Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-14
THE COMING NATION.
Lord Wolseley Thinks That the Mongo-
lIans VIII Oxarrun the World.

Hans Will OVorrun the World.
Lord Wolseley fully shares in General
Gordon's belief in the latent possibili-
ties Of the Chinese. 1.-THE Chinese" he
says, ''are the coming nation. The Chi
nese will, think, overrun the world.
The battle of Armageddon will take place
between the Chinese and the English.
speaking races. There will be, l as
sumo, another war between France and
Germany, and it will be about the
bloodiest war, or series of wars, which
we have seen in Europe. But some
day, great general, or law-giver, will
arise in China, and the Chinese, who
have been motionless for three CEN
turtles, will begin to progress They
will take to the profession of arms, and
then they will hurl themselves upon
the Russian Empire. Before the Chi
nese armies-as they possess every mill
tary virtue, are stolidly Indifferent to
death and capable of inexhaustible en-
durance-the Russians will GO down.
Then the Chinese armies will march
westward. They will overrun India,
sweeping US into the sea. Asia will be-
long to them, and then, at last, English,
Americans, Australians, will have to
rally for last desperate conflict.
$50 certain do l regard this that
think one fixed point of our policy
should be to strain every nerve and
make every sacrifice to keep on good
terms with China. China is the coming
power. These people - intelligent,
active, Ingenious; so industrious that at
twelve o'clock at night you can hear the
hammer of the smith in the forge-have,
for the last three hundred years. been
ruled by the simple method of having
all the more active, capable and pro-
gressive heads shorn off by their Tartar
rulers; that is a simple, literal fact
The government of China has been car
ried on by the method of cutting of
every head of more than average in
telligence, activity and energy. You
have no idea of the massacres that were
carried on as part of the regular govern
ment of the country. When Commits
sioner Leh was asked whether it was
true that he had, in three years, beheaded
sixty thousand men, he replied, 20.
surely many moro than that" SO long
as this system prevails, Chinese progress
is impossible. But these rude Tartars
will not always be able to control the
nation Another Moses might change
it, or Mohammed, or Napoleon. The
whole system very nearly went under
thirty years ago, when Gordon saved
the Empire.
From the point of view of humanity.
Gordon did right, but the case was by
no means so clear as some people imag-
ine. The Taepings very nearly over
threw the Tartar dynasty. Their chief
not only declared that he was Chris
tian, but always styles himself in his
proclamation as the Uterine Brother of
Jesus Christ, and was a progressive
ruler. He abolished opium smoking.
and showed himself in many respects in
advance OF the government But there
were no constructive capacities in the
Taepings. They destroyed every place
over which they passed. like crowd of
locusts. / was sent to Nankin, and
from there to Hankow, six hundred
miles up the Yang-tse- Kiang. to obtain
information concerning the rebellion,
30 that the British Government might
be better able to decide which side to
support Review of Reviews.