Arizona republican., 1913-01-06
ID BE WICKED
 G0 ID CANTON
Common Provcrb ill China Changed By Suppression of Vice Stopping of Gambling and Abolition of Opium Smoking.

De wicked go to Canton.
 One who knows the old China, with it's treasures of iniquity, would be greatly surprised today at the tremen- dous change. No longer do the four story palaces of vice near the foreign 1 settlement bring their seductive influ- ence to bear on the youth of the city all are dark and the streets are de- serted. The lower bund fitted up in the latest style, q thousand foot front 1 of red light is the military barracks.
 No longer do you find on three and four corners of the principal street | crossings the blatant signs. Gambling 1 Here. There is not an open gambling den or d lottery in this city of oyer a million and half of people. Opium
 smoking, that curse worse than drink in western lands. is gone, never to re-
 turn it is asserted.
 Not only have these three open sores
 of the western world healed. but age
 long abuses due to ancient religion and
 custom, have been cut away to allow
 the new growth of truth to appear
 Slavery has been abolished by law. and
 
 freed to find means of livelihood Four
 hundred girls are being educated in
 one school at he ciy's expense The . bling singing girls are now being cared
 for and given an education in indus : trial work
 And, finally, the nunneries have been
 opened, the girls in them are allowed
 tho choice of leaving or remaining, and
 the small girls purchased to be brought
 up as nuns are liberated and are being
 taught in government schools Twelve
 of the thirteen Confucian temples in the city have been turned over to the
 control of the education department
 to be used as schools.
 These great reforms are but the re- suit of the natural moral force of the Chinese, combined with the onlighten- ment of the west. once freed from
 the long crushing thralldom of the ManchuS, the Chinese have leaped to
 the front rank of moral reform. It is : true that opium and gambling in can
 ton were prohibited before the revolu- l. tion came the latter only a few months before. but they were the re- Il suits of agitation through those at . l tempting to get at the root of the mat
 ter under the inertia of the Manchu
 government and who were successful
 The Manchus thought to throw them off the trail by permitting lesser re- :, forms
 It is noteworthy that within three
 months after the new Cantonese gov
 crnment was formed and the present
 corps of officials was well established
 this city. once the worst of the marts " of China. has become model city. I TO trace the history of these revO- U lutiorary changes We must look along '' three lines The Chinese have deep
 rooted sense the right thing. Con-
 fucius taught an upright moral code . and every teacher throughout the IanC
 has literally beaten it into the minds of the student class. Such training of ! ten leads to the refusal Of the teach ' ing. but nevertheless the recognition oi
 it's value is implanted deep in the race !, fiber.
 Second: The influence of students
 returning from abroad and of foreigr ,f schools in China. A Chinese youtl
 studying in America or England maN
 not appear there to be cnthused witt :, the wonder of civilization and ma < chinery around him. But when he re-
 turns to his own country and sees tho . l contract, one of two things happens:
 total disgust of his country and the q resultant loss of his newly born patri- f otism in the desire for gain or ht throws himself heart and soul into [ what place he sees needs him. Most ot if the officials are of this latter class. ol , of those who have been educated il Q foreign schools in China.
 st The foreign schools n China are cen - ters of the new life. The observer i. : struck not only with the conservation It of the patriotic spirit of the student. :; in these institutions but also with tn, Y importation of the best ideals of tn, :; west without the evils attending ou1 t modern civilization, And these stu .; dents are the leaders. In the Cantor e government the commissioner of edlu 1l cation is w. k. Chung, dean of tn, l. Canton Christian College. who received his western education in that school y The commissioner of civil affairs wa = the first graduate of that institution Ie The commissioner of foreign affair T. is the honored graduate of Queen st College, Hongkong In the north. St l. Johns University and others have con se tributcd a large share of the presen st staff of progressive officials 7s Third: The influence of religion il te the revolution. Wherever the religiO 9r of the bestern world has gone tn in people have risen to a higher standar I; and have become more able to gOver T. themselves. This naturally engender S. a spirit of independence. China unde tn the lead of good men. worked uietl u but effectualy for manhood freedoT Se and political sovereignty. In the frs h. group of officials of the new govern T. ment of Canton. five of the eight wer
 Christians, and now four of the min sS are professors of Christianity. IT.. -o
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