The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-22
WHAT CONSUL GENERAL
WILDER WOULD HAVE SAID
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IL AsFS naoss es14gE2Ests % America eSEg-
Eaa6eg, wa5ea - Eew ard sEsse-ssaEe--
! wish = sallk0Ad, bread streets, Plate
glass N31l49ns. modest zkg1ssya pegs al.4
The taye@s Of real estate 8gonz- Tie
+ citizens are ssYgeGy returned fT91 amer
I lea. They krIng the gersas Of eAareA
1 and sea09I - taeg have seen them la
I 0af eoanrry. Gaasoa zas : wa5erweEAS
/ plant, @8eSggEe light telephone. 81 lee
/ plaAge and lately STRENGTHENING SER
yiee. The people are bringing these
/ things 80 pass; 8he SYSTEM Of local au-
/ t0nGfay makes i possible
Railways are multiplying n China;
two have aEYeaay been completed BY
/ She EbInese themselves With their en-
cheering skill ~ well as money. TIE
/ eBpeYstiti0ns. etc, thas blocked devel-
0sFHent 81 tAEs sort give no more troa-
bic except ID isolated eases that can
be persuaded. On late the desire Of
she Chinese 20 have shfngs done without
foreign cooperation is marked The
Chinese are ao6 a. wise AZ the Jap&nese
IN thfs. the latter were d0eGIe. eager 10
learn, and would not lei us 90 anti they
seeuyea 81 we knew The Chinese have
fulI eohfdenee following a brief tnition+
The early railways and other enterprises
constructed and operated for the Chi
aese by the foreigner were m0aey-nsak-
cts; the Chinese assume thev can do
al well. There are sense slissppoint-
ments and kum5Iiations ahead, a. an
inspection Of native. railway and other
plants suggest.
The new regime is peacefully irlduet-
ed az Picking ~ always the Chinese az
eept situation that IL not TOO harsh
on unreasonable IL would be foo much
TO say there IL confidence that the en-
FiFe Is in strong hands. but Il IS enough
to know that there are no argent signs
III trouble within or without As Man
eaufia Is keystone. scIfn pressure from
Japan and Russia, Il Is not ut ali
strange gossip should center there. Il
Is q glad thing for China that tAe qnes-
ton Of her integrity has been settled;
get unless she moves forward one can
see forms of aggression that might be
very uneoRgeniaI 10 neg Sovereignty
carries duties, and 10 state ean live 70
herself in these days; China must be-
come m0defnIzed; she may DO II slowly
and 10, her own way, but from time 10
time sne must move. At present hope
less confusion Of the currency Is the
eYnx situation. Some communities have
from dozen 70 a score Of money stand
ards, ard Mr. Morse Of the Maritime
Customs has data Of I70 standards in
use IN the empire Not only Is there
much counterfeit money. but one prov
iuee refuses another's money: dollar
wears itself out by the discount for
exchange IN very short time; the
fluctuations cover 20 per cent in the
value of coins in some six-monEh pc
RODS, making business a gamble, and
the printing and coming Of money has
become 9 feyerish passion IN quarters
where il should be one OF the most
sacred functions OF government. 1he
copper cash and penny is the money Of
the millions, and this has deprecated
within three years, to the impoverish
ing of the masses. Tang ShaoYi has
returned from his study Of monetary
systems, and il they viii give this able
American educated statesman a chance
he can revise the present system. Bu.
if the policy is 70 drift with nc strong
hand to assert itself at Picking, the pos
sibiiity is that the opportunity will be
improved by foreign Parties in interest
as creditors, seeking to Teorganize
China g finances for her, as foreigners
organized her Customs, which nets some
S25,000,000 gold per year for imperial
uses. Such Intervention might be a
blessing If it confined itself to CUR
rency, and might prove troublesome
III the Intervention broadened. Friends
Of China hope that she may have the
initiative to reform currency and likin
conditions, for they will in time become
intoIerable.
The urgent needs Of China are a re-
formed currency and an improved jul
dieial system. The latter, however, is
flower of the most advanced ciyiiiza-
ton and can not be effected by ediet-
there must be a fearless, independent
aud incorruptible citizenship before the
poor man viii seek the courtroom In
confidence
Good order in the empire exists at
present, and there is freedom from flood
and famine. Education is going for
ward most eneouragingly. The DISPOSE
ton is 20 unload foreign teachers lin
the main Japanese), which is a prenla
| ture action; but modern text books are
installed and the former utilities of
| curriculum are forever abandoned. The
conspicuous DuIlu3Hgs Oh every interior
| city Of Importance are school buildings,
and while there is a dearth of compe-
tent teachers and some disappointment
IN results, that leads to an occasional
reaction, yet the leaven of truth search
| is at work.
Whereas Mission 's-education is hard
pressed in Japan by reason of the ex-
ee!lence of public schools, in China the
missionary colleges are in growing
| favor. No one can visit, for instance,
Canton Christian College, with its It's
youths of good Chinese families, paying
tnition and coming under the influence
of ten young Americans Of the best col
| leges, earnest, cultivated Christian men.
without realizing that silent forces are
at work to add on the best things of
our civilization to the many good things
that Should be conserved of the empire.
On the industrial side things move
siowly-~that is, taking the empire as a
whole. The railways are coming on,
though, comparing population, China
must build fifty times as much to equal
the facilities of the United Kingdom.
Iron ore is being shipped even to
America, and there are modern equip
ped coal mines. These are the brioht