The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-01
CRY FOR REFORM.
IN CHINA.
= HE insurrection against the Chinese

= HE Instruction against the Chinese
government, which has lust broken
out in Kwangsi, a province in the
south of China, with a narrow frontage
on the Gulf of Tonkin, will call wider at
tention TO the unrest and dissatist action
in the interior of the empire. A-Week ago
reports from SZechucn province on the
upper Yangtse declared that another Box
er uprising was threatened there
one of the latest to speak of these dis
tuTbed conditions is DR.. o. FRANKIE, the
official translator of Chinese in the serV-
ice of the German government He says
that Chinese scholars and agitators have
been writing pamphlets, books and plac-
ards and reports on needed reforms IN
views as to the political dangers of the
country and the causes that make the
empire weak
Many of these publications are issued
from the treaty ports only a little
while ago the Picking government made a
futile effort to have certain writer's IN
Shanghai taken TO the capital Tor trial
because their writings were Objcctlonab bic
to the government
way for China TO hold her Own is to
open the doors TO western knowledge
interesting 10 note how graphically they
sum ND the causes of China ) troubles
and how they contrast China with other
nations TO the great disadvantage OF tneir
own empire.
The following quotations arc taken
from TRANSACTIONS which DR.. FRANKIE has
Just published. and in the first one the
reformer Kang Yeu Wei. contrasts the
European powers with China.
Great European states nave yearly
income OF many billions, their we'll
trained armies number millions, their
they have modern sciences. modern ma
chinery, thousands of new inventions.
new books are brought out every year;
multitude of peasants, handlcratts. mer-
chants, soldiers: scientists improve from
year 10 year their respective branches of
learning; women and girls, youths and
all hf.xt- tn M
And we?
"Our yearly revenues amount 20 10000
900, our debts 70 200.000.0 900 this refers to
the indemnity of war with Japan IL 1894
go: all this shows our financial weakness.
I'VE do not possess well drilled troops,
nor aTmored men-Of-War. this shows our
military weakness. Modern science. mod
ern machinery are of no interest TO US;
this shows OR weakness in knowledge.
.'Ou~ army has no education. our edu-
Gated men do not understand anything
pertaining to military matters, our mer-
chants have no schools they need. our
peasantry lack education; and this shows
the insufficiency of our educational sys-
tenn The masses. devote themselves to
contemplation, and the educated lack en-
ergy. and this shows the weakness of our
character. For this deplorable condition
/ will quote Chung Hubs words: The
weak must be subjugated.'
We have not made any innova tons for
1000 years In the foreign states new
life rules. but we always remain Ihe same
and learn nothing new.
Our high officials follow the rule
Honor the emperor and Keep away the
barbaTians. Foreigners laugh at our an
tiquated ceremonials and studied
speeches which are meaningless.
I'VE have not learned how 20 utilize
time hence the catastrophes in rho. wars
with France and. Japan; but these re-
verses did not teach US anything; there
fore we have to suffer what is occurring
today. occupation of Kiaochau.
The 100000 Chinese are governed
by scarcely 100 high dignitaries. There
are general governors and governors, but
not one of them has ever travelled abroad
or is familiar with the modern works
Of European conditions These aged men,
brought uD in Old-fashioned ways. do
not consider 1T necessary to know any
thing of new inventions and modern
ideas or state of affairs in foreign COUn-
Tho following is an extract from the
address delivered by LANG III Chao at
the opening of the high school for mod
ern science in the province of Hunau:
KNOWLEDGE is power. The strength of
nation increases or diminishes IN bro
portion TO its wider or narrower knowl-
elge. The colOred races may serve as
an example of this
The East. Indians are beginning to
take high places in the land where they
were occupying only subordinate posi-
proving in knowledge. On the contrary,
the African negroes, the Mexican In
dams and South Sea Islanders have been
Formerly the ruling classes wanted
TO diminish the power of the masses,
therefore they kept them in ignorance;
pies power: therefore their knowledge
Is widening IT IS essential before every
thing else to spread knowledge and di-
minish ignorance.
1t IS necessary to understand what
makes state powerful or what weakens
it,. how knowledge is fostered ana ignor-
ance diminished. IL is necessary TO real
ize that China cannot exist as an inde-
pendent nation If it shuts itself up in its
old views and ideas of the world
Japanese and European, historical
works must be read in order to see that