Show I AS SEEN FROM PEKING An Americans Unfavorable View of Minister Wu Minster Tho Now York Tribune publishes a letter let-ter from an American who hart lived for thirty years In Tien Tsln and Poking In which tho writer refers to the Chinese r Minister to this country and says that In his talks Mr Wu Is misleading the American I Amer-ican public n Everything bo pays the letter continues con-tinues leads up to two propositions First China will Enlarge trade with us i when wo deserve It and second wo arc rot dealing Justly by shutting out Chinese L Chi-nese While ho Is waxing eloquent overt over-t these supposed grievances you must remember re-member that tlioro are 100000 lowPlows I F Chinese In tho United States who went there as coolies paupers and u million more would go If they could got In Their object Is to earn as much and upend as lllilo as thc can and u j back to China 3 with their hoardings They only leave tho work of their hands In our country On tho other hand there are but 1COQ j Americans In China half of them women children and missionaries they are re i apertable selfsupporting people most of 1 thor well educated many with largo capital all of them bringing something to I Improve the civilization of China How is I this handful of Americans as well as all 5 other foreigners treated They aro called 7 foreign devils missionaries and their converts nre persecuted merchants havo their trade hampered and restricted bye by-e oppressive taxation In the Interior and I are not allowed to live there foreign residence i resi-dence Is officially confined to I few Nand N-and river ports nnd foreigners Into port c 10 tho Interior at their own risk their llvos and property arc never entirely safer safe-r there antiforeign riots often occur and I the Government rarely Intorforos until ii1 mischief Is done Even now there Is a limit movement around Peking by an j antiforeign society which the Govern l meat would not suppress In snlto of ur w gent warnings from foreign Ministers hChlnn has nothing but trade to offer rJ She Is too far behind the Went In everything ri every-thing but population You will look 1 In vain for national or npr onal elmracterlK tics that command admiration in the I West China has no brave people read r1i to defend their country or their principles iLz princi-ples with their lives no government worth defonding no palrlolB or pure 1 minded I utatoHmun no religion with ac J tlvo vital force no social or religious combinations for promoting public good I fr no fine arts literature science Jurisprudence Jurispru-dence or inventions worthy of Wontorn i stud and Imitation China has no contribution con-tribution to mate to promote the welfare Jt of humanity at large aho hau everything ric to kari l and much to unlearn Our people should know the whole truth about this question they should not innoiirago cant or false MunUmont hare t I 1 iftrlclod trade with China Certainly all ti tho European powers want It and wo should have our full share But we are favor from China not to look upon It as a any more than we should consider 0 dinner din-ner wo pay for In t restaurant as it favor e i Jt IB mutual accommodation and common nccommoraton anl cots benllU In fact China has more to gain c i q than we have In point of national haL ha-L provement It only the 6cnlK would full ittks from her prejudiced oyo llt 1 Why then should Mr Wu Ting Fang of and patron assume an nlr Importance t age when speaking of trade which will directly Iwnont his country equally with ours and Indirectly more to I Instead of carping at Injustice In the 3le United States when > n hun rul thousand lowclass Chinese find refuge and wages 0 such nM they would never dream of getting i get-ting at homo and whero n million moro J To would co It they couhl Mr Wu would do bettor to suggest reforms to his own Government Gov-ernment whereby the jniprltiH population could easily be supported at home |