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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
OPEN AND SHAMELESS.

SoADpen and shameless has been this corruption
Of Shanghai society, ramifying into the most eA-
arsordinary and unexpected places that graduallE
,razen vice has crowd d virtue to the rear, ana as
q most eminent resident assures me, inc GENT
monde Of Shanghai has held the centre 81 me sola
stare have ID credible authority lIlat ledull,s
Nnslnass men married men with elegant homes u.
Sbanplfaf have been IN the habit of dropping IN o.
afternoons 20 take tea with the American sfILs.
found after spending evening In the AnleTlcsh
colony that his watch had disapDeaIeu- -NSN,
vbie narticllar watch bore autograph evidence lAt
Al YES a personal gift from King Edward ~ ItCos-
S,irion OF high public services, SO every eIorN MaS
ms Forth 10 recover itWithOut publicity OF course
but in vain There is no absolute ekldenoe o'ts
81 was taken 10 the States by one OF 1he sCoIt ~
u1erican girls who left single steamer
feU DAYS after. hat nobody would De su tiiseu
should N turn up in san francisco 40. -
DesDite an occasional misadNenture OF ltliS 50
she british and other foreigners here nave DetI
very we'll content with the situation PRIOR 10 JUGS
TViiaeA's advent The disgrace ana Iesal feSPoil-
-ihilitv were borne by America, so from theT
standpoint the matter was quite SATISFACTORY -
ono 1eKed Englishman said 10 me heai,4. i E
Judge Milfey is making a deuce OF a ooil'.I Lo'
qhe rest of US He is doing q good thing Ior Aii't
See Of course but think Of the trouble thst i
hound "a come 10 other nationalities # they have
quite willing TO let America bare the Dlame loi
an their misbehagiOT. 1870.
Against this iufany missionaries nave lot 800
protested and labOred in vain. Shanghai ihs az
other treaty ports IN China, is an lntefllatlolai
Yfraferritorai settlement. Each resident Is under
no law except that OF his own country, as aaInlh-
fFfered l,y his consul. The very fact of American
lsxitv has caused disreputabie Characters, even
OF other nationalities. 10 seek the protection OF
that narf nv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
MOLE TO COME.

Before this article is printed certain other emf
nent Shanghai rascals viii have got their dues
and tho court will have moved to Tien-Tsin to
repeat the procedure there. and later to Han
kow and Canton
Judge Wiley has a court STAFF after his
Tnind-Dr. Frank Hlnckley, a Columbia graduate
as clerk OF court. J. Bassett District Attorney
and q. r. Leonard marshal. in the collection
OF evidence he has been largely dependent upon
one member az the missionary body mere. ana at
Tien-Tsin expects another missionary 10 perform
like service.
All this has a relation missions. the boycott,
@ the American reputation generally ana TO the
relations between China and America The me mar
in which Chinese have been treated hy Americans
here well by the immigrant authorities in
the States has been potent factor in intiauing
them against America. From such acts rs the
throwing overheard OF their Chinese bOatman. in
stead Of paving him. by three American sailors
(thss happened the anchorage Of the United
arrived there TO the wholesale defrauding of the
government and native investors by railway con-
cesgionaires. the Chinese have como 10 regard
Americans with suspicion and hatred. By com
polling Justice and good behavior the part Of
his countrymen Judge Wiley is certain to work
America.
The American missionaries will be among the
first feel this. With insignificant exceptions
rhe,- personally do only good the Chinese: most
Of them who have suffered death in China have
done because OF the msdeedS of others More
over. when the missionary does not have TO explain
away the conduct Of his fellow countrymen he VIII
have a better hearing fCr his message. That is
WHY. at a when many of his fellow citizens
are pulling wires in Washington 10 hamper Judge
haiing his work with enthusiasm and welcoming
him the most effective missionary OF them all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
Great Changes Noted Since
james Bryce Wrote
1.-The American
Commonwealth"
IRON The Tribune bureau

