The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 5, 1900, Page 17

THE SUNDAY CALL 17 D ¥ [t it ers e By QOur Correspondent &ho &as Ju Interview Sspecially for e N % F Rk Tk R R RO @ G Vi1 wr * U YU WEI, the Modern Sage, % is the man who woke up China. } He it wzs who counseled the ¥ . 1M 0C v x young Emperor when he made % all of the reforms ich awoke X ~ thesieepy Chinese and indirectly 3} the pre:-ent condition of affairs. * e of the Sage the Middle Kingdom ¢ tep line with the rest of the na- the world, buy ships and guns, build % an tories and establish liberal 4 " »* S success ) i pericrmed a very % ie placed Kwang. » 1ds off many () : sping with his life. % the Britich Govern= » owerful Po Weng ion of the em £ g * »* » > * » » » » » * ¥ ¥ NN REIXFIIERERO Yu 1 w the: distres re useless to r lives in trol the mines r countries rail- Sliioit. have be- earth; but nd what p: e ¥ In tre past ¥ we were yet brother ¢ and igno will they q y not recog- erence beiween free people nd ¢ tha stolen away e ar is belng it that'tn a hink but of reds of millions were but on ater. s hin nited mass of prov- row en them and k Te no protection to the other h of all is no than the om- &y While ire thus apart the other ut ! « e world have been fast bjndifig United & —what ntil they became ited? uld for a parts of China, so f her race !n foroign for himself. who looks selfs after him- emily or cls is not the ideai s 4nd France riy truet and so increase e Dertony) IDTReRSS, I Eager to : he knows not how to 1-»““- dlj‘n‘mu«l’i re of his fatherland. He perty 18 d :r" terest of small mat- ome, they ccome slaves of and hire sharing of great 2is hands r prised when you of the white race fix eyes h. While yo upon us owerful Ii and and la we are fighting eacn afe. The other with both fists your people, will re ger of come quietly znd seize t erty therein. “When the bittern onal of minc. take any to their affair I will no id cannot act have my people they thus, wrangle the fisherman gets them both. “You ask of me, what Is the remedy? “I will sa; As soon as I can maike : my people understand that their empire belongs to them and mot to their rulers, Kang Yu wei. A Photograph Taken in Singapore, Where He Is in Hiding. owns a share .of it as his then will they refuse to allow the courte and concubines ‘of the rulers to sell the public estate. Our em- pire is weak and is being divided. Other countries ‘are not quarreling with our rulers, but are bargaining with them for our empire. In the face of this must I stand with my hands folded or else be called a rebel? that each patrimon ans sons “No. We of the yellow emperor must stand united in the one family to which we belong. Manchuria and Tibet must not be taken. Were four hundred million to strike as one who would dare the blow? “But there is a class of progressive Chi- nese. I mean those who have emigrated. They are nearly all from Kwangtung and there are five million of them scattered over the world. One hundred thousand of them that wre In the United States—al- most as any there were of th Boer nation. Of those over the d there are sever times as ma all the people of Den- merk; yet Denmark preserves herself among the greedy nations of Europe. Then why are there not enough of my veople outside of China to make a strong [0 Bl They are brothers. They should At present they nation by tnemselves? They should not quarre form a great coalition. but eat their own flesh. +Of all the nations of the world America is the most powerful. She is firm, stern and prosperous, for her people are as one, and they are bound by tles of every kind, but all of their own making. “It is only when a country I8 so united that it can have strength. Size, wealth nd population are but sources of we s to tempt the pillager if the pec lack the cement of patriotic devotion. “Where Is the enthusiasm of my peo- heir Emperor is dethroned, and licen- and brother . s quarrel for his seat usurp his power. Yet my ““rhe founding of a compan and the founding of an empire are practically the g. In the founding of a publie the mere rv together of men will not suffice. of aim honesty of purpose the it The eternal principles order must b the element and the foundation of an In zll defensive alliances of lages there must be administrators lected and heads app ted I ctors, elders and constables Jn < its parliaments, its gen- 1 its ministry. In the government manc ame t company hing Unity must and soul of law binding be em- pire. vil re necess; S0 a country Is village there must be those who