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VENERATED5 SIRE,—You are omniscient6, but I cannot regard the fear which you express in your beautifully-written letter, bearing the sign of the eleventh day of the seventh moon, as anything more than the imaginings prompted by a too-lavish supper of your favourite shark’s fin7 and peanut oil. Unless the dexterously8-elusive attributes of the genial-spoken persons high in office at Pekin have deteriorated10 contemptibly11 since this one’s departure, it is quite impossible for our great and enlightened Empire to be drawn12 into a conflict with the northern barbarians14 whom you indicate, against our will. When the matter becomes urgent, doubtless a prince of the Imperial line will loyally suffer himself to Pass Above, and during the period of ceremonial mourning for so pure and exalted15 an official it would indeed be an unseemly desecration16 to engage in any public business. If this failed, and an ultimatum17 were pressed with truly savage18 contempt for all that is sacred and refined, it might be well next to consider the health even of the sublime19 Emperor himself (or, perhaps better, that of the select and ever-present Dowager Empress); but should the barbarians still advance, and, setting the usages of civilised warfare at defiance20, threaten an engagement in the midst of this unparalleled calamity21, there will be no alternative but to have a formidable rebellion in the Capital. All the barbarian13 powers will then assemble as usual, and in the general involvement none dare move alone, and everything will have to be regarded as being put back to where it was before. It is well said, “The broken vessel22 can never be made whole, but it may be delicately arranged so that another shall displace it.”
These barbarians, less resourceful in device, have only recently emerged from a conflict into which they do not hesitate to admit they were drawn despite their protests. Such incompetence23 is characteristic of their methods throughout. Not in any way disguising their purpose, they at once sent out an army of those whom could be the readiest seized, certainly furnishing them with weapons, charms to use in case of emergency, and three-coloured standards (their adversaries24 adopting a white banner to symbolise the conciliation25 of their attitude, and displaying both freely in every extremity), but utterly26 neglecting to teach them the arts of painting their bodies with awe-inspiring forms, of imitating the cries of wild animals as they attacked, of clashing their weapons together with menacing vigour27, or any of the recognised artifices28 by which terror may be struck into the ranks of an awaiting foeman. The result was that which the prudent29 must have foreseen. The more accomplished30 enemy, without exposing themselves to any unnecessary inconvenience, gained many advantages by their intrepid31 power of dissimulation—arranging their garments and positions in such a way that they had the appearance of attacking when in reality they were effecting a prudent retreat; rapidly concealing32 themselves among the earth on the approach of an overwhelming force; becoming openly possessed33 with the prophetic vision of an assured final victory whenever it could be no longer concealed34 that matters were becoming very desperate indeed; and gaining an effective respite35 when all other ways of extrication36 were barred against them by the stratagem37 of feigning38 that they were other than those whom they had at first appeared to be.
In the meantime the adventure was not progressing pleasantly for those chiefly concerned at home. With the earliest tidings of repulse39 it was discovered that in the haste of embarkation40 the wrong persons had been sent, all those who were really the fittest to command remaining behind, and many of these did not hesitate to write to the printed papers, resolutely41 admitting that they themselves were in every way better qualified42 to bring the expedition to a successful end, at the same time skilfully43 pointing out how the disasters which those in the field had incurred44 could easily have been avoided by acting45 in a precisely46 contrary manner.
In the emergency the most far-seeing recommended a more unbending policy of extermination47. Among these, one in particular, a statesman bearing an illustrious name of two-edged import, distinguished48 himself by the liberal broad-mindedness of his opinions, and for the time he even did not flinch49 from making himself excessively unpopular by the wide and sweeping50 variety of his censure51. “We are confessedly a barbarian nation,” fearlessly declared this unprejudiced person (who, although entitled by hereditary52 right to carry a banner on the field of battle, with patriotic53 self-effacement preferred to remain at home and encourage those who were fighting by pointing out their inadequacy54 to the task and the extreme unlikelihood of their ever accomplishing it), “and in order to achieve our purpose speedily it is necessary to resort to the methods of barbarism.” The most effective measure, as he proceeded to explain with well-thought-out detail, would be to capture all those least capable of resistance, concentrate them into a given camp, and then at an agreed signal reduce the entire assembly to what he termed, in a passage of high-minded eloquence55, “a smoking hecatomb of women and children.”
His advice was pointed56 with a crafty57 insight, for not only would such a course have brought the stubborn enemy to a realisation of the weakness of their position and thus paved the way to a dignified58 peace, but by the act itself few would have been left to hand down the tradition of a relentless59 antagonism60. Yet with incredible obtuseness61 his advice was ignored and he himself was referred to at the time by those who regarded the matter from a different angle, with a scarcely-veiled dislike, which towards many of his followers62 took the form of building materials and other dissentient messages whenever they attempted to raise their voices publicly. As an inevitable63 result the conquest of the country took years, where it would have been moons had the more truly humane64 policy been adopted, commerce and the arts languished65, and in the end so little spoil was taken that it was more common to meet six mendicants wearing the honourable66 embellishment of the campaign than to see one captured slave maiden67 offered for sale in the market places—indeed, even to this day the deficiency is clearly admitted and openly referred to as The Great “Domestic” Problem.