a.
Washington. April 2O.-"An American may
through a long life never be reminded of the
federal government except when he votes at the
Presidential and Congress elections, lodges a
complaint against the postofice or opens his
trunk to the customs officer on the pier at New
York from a tour of Europe"
Thus wrote James Bryce, the present British
Ambassador. nearly twenty years ago in his
famous study of our country. THE American
Commonwealth" When he stepped upon 1.-THE
pier at New York the other day, bearing Gre
dentials the most exalted diplomatic official
that his Britannia Majesty could send to the
American commonwealth, Mr. Bryce entered into
quite another legal atmosphere In the course
of the years that had interviewed between the
date OF publication OF his book and it's authors
elevation to the ambassadorship the powers of
the municipal and state governments had dwin-
died perceptibly, and in more than inverse ratio
the strength Of the federal arm had grown
Where state and city laws had not actually
shrunk they had become so Overshadowed in
Importance by the powers given the national
government as TO look dwarhsh in comparison
If Mr.. Bryce had asked the first American
citizen he met after leaving the pier II he were
ever reminded of the federal government" that
citizen would have probably replied offhand,
How could forget it unless were blind or
deaf or bOth?" And then. If the ambassa,5or
had expressed a desire for more light on the
subject and had had the time at his disposal 20
listen to the obliging citizens recital he might
have heard story something like this:
Il was reminded Of the federal government
the moment opened my eyes this morning and
observed that the sun was shining and that
there was brisk wind blowing up the bay
The Weather Bureau told me yesterday that
to-day would be clear. with fresh nerthwesterly
winds. felt little chilly after getting up, and
was again reminded OK the federal government
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
CONSERVATION AMONG CROOKS.

Here was a sensation for Shanghai The re-
jected men had been doing business in this city
for many years: their records were. presumably.
an open book so there is significance in the fact
that have been able TO find nobody to question
the essential justice of the courts action. Natural
II. the men cannot practise in the British court.
and their face" is gone utterly This swift.
summary. ominous action set ShanEhais under
world agos. What would this as yet uncompTe-
hended judge do next?
Nobody had TO wait long to discover BasinS
his action on the common Law. Judge Whitley sum-
moned before him eight pToprietresSeS OF the most
influential resorts. one escaped by pleading Span
ish citizenship which The District Attorney was I'M
able to dsproye. The Spanish consul issued GER
fincates for two American girls but they were
ignored by the court, and he afterwards attempted
q withdraw them. The girls pleaded guilty. thus
leaving the Spanish consul in an unpleasant pre-
dic2meut. So each Of the accused persons. except
one. received fine Of $1,000. which was more elo-
was to send post-haste ont of Shanghai and out Of
China more Than half hundred American girls,
whose reign in the Far East seems now TO have
been forever broken. OF course all this is reyolu
tionarv hero When supposedly respectable Brit
ishers and Americans objected. the judge dryly re-
marked that America willing to surrender tie
MONOPOLY Of this sort of trade and reputation.
Then a notorious character, q man higher up.
fell into the tolls the charge Of running a gam
bling den and house Of designation. lie Is TOW
template tho ACCESSIBILITY % leaving China. IN
ether man. = hotelkeeper ana crook was M be-
fore the Judge a civil charge: he had rented
TO a syndicate of Chinese certain gambling pTtvi-
that gambling had been interdicted by the Munich
pal Council Hearing these facts. the Judge; IN
open court ordered criminal information lodged
against the man. Now he Is spending a year IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
The PACE THAT KILLS.

No census can tell the worst of Shanghafs
shame The evil that surpasses the widespread
gambling and drinking is the maintenance of Chi
aese women by white men. II is freely asserted
that all the unmarried foreigners in the East fol-
LOW tins practice. or course this sweeping state
nent Is untrue. and the wholesale genera iizatfon
upon Shanghafs Wickedness INDUCED IN by mis-
slollailes liere and by missionary authorities and
supporters at home IS more than uncharitable-it
- cfuel ana false. This city holds many upright
lean hNed, honorable men Of sp0tIess character:
re iact that They are in a minority does not fus-
Aly lRelr being so indiscrminately Ibelled The
gross and scandalOus charges which ignorant or
are not whit worse than the general ;inifnadyer-
sons OF some missionaries upon all foreigners en-
takeu IN secular pursuits in the Orient
me best statement OF the situation Is had enour,
Nateiui inquiry among conservative and Informed
persons ellcts the opinion that probably the larger
nlihDer OF unmarried foreigners in Shanghai main
lAlh natlNe women The Euraslan Offspring VINO
aIe ne ITnt OF these and more honorable unions
-. one OF the tragic characteristics OF This city
t,isnt mere arises perpleKity for the missionary
olaL ne receive INTO his home and give his social
nave conlraVened fundamental Anglo-Saxon CON
t7puon OF decency? Shall all the accented fradi-
mons OF respectable society be abandoned in orde-
70 win the approval Of these young men away from
nome: ordinarily the missionaries decide in the
s-salke mus there is gulf fixed between The
~ CIasses OF white men in Asia, and SO mutual
SsLiIeisin Is begotten In the society which has
ooihlnated shanghai the missionary vhateyer his
standlng AT home his personal Qualities lac
remains 10 be seen ~~'--AiOAiS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
TOBACCO CHEU'ING.
H05c 1t FORKS as Brain Lubricant
and Mental UlUmiHaHt.

