East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-07-24

ue was q C,siaaman. He went about al
has life doing sood and lived to be seventy
two years o,d. His TOMB is at Kiuh-fos
in tie r:o'frre Of shantuug,
5fs srsss.Erz. .: csnfUeins l;lJ tie foan
,caboa Of Que of the great religions ol
tee wS.e. a r-s.g,Sa ~s.ch to-day shspe.
80 s~nd~S OF -a,-rapi OF the human race
AAd Jet cs0fue'ns ni7a~cr made ..o pre-
tsns v@repsef e. that he wHs a reftx ssus
tssvees - that Ee s:,rszx from esvtse lors
GA lbs great Pur~es I. life vas mol
IL establishment of = p~usk.n. but ,as
sz-~fioration of his f-l,e~pen. He tang ht
.e-<ituSe reverence. re-pect. srots.eriy
l-~c The golden rule of .Confuoius wss:
-gvbat YOU do not like yourself, do not do
20 at-rs.~ Respect for parents was one
of sbr great principles which he sought to
i~~a;-s;e On the top of his head, where
tie organ of veneratien has been located
-as a remarkable lump.
Confueius lived while Cyrus rSigaed in
Persia. and while Pythagorps reasoned In
Greece, and while Tsrsnln the Proud
welded the last stsptre OF the Roman
kings. Confuci.-s is to the Chinese what
Christ is TO Christians.
A Molder Of Character. ea
.confucins did more to mold the charac-
ter OF the Chinese people tim any other
person or event But what have the Chr
ness accomplished that Confucius should
deserve credit for shaping their career?
1t is quite possible that the average Ameri-
can does not entertain even an approxi-
mately correct conception of the Chinese
people Ignorance and race prejudire in-
duce many persons to class the Chinese as
one of the inferior peoples of the earth.
They are generally rated as one Of the semi
civilized races. But Cinnamon consider us
ba-barians and boast that at a time when
England and France and Germany were
fespled by hah-naked savages. China en-
foyed high degree of civilization.
This is true, for the authentic history of
CHINA goes back more than twenty cen
tunsas before Christ. Organized govern
x.ent bad long been established in the ''Ce-
lestial Empire when Moses led the
Israelites out of Egypt. While the fore.
fathers of the proud, dominant, progress
sixe Caucasian races which now people
The states of Europe and the United States
were p-owling hunting. hungry savages;
wild, naked, homeless, iliiterate, unknown,
like the beasts OF the forests; the Chinese
were a settled. civilized, orderly, thinking
people with cities. roads. farms, money.
canals. clothes, and a system of religious
worship.
~fse Chinese Intelligence.
the Chinese understood the circulation
O1 Szs blood long before it was discovered
BY Harvey in Europe; they inoculated for
smallpox nearly thousand years before
ii was practiced in England; the mariners
compass was discovered, gunpowder was
employed, and artesian walls were bored
In China far in 1dvance or Europe Guten-
berg, the German. discovered the art of
printing in 1893. This is accounted one
Of the greatest inventions of civilization.
II revolutionized Europe and the Western
world. But more than five hundred years
before the invention of Gutenberg the
Chinese had discovered the art of printing
and books were widely distributed ana
cad Porcelain, paper. silk, spectacles and
)ther attributes of higher civilization were
employed by the Chinese centuries before
hey were known in Europe.
Civil Service examinations for govern
nent positions. yet very srudgingly em
,ioyed in the United States, were inau
;urated IN China before the birth OF Christ
Gradually this scheme has been developed
Intil the whole system of government i'll
,hina rests upBn y. knowledge. not
pull" in China is the key to official po-
itioH. ~
The Wonderful Canals.
The eighteen provinces of China proper
re interlaced by magnificent system of
auals which connects all the great river
yseenrs Of the empire with one an ther
nai hads together the Provinces into one
axi commercial and economic state. Tie
ak~.d canal 1900 mflss long. reaching
vem Rang-Chow on the south to near
'eklng on the north. is one of the wonders
( tie world. This stnpenGous monument
. Ihe ciriIizFion Of China is said to have
cen conceived and begun 4sG years be-
,re the Christian era. The whole OF Eu-
,pe at that time, excepting. perhaps,
reece and a small part of Italy, was yet
savage wilderness. This gigantic high
'ay of commerce is in many places a hun
red feet wide and is spanned at frequent
lterYals by splendid bridges of stone. its
snks are faced with long stretches Of
hid masonry and its shores are lined with
eautiful arches and lofty pa godas.
The great civilized people of China were
menaoed. as Rome was. by the
Ieursions OF northern barbarians. The
ch well-watered river bottoms, the sunny
nlling valleys. the fertile cultivated