At various times during my residence here I have been filled with a most acute gratification when the words of those around have seemed to indicate that they recognised the undoubted superiority of the laws and institutions of our enlightened country. Sometimes, it is true, upon a more detailed68 investigation69 of the incident, it has presently appeared that either I had misunderstood the exact nature of their sentiments or they had slow-wittedly failed to grasp the precise operation of the enactment70 I had described; but these exceptions are clearly the outcome of their superficial training, and do not affect the fact my feeble and frequently even eccentric arguments are at length certainly moving the more intelligent into an admission of what constitutes true justice and refinement71. It is not to be denied that here and there exists a prejudice against our customs even in the minds of the studious; but as this is invariably the shadow of misconception, it has frequently been my sympathetic privilege to promote harmony by means of the inexorable logic72 of fact and reason. “But are not your officials uncompromisingly opposed to the freedom of the Press?” said one who conversed73 with me on the varying phases of the two countries, and knowing that in his eyes this would constitute an unendurable offence, I at once appeased74 his mind. “By no means,” I replied; “if anything, the exact contrary is the case. As a matter of reality, of course, there is no Press now, the all-seeing Board of Censors75 having wisely determined76 that it was not stimulating77 to the public welfare; but if such an institution was permitted to exist you may rest genially78 assured that nothing could exceed the lenient79 toleration which all in office would extend towards it.” A similar instance of malicious80 inaccuracy is widely spoken of regarding our lesser81 ones. “Is it really a fact, Mr. Kong,” exclaimed a maiden of magnanimous condescension82, to this person recently, “that we poor women are despised in your country, and that among the working-classes female children are even systematically83 abandoned as soon as they are born?” Suffering my features to express amusement at this unending calumny84, I indicated my violent contempt towards the one who had first uttered it. “So far from despising them,” I continued, with ingratiating gallantry, “we recognise that they are quite necessary for the purposes of preparing our food, carrying weighty burdens, and the like; and how grotesque85 an action would it be for poor but affectionate parents to abandon one who in a few years’ time could be sold at a really remunerative86 profit, this, indeed, being the principal means of sustenance87 in many frugal88 families.”
On another occasion I had seated myself upon a wooden couch in one of the open spaces about the outskirts89 of the city, when an aged man chanced to pass by. Him I saluted90 with ceremonious politeness, on account of his years and the venerable dignity of his beard. Thereupon he approached near, and remarking affably that the afternoon was good (though, to use no subtle evasion91, it was very evil), he congenially sat by my side and entered into familiar discourse92.
“They say that in your part of the world we old grandfathers are worshipped,” he said, after recounting to my ears all the most intimate details of his existence from his youth upwards93; “now, might that be right?”
“Truly,” I replied. “It is the unchanging foundation of our system of morality.”
“Ay, ay,” he admitted pleasantly. “We are a long way behind them foreigners in everything. At the rate we’re going there won’t be any trade nor work nor religion left in this country in another twenty years. I often wish I had gone abroad when I was younger. And if I had chanced upon your parts I should be worshipped, eh?” and at the agreeable thought the aged man laughed in his throat with simple humour.
“Assuredly,” I replied; “—after you were dead.”
“Eh?” exclaimed the venerable person, checking the fountain of his mirth abruptly94 at the word. “Dead! not before? Doesn’t—doesn’t that seem a bit of a waste?”
“Such has been the observance from the time of unrecorded antiquity,” I replied. “‘Obey parents, respect the old, loyally uphold the sovereign, and worship ancestors.’”
“Well, well,” remarked the one beside me, “obedience and respect—that’s something nowadays. And you make them do it?”
“Our laws are unflinching in their application,” I said. “No crime is held to be more detestable than disrespect of those to whom we owe our existence.”
“Quite right,” he agreed, “it’s a pleasure to hear it. It must be a great country, yours; a country with a future, I should say. Now, about that youngest lad of my son Henry’s—the one that drops pet lizards95 down my neck, and threatened to put rat poison into his mother’s tea when she wouldn’t take him to the Military Turneyment; what would they do to him by your laws?”
“If the assertion were well sustained by competent witnesses,” I replied, “it would probably be judged so execrable an offence, that a new punishment would have to be contrived96. Failing that, he would certainly be wrapped round from head to foot in red-hot chains, and thus exposed to public derision.”
“Ah, red-hot chains!” said the aged person, as though the words formed a pleasurable taste upon his palate. “The young beggar! Well, he’d deserve it.”
“Furthermore,” I continued, gratified at having found one who so intelligently appreciated the deficiencies of his own country and the unblemished perfection of ours, “his parents and immediate97 descendants, if any should exist, would be submitted to a fate as inevitable but slightly less contemptuous—slow compression, perchance; his parents once removed (thus enclosing your venerable personality), and remoter offsprings would be merely put to the sword without further ignominy, and those of less kinship to about the fourth degree would doubtless escape with branding and a reprimand.”
“Lordelpus!” exclaimed the patriarchal one, hastily leaping to the extreme limit of the wooden couch, and grasping his staff into a significant attitude of defence; “what’s that for?”
