The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-08
TO COMMAND
THE ARllLIES or CHINA
Sons of the Northwest Enlisted BY Colonel English Will
Sail in Fiye Months-Scheme of the Doayager
Empress to Wake the Sleeping Giant.

lieutenant, and $4,000 for captains,
and these amounts mean great deal in
China.
cit is my belief that each year we
will lose some of the young men who
will go there for a military career.
They will later see opportunities to go
into business and they will quit the
army. The field is now open to Ameri-
cans The requirements are few, but
they are not based on pulls and fam
lily standing. They are simply that a
man be man. If he goes into the
army he must have had military expe.r;
fence in the American armies. We will
have no one for the armies of China
who is not competent. to hold the rank
of second lieutenant. -
In regard to other places for young
men in the party he expects to accom-
pany to China early next year, Colonel
English said: "Young lawyers are not
wanted, ! do not believe they would
allow hair-splitters in China. If a
the next few years, as seems probable,
we will plan to establish a thoroly
modern American newspaper, to reach
the army posts. We could not keep
intelligent men in the empire without
such a paper. For this purpose I have
enlisted several of the brightest news
paper men in the northwest. .-
man joining us must have is that he
have no streak of yellow in him. This
paper will be published at the expense
of the government, and the dowager
will keep censor over it, but [ be-
lieve it will be liberal in it's views and
absolutely reliable in the news it gives
the world about the reformation in
as those who enter the army, will be
furnished transportation and all ex
penses when we leave the occident for
the old empire in the east. -
Westerners Wanted.
Colonel Edward English has been a
resident of Yankton and vicinity for
twenty four years, but has travelled ex-
tensively. Just how he became the
chosen agent of the Chinese govern
ment, he does, not say, but he admits
ago, and there it is supposed he be-
came an attache of the Chinese en-
bassy.
"There is no better place to get the
young men l want than in the west, -
said Colonel English, "and that is
probably the reason a western man was
chosen to make up the party. I can
sippi. I have been corresponding with
large number in all parts of the coun-
try and will secure all I can use within
five months.
"The Chinese are more charitable to
young men than any other people in
the world,'' said the agent. "Their
great philosopher, Confucius, once said
"A youth should always be regarded
with respect. How do we know that
his future will not be superior to our
present9' At all events the highest
places are open to them. -
Speaking of the warm admiration of
the empress for the American soldiers
and for American ideas, Colonel Eng
lish said: II do not believe anything
impresses the Chinese statesmen more
than the way the American people con
duct themselves in the cities Of China
Seldom is the American consul called
upon to get an American out of the
hands Of Chinese mob, and during the
Boxer trouble the Americans kept theil
distance and took no unfair advantage
at the shops Of terrified merchants. Al
! Englishman or Frenchman would droI
along in front of a shop and help him
self. The Americans paid for what
they wanted, whether it was chop
stick souvenir or something more val
liable. This made the dowager friend
ly with the Americans and she is sur
rounded by them now. This is why sht
, employed an Iowa girl to teach thu
) children Of the royal family.
I "The dowager empress is sometime!
, called the Victoria of the East, y
continued the colonel, "but if yo,
: want to address her formally, 20,
J. should call her Tszehi-T oanyu-Kang
, ,Chaoyp- Chuangeheng-- shokung- Chin