Show III 1 i i r AN ASIATIC GLADSTONE A CHAT CHINAS 1 tr WITH GREAT El TUAN SCHOLAR FANG I I It 1 I I Special J t 7 men or orr o J Tho biggest men ot of oft t r China are oro being laid on the thet t i f I Shortly niter tor the tho bW baby I emperor canto to tho J f and his party re reI tho r I and andr andI tired the tho great Yuan Yunn ShIh Ref I the Fang I ordered Tuan r I i they hove have now i I strongest or of the Uto empire Into f disgrace Tho plea for tor Yuan Shih t t I abdication was that ho had hod a at at t lame le and hence could not I to his official duties The e ot of the f I or of Tuna Fang Is that he out outI outraged 1 when ho he had I raged the tho fun tun charge or of the empress dowagers 4 51 crab eral foreigners to photograph t that he at ate atI the procession lon and aLIb e I tacked heathen telegraph wires to the J J I heavenly trees trees ot of the ImperIal ter tery Yuan Kat Kal aas as the most able h I I executive China 1111 bas had for tor yell years i Tuan Fang Is Its ablest statesman Ho He fi f E might be called the father or of the tho new constitution and ho he hM has been at the front In all sorts of reforms He Is also n a scholar along man many lines In some someI I f a respects lie he reminds ono one of oC Gladstone I In others ot of Alexander Hamilton and r the o great V VI I p I explorer explorer or He Is nor noW In Inre re retirement from nt at atI I I I i and will carr carry on hi his studies les I there f QUEER CHINESE THESE r I We ChrIstians have no conception ot of otI off f Chinese of at the cl class to which Tuan i iFan I Fan Fang belongs Wo 0 look upon the r as a curiosity In ht the zoologIcal i garden sarden of International Ho HoI HoIs I I i Is a sort ort of bird with without I f out feathers with eyes ees cut awry f and a Ion long braid of oC haIr down ids his hist baele We arc told lold that he dresses In InI I i t 1 I silk and varies his diet of rice rats I f I and cats with birds binIs nest soup and andI I shark fins Wo 0 do not credit him with I j having a soul nor with the same sameI ambitions and tastes ns as ourselves The Tho Thoi I I truth is these people are aro as human i I as we are and tho they think act acl and feel Ceel t In the tho same samo wa way The Chinese ar divided Into nil all allI I I sorts sort of oC cla classes ses There Thero are aro like Carnegie who start libraries I t soup kitchens and hospitals Tuan r FanS Fang Is one or of these Ho He recently bought a classical library and built a ait homo for It I in an Cr China h has old it fr hoard d their money o I like w Rockefeller i r and amI rich young I sports who scatter It as did Hyde of oC the Equitable Lifo Life Insurance corn com compan pang pan LI Hung Chang was a hoarder like the As tore II lie Ho built up an estate lIu buying corner lot lots In the cities and man many square miles or of goo good farming lands His sons son are rich and the they talo tako care or of their properties as well as do dothe dothe the descendants ot of old John Jacob the fur Cur who started the tho I Astor Aslor fortunes peaking of LI I met him for the third time during his latter days when he was wall viceroy of oC Canton and ns as usual he ha asked me all sorts sort or of ques lions One was as to just how much mone money I 1 marIe made In the newspaper busi business business ness I should not like to publish my answer but I added that I should bo be satisfied It if at the en end ot of m my lIfo life I could coull la lay up of the sum which he was then credited wIth hav havInS having InS ing And how much do your our people sayI say sayI I am worth 7 said Bald the great LI It Is reported that your fortune Is from Crom tt to one hundred million gold dollars said sald I interrogatively Th That Is n a great deal or of mone money was nn Lt Ll Hung only reply Well there are ara but few fow multimillionaires th these Chinese states statesmen men but there arc some whose grafting STarlinA compares with that or of our own high city officials Men will III pay n II quarter or of a million dollars for tor a job jab at II a f salary and c como me out In wealth j The Tc I squeeze right and left and their commissions rank with those of oC the contractors of the new statehouse at who you ou remember charged PennsylvanIa for furniture and at so 80 man many dollars per Inch InchA A WHO CARES NOTH NOTHING ING FOR MONEY Q EY I also know Chinese who cannot bo be bought who work worl for their country countr and do good for goods sake This Is so BO of Tuan Fang and It was so ot of Chang ChI lung Tung who died a few months ago Chung Chi Tung had hadd opportunities op opportunities to make malee Incalculable wealth but ho died comparatively poor lie Ho eared cared more mOIo for scholarship than for tho dollar and ranked ed as a aleader aleader leader or of the literati Than ruan Fang will live simply at Pekin He hn has an am establishment there but his private fortuno Is small When I met act him hero at about eight moths fire ago he tats nL the viceroy uC of three ot of the greatest provinces of the lower valle valley an and un under er him was waR a population larger than that ot of the United Spites He was a at country so rich that t It almost raises s gold dollars It has scores ot of cities and thou thousands or of v villages III It is 18 ism m O thickly