The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-10
WAR IN TIE ORIENT.

With the japanese nearing Pekin, the
government of China asks the best terms
of peace that can be procured. This is
the Chinese way. TIE every reasonable
proposition that the commerce of the
world should enter her ports as it enters
others she gave blank refusal until the
arms of commercial powers made her
authorizes realize that the seas belong to
the human race, and that closed gates
in great harbors will not be permitted TO
stand against the advancing tide of civil
izalion. Not solitary concession has
been made by China to humanity or tc
commerce except under compulsion.
The world Is indebted to little Japan
for siniling the mighty empire so sioutly
that Its rulers are ready 10 accept terms
now from the people they Were going a
| few weeks ago 10 ''drIve out of their
lairs, as the royal proclamation of the
Son OF Heaven put 1t. The battles that
| CHINA lost by Sea and land were kept
from the knowledge of the emperor aud
| his immediate advisers until the truth
was no longer to be concealed. Need
of money to mobilize troops required re-
sort to foreign loan, and this step could
not he taken wit hout imperial approval.
10 begin negotiations to this end II was
necessary to make the formidable fact
known in the Forbidden CITY that once
more not the "barbarions," as the Celes-
tai rulers have been wont to call Ell
n no
Islanders, were menacing, the imperial
capital, and that, after the practical de-
structIon of the entire navy, China was
unable to get her troops to the ex-
posed approach to Pekin for lack of
money.
The loan was not eagerly taken up in
the European laoney markets. The Sc
curIty offered consisted of a lien on the
taxes imposed on commerce at the
treaty ports. As the bulk of trade in
these ports is English and as England.
by few strokes, could cut down the
revenue materially, the bankers of
neither Great Britain nor the continent
saw IN that collateral assurance that
they would be safe in lending The large
sum asked, ten million dollars. TWAS
undoubtedly the difficulty in raising
tbS money that first pressed sharply |
upon the Council of the emperor the |
truth of the strait in which China |
stands, and the proffer of acceptance of |
meditation by the powers acting toyeth-
Ell IN the past against China has been
made through the English minister at
PekIn and the Chinese minister at Lon.
don.
1he substance of the suggestion is that
CHINA will concede the Independence of
Coroa and pay Japan such indemnify in
money As the meditating governments
shall nix. 1t would be far better for
if Japan were able to refuse
The meddling OF outside powers. She is
TO demand an unconditional
of the Chinese capital and
# her own terms in the very
,loIsters of the Forbidden City. Bnt
Ike China, Japan must yield to the
,owerS OF the west when they agree to
make any demand.
China will now begin her invaria BILE
econd Chapter of diplomacy. The first
S always late but explicit proposal;
he second is blocking the way of its
As soon as agreement
S re iched that the war shall Cease China
VIII begin to grid herself once more: this
lime to deceive her allies, to cheat her
nemIes, and to break every promise be-
ore the inl. on it is dry,
lie may be expected that, so far as :
Jhlnese tact and duplicity will be able |
o influence the negotiations, no definite Z
erms will be reached before spring. 1t |
nay be necessary, as in the past on sew Q
raj occasions, to train guns again on t
er forts to bring her to time. England ,
Vlll doubtless aid her in staving off final I
ettlement. so as to get advantages for
erself in Corea. Japan viii have no
peci2l friend among the European
owers. They will all dread her rise i'm
he ORR. NJ, which she is bound to de-
dominate, and none of them can feel T,
ertan that her domination will be re-
trIc,ed to the Orient.