The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-12-21
DANGER TO THE WORLD.
China a Menace to the Civilization
of All Lands.
Japan Within Her Rights In Her Efforts
to Maintain a Hold Upon Corea
Exclusive Nationality OF
the Chinese.

Sir Edwin Arnold i a warm partisan
OF the Japs. but he had the privilege OF -
witnessing the grand army maner-ers
OF some two or three years since and
no one viii deny 10 him knowledge
OF the interior economy Of the country
Sir Edwin Arnold. says the London
Daily Graphic. viii not countenance
the belief OF Mr. Curzon that the Jap
anese government i desperately occu-
pied with domestic politics
i am surprised that sointelligent 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 impos>i-
ble they are simply sent home. when
they refuse supplies public funds are
taken quietly on account: and when
they bring things to a deadlock the
emperor and his advisers carry on the
business of the country. after dissolv-
ing parliament. which amid all these
vagaries-the lively working of new
and generous wine-remains sJeadfast-
" loyal and ardently patriotic
That the two countries had equal
creased its force the other was bound
10 do the same. was the writer's con-
tention-fn short. that Japan has done
and Is doing precisely what England
would have done under the same cir
cums1ances. In the present struggle
Japan unqueStiona bly, stands the cham
Dion OF progress. Of justice. and OF in
ternatiCual development. 80 that the
tiers against her has In II an element Of
stupidity which cannot. therefore he
easily excused NIors interesting than
this. though. Is Sir Edwin Arnold's re-
minder Of one OF the forces which
more potently tends TO hold China to-
gether in her intense and exclusive na-
tionality." namely. the extreme anx-
iety OF the Celestial TO be buried at
home But If some high ecclesias-
teal authority. or the NermilliOn Pen
ell itself. should decree as they well
might that COnfucius should be sat
isfied If a pinch Of Chinese dust were
thrown into the foreign Erave-theB
the fioOdrates would be open TO gen
eral Chinese immigration into all lands
'-One perceiveS how heavy the ohliEa-
tion *. and AT the same time how bind
ing when again and again, at san
Francisco and other ports Of emharka-
tion. Chinese passengers are stopped
carrying in a carpet-bag or a hat-bu@
the bones Of their relatives But when
any such general emigration OF China
men occurs as that which l am fore
casting. IL viii be a social and induStri-
Al delu@e. The markets Of the world
viii be literally swamped with the
most industrious. persevering. fearless
and frugal specimens Of mankind who
will everywhere underbid labor and
monopolize trade. as they have done in
Singapore. Penang and many other
spots The danger to civilization that
China represents consists in this rather
than in her unwieldy strength and
slothful resources. the inef,icacy Of
which for actual service Japan has al
ready exposed 10y the brilliant com
mencement OF the present campaign
For these and other reasons II Is To
the interest OF the civilized world that
China should not become more homo
Ceneous or any larger than she il at
present. and above all that she should
not intrigue with the second colossal
standing menace 70 human progress,
the Russian empire, against the free
dom OF the Pacific. That German jour
nal had the true instinct in scientific
politics which lately wrote that, in the
war just declared, the sympathies and
good wishes of civilization were due en-
tirely to the side OF Japan