“Our system of justice is all-embracing,” I explained. “It is reasonably held that in such a case either that there is an inherent strain of criminality which must be eradicated98 at all hazard, or else that those who are responsible for the virtuous99 instruction of the young have been grossly neglectful of their duty. Whichever is the true cause, by this unfailing method we reach the desired end, for, as our proverb aptly says, ‘Do the wise pluck the weed and leave the roots to spread?’”
“It’s butchery, nothing short of Smithfield,” said the ancient person definitely, rising and moving to a more remote distance as he spoke9 the words, yet never for a moment relaxing the aggressive angle at which he thrust out his staff before him. “You’re a bloodthirsty race in my opinion, and when they get this door open in China that there’s so much talk about, out you go through it, my lad, or old England will know why.” With this narrow-minded imprecation on his lips he left me, not even permitting me to continue expounding101 what would be the most likely sentences meted102 out to the witnesses in the case, the dwellers103 of the same street, and the members of the household with whom the youth in question had contemplated104 forming an alliance.
Among the many contradictions which really almost seem purposely arranged to entrap105 the unwary in this strangely under-side-up country, is the fact that while the ennobled and those of high official rank are courteous106 in their attitude and urbane—frequently even to the extent of refusing money from those whom they have obliged, no matter how privately107 pressed upon them—the low-caste and slavish are not only deficient108 in obsequiousness109, but are permitted to retort openly to those who address them with fitting dignity. Here such a state of things is too general to excite remark, but as instances are well called the flowers of the tree of assertion, this person will set forth110 the manner in which he was contumaciously111 opposed by an oblique-eyed outcast who attended within the stall of one selling wrought112 gold, jewels, and merchandise of the finer sort.
Being desirous of procuring113 a gift wherewith to propitiate114 a certain maiden’s esteem115, and seeing above a shop of varied116 attraction a suspended sign emblematic117 of three times repeated gild118 abundance I drew near, not doubting to find beneath so auspicious119 a token the fulfilment of an honourable accommodation. Inside the window was displayed one of the implements120 by which the various details of a garment are joined together upon turning a wheel, hung about with an inscription121 setting forth that it was esteemed122 at the price of two units of gold, nineteen pieces of silver, and eleven and three-quarters of the brass123 cash of the land, and judging that no more suitable object could be procured124 for the purpose, I entered the shop, and desired the attending slave to submit it to my closer scrutiny125.
“Behold,” I exclaimed, when I had made a feint of setting the device into motion (for it need not be concealed from you, O discreet126 one, that I was really inadequate127 to the attempt, and, indeed, narrowly escaped impaling128 myself upon its sudden and unexpected protrusions), “the highly-burnished surface of your dexterously arranged window gave to this engine a rich attractiveness which is altogether lacking at a closer examination. Nevertheless, this person will not recede129 from a perhaps too impulsive130 offer of one unit of gold, three pieces of silver, and four and a half brass cash,” my object, of course, being that after the mutual131 recrimination of disparagement132 and over-praise we should in the length of an hour or two reach a becoming compromise in the middle distance.
“Well,” responded the menial one, regarding me with an expression in which he did not even attempt to subdue133 the baser emotions, “you HAVE come a long way for nothing”; and he made a pretence134 of wishing to replace the object.
“Yet,” I continued, “observe with calm impartiality135 how insidiously136 the rust100 has assailed137 the outer polish of the lacquer; perceive here upon the beneath part of wood the ineffaceable depression of a deeply-pointed blow; note well the—”
“It was good enough for you to want me to muck up out of the window, wasn’t it?” demanded the obstinate138 barbarian, becoming passionate139 in his bearing rather than reluctantly, but with courteous grace, lessening140 the price to a trifling141 degree, as we regard the proper way of carrying on the enterprise.
“It is well said,” I admitted, hoping that he might yet learn wisdom from my attitude of unruffled urbanity, though I feared that his angle of negotiating was unconquerably opposed to mine, “but now its many imperfections are revealed. The inelegance of its outline, the grossness of the applied142 colours, the unlucky combination of numbers engraved143 upon this plate, the—”
“Damme!” cried the utterly perverse144 rebel standing145 opposite, “why don’t you keep on your Compound, you Yellow Peril146? Who asked you to come into my shop to blackguard the things? Come now, who did?”
“Assuredly it is your place of commerce,” I replied cheerfully, preparing to bring forward an argument, which in our country never fails to shake the most stubborn, “yet bend your eyes to the fact that at no great distance away there stands another and a more alluring147 stall of merchandise where—”
“Go to it then!” screamed the abandoned outcast, leaping over his counter and shouting aloud in a frenzy148 of uncontrollable rage. “Clear out, or I’ll bend my feet—” but concluding at this point that some private calumny from which he was doubtless suffering was disturbing his mind to so great an extent that there was little likelihood of our bringing the transaction to a profitable end, I left the shop immediately but with befitting dignity.
With a fell-founded assurance that you will now be acquiring a really precise and bird’s-eye-like insight into practically all phases of this country.
KONG HO.
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deficient
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