Arizona republican., 1894-11-11

DANGER TO THE WORLD.
China @ Menace to the Civilization
 of All Lands.
Japan Within Her Rights in Her Efforts to Maintain Hold Upon Corea = Exclusive Nationality of
 the Chinese.

Sir Edwin Arnold is a 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 knowledge of the interior economy of the country. Sir Edwin Arnold, says the London Daily Graphic, will not countenance the belief of MT. Curzon that the Jap anese government is desperately occu- pied with domestic politics.
 q am surprised that so 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 impossi- 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 steadfast- ly loyal and ardently patriotic.
 That the two countries had equal rights in Corea, and that when one in creased it's force the other was bound to 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. Tn the present struggle Japan unquestionablys stands the cham pion of progress, of justice, and of in- ternational development, so that the partisanship shown in certain quar- ters against her has in it an element of stupidity which cannot, therefore be easily excused" Mors interesting than this, though, is Sir Edwin Arnold's re- hinder of one of the forces (which more potently tends to hold China to- gether in her intense and exclusive na- tionality," namely, the extreme arlx- iety of the Celestial to be buried at home. But if some high ecclesias- tical authority, or the Vermillion Pen cil itself, should decree as they well might, that Confucius should be sat isfed if pinch of Chinese dust were thrown into the foreign grave-then the foodgates would be open to a gen eral Chinese immigration into all lands.
 ''One perceives how heavy the obliga- tion is, and at the same time how bind ing, when again and again, at San Francisco and other ports of embarka- tion, Chinese passengers are stopped carrying in a carpet-bag or a hat-box the bones of their relatives. But when any such general emigration of China men occurs as that which I am fore casting, it will be social and industri- al deluge. The markets of the world will 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 inefficacy of which for actual service Japan has al- ready exposed by the brilliant com mencement of the present campaign.
 ''For these and other reasons it is to the interest of the civilized world that China should not become more homo geneous or any larger than she is at present, and above all that she should not intrigue with the second colossal standing menace to 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- tira1u to tba ci1a of lamar,