Show I I I A LAND TO LOATHE I We do not know how It is with other Americans but this whole Chinese business Is a horror to us I consulted we would recommend a settlement just as speedily as possible not being very careful about the terms except that hereafter American officials in China shall be quartered In some other spot than an Inland city The English city of Hongkong would do Irlt were only further north As It l la some convenf cnt port ought to be selected on the I coast for the residences of rC3ldcnces foreign legations le-gations We presume that Russia would give a place Just outside of Port Arthur for L diplomatic capital The trade relations we think are overestimated I overes-timated by all the nations because I China is a power where the Imports I Mil never equal the exports The great problcin Is what IB to become of mls I HlonarlcM Iud our judgment Is that those organizations that support missionaries mis-sionaries Jn foreign countries ought lobe lo-be notified by our Government that It Is simply Impossible to protect them whn they bury themselves in the depths of that awful empire A little planting of civilization has been begun in the world of China It no doubt eventually will spread p kwari Into he country but the nutfon should keep In mind that the Chinese are not like any other power and that their assimilation assim-ilation With other powers Is simply an U Impossibility They can absorb thousands II I thou-sands and hundreds of thousands of foreigners but the result will only be I that In the next generation It will be I I found that those foreigners havu been absorbed by the Chinese and that they have practically made no Impression on the sold wall of Chinese exclusiveness exclusive-ness Vc would recommend that n settlement ns swiftly as possible bv madc and that oursoldiers and sailors be withdrawn from that country for It I Is impregnated with the material and moral filth of five thousand years for which there is no redemption that at this time Is apparent to the clearest vision |