settled that thal much of oC It sup supports supports ports more titan thun a man to the acre and is III so cut up b by canals and dykes that one can go to every mans house housein In a boat The region Includes such cities CUI as Shanghai the tho New York of oC the Manchester and the Ulo classical remindIng ono one ot of Boston It has thousands of fac factories factories tories and It hums like a beehive Of OC these provinces Tuan Iuan Fang was the tho absolute ruler an and his Income was grenter than that or of the tho smaller maller Euro EuroPean nean kinra He hud hod n a large lanc corns or of government clerks and n most ost or of hi hit subordinates were laying up fortunes The or mayor maor of oC Shanghai was getting about 1000 a year as n a oem nom nomInal Inal salary alary but the office was so vain Iu able that within three years ears It mal made him independently rich The Tho mayors or of other cities were receiving large stuns and or of all ull that came Into the treasury ur I doubt not that every hand haud through which It passed pitched pinched out outa a portion Nevertheless there th wore millions mil millions lions left for the viceroy and he might have mado himself rich beyond the dreams or of avarice Ho did not All or of ortho tho surplus went Into pUblic Improve Improvements Improvements ments and Into the tho carrying on or of ro forms Corms ot of this new movement A REFORMER Tim Tho work or of tills this man Is au an evidence or of what Is going on out hero In what is supposed to bo be the deadest countr country of oC the tho world Tuan Fans yanked un the ell dry or of s conservatism and put on It the tho flesh and blood or of our I civilization Ho organized all or of reforms In his various arlous cities Here nt at ho he established Industrial commercial schools and a ac for or teaching Ik culture He had schools of l law w and debating soda tics for the study of tile the new constitution constitution Ho established an academy for Cor forthe the tho customs officers and there thero were meetings night after night the people were educated In modern government gov ommen Ho reorganIzed the courts the tho police pollee and the prisons built bulit roads In the cities and established faa tac tones and Industries He had one gov government government hospital which treated pa patients a da day and among the Ulo assistants were lad lady physicians and nurses educated edu l abroad Ho sent Bent Chinese students stu students dents to the tho United States nn and had a coeducational school In Ws his own provInce province Ince Ho did what ho he could to wipe out opium In the tho valloy and had opium hospitals hero horo and else whore Iio He did much to push railroads A Uno lino was constructed from tho river to and ho he aided In buU building the tho r railways northward to Pekin and TUA TITAN FANG AND THE REBELS Tuan Fans Fang IUd did O much In the line lIno of oC reform that ho aroused the tho enmity or of the conservatives con and they tried to toas as assassinate him These ob ab to him on several grounds Ono One was 3 that ho he was a Tartar anti and there therefore fore foro nn an interloper and should be wiped out The secret ret societies were against him and the they planned to kill him In Inthe inthe the rebellion which was to spring up upon upon on the Yan when the empress dowager dow down n ager cr died The plans for Cor this revolution had been perfected and It was the In Intention cation to kill the tho missionaries and r r X rW j jf t f J X X i f a X X X f X iX i d k r ii a N y 1 y t y Z Zy y l X i 4 f t 1 y ls r rh rc y y y t c t jf h I b f 4 E l y M 7 4 i t f 4 z f 7 f I fI 1 J 1 1 1 j b 1 i j 0 0 0 0 NOx TUAN FANG THE ASIATIC GLADSTONE d drive VO tho foreigners out ot of this valley and ot at the tho same time create croato an army which would wipe out the present d dy dynasty nasty Tuan Fan Fang had many spies and tho they reported tilO tho scheme At the tho tints or of the Ulo death ho had his big ann army en In maneuvers and b by means or of It was able to quell tho and thus suvo Chino China He went himself to the seat or of the trouble and his spies told him that there thero was a scheme to shoot I him on the way from rom the eatS cars to his I house upon his return He foiled the assassins by having four carriages sent sont to the tho station or of these was tho exact counterpart or of the other each ench was driven b by a in tho vice viceroys roys roS livery and when the tho train stopped four viceroys dress dressed cd exactly alike and made mado up to resemble Tulln Tuan Fan Fang step stepped JC ped from the car and entered the tho four carriages TIle Tho makeup was so skill skillful tul ful that no ono could tell which was the tho viceroy and his excellency thus thul had three chances out or of tour four or of some someone one else being killed In his stead The result was that no bombs were thrown BEHIND THE SCENES WITH A VICEROY It was short shortly after ator this that I met Tuan Fang at Ho He was then thon ruling from to pee peo people plo and the machine machinery or of his palaces was somewhat like that of the White WhiteHouse House Ho was working harder than President Tat Taft and dispatching his business almost as promptly Ho He used the tole telegraph for his business corre The reports from his om