President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton Uni
versity. is a conservative among the conserv-
atives. lie plainly disbeeves in the cultural
value OF teas. dinners. debates and other mod
ern irritants preferriug the good old royal read
TO knowledge used by most Americans of the
last generation and many ruralsts OF the pres
ent one. namely. chewing tobacco. The other
day President Wilson said that the Western
Senator is more useful servant OF the people
than his Eastern colleague. because he Chews
Virginia leaf The slow, deliberate mastication
Of the quid gives the chewer time for reflection
and the formation Of opinions. IF you live in
a place where YOU can sit around a stove in a
country store and spit tobacco juice into saw
dust box" said DR.. Wilson, you are much more
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
BY william t. Ellis.

Copyright. 1907, by Joseph B. BOwles)
The greatest moral sensation at present agitating
she Far East is not being created by missionary
but by an officer OF the United States government
Judge l. r. Wnhey. of the new circuit court for
China With the majority OF foreigners resident IN
port cities Judge Wiihey is to-day probably more
unpopular even than are the missionaries ana iOE
largely the same reason. What the missionaries
have been trying for generations 20 accomplish Ia
the way OF cleaning Up the American reputation
out there and improving moral conditions Juoge
WHEY has wrought almost overnight
The shame Of Shanghai is international IN every
rprt Of tho civilized world Shanghai is known as
wide open" city AS one resident expressed 4;
There is 10 public sentiment here Shanghai
about fulhls the desire Of Kipling's soldier:
Shin me somewhere east Of Suez
where the Is like the worst
Where there Amt Ten commandment
And a raise a thlfs;
Pnt here comes the rub; the Americans nave iAN
almost monopoly OF the business end OF the wee
~ Shanghai The gamblers panderers. diYekeep-
ers and loose women We're mostly reSlsteIen a. M
av,ericaD Consulate. British cOnsuls IN inc LAS
s-rised 10 deport shady characters OF their SEH
y7afioualftr: American cOnsuls nave moi or
then abandoned women OF tllS SIit,i
MORT Of the Orient have been claiming ne ~.
tlon ~ the stars and Stripes. The result is that
unU-hera In decent circles IN the Easi - ll'r
-orT,a american LADY, ever employed. Tor II mas
,,-v one sfgnificance An American father dare 10.
sneak Of his daughter an American ~.
TTk-pen frst came to this city il needed a few
-,oirfed and ILLUMINATING words from a irlenu 20
exDlain 10 me the large proportion or Itct.if -,
and artlhcally bediZened women Ia IIe,i -
compafTiots. who rolled along bup"i'iis "S'' $780,
ann ma 1of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
SET UP as A COUNTRY SQUIRE.

