Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05

I and flnishings at so many dollars per
inch
A CHINAMAN WHO CARES MOTH
ING FOR MONEY.
I also know Chinese who cannot be
bought. who work for their country
and do good for goods sake. This is
so of Tuan Fang and 1t was SO of
| Chang Chi Tung. who died few
months ago Chang Chi Tung had OPP
| portunitles to make incalculable
wealth. but he died comparatively
| poor. He cared more for scholarship
than for the dollar and ranked as a
leader of the literatI.
Tuan Fnng VIII live simply at Pekln.
| He has an establishment there. but mis-
private fortune is small. When / met
him here at Marking about eight
months ago he was the viceroy OF
three of the greatest provinces OF the
lower Yangtse valley, and under him
was a population larger than that of
the United States. He was ruling a
country so rich that 1t almost raises
gold dollars II has scores of walled
cities and thousands of villages. 1t Is
so thickly settled that much OF 1t sup
ports more than man to the ncre.
and is SO cut up by canals and dykes
that one can go to every mans house
in a boat The region includes such
cities as Shanghai, the New York of
China; Soochow, the Manchester, and
Nanking. the classical. reminding one
of Boston. II has thousands of fac
tories and II huns like a beehive. or
these provinces Tuan Fang was the
absolute ruler and his income was
greater than that of the smaller Euro
pean kings. He had a large corps of
government clerks and most of hig
subordinatcs were laying up fortunes
nnfa aI or af -l,ol
getting about $1,000 a year as a NOM
inal salary. but the office was so valu-
able that within three years 1t mado
him independently rich. The mayors
OF other cities were receiving large
sums, and of all that came into the
treasury I doubt not that every hand
through which 1t passed pinched out
a portion, Nevertheless. there wore mill
lions left for the viceroy, and he might
have made himself rich beyond the
dreams OF avarice. He did not All of
the surplus went into public improve
ments and into the carrying on of re-
forms OF this new Chinese movement.
A CHINESE REFoRMER.
Tho work OF this man Is an evidence
of what IS going on out here in what is |
supposed to be the deadeSt country OF |
the world Tuan Fang yanked up the |
dry skeleton of Chinese conservatism |
and put on 1t tho flesh and blood of our \
civilization. He organized all sorts Of |
reforms in his various cities. Here at
Nanklng, he established industrial |
schools, commercial schools and n
school for teaching silk culture. He
had schools of law and debating socio-
ties for the study of the new conStt-
tuition. He established an academy for
tho customs officers and there were
tIY,arx nd. 90 1
people wore educated In modern gov
ernnent He reorganlzed the courts,
tho police and the prisons. He built
roads in the cities, and established fac
tories and industries, He had one gov
ernment hospital which treated 500 pa
tents day, and among the assistants
were lady physicians and nurses, edu-
Gated abroad. He sent Chinese stu
lents to tho United States and had q |
school in his own prov
nee, He did what he could to wipe
nut opium In the Yangtso valley and
had opium hospitals hero and else
where. He did much to push railroads
A line was constructed from the river
TO Nanking and he aided In building
he railways northward to Pekln and
T1entSln.
TrUAN FANG AND THE REBELS.
Tuan Fang did so much in the line
II reform that he aroused the enmity
II the conservatives and they tried to
lssasSinate him These Chinese OBJ
ected to him on several grounds, One
vas that he was a Tartar and there
'oro an interloper and should be wiped
,ut- The secret societies were against
him and they planned TO kill him in
he rebellion which was to spring up
IN the Yangtse when the empress dow
lger died. The plans for this revolution
lad been perfected and 1t was the in
.ention to kill the missionaries and