The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-07-19
ONE OF THE VERY
FINEST PLACES
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big trade in China and are increasing
IL all the time. / don Z think the Amer
lean merchants 90 at IL right. 1t is all
right to send our young travelling men
to sell goods around close 70 home
where they know every one, but when
it comes TO China it is different.
"Those English and German travel
ing statesmen are old-timers at the bust
ness. I met several of them, and they
told me they had been selling goods in
China for twenty to thirty years, and
they can speak the various languages
Of that country. You must speak Chi
nese to get along in China. 1t does not
seem that our merchants care so much
for that business, because they are
getting rich supplying our own people.
"China hates all foreigners, and
whenever little uprising comes along
they run out every foreigner alike. A
peculiar thing is that the Chinese from
another province is considered a for
eigner, and when an uprising comes
along out he goes with the rest of them.
The men of every province speak a diff
ferent dialect.
"The Chinese people like Americans
better than any other foreigner, so long
as there is no trouble, because America
is the only country that has ever shown
them any consideration, but when they
get mad at some foreigner, out our peo-
pie go.
"China has 4OO,O0O,O00 people and
has well-equipped army of 25000,000
soldiers, who are being well trained by
German officers They are learning very
fast, but it viii take them long time
to become first-class soldiers. They real
ize they need a good army. But II
seems to me war between China and
America, or any other country, will
never occur, or if it does it will not
amount to anything, because the diff
ferent provinces can not agree among
themselves. They would as soon fight
each other as another nation.
"The Layman's Missionary Move
ment in this country is a wonderful,
thing and will mean much toward the
advancement of China. The work being
done by the Y. M. G. A., and the free
hospitals and free schools which oul
people arc conducting, are performing
wonders. Entrance into homes and ac
quaintances with people are made which
could be done in no other way. Fal
greater good is being accomplished il
this way than by the old method OF
orthodox religion.
"In the Y. M. @. A. schools and il
the free hospitals the young Chinamer
do not, as rule, become Christians
but gradually they are educated ant
want to live like our people. thinl
greater advances will be made III China
particularly in the eastern part Of tn,
empire, within the next five years thar
for the past fifty years.
"0f all of the missionaries in Chini
today, those who are physicians are do
ing more good than the rest. Especially
is this true of the women physicians.
"But Japan is great place, and thu
country is progressing very rapidly
The talk of war between this lcountr.
and Japan is all bosh-rot. 1t is a
impossible as war between us and tn,
Hawaiian Islands, which are part o.
us. There is nothing to it, and neve
will be. They do not want it, mo-
do we.
"The Japanese people are learning
our customs, and they take to then
quickly. The Chinese are trying to dc
it, too, but they are too slow. They
think they can, but they can't.
"We are mighty glad to get bacl
to Pasadena again"