Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-05-31
GRAND RAPIDS WISCONSIN.

The Chinese are certainly taking ad-
vantage of their opportunities. Wah
Lee of Hartford, is engaged to be married
to Miss Ida Spaulding, Connecticut
school teacher. Both are connected with
the Chinese mission of the South Metho
dist church at Hartford. Young Wing, it
will be remembered, married Miss Kel-
logg at Hartford some Is years ago, and
the marriage of Yam Phon Lee to an
American girl is fresh in memory.
Mr.. PARNELL's moderation as irish
leader is what might be expected. Pow
er always brings conservation. That
there should be impatient spirits in the
Irish party who are not content and
would have drastic measures is the law of
all reforms. But Mr.. ParnelI has done
SO much to natiOnalize, we might say i'm
perialize, the Irish question in Great
Britain, to give it world wide dignity
and Importance which it never before
possessed, that we should regret any less
ening of his power. He has done what
Grattan and O'Conneu and Butt never
extraordinarily, made a thorough IN
ion between tbs Irish and the liberal
party. Henceforward home rule and lib
eralism go hand in hand.
The ratification of the Chinese treaty
crowns the achievement of this admins
tratiOu that is the most important in it's
relations TO American industry, and to
the integrity and progress of Our civiliza-
ton. The party whose principles and
devotion 10 them have delivered us from
the Asiatic plague has acquired a hold on
the esteem of the American people that
will not be weakened.
ONE of the witty reasons assigned for
the French Boulapger movement is that
s'France has feminine instinct and likes
The instinct of a republican France
toward strong men like Bonaparte or
snowy men like Boulanger Is mild com.
pared with the instinct which binds mon
archical nations to whatever fool, infant
or knave may be on the throne. The one
is dumb, blind alteration, like the Savage
well as reason We have yet to see re-
public adjoining fool.
The Chinese question between the Brit
ish government and itsAustralian colonies,
though new one, is full of menace to
British supremacy in that quarter of the
globe. The Australian cPIonists share
he Universal Caucasian hostility in the
Pacific islands and coasts to the Chinese,
and, like the people Of California, Oregon
and British Columbia, are determined
that the Mcngolians shall not settle
among them. They have taken the sub
ject of prohibiting the yellow immigra-
tion into their own hands and levied a
tax of $3.50 on every Chlnaman who
comes. This is in violation of British.
Chinese treaties, and the Chinese govern
ment has sent a complaint against it to
London. The London government will
find it difficult AMI dangerous question
to handle, for, while it is bound to main
tam it's treaty contracts with China and
so preserve It's trade with China and to
preserve it's trade with Eastsrn Asia, it
has to dear with prosperous and power
full colonies that care neither for treaties
nor trade when Chinese immigration is
involved. They discern the danger of
an overwhelming Eruption of yellow Ce
lestial5 from the swarming Chinese
coasts, and have made up their minds to
resist it. A tact that aggraystes the
difficulty is that the Australians extend
their hostile leg Station to the British
Chinese of Hong Kong, which is virtually
tke same as forbiding the immigration
of British subjects from Scotland or
Canada. The relations between England
and her more powerful colonies are
gradually assuming the character of the
relations between the mother country
and the American colonies in 1875, and
it is lain to be seen that nothing can
overcome the weighty leverage of the
great and growing distant provinces.
They must eventually break off from the
parent trunk and set up for themselves.
1t is not in the nature of things for
grown-up children to take the law from
parents forever.