rep- resent the law, the police control, thoss who keep the public account se who teach the voung. and t who ex- amine into and direct the whole. The same lines are followed ou in the gov- ernment of a great empire. There r be civil officere. a board of ue, a board of war and boards of punishments. When America was made into a repub- e the ple met and elected a ruler. was exemplified that the estab- nt of a council for a village and the creation of a ministry for an empire were essentially the same. The oaly differ- is that of size, one was small and the other large. The empire has a wider area to be controlled and the people are its rul firm and numerous. Accordingly regulations must be more hile the needs of village coun- cils do not frighten the peopie and they do not hesitate, vet they shrink from attempting to run a great country along more and stern. the same lines. It would seem t they feel perfectly capable of ruling three men, but ten men is a different proposition, and they hesi- tate. It is strange that they do not know that an empire is simply a village writ large. ‘Wherever there are inhabited houses one will find thieves; this necessi- tates nolice appointments for the protec- tion of property rights. It seems simple to substitute In the stead of the village police an army of policemen, with ap- pointed leaders. Of course, with the more numerous body the rules and discipl must be stricter and sterner in admini tration. When there are civil troubles in !a village, such as quarrels and lawsuits, the elders decide the cases and punish the offenders according to the established laws. In the same way countries must have Judges and lawyers, and they must Ve very numerous, for the people are many. Time and experience lead to the establishment of a regular code of laws and punishments, and those who spectally study these laws administer them, and oftenders are punished in ihe same way, when they willfully offend, as are the school children at the hands of the village school teacher. The empire must look after the education of her sons, and she establishes the higher, middle and lower grades of schools for the development of her young talent, which is to offer the material from which later rulers are to be selected to govern and administer the es- tablished laws. In this, of course. ths tsonal Talk TAith TRang Pu Tlet The Nsn for (Whose Head China’s EMmMHress BGive 100,000 Caels. a vil- lage must be ! n ] governing of an er In the governme x penditure for arm 5 administration, amounts rous sums ery year the gover rent: carefull? c rs t > 1 votes the needfu tsite for sup ° Salug ¢ the would not d them as they be de the only in getting a overwhelmed by rured s thing the d los cause our comme us in the past. be too late, if we v liné of ¢ v only do itself glory If th but w » there would mot be in China, only the firm, 1 f our common law. In t r and success would come to us we would become stable. “On other hand, if we rer different, drifting on as we are, small clan wnd disunited, each or guild can ac sh nothing. How, then, can China be exalte her true pe » m together 1 stand for the e« and understanding of t he 5,000,000 C emigrants, to show the heart to save China. 1 urge that each man stand with his fellows, joining in one whole, to rescue her from her ch n sion. 1If they are w save China they may ¥ > so i ance and disunity is all their misfortune. The sim ple apprehension of the diftere tween gain and loss would make this great public sk easy of accompl ment. Let a man stab us with a knife, or run us through with a sword. indifferent? In a fir Do wi remain hip wreck every ¢ would be cerned, and trying to save I ing empire to be disregarded? “Still my country slee “I have but one voic a far away.” He ce s ofte W a boc ing long sleeve he folded his hands within bowed his head in thought i1l pained and yet he would n taking ref 1 cannot reproduce t expres- stons of his la age, but than all the lack is in the differenc between his wonderfully dramatic reeital the cold appearance of the written words. —_—————— The records of the Geological Survey In Washington establish_the fact that the loftiest known mountain in North Amer- fca is Mount McKinley in Alaska, about 200 miles from the re of Cook Inlet. The aboriginal name of the peak Is Tra- lega. It is 20,464 feet high. This is not far trom the elevation of Mount Chimborazo, the highest peak of the Andes, and is 2410 feet greater than that of Mount St. Elias, which was at one time believed to be America’'s loftiest mountain