were sent In b by wire and his an swam went the tho samo Mome way wa Ho was dall dally receiving dispatches from Crom all over the lobe globe the news ot of the tho Associated A Press coming cominS to him before It went to the newspapers Ho He worked at hIs correspondence with n a stenographer and had translators his who gave him extracts from the foreign papers In Chinese Ho He began t to work nt at 7 In the morning and seldom went to bed be before before fore midnight Ho was particular as asto asto to his eating though ho used simple tare fare He ato breakfast at 7 luncheon at 2 and dinner at nightfall His cook cookIng cooking Ing was done dono by a Pekin chef cher and ho housed housed used chopsticks His work was thor thoroughly thoroughly ho had enough time In connection with It to car carry on lItoral literary hobbles and to make mako teal Ical Investigations Shortly before Tuan Fang was ap appointed appointed pointed viceroy ho made a tour around tho world visiting Egypt on the tho way wa He studied the civilization or of the Nile IlIe and brought back tons of oC statues an and anda I II a half haU dozen mummies Some of oC I 1 saw MW during my visit as well as other othor curios and archeological objects Ing to China upon which ho he ha had spent more than half a million dollars A WARNING TO GRAFTERS But lot me m tell you something about those these vico Ice regal palaces palace I have been In many of oC them since I came to Chino China Ever Every viceroy has his official home which covers acres and Is composed of oC enormous Chinese buildings with gar gardona gardens dens dona about them In these palaces are hun hundreds reds ot of and servants There are aro soldiers and clerks and all the machinery machine ot of government The place here at Is entered b by several gates on the tho walls alls near which Is painted a warning to grafters This Is In the tho shape shapo ot of n a hideous ani animal mal 40 10 feet long with a bod body as big around WJ as a hogshead an and a n neck k tho size or of m my wrist The head hea Is like the tho bod body enormous The animal looks something like a hippopotamus with the tho neck ot of a snake According to the tho legend this beast once onee tried to law a great quantity of oC sliver but It burst bUrll Its neck and died led In the tho act Its I picture Is therefore placed nt at the en trance to Pcr every palace to warn th the cers rs within IlkIn against over 01 extortion It is IA to let the viceroy know that It If hI he takes too big bribes bribe or 01 too much ho he will probably bite ore off more marl titan than he can chow chew an and die In the attempt CHINAS X NEW W CONSTITUTION I During my au audience lence with Tuan Fang I was vas received In iii II a large parlor fur Cur furnished In Chinese style ills HIli excellency and myself meIC sat side lIdo b by side at a big black table upon which were refresh refreshments ments ment of various arlou kinds s Tea Ta was brought In as we talk talked d together fluid our audience was terminated with a agla gla glass 8 of oC champagne The Ill first subject of was Tuan Fangs trip aroun around the world worl He was sot abroad to Study modern politics and to plan a constitutional government for tor China Upon his re turn he wrote the tho memorial which formed the basis basil of the changes now taking place paco nil all over this country countr lIe vas the ho author of the tho now new constitution tion and might be called the tho father tather of oC the new China Chinn ChinnI ChinaI I asked him whether lie he thought that China would actually Install a modern government Ho replied Undoubtedly It viii Our people have havo come to appreciate that we must adapt ourselves to modern con conditions and he be ruled along modern lines We Ve believe that our old methods are good but we would add to them the good that the tho western world has ha discovered We are studying modern politics politic and within a short time we e shall have hae a constitution and parliament Accord Ing to our present program that time will conic come within eight years Will Mil not tills this mako great changes chanles In China Yes It will malts malee us b by far the greatest people or of Asia It will bring about the development of oC our material resources which aro unsurpassed In the tho world worl 0 shall start factories and shall pro produce not only for our enormous home but also for Cor that of other countries You must rc member that we are aro industrious We 0 hove havo skilled hands and quick brains and Indeed the tho future Is hard to pre dict CHINAS NEW LA LANGUAGE GUAGE Will China develop a new litera literature ture r I cannot see why not We Ro r have havo our own classics which have como come down clown from generation to generation throughout the tho ales ages We e have a certain certain tain kind or of mind whIch has been trained upon the these o classics and anel which Is recognized as one or of the ablest of oC I the world That mind Is now to be bei i turned to other subjects It Is to deal with the tho western sciences and anel methods of oC thought and out of oC the whole may como come something entirely new We e emay may turn to Invention again We Ve were the original discoverers of oC the tho com compass compass pass gunpowder and printing as well as of oC other |