The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-15

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| of all being rich and the foreign resi-
dents will be the first ones to suffer,
| just as they were in 1896.
Friendly to Americans.
fThe feeling of the better classes
is, most friendly towards Americans
know this from personal converse
| tions / have had with officials from
the Vieeroy down. These of the bet
| ter classes appreciate the fact that
America wants no portion of China in
the event of the dismemberment of the
| Empire and they appreciate the return
| by America of the Boxer indemnity
money, We have their best wishes
and they look upon US as friends.
N'The boycott which ran in the. Coast
cities against American goods signifed
little among the Chinese as whole /
am sure that that movement was help
ed on and party inaugurated by local
Americans, living in the Coast cities,
producing on the spot goods with which
American imported goods came in com
petition The Americans there did not
on.
GA very interesting country lies to
the west of the Szechuen province, the
Empire of Thibet. Szechuen province
borders on Thibet and for a stretch of
two hundred miles along the border
MANY Thibetans live in the Chinese
province, under nominal Chinese rule,
but directly under three of their own
g.
ton over all Thibetans. One thing
struck me particularly about these peo
pie, that is their method of capital
punishment. In China the ordinary
forms are decapitation. strangulation
and slicing, but in Thibet different
method is pursued. There, when
man is condemned to death by the
Thibetan chiefs, he is taken to a spot
about two miles from Tarshen NJ, into
the mountains, where the mountain
breaks off into deep gqlch. The man
is taken to the edge of the precipice,
is blindfolded and then pushed over
the edge to a drop of one thousand
feet. His bones are left to the wolves.
This isNa speedy and certain way of
death, and it never fails, once man
has started on the way over.
cone of the disagreeable things I
found in Chungking was the fact that
the execution ground was just behind
the American consulate, in the narrow
street. 1t was not pleasant when we
wanted to go out to have to step over
freshly decapitated bodies.
Labor is Cheap.
'EWestern China differs from the
coast, in the latter place the price of
goods and labor having increased. In
Szechuen the prices are the same now
as they have been for hundreds of
wears. The crackers, for instance, who !
drag the boats back up the river from
Ichang to Chungking, a task that takes
from thirty to fifty days, according to
the seasonal strength of the current,
are paid, in addition to their food,
from 800 to 1000 cash for the trip,
or from forty to fifty cents. Skilled !,
like masons and carpenters,
who are experts, get from forty to !
fifty cents a day. How long this rate
of pay viii last, ] cannot tell.
''Some time ago our government ask
ed that an investigation be made to
what American goods and
trademarks were being initiated among
the goods sold in Szechuen. I investi-
gated and found that Florida water,
labeled as Murray & Landon s, but
which didn t smell like theirs, was be-
ing sold; American soaps were being
initiated, cheap stuff being found with
Colgate's labels initiated; Borden's
milk was initiated, and the
British American company cigarettes
were found on sale, the original pack
ages and papers being used but the to-
baccO having been taken out and an
inferior tobacco substituted. After
hearing that address in the Commercial /
Club the other day I hate to say what
nation was doing this, but it WASH t
Chinese nor any European nation, but
one nation was doing it all.
Sat one time I detected another
Japanese merchant substituting cheap
Russian kerosene for American, putting
the cheap oil in Standard Oil tins. I
had him arrested and he was turned |
over to his consul for punishment. He
was liberated without anything being
done. A Chinaman, caught doing the
same thing, got one hundred with the
bamboo and was fined ten taels.
8 can not tell you how much [ have
enjoyed nv stay in your beautiful city
and my sincere regret that 7 have to
leave so soon. Hawaii is we'll named
the Paradise of the Pacific, and, speak
ing from my experience of several
years in Africa, some years in vari-