The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-05-16
SITUATION N CHINA EXAGGERATED GREATLY
SAYS CORRESPONDENT
Declares There is Much That Might
Be Expected to Stir the Blood
Done to Arouse the Chinese

reports from the couriers who conduct
now a wonderfully celebrated service
throughout even to the most distance
provinces.
While the attitude of the Government
shows no sympathy with any anti-for-
eign movement. it would be idle to deny
that some features of the present sit
uation are most satisfactory. Formost is
the unbridled nature of the newborn
native press, the journals of which are
mostly published in the treaty ports and
guided largely by the students with a
smatt ring of education from Jaran as
sisted by the irresponsible japanese
Several of the worst infammatory papers
are registered under japanese protee-
ton. There is an urgent necessity that
the Powers should concert with Japan
to assist China TO draft and enforce
Press laws. Not all the papers however,
are bad. Some of them are good and have
a beneficial effect in contributing to The
growth of a reasonable public opinion.
but the general tone is anti-foreign, and
even the best are remarkably inaccurate
The publication in the native papers
of the anti-slavery South African elect
ion charges abs had a deplorable effect
While the publication of English cartoons
showing Chinese driven with whips in
chains to labor, Englishmen shoo' ing
Chuinese in sport and Englishmen tor
turing Chinese at the mines. can only
make Englishmsn living in China wonder
why retaliation is SO ~infrequent.
Another unsatisfactory feature, due 10
the weakness of the central Government.
is it's failure to forbid the holding of In
fammatory meetings in the central and
southern provinces. Control is enfo eel
by the vlceroy of this province Another
+ failure of the Government to punish
local notables implicated in promoting
such meetings. Yet another is the fire.
quent interference of the Catholic mis-
~sionaries in the interior in the native
law suits leading sooner or later to ssr-
ious braches of the peace and attacks
upon the inocent.
However the position Of affairs In the
Mixed Court. the reconstitutitn Of which
since the December riots hal been in
tne han Is a. the diplo.nat'c b7ay at
Picking is gradually becoming untenable
and ;nr administration of the SC iernont
X eiitripsiv prejuidicad. Inc p.".'-
concerned should entrust the question in
the first instance to a committee of the
Consuls. who are familiar with the local
news in practice. In the existing con-
ditions tn Chinese oficians are syst m
atically ob~structing the good government
of the large native population. of the
settlement and by limiting the terms CT
imprisonment TO sixty days ar encour-
aging the criminal class.
Some of these unsatisfactory conditions
are counterpoised by the spread of the
western knowledge accompanying which
is an extraordinary desire throughout tn
Empire for a knowledge of Englis1. Since
the abolition Of the old methods of ez-
animation the desire for western lit
erature has increased enormously. Lit
e~rature. modern. healthy and ms ructi e
is being brought into China by the ton.
There is immense activity In the pub
and altogether great changes are In OPP
Grafton.