Ka Nupepa Elele, Volume XIV, Number 6, 6 February 1892 — BLAIR AND THE CHINESE MISSION. [ARTICLE]

BLAIR AND THE CHINESE MISSION.

! He tLe Press Has !%* and Abuscd Him M«ochestSr, K. H., Jau. 9—ExSen*tof Blair, when q«esiion to-d%y , i abcrat the rst»or that Ohina ha<J with-1 > drawn hēr objeetior»a to his appbinti ®a6at aa .M.mister to that eountrv,: ( oomptainfed o( th© treatment he haeī' ' receivecl hrom th© press. He sahl: | | "Ever since last May I have heen \ ! raisrepresented fHMTahnfjed. Not ono | j word that tbe newspapers have | lished oonceming tbe Chinese Am-: jba«sadorBhip, as ooining !rOin me,' j a?e corr6et or truthful. I have nevēr. said what haa beeu imputed to ine in fches©. interviews ) »nd ?rec}ueatly I have been at the time hundredfl of aiilea away Irom the plaee* \vhoro they were alleged to have taken plaee. I have never opened roy moutli with r«ference to this niatter to any newspaper man since J turned back in the City of Chic«go on my way to the Pacifio, the 28th ot last April. But, in spite of tbat, the moBt rediotilou3 statements have beon attribtJted to me, nnd the \tnfortanate part of it is that the people have beii«ved them. - • . - * **I ean only say at this time that my &ttitude on the Chinese qnestion iā the only attitnde that a statesman ean take. I am not adverse to the great Cbinese nation as a nation, and the speech that lias been used against 1 »e, as w«ll as my whole reoord iu I Congres«. wiit show l r©gard tho | Uhiaeee nation as a wo»derful nation, j the Mongoliau xaoe as a wonderi ial race, būt tay first love is for my |owap«ople. X£ China wasthreatenj ed by the invation of a hordc of sava- . ges» who woulu <onsume its people, J a» a great fire ct>nBiimoā the sirong ' trees of the forest, Ihe Ulnneae stai?s- -' īaeu woqld be «nworthy th«r trant if i thev did nOt cry oul agaius{ the iu-Belf-preservatio J u is the first ; iaw of natoro. This re>public rests I upou the laboii«g classos. Destxoy \ and popular gu\eiUinetLt is . a i failnre and the worhVs hopo would • go out bUcknesa of anarehy. Ph« Act m»*rety pro?t>j\|* the j ooaotry |Uing overfmi liy <i F&cy wlie . ean 25 c«nts a day as ro.ulay ī th« wian oan on lt is ! simply impoaeiMe for tho white mau iii th# ' tī» .inao. The yellow aiau | #11 starve th« whlto m&U out every | t«Bō. I never beiieved iy the method Lt|at was pursued with refereuce to | that Aot |i out of the i • \

hands of the State Departmeni of t!ie diplomatic fanct,ion of tlie Gx>vernment and brought into Congress to be maele a polifcioal footbalt of.

"As far as my feeJi»gs towai-d ihe Chinese Empire go, they are of the . mosfc frieudly churacter. It is not agiiinst her rulers, b«t aguiust tlie wrong tliings in her civilization that T have spoken, As for my'relations with the Presidont, I ean aay tliis to yq,tt, whieh T have never so!d tO anybōdy before, and that is, that fOr many months President Harrison has jbeeaat liberty to bestow the Chinese mission 011 anybody he saw fit. .. I told him last'May tliat I would take myself o«t of the way, and he' could eonsider that plaee or am r other as if 1 had not b6en in elistence. I bajg no desire to embarrasB the State De- j pa*tment, and do not \vant, in the| midst of his perplexities, to thrußt| i»y ehoiee or rejeotion on General, Hamson's shoulders. Tomy knowledge he told the Oliineae Embassy, wlitm he refcurned the papers to them. thut after haviag examined the wliole subject, he eoulel find xio ground on whieh they eould rest permauent oppositioa to me. The matter has rested there ; sg as 1 know, ainee, X do not kuow whether to-day'si 'Luformatiou is rellable," *'