1t was at the age of twenty-elght that Field
ing decided to give up the career of a
about town and range" himself the French
say. sHe had been acquainted for several years
with Miss Charlotte Cradock whose home was
not far from East Stour, I'm Dorsctshre where
he had inherited small estate from his mother.
and in 1880 they We're married. ON his wife's
fortune of Il 500 Fielding set up as a country
squire on his own estate and rode and hunted
in such reckless fashion that his means were
speedily exhausted He then took his wife and
child TO London, and decided 10 take up the law
in earnest, Before completing his studies no
produced two plays. one OF which was 50 scath-
ing in its satire oC oficlaldom that il led to The
passage of the act which instituted censorship
Of PLAYS in England In 1I31 the future novelist
resumed his law studies ~ the Middle Temple
and began to practise law at the age 81 thirty
three. He had meanwhile devoted considerable
time to newspaper writing, and il is supposed
that 10y il he supported his family. although
some writer's think that his wife retained some
part Of her fortune, and, i'm fact it seems doubt
ful II she did not live at their country home
while her husband prepared Tor the bar
It was in 1'l2 that Joseph Andrews ap-
Don ouixotc.'' and said his own work was
designed 10 be an imitation of the Stylc ana
manner Of Corvdntes. But others believed IL ~
be intended 90 Tidieule the s"ntimcHtalsm 81
Richardson who felt 50 mucn hurt that DE
never able 10 find anything % praise in
Eielding'S work. IhaC keTaH, who WAS great
admirer Of the novels of Fielding whom he
praises in "Pendeunis.' wrote as follows ia
English Humorsts Of the Eighteenth Cent
urv'': Fielding no doubt began To write this
novel in Tidicule OF Pamela" for which work
one can understand IN. hearty contempt and
antpathy which such athlete and boisterous
genius as Fiedng's must have entertained. He
could not do otherwise than laugh a. the puny.
cockney bookseller. pouring out endless vol
umes Of sentimental twaddlc and hold him up 10
scorn as a mo!lcoddle and "a mllksop. Ills
genius had been uurscd sack pos~et and not
on dishes OF tea Ills muse had sung the loudest
in tavern choruses. had seen the daylight
streaming in over thousands OF cmpticd bowls
and reeled home TO chambers ON the shoulders
of the watchmcn. Richardson's goddess was at
tended by old maids and dOWagers and fed on
mullins and bohea. AIiIksop" Toars Harry
Fielding. Gathering a the tmd shop shutters.
Wretch, Monster Mohock" shrieks the senti-
mental author of Pamela and all the ladies
Of his court cackle out affrishtcd chorus
But It was not its takc-om on the sentimental
ity of Pamela" 50 much she clever depletion
Of his own characters. especially Parson Adams.
whose name appears in the title. that gave
Fielding's initial attempt in field almost
instant popularity. The vivid and realistic de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21

The Great American Desert with It's grew
some landmarks of whitened bones. IS shrink
ing before the advance Of the national plough
share Within few years or generations the
wastes of sand and alkaH and sagebrush VIII
be found only in books. for the federal govern
ment is aiding the Western farmer 70 brinS
water 10 the parched ground When N.Y.
Bryce's The American Commonwealth was
written the reclamation service was not eve"
dreamed Of by the most optimistic OF our cou"-
try's prophets. To-day the federal governments
through this mighty agency Is building giant
dams to hoard up the freshets and irrigation
systems to dole out the water to the farmer
when the skies are dry. Millions Of acres have
already been reclaimed by private irrigation
projects. and millions more will be converse
as II by magic when the great enterprises 70"
under construction are completed
The federal government Is caring FOR th9
health OF its citizens more sOlicitously tn4N
MANY mothers care for that OF their Children
The Marine Hospital and Public Health SERVES
maintains an efficient corps OF physicians at
home. who are ready to proceed to any pOns
where epidemics threaten the people AT an
times other skilled physicians Of the service are
to be found at every shipping port Of the eiVii-
tied world who examine the crew and contents
OF vessels as they start for America, TO ascertain
IL all Is well on board. The least sign OF ol7s'-
Is detected, and II clean bill Of heaIth = -
given the cable flashes the intelligence OK '--
danger 70 Washington and quarantine oniesI9
are waiting to intercept the ship before sH'
reaches our shores.
The national governments efforts 70 seO1-'
peace abroad and at home are so ven 49, 1s.
that comment is scarcely necessary AS q lnsu.
atOr between Russia and Japan President AoSsSS
Welt reminded the whole world teat ~ ct
eral government Of the United states Wa Lsof
fn evidence and In later and less unIo.saaT
troubles IN South America he has USED hs 500 800
offices with happy effect. Under the Ffeslls. ,s
wise directions the federal government - IT, IT,
striving 70 effect permanent peace m tne -. 80 a
trial world. With the Nobel peace Prize - -
nucleus, the foundation for the prOrnotioh ~ s,ix
dustrial peace was formed az the Ftes uo1 1ss
suggestion and IL Is the belief OF many ta aL
efforts OF this organization VIII go xar toNa9
bringing about permanent aTnlty between Jay
tai and labor. -,
These are only few OF the most iIapoTfsn.
matters that the federal government is n9 " "a
gas sd upon which bring Il into dEs8 ~
RexTdAx relation Nib Ne g9xissns
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
SAD STATISTICS.

