Cancerous Uleer of Civilized World Without Counterpart in History: People Impotent and Moribund Swarm Senator Guy D. Goff, who visited China a few months age, has now returned to the United States. He was at the end of Novensber interviewed by a representative of the "Parkersburg GV. Ya.) News," and the interview is reproduced below. Infor motion from the United States is to the effect that kis remarks created a very great.umount of interest and were ver yell veecived there. The interview is ax follows:—
You ask me to tell you the truth out again from such reckless and in-about China, the plain facts w'thozt discriminate breeding, there will be sentiment, concisely and privicoly no fresh supply for mere human man stated az to what is wrong with that lin this earthly laboratory.
And lest country and as to what retards 't! we forget, let us learn this obvious to-day. That {s all anyone should lesson, that the resources of eivilizaexpect to obtain from either the tion are not inexhaustible, They in-analytical student or the doss ani volve the existence of social and studious observer. political organizations composed of Chinn in chaos is the cancerous individuals capable of sustaining and leer of the civilized world. History, transmitting them to posterity. In part to the present the ultimate analysis civilization de-transition in which China finds her-! pends upon the character of the men self. Iam not unfriendly to the and the women composing it, Its de-Chinese people, but I would be if I cay is often ascribed to luxury and idealized existing conditions and vice and yet these are mere" con-painted the pictures in colours which tributing causes. The real cause. is do not reflect the lights and shadows the failure of the race or races in-they really are, I have many. volved to sustain and support. They warm friends among the Chinese lack poise and vision, Thy yield to people. They are idealists, hospit-! mediocracy and practise liberty in able, quiet, industrious, composed, ithe name of aggteasive agnostic, and highly energetic. They are in many social ways all that aay man could desire, when they are not!
But the Ci aroused to the point of hysteria and a nation passion. Theze are aspects nf Chin moribund swarm—yes, shoal, of eve history, literature, philosophy. races, speaking different and moral precepts that the world pursuing diverse. aims, and lac enorally admires, The great teach- in every impulse requisite to n ers, preachers and scholars of ronment by the people, of the people, China lived and taught 600 years be- and for the people. fore Christ, Lao Tze, Confucius ard] Collectively China ix an an Mencius in China; Socrates and Plate chronism. A multitude livin; in Greece; Zoroaster in Persia; and races of m: Ruddha in India, were contemporary times when Moses 1,500 years hero jes, These wore the most remark-! Christ was leading the children of able days of human thought, skow-Israel through the wilderness. China ing in the similarity of ideas, that today is "farming, attending her thought is not indigenous to race, but flocks and herds, and passing her endemic in mankind, life, except in the port cities, very much as she did forty centuries ago.
Unchanged During Centuries she has learned little, and she is too China, Ist in the myths of saturated with the rule of the dead antiquity, is at least 4,000 years old, hand to take her place or any help-She has continued during all these fol place in the family of nations. contuties and has remained unchang- Tt is only as dead past buries its. ingly the same against the razcre of "dead, in civil, social, and in oblivion, She has been conquered ty affairs that the present improves on the hordes of earth, She las al-the past, and races outgrow their sorbed her conquerors, the Mongol, swaddling traditions. China the Arab, the Tartar, the Turk, the our ci ut not part of Egyptian, and drawn to herself the and the imports question is:—Iow Fah the, ba and. the. verst, can she modernize and correlate, even the' colour all within a century of time, her babite this intermingling admixture.
It! and. customs 0 ax to." harmonize said. that originally the with those existing and controlling Chinese were a "bloc eye, fair) in that world of which she clammure ~=|to become an adequate part. In a word, what are her contacts with) cere a rece those nations with ich she craves! ree cue ce fete Ee cree mind, "Ta all such tavasinns and ab-toms and duties Mal The Virtue of Procrastination ally and eultaraly.
Taki] Twenty years azo Great Britain, the'price in exchanxiniz whatever Japan and the United States agreed of greatness she sed for the with China upon certain conditions bitterness of Mongut stocks and) on which they would surrender all tribes, 128] of these rights above mentioned snd they are inhuman nov. Tet us hope upon the existence of which Choy that there conditions will never find would tun over their nationals to their counterpart anywhere in the Chinese law, justice and equity. days to come. They explain much|China hss done obsoletely nothing which the world criticizes in China except to make a virtue out of proto-day. Unfortunately there is no|crastination and upon every occas-infusion of better blood for China' ion to shout to high heaven "Down and obviously if the ingredients with the foreign devils," "Out with the foreign dogs," all of which has served a8 a diversion rather than a8 the statement of a desired' fact, China to-day as the world knows is overrun with huge armies aggregate ing at least two million men. These armies are banditing their looting march through the country and they are always for sale to the highest ash-in-hand bidder. They have on every occasion and in every province through which they have marched overthrown liberty by uniting the sword with the purse, Contemplate for a moment the conditions there existing, these armies fighting their neighbours and their friends at the behest of foreign Fowers end responding to no pat-lotic impulse whatsoever. Like tne Tartar hordes of old they are devastating the country, exhausting its resources and adding burdens that even the beasts of the field cannot bear. The question arises and it must remain unanswered until it answers itself,—how much longer can China continue before destiny opens the door and bids gaunt fam-me and the anarchistic hellhags to come visit her fire sides? to her philosophy and her bract ices that she was the centre of the universe, the seat of heaven ruled over bya superstitious nabob who Delieved that his ignorance qualified him'to be "The Son of Heaven" and to demand kowtowing obeisance from all who resided outside his kingdom. I do not unduly criticize the Chinese nation for this deluded attitude, T merely state the concede fed fact, that the race is burdened with the tyranny of an organization ade for it by its ancestry. It is merely thinking, and acting according to ite kind. The people of that wrge and populous country have practised these superstitions for 5.000 years until they were haunted by demons and surrounded by spire cheve will maim an if they do not 0 worship their an-cesters and make abject and propitious sacrifices to their supposed-exacting and unsatisfied demands.
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