The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-02

:, III mere again the Indebtedness of
Inat press to the foreigner is manifest.
Inc imperial poStoffice of China-the
sister service of the imperial maritime
customs-which, administered since
their reception by Sir Robert Hart and
ms starr of foreigners and foreign
trained natives are models of what
such institutions should be, has scat
tered the various "paos" (newspapers)
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, thus enabling the Chinese
pTess-in the words of my courteous
informant-"to do more to shape the
destiny OF China than centuries of un-
enlightened discussion and millions of
soldiers could no."
One of the most significant out of
the numberless indications of the great
quiescent unheaval and revolution that
is going on all around me here in
China is furnished by this postoffice
In the year 1901 there were 166 post
offices and agencies scattered through
out-the country, and they handled ten
and one-half million articles. At the
end of 1905 there were 1926 postoffices
open In China and during that year
they handled seventy-six million arti-
cles. The New China:
"china for Chinese"
1T, therefore. was with some conf
dence that / preached the vexed Ques-
ton of eXtra-territoriality which agi-
tates this same press. and whose aboli-
ton is unanimously demanded by every
native newspaper in China in conjunc-
ton with their great campaign cry,
China for the Chinese The editor
while acknowledging the obligations to
the foreign imperia in imperio under
which he and his conferees lie, pointed
out that the existence of these indie
pendent governing communities on
Chinese soil could not fail to appear
to be an anomaly Of a popularity gall
ing character to every patriotic Chin
csc. He asked me TO imagine my own
FEELINGS If another race had been able
oy any reason or under any circum-
stances whatsoever to establish COM
munities on British ground and to set
up therein their own flag and forms
of government TO the latter of which
/ should be amendable If / resided in
either of those particular spots.
He insisted that although there was
very natural feeling of resentment
against this state of affairs. despite
the advantages which have been en-
Joyed under il in the past, the respon-
sible Chinese press unanimously agree
That II has been forced upon their coun-
try by the pride and ignorance of
China herself, and that they must rid
themselves Of the yoke not by vio-
lence and savagery but by temperate
and lawful means. Further he sug-
fested-with a twinkle in his eye-that
there are some hot-headed
scribblers amongst Chinese Journalists
who advocate a policy Of immediate
assertion of Chinese rights and conse-
quent violence, the same sort of men
are TO be found in other countries
Daily News" he rapidly scanned the
long array of ideographs till he came
to what we should call an article con-
tanning a profession of the faith or
policy of his newspaper. The weird
of course. were indecipher-
able by me. but with the aid of his
sub-a student who has passed some
years in America-he translated the
script into English.
The Editors Article.
Beginning with an animadversion
against the anti-Christian Iucubra-
tons of one of his less responsible con-
and condemning the an
pearance therein of a scrurrilOus Joke
against the Bible-and mind YOU this
scholarly Celestial is a devout follow
pr of Confuciusi-t went on to show
that it was contrary to all good taste
'aiI AAiOAalS lOI d-lyOIle making anV
pretence to guide or lead a people to
attempt to bring anothers doctrine
INTO contempt.
Il thought of certain publications of
Anglo-Saxondom. The New China,
The article then proceeded to attack
all those customs which for centuries
nave marred the happiness and i'm
paired the comfort and health of the
Shlnese people. amongst others speci- !
ically mentioning the limited use OF
water Tor abluhonary purposes; the !
custom Of foOt-binding amongst wo-
men. practiced on female children: the |
Curse of opium and all IL brings i'm its
rain; the horrors of female infanticide. |
md called in question those arbitrary
naXims of the ancients which lie at |
he root of nearly all these customs. |
which have vitiated every department |
# human life and condemned the ma |
;on to untold Indebtedness and hope |
ess squalOr
Two words will illustrate my poi
cy in the conduct of my paper-Utility |
md Progress he concluded, as he |
olded up the sheet and put 1t back |
n its pigeon-hole.
L then asked a question about the /
PRACTICAL medium employed in enun-
Eating this policy, the weird script of |
characters which gives visual express
ion to the thoughts of the writer.
"In Kang-hsi's distionary-the
tandard authority on the Chinese lam
are some 10000 charac-
ers. each representing a WORD. Ed
Icated men use about 5000 of these.
But in addition to those there are COM
'osite characters made up of parts of
theirs, and so on.
Type is Something Fierce"
Il know very little about the duties
f my confreres of the pen whose bust
ess it is to expurgate and make pre-
entable the illusions l from time to
ime send home to them from the cor
ers of the earth, and 1 know less
bout that art and mystery of the
rinter who then sets UP and renders
the product of the pen, but
can imagine the sensations of both
they were confronted with a vocabu-
ary and type of this description.
Taking the word or sound Of no
or instance. Depending on the char
Cter which proceeds the character
epresenting il that word may have
ONE 300 different meanings. 1t NAV
lean anything from a river to a glass
{ haer from the ppOinac Of =. .too~-.