A few OF tho official figures from the settlement
records NAV be enligEtening III this connection
and be il remembered. these are not statistics or
the native city but OF the foreign settlements.
which the Chinese have control whatever. The
modifying spectacle has more than once been pre-
senfed IN Shanghai Of heather" officials Vainy
pleading with the representatives Of Christian ma
fiOns 10 close restrict certain forms Of evil
notably opium resorts. gambling houses and broth
els, for the sake OF the thousands of Chinese VINO
are being ruined therein Shanghais foreign popu-
lation IS l40l0 OF whom llO0 Americans. The
British dominate. although they somewhat out
numbered by the japanese. French Portuguese
ana Germans come next m order Of Importance.
IN licensed existence within the settlement We're
AT the time OF the issuance Of the municipal
statistics H,e00 opium houses and shops. paying a
revenue or S6soQ)-0F one such resort for every
score Of the $500 Chinese residents who live here
under the white mans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
FIRST WIFE HEROINE OF .AMEIA.Y

Fielding produced his last work OF fiction.
Amelia I'm 1731, three years before his death
lie was then actively engaged IN his duties as
magistrate. being chairman of Quarter Sessions
in which he delivered a charge to n grand jury
its kind The central figure of the work Is the
her loss he consoled himself soon after her
vived him nearly half century. The new novel
did not attain the vogue Of it's predecessor. and
as considered To- he marked by a difference in
vIrility and he indicative Of advancing years.
Yet it holds hCn rank in English fiction The
following year Fielding again edited a bi-Wcebly
newspaper The CoVent Garden Journal of
literary character, for which he wrote under the
name OF Sir Alexander DrdwcanSiT- Rut failing
health and the strenuous duties of his official
position told his strength a trip to Bath
early i'm lot proved of no avail. and by the
advice OF his physicians he went To Portugal
with his ife and eldest daughter in June OF
this trip his poSthumOus work. THE Journal of
a Voyage To Lisbon gives graphic account.
with many touches in his best manner. The
voyage was long and stormy one. Field
ing's health did not rally, and his death occurred
al Lisbon on October :. 1I-ri when he was IN the
forty-eighth year Of his age. He buried in
the English cemetery facing the Church OF the
bears on the front long Latin inscription. and
on the back the words "LUget Britannia
gTemio non dari foveTe nahum
While Fiedng'S farCes. comedies and bur
lcsques have vanished from the stage and his
essays are not even iUUrned in the volumes of
The British Essaylsts, his triad Of novels find
new readers with each new SC-.erSttCil and Keep
his and fame alive I'm that republic Of
letters" To which he refers in mis- masterpiece.
Il bids fair to have even a wider celebrity. for a
comic opera based upon tho chief incidents in
it has just been successfully produced in Lon
don. where he saw much Of all sides of lie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21
ENTER THE SQUARE JAW.

Then came JOve with his thunderboits Nobosv
our there apparently. had paid any particular AZ.
tentioh 20 the creation by Congress last YEAR 10
nsw United states Circuit Court FOR China So s.a
etsh Nhs on the scene before the Significance OF
The event was az all understood. The SnSTe a.
pointed by the President was lie one man 49,
Al ot1SIs rre-efnlnently qualified Cor his faGS
y ~ Ml.iiey h5a gone with Governor Taft 20 the
lefel machinery in motion there and had nm o,,S
~ tle ISLANDS lot Of vicious camp followers biS
ana little. who were exploiting the FglpInoS arS
sclqlsTs ana making trouble generality T,,S--s
Wiley IS a quiet man. with a gOOdly frame a
square Jaw an9 an even disposition; man not
given 20 delivering homilies from the bench or an
nouncing his intentions beforehand or EXPLAINING
his actions aftcrHaFd. He IS the sort OF man "a
SCOUT The Omitted States cscUtcheOn IN Shanghai
where 81 has been more than little furnished an,
fiI2ss past BY Americans, official and unOfscial
The DAY AFTER his arrival he calmly announced
t44At American lawyers who expected 20 Practise
IA his court must pass examination as 70 their
professional qualifications and present Certificates
OF Their moral character. That would seem an In
nocsnt enough procedure, warranted by practice
IN TIE united States until has heard described
the type OF legal shysfeIe who Tor tie most paFt
fnfeet SHANGHAI making sos badness worse. Eight
pee e upied the examination. Six OF them
fs'led isnornitso1tiy 70 attain average OF GO