Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-25
FAMILY COUNCIL OF NATIONS Should Take China in Hand,
 Says the Speaker. IT IS NOTHING BUT B0SH To Say That the Secret Societies Are at the
 Bottom of the 0utrages FOR THE TROUBLE LIES MUCH DEEPER The Mandarins Are to. Blame-Gunboa and Blue Jackets Alone Can Solve the
 Problem-Armed Demonstra-
 tion Is Inevitable.
FOR THE TROUBLE LIES MUCH DEEPER


 Speaker, the weekly organ of the libs rals, the attitude of that party on the Chinese mission outrage is distinctly in favor of active intervention. Lord Salisbury, the paper declares, should obtain an Anglo American entente under which the first work should be the further opening up of China. The government at Pekin would be wise to accept foreign aid to restore order, if only to save itself A family council of the nations could. without difficulty, sentence China to the tutelage of a native gendearmerie, officered by Europeans. This is not yet probable. although it would be certain to benefit the central government, but it will come soon unless the Pekin government re- spends to the just demands of the pow CTS.
 Several American army officers have witnessed august maneuvers in England and are going home enthusiastic for sim liar mobilizations annually in the United States They were much impressed to find at Aldershot, just outside of Lon don, a force equal the entire standing army of the United States. In this force were 10000 volunteers, who are similar in all respects to the American national guards These volunteers were included in ninety corps, gathered from all parts of the United Kingdom. It is the opin- ion of the American officers that the uni form discipline and the contact with vol unteers from various sections of the country, as we'll as their association with regulars could not be otherwise than extremely beneficial. It appears to them exceedingly advisable to establish an American field for maneuvers, where portions of the militia from various states might spend few weeks each summer in service organization with the regulars. If nothing else were achieved it would at least familiarize American officers with large bodies of men. At present American officers, however much theoretical knowledge they absorb, know nothing of the practical handling of an army, except when they come to Europe at their own expense and witness the annual evolutions.
 The foreign office cabled last evening to Sir Nicholas k. O'Conner the British minister at Pehin, and the British con suls at Shanghai and Foo Chow to eX- pedte their reports on the positions or the missions. So far as the Kucheng outrages are concerned the officials are chary of giving information, only vouch" safing to say that the inquiry is pro ceeding and that Consul Mansfield has not applied for armed British protec- tion The United Press is informed on the highest authority that Prime Minister Salisbury has made no approaches to- wards establishing an Anglo-American entente on the Chinese question. He has all along been playing an independent waiting game, allowing the Washing ton government to lead and some times taking the same line. There is no pos itive disagreement, but the dllatofy tentative style of the British policy pre- vents that harmony of action best cal culated to impress the Pekln govern ment.
 The Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon prints a statement of traveller who is intimate with the national conditions prevailing in China. He declares that fhe talk about secret societies being re- sponsible for the massacres is outrage ous and a gigantic misconceptions. These societies. he declares, are harmless and could be suppressed if the mandarins chose to do so. The officials have ample power to protect foreigners The series of riots that have occurred since 1851, where riots have extended throughout China. means that the officials act to drive foreigners out of the country. The practice of accepting blood money at the rate of f3000 for an ordinary mis- sionary with the fictitious punishment of criminals, is not sufficient to check the plot. If an enormous indemnity of about fl ,000, 900 should be claimed, followed Dy the occupation of treaty port to col feet the customs revenue on retusal to pay, the Pekin government would soon abolish the system of outrages. Decisive action is necessary to dispel the delusion in Pekin that no power will ever deal a blow, however it may be provoked. The statement has value as indicating the general opinion that protests to Pekin are futile. The time is near when an armed demonstration will be inevitable
 Baron Warlegg, most eminent Ger man traveller, has written to the press advising joint action by the powers through river police on the fang lse hot had prlN mo E.llrD- mean marines marched inland from Foo Choo the outrages at Kucheng would have been stopped. Warships on the river would break the resistance of the stiff necked mandarins. In 1853 few American warships, under Perry, were sufficient to compel the Japanese to open LID their country. Similar action now would open China's innermost treasures and develop foreign trade.
 It has transpired that secret meet ing of the radical members of the house of commons. at which MT. Henry La drafted inviting Sir William Vernon Harcourt to assume the leadership of the liberal party. Only seventeen members signed the memorial and it was therfore dropped.
 Messrs Gompers and Mcclure, the American delegaes to- the Trades union, were welcomed on their arrival in Lon- don by Ben Tillett and Sam Woods, sec retaries of the trades parliament com mittee, and other labor unionists MT. John Burns showed MT. Gompers over the house Of Farlian9nt In the course of an interview Mir. Gompers referred to MT. Kier Hardes visit to the United States on the invitation of the Chicago trades unionists as having no signifi- canoe whatever. His organ declares that his departure is the greatest event in the history of the modern labor movements.
 
 MT. Ransom at the State Department.