STRETCHING ITSELF.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 192, 8 May 1908, Page 11

STRETCHING ITSELF.

'TBI! AWAKENING OF CHINA'. BOYCOTT TO CONTINUE. , ■ ■ ■ v: ' ■ . .;•■■■■ ■ ■ .p. :; . " The boycott of Japan by China;" ' said . Mr.' James A.' Chuey, grandmaster .of-the' Chinese .Masonic .Lodge of- Australia • (numbering ~10,006), ' to ,■ a'.representative , of. tho • ; ,Sydney .Morning Herald," is to continue: ; It .was started serioiisljy.it is being condufctfed ■ effectively, and it; will go, oii Until • the object has been achieved; Do you lshoW ;that['Ohifta';i& ■?progressing? ..'Air you.' put ; it',' * ..■in'.your Englisbyword3,', ; . l .6he ;is a'wakeniiig,-■ : Iv vontilro to prophesy., that in . three , or, • . fdur years: China 1 will /have thp open door. Her, porta .will be. thrown op&n,:and markets : without limit will be made available to Aus''tr&lia.' She willjtako'. your. Whe'st, ! your /leather. .Why,. I- am going -to China 1 ; now;.to place' Australian wool oil the .market, and oyefy/ycar I send about 3000' biilcs to England and other-countries.. It is time that ' China vised some of it,'too." ,■."■Y6s,"' fcontinued Mr. Chuey, with freshV a tremertdmis market for Australia lb beiiig opfened.. ;Y6u are lioW building l .: up very, great industries,, and you will want ail fliitlct for .your manufactures. China' will ttfvft. it to. you. Wo. are in earnest in this .. . riiirtfcpr. o( boycotting Japan, aiid:the: feeling.. •' thf'illnliolit, China as well as Australia is . ■ ; : vefy.j;strflfig. -We ;iihall/giye no trade to' Japfifl.r/ Tiki Chines-..are beginning to find the Japanese: are not tn&i'r'friends.: ...; Englishmen. thaii-Chinese, and whafi '.'trade they do with ' ' 'te ;ir hot clono, out *of any friendship. lhey> alro always on tho make,' as you say in English-. China has cost -America millions f already in regard ito trade, and she .Wju ihflict greater losi Upon Japan; and '• . that;,ls thd'.'biiat: way : to :fight. I Saw BOfttCthnlg.ifi your paper to tlib effect that China is:to.havei-a big .atmy arid-navy. That'will be id hundreds of years. I know the Chinese. ' I travel am6ng';them,; ind/I know their feelfflgij [and, .I'am • quite sure. that : they will ' never... warit .to ■ fight. 1 They will never.- bis aggressive;. but. strike at their nationality andthey Will refuse to trade with you That iS better than War,'aM'a; natioil like 1 ' that'. >■ • Will ;iiOVeT dream of .any "designs on AlTs-' tralia. The individual Chinese, only • stop hero,long enough to niako money, and then , ; they'gd/ baek-.to the: lahd of.,their birth.-*' ! < . MiC.ChUey,, it-may bo mentioned, has com© ' to Australia to :tako : part in tho institution ' of, Chinese, lodge, and to open a" ' Chinese -Masonic Hall in Blackwall Street. Sydney. :;"Htefernng : ,to'.. this topic, ho said!— v.. ■ Inero, in Ne>'fv * South 'Wales, and 10,000 throughout Australasia, and their principles are virtually identical ' with those ,-of European freemasonry. This;body of Freemasons was established m Ohina 290 years ago,, and, now they number many millions. Their primary objeot i 3 benevolent and charitable, but they take:a eer-' " tain'interest in*all public matters.' Tho - wholo of .these Chinese Freemasons aro iii ''favour of a pro'gressivo policy, with which is identified tho open door. You isee, therefore,"'Mr; Chuey added finally, "that China • 'is waking, up, and there are forces at work ' that will, make licr afrakoning of great interest'to'Australia particularly, and all'tho'ooWmerciaJ, nations; of the World." . ..