The weekly examiner., 1891-01-17
SHOULD CHINA ADVANCE.
Then the Fate of Europe Would Indeed


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 Then the Fate of Europe Would Indeed
 Re a Deplorable One.
 We hold with Lord Wolseley, who has seen the Chinese, and seen them at war. that the Mongolian race is quite capa- ab1e, under certain easily-conceivabl circumstances, of overrunning Conti- mental Europe, of stamping out our progressive civilization, and of estab- fishing their own cast-iron, immovable polity in it's stead That they will actually do thls IS. we grant, unlikely enough; but 1t is absurd to speak as if it would be impossible for them to do so. It is not difficult to demonstrate the existence of this possibility. The population of China is at least 300, 900, 900. This was the conpu- tation of Marquis Tseng, through the French authorities say 9S1, GOO, COG, and Prof. Legge, the professor of Chinese in the University of Oxford, declares that 4O0, 0OO, GOO is nearer the true number. But the former one provides an utterly inexhaustible reservoir of Ugh ting men who can learn to use weapons of pre- cision as we'll as Europeans, who are as industrious and ingenious as beavers. who are perfectly obedient to orders. who are quite as fearless as regards death, not merely when in com Aition of mental exaltation, but habitually, and who would not rnutiny, no matter what their hardships, unless prevented from gambling. If, as Lord Wolsely says, this population ever awakes, produces Generals and deternines not to let itself be excluded from all the best places of the earth, 1t will be impossible to with stand it The Chinese would not, of course, overrun Europe like Napoleon, but their silent, steady pressure would befduite irresistible. Inch by inch they would appropriate the Western civilized world. Even now. when the Chinese are for all practical purposes dormant, 1t Is difficult for the Russians to prevent them from filling up the provinces of the Anoor. What, then, would be the result if they once adopted 8 forward polioF7
 9 Their advance would be like that of the lemnaings in Norway, except that they would know how to take ship, and 30 would Gnd the sea no obstacle. If Russia, necessarily the first victim. were c0nQaAfSd, And the tChiheds, wear ing some hoettble veneer of civil f1ization, were Ao essahlish themselvesin Poland. the rest ioe Continental Europe would soon saccamb, and we should then see Lord Wolseley's Rattle of .Armageddon between the Anglo-saxon and the Mongo1iaa realised If tho Fin lish were beaten, civilization as we know 1t must die out, for progress is the one thing of which ths Chi- naman is incapable. No doubt this moral eclipse would not last forever, for Providence does not Intend man kind either 10 perish, as Count Tolstoi desires e sec him perish, or to sink back fmto perm anent barbarism. At Inst the climatic cona itiona of the West would aaodify the Chinese race, and then sonae lew germs Of civilization. ed hg chance when all beside was spoile would begin 10 be cultivated and Dear ffs1iS ag Aan. and 1ittla by lit t1e, and @eSaw n sseSles Of painful efforts, thu aocina strucsnrs would be raised once mors from the ground. Into this dim future lt is not however, worth while to peer. espec c5Ally as we may hope that even if tho battle of Arrna- Reddcn has 4S be fought between asiand sha Ca1imSaA as may bee the English speaking peoples who will win. 1 they do. tho destrnction of the rest Of Europe will not be an irreparable loss, for PtUvtdencs seams aiready to have -ds- creed that ciwilization i'm the twenty. Arss century shall practically be Anglo Saxon -SpechatOr se