The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-12-15
DANGER TO THE WORLD.
China q Menace TO the Civilization
Of All Lands.
Japan Within Her Rights in Her Efforts
te MaintAin . Hold UpOn Cofea
Eye3nssve Nationality Of
the ChinssA.

Sir Edwin Arnold is . warm partisan |
Of the Japs, but he had the privilege of !
witnessing the grand army maneuvers !
of some two or three years since. and
no one will deny to him a knowledge
of the interior economy OF the country
Sir Edwin Arnold, says TIE London
Daily Graphic, will not 4ntenance
the belief of Mr.. Cnrzon t..at the jap
anese government is desperately occu-
pied with domestic politics
Il am surprised that go intelligent an
observer should not have known how
little the japanese houses Of parlia-
ment count socially or politically
against the policy of those ministers
whom the emperor appoints and whom
he removes at his sole pleasure. When
the deputies make themselves inpossi-
Bile they are simply sent home: when
they refuse supplies public funds are
taken quietly on account; and when
they bring things to deadlock the
( emperor and his advisers carry CT the
business of the country, after dDssolv-
( ing parliament, which. amid all these
vagaries-the lively working of new
/ and generous wine-remains steadfast-
/ ly loyal and ardently patriotic
4 That the two countries had equal
( rights in Corea, and that when one in
creased its force the other was bound
20 do the same, was the writer's con-
tention-in short, that japan has done
and is doing precisely what England
would have done under the same cir
cumstances. I'm the present struggle
Japan unquestionablys stands the cham
pion of progress, Of justice. and of in
terna tional development, 50 that the
partisanship shown in certain quar-
sers against her has in it an element of
stupidity which cannot, therefore be
easily excused Mors interesting than
this. though, is Sir Edwin Arrol1's re-
rninder Of one of the forces which
more potently tends to hold China to-
gether in her intense and exclusive ma
tionality," namely, the extreme anx'
iety of the Celestial to be buried al
home. '.Dut if some high ecclcsias
teal authority, or the Verrnillion Pen
ell itself. should decree as they wei
: mirht, that Confucius should be sat
isfied if a pinch of Chinese dust wers
thrown into the foreign grave-thel
the fioodgates would be open to gen
eral Chinese immigration into all lands
'-one perceivcs how heavy the obliga
ton is. and et the same time how bind
ing, when again and again, at Sa
"a Francisco and other ports of embarh;
ton, Chinese passengers are stoppe
y CARRYING in carpet-bag or hat-bo
the bones of their relatives But whe
: any such general emigration of Chini
men occurs as that which I am fors
casting. it Will be social and industr
al deluge. The markets of the worl
q viii be literally swamped with tn
4 most industrious, persevering, fearles
J and frugal specimens of mankind VIII
{ will everywhere underbid labor an
!. naonopolize trade. as they have done j
3 Singapore, Penang and many othe
spots. The danger to civilization tha
. China represents consists in this rathe
Z than in her unwieldy strength an
J slothful resources, the ineficacy c
which for actual service Japan has q
ready exposed by the brilliant CON
meneement of the present campaign.
For these and other reasons IT IS
II the interest of the civilized world thz
China should not become more hs1n'
y geneous or any larger than she IS Z
W present. and above all that she shoul
ID not intrigue with the second coloss'
% standing menace TO human progres
u the Russian empire. against the fre
II dom of the Pacific That German jou
nal had the true instinct in scientii
politics which lately wrote that. in u
war Just declared. the sympathies al
good wishes of civilization were due e
~ tirely to the side of Japan"