The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-02-04
ruE CRISIS IN CHINA.
:, oessrs OPINION ON euHope's
Mr. Os se'zuRs or TERRITORY

r.., II WIN Prove Harmful to
p'''' .,,,.p commsros-chins'' Ports Are
A"e o,r Trade. but Spheres OF Hos
op'. s,,.e. Have Been Created.
.so termination of the war IN
1880 chinese territory by Japan was
are o .,nde to the dismemberment OF
%. ns,ls This apprehension became Ger
Onns ali observers of China's supine
amy .s0os Of her humiliation, for no
sccepsaa an rose TO grapple with the diffi-
',,;ss Of his country no popular os,-
cuis aooounoed the corruption ana mem
cry 'vh;ch had led to her downfall.
clen'! .,;on Of Germany. however, has
Ino a. ~ things TO a crisis sooner than
prOusn ossen There il no