpof-
{ tation. and commissions and thus get
their goods at a much less cost than
they do at present. Missionaries do the
: Chinese but little good. You send us
over men and women who do not un-
derstand US and who are not very Sc
riously listened to- Instead of sending
us missionaries you should allow young
Chinese, from nine to fourteen years
old. to secure an education in the Unit
cd states They then learn everything
a connected with the country They &C
! back to China UNDERSTANDINGS
their own people and their own
people understand them so that they
r are eager to hear everything concern
i ing your remarkable business opera
tions.
"It is a fad in America to have rooms
fitted I'D in Chinese style. In China
l. now, even in remote provinces, 1T Is
also a fad for people to set aside one
y room in their homes as forelgf
ROOM This room is then fitted up en-
tireIy with foreign furniture and goodS
| This in itself is introducing American
goods into China to an extent neVe'
before dreamed of.
.eThe present generation in China un
derstands Americans well, but Amer
loans should see to it that the -comins
generation should also know and un
derstand their ways. Europeans II
china are anxious that our sons should
be sent to Europe for an education fol
. they know that those young people Wi
v return to Chinas and be filled with Ell
y thusiasm for the countries that theA
y have received their education in, an'
y in Europe they do not give Chlnes'
u students a very good impression o
| Americans. America should try y
y get our students. If you educate grea
u numbers of young Chinese in time yo,
will create a feeling in China whlcf
y will give you an enormous trade
% II am surprised at the present condl
" ton of Honolulu. You show great al
4 yancement This magnificent hre-proo
: hotel is a structure that would be th'
pride of any city.
1.-THE Prince viii probably only sta!
70 in Honolulu during the time that ll'
70 steamer carrying him remains in port
z rrtosa nraeant at the BANQUET at tn