The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-11

the Chinamen are getting tired of it. They realize they are getting the worst of 1t. The goods going out they-~could not sell. the goods coming in they could not take. and they were about to be bankrupt. Only one viceroy in the coun- try opposed the boycott movement. The officials abdicated and convinced at it. The spirit had gotten abroad like wild fire. When l reached Atlanta received tee- gram asking me to go to Washington and see the president. The suggestions I made to the president were, first that this gov ernment is not dealing with the Chinese government. but the people. The present attitude of the people is against their gov ernment as well as against foreign gov ernments. because they say the Manchu government Is weak, and has yielded val uable concessions to the foreigners. They demand of the foreigners that these con- sessions shall be restored l said to the president these people have no leaders, they are without head. And the presi- dent said: So long as I am president of these United States. no individual or gov ernment shall have cause to complain of injustice on the part of this government
 Was Insulted.
 ''I was as much nsulted when l landed In the Dakota at Seattle as any China man. A burly Irishman demanded of me. Where's your immigration papers, So when I landed at Seattle l said this Is a great way to treat your children return ing home, to ask them .waere's your i'm migration papers2 If they treat green wood that way what do they do to dry wood? I said to the President, you can't remedy it in this country. The inspectors don't know a gentleman from a coolle You must put inspectors in China The President recognized tha, fact, but the m lp or a was to find honest men for the posts.
 Our civil service ought to be con stituted to bridge over the obstacles. So far as I could see 1t was agreeable to the President for the inspectors to be transferred to Shanghai and Hong Kong. The certificate system which Is an insult to a Chinaman should be changed to the issuance of passports, although, as I say l received scant courtesy when I arrived at Seattle with a passport.
 ''The Empress Dowager the supreme head of the Chinese government. has is- sued decree which now obtains in China that the college systems shall be changed and made like the English universities. This is a great step forward. for AS the students go all China goes. because the government is based on this literary body. These students want to come over here, they are aspiring to be leaders there and I suggested to the President that we should send them an 1nNltdtlOn In the name of the colleges, stating that the students will be made welcome and that every courtesy at the hands of the gov ernment will be extended to them If this is done the trouble about the Manchu governments concessions will be done away with They are not alenated from America they simply seek redress. Amer ica has always been the friend to China.
 The Missionarys Work.
 ''l want to say here that the American missionary has done more than all others toward the great development and en- lghtenment of China. I was one of three missionaries introduced by the Chinese themselves. and 1 have been an editor there for forty years I edit one paper one of the Chinese official organs-that is circulated from one end of the country to the other. It goes to the imperial pal ace at Pekln. Americans have been first and foremost. If 1t were not for the missionaries who had gone ahead and killed those superstltions, made those dark places light. 1t would be impossible to talk about commerce. They had their superstitions about digging into the ground. They were afraid to open up the coal mines. Now they are not afraid of those goblns. ghosts. dragons and devils that have tortured them all these years.
 Women are claiming equal rights. When they marry. they want to know