Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — China’s Strides in Civilization. [ARTICLE]

China’s Strides in Civilization.

J. W. Bookwaiter, candidate for Governor of Ohio in IHBI, has made an extensive tour around the world, covering a period of fourteen months. He traveled over 6,000 miles in India, from the Himalayas to Ceylon, and visited all the principal islands of the Indian archipelago, including Sumatra and Borneo, -lie unvoted a good deal of tnne-to Chi—na and Japan, and said he was surprised to find what a people the Chinese are. Ilesaw everywhere evidences of the strides they are making in shipbuilding and naval matters. They-now control fully half the carrying trade of their coast, and are absorbing the banking trade and other interests hitherto handled solely by<oreigners. Already the cry iA being raised, “the English must go.” and it will be agitated as thoroughly in China as the anti-Chi-nese movement in California. Russia is determined th obtain control of the

Amour river, and eventually grab C<>rea, and is beginning to colonize the region traversed by the Amour with that'end in view; but the Chinese, dfr offset that, have also begun to colonizfq and, as the five provinces in the vieinifV* of Pekin alone have 125,000,000 inhabitants, 2,000,000 a year can easily bo spared for that purpose. As a result, 1 the, Chinese will undoubtedly absorb the country.— Cincinnati Enquirer.