The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-02-06
DANGER TO THE WORLD.
China . Menace to the Civilization
Of All Lands,
Japan Within Her Rights In Her Efforts
70 Maintain I,old Upon corea
- Kseiuslys Nationality Of
tbs Chinese.

Sir Edwin Arnold Is q warm partisan
OF the Japs, but he had the privilege Of
witnessing the grand army maneuvcrs
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 the London
Daily Graphic, will not eountenance
the belief OF Mr.. Curzon that the Jap
anese government is desperately oecu-
pied with domestic politics.
II 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-
Die they are simply sent home; when
they refuse supplies public funds are
'aken quietly on account; and when
they bring things to deadlock the
emperor and his advisers carry on the
business Of the country, after dissoly-
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 eopal I
rights in Corea, and that when one in
creased It's force the other was bound
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. In the present struggle
Japan unquestionably 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 1t an element of
stupidity which cannot, therefore be
easily excused" Mors interesting than
his, though, is Sir Edwin Arnold's re-
hinder OF one of the forces (which |
more potently tends to hold China to-
Fether in her intense and exclusive ma l
ionality," namely, the extreme anx- {
ETY. OF the Celestial to be buried at
lome. But if some high ecclesias-
lcal authority, or the vermillion PEN
Il itself, should decree as they well
hight, that confucius should be sat
ified II pinch Of Chinese dust were
lrown into the foreign grave--then
ie iloodgates would be open to a gen Z
al Chinese immigration into all lands
One perceives how heavy the oblira. {
on is, and at the same time how bind :
6, when again and again, at San
and other ports of embarlsa.
IN, Chinese passengers are stopped
rrying in carpet-bag or hat-box
Q bones Of their relatives But when
y such general emigration Of China
IN occurs as that which am fore.
sting, it will be a social and industri-
deluge. The markets Of the world n
Il be literally swamped with the u
'st industrious, persevering, fearless
q frugal specimens OF mankind VINO
II everywhere underbid labor and
'nopolize trade, as they have done in al
igapore, Penang and many other
,ts The danger to civilization that
ina represents consists in this rather le,
m In her unwieldy strength ard =
thful resources, the ineGicacy Of M
ich for actual service Japan has al o+,
dy exposed by the brilliant com. ".'
ncement of the present campaign. plt
For these and other reasons it is to Ee
interest of the civilized world that
ma should not become more homo al
eous or any larger than she is at ses
sent, and above all that she should a.,
intrigue with the second colossal vi
lding menace to human progress
Russian empire, against the free Tn
OF the Pacific. That German Jour -
had the true instinct in scientific tef
tics which lately wrote that, in the
Just declared, the sympathies and
wishes of civilization were due en-.
y to the side of Japan"
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