Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-06

4 bics and In the third they are 80 bc
organized and In working order
By the fourth year there win b. n
new code Of laws and new courts. and
| in the tifth a new system of taxation
win be enforced
The sixth year continues the prep
aratiou Of the people Tor the national
parliament. and during the seventh the
reorganization OF the government rev
enucs and expenditures win be taken
up.
Tho year following the officials win
begin TO consider the imearlal house
hold expenses, they will establish a iu-
dicial bureau end win begin TO issue
certificates.
I'm the ninth year the imperial con.
stitutiou will be finally enforced and
the imperial parliament will be In scs-
sion here at Pekin
THE NEW CHINA.
This is the bare outline Of but A
few Of the principal provisions The
scheme H. elaborate, and 20 provides
for thorough reorganization along
modern lines There Is one. great
branch devoted 20 the reforNing OF
the courts, and this Includes the
establishment Of law schools In every
great city and at all the provincial
capitals
creating OF a modern army. the steps
OF growth going on from year TO year.
and third deals with education and
the gradual organization Of system
Of schools which viii make It COM
pulsory.
IL is the same with the changes TO
be made in revenues and taxation
Everything Is gradual. and I'm tho end
China will be as advanced as japan
II
ment advantages Of other nations.
THE SCHOOLS AND THE CONSTR
TUITION.
Take, for instance. the plan laid
out for the new school system. The
year 1908 was largely devoted TO the
composition of easy text books along
modern lines. This year the text books
are being published. and the
laws have gone forth that they must
be used in all schools. Al the same
time modern schools are being started
in all the large cities. Next year the
same program is 10 be pushed, and hY
1912 IL is expected there will be a
public school in every village and
market town. Today the proportion Of
Chinese who can read and write Is
exceedingly low. The nation is not an
educated one. as many suppose. and l
doubt whether ten men in one thou
sand can read and write. BY 1913,
those who have investigated the mat
ter say, one in every hundred should /
be able TO read. and during the fol- /
lowing year II the school scheme IS
carried out. one in every fifty should F,
be able to both read and write, while |
at the close of the nine years. when I
the first members OF parliament are /
elected. the proportion Of literacy /
should be about one To twenty.
The new schools viii practically /
create a new language Tor China and /
a new system Of phonetic writing |
Schools are now being organized by |
the thousands, and there are tens Of /
thousands Of the old Chinese pro- |
fessors who are fitting themselves To |
become modern teachers. At the time /
the edict was sent forth ten thousand /
went TO japan and spent about six /
months there fitting themselves for the /
new education. The most of these |
have returned. but there are at pres
ent somthing like 5000 Chinese |
studying in Japan. and there will soon |
be in the neighborhood Of 1000 study |
ing in America
II Is a wonderful evidence OF the good /
OF the Chinese that the in
PRODUCTION Of schools and the abolition
OF the old examination system have
been made without causing revolu-
ton. Such a change would have create
ed a war I'm almost any other country, '