The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-12-11
CHINA AND GERMANY.

The occupation by Germany of Kiao-
Chow, as it is spelled in the Asiatic
papers, has created great ferment
an the East, and especially in Japan.
There are several ways of looking at
the question One is whether Euro
pean and Western civilization is going
to stand the kind of government
which China has, in its dealings with
foreign powers. The other is how
much each Western power is going to
allow another to gain in the now al
most inevitable scramble for portions
of the Chinese Empire. The questions
are TO a certain extent intertwined,
and the fact of their being intertwined
makes the difficulty in dealing with
outrage in China.
We all know that every western
manufacturing power is jealous of the
other in regard to the China trade. In
China and its provinces there is a
teeming population which will con-
sumo Western made goods. 1t is a
great object for the manufacturers of
Europe to find an outlet for their sur
plus stock. Therefore every European
manufacturing country is striving it's
utmost to over-reach the other in a
scramble for a market. This part of
the argument is very trite. What did
the Dutch in the sixteenth century
do? They We're very content to tram
pie on the cross in order to get their
trade and for very many years had a
monopoly of it. In sort of way this
is what in modern years the western
powers have done. Protest and a
small money payment for outrages
they have been satisfied with, simply
because each power is jealous of the
-Dther gaining an advantage
To prove the truth of the above as
sertion it is only necessary to cite a
case which occurred on the 18th of
June, 1870. On that day nine women,
French missionaries, were seized by a
Chinese mob, stripped naked, subject
ed to fearful indignities and mutila-
lions, and finally killed. France could
not then bring pressure to bear be-
cause she was in life and death
struggle in Europe. Since then there
have been many massacres. In fact
it is a pastime for a Chinese mob TO
kill the Fan Qui, or foreign devil.
Whenever the Chinese government has
been brought to book for such outrag-
es, ten to one whether the real cul-
prits are punished: in the majority of
right in exacting punishment, as she
has done with very strong hand.
But there is the other part of the
question. And all the East, including
Japan, and all of Europe, is asking
what is Germany's Interior OBJECT. The
Japanese vernacular press has decided
ages, and the Eastern idea is very
tersely expressed by Count Okuma,
the eX-Minister of Foreign Affairs,
with whom Hawaii has had consider
able dealing, when he says: sit is tan
tamount to an act of robbery to sud-
denly seize another's territory without
going through diplomatic forms for
such a simple matter as the murder
of missionaries. The sentence de-
serves to be in capitals. That is the
way japanese statesman views it, IL
simple matter of the murder of mis-
sionaries.
Germany's action in the matter is
mixed. She desires to punish and she
desires to get a trade advantage; the
probability is that before she is
through with it she will get both. She
will also get a great advantage as far
as her autocratic government is con-
cerned, for foreign success will for
while rivet despotism at home. But,
in spite of it, the inevitable reaction
will Gonna