The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-14


question the sincerity OF the friendship profTered
From the latter hsh Of the year 1891 tn 1894 we
no room for don "e xeca set or ocr IA nave tn
nmphed. Other important services might he chro-
nicled By which he eottevtng dysastv obtained
ministration, which was Of our devisinR, ana the
assent to which on the part OF the treaty Powers
the revenue upon foreign trade, which has now
reached the nigh annual figure of e. 90 sterins
M%icn sne VnaeSe len 70 s own
we nave contributed In no mean degree TO the main.
tenance OF government long since bankrupt In its
IN! appreciation Of such services had the Chinese
government made choice OF an Engiishman with
e q the 70 Of an
the objects which the treaty. clauses concluded by
the envoy with the United States disclose. Its aim
ment OF the Chinese rulers in their old attitude of
passive resistance and unfrlendness. IL IA pitv
elbow should have snupe them ,oS a"s - 70 s
taken ana nfSchfeuOxs. retr0rrade pOcy on the
part o. China at this date a simply out OF the ones
is condemned by all the experience OF the past and
can bear but one frult-chronic hostility. There is
an irresistible law OF progress which China must
Ike all other countries, obey or suffer.
The compact which this supplementary treaty aims
In eect at exacng from all foreign Powers IS to let
CHINA remain stationary for all time. IN dc2,tfesre
IN a condition so absurd ana as undpGflfng as db
s'rd ,ro,ld be indeed sfnply to court rresh ,1nrs
and to fling awav the chief gain, as will be found
whenever that treaty is carried into eject, of tho
Treaty OF Tensin which was to transfer by degrees
rom the hands OF the government to those OF che
people the power to impertl Onr relations whenever
OF the former.
examine srridtf1n the articles OF the treaty under
consideration. 1t seems to have I'm 'ergone material
modification ut the hands OF the Senate. AS It orgi
nay stood 1t affirmed that the Emperor OF China
had never waived the right OF jurisdiction over
strangers settling In Chinese territory As this
render Is the particular feature or the treaties the
Emperor has signed with every foreign Power, the
declaration was in manifest contradiction OF the
trims OF those ( eates 10 which, notwithstanding,
no allusi0n whatever was made, nor was any pro-
vso aided to supply the place Of the jurisdiction
thus abolished at one stroke OF the pen. by one OF
the Signatures to a special agreement without con.
sultation or concert with the other: oversc'
under the circumstances so papable and eXtraordi-
nary as to sugges the idea that the abolition OF the
existing jurisdiction could not have been seriously
con empated. This point need not now, however,
be discussed, since the addition Of line at the end
" the clause"except far az that right may have
been expressly reDquished by treaty"-has rem.
dered the article at once innOcuOus and nu0atory.
AS 1t stands 1t reads strangely enough. The En-
peror OF China AYERS his opinion to be that he has
not surrendered his jurisdiction those tracts OF
his empire to which strangers are permitted to
shown to contravene existing treaties, which are
thereupon pronounced binding, the opinion ex-
pressed to the contrary Notwithstanding. Thus the
Emperor after affirming that by certain acts OF his
which formally surrendered certain rights, he had
declaring that the treaties which did in express
terms surrender those very rights shall bind
nun. u 10 dncult TO see any intelllglble
right OF the Emperor to Jurisdiction over
territory not coded to a foreign Power has
never been questioned. The anomalous state OF
things which grew of the defenceess state OF the
foreign concessions at Shanghae during time of
svai war; when all vesi,ge OF imperial authority mad
ties by the rebels, ceased with the necessity and the
Emperor recovered, without dispute on the part OF
either the British or French governments mis- rights
unimpared. As little reason there for the intru
SION into the body ofths purposeess clause the sub
II the contingency were imminent or probable Surely
no good purpose can be served BY II, and mot to
SPEAK OF the bad IMPRESSION conveyed to the Chinese
out the Russian war Chinese territory was never |
once violated by any one OF the three cOmbatants,
and as far az compacts can avail neutral territory |
ia held scored by international law. Was the phan-
tom OF war raised In default OF any other cry, In the
hope OF soaring us into acquieseence in . treaty |
ART 2. This article provides that all privileges
shall rest within the discretion OF the Chinese gov
After this matter-of-cOurse proposition
there comes, as In the case Of Article l. qualifying
sentence, which provides that such discretion shall
Bile with the treaty stpuiations Of the parties" II
the clause had declared that future con ,essons being
oe Powers Were 81 more To ssS for
further privileges. definite and intelivible result
would have been attained As It Is, by providing
the spirit OF existing treaties, nothing Is deter
mined or defined, with tine further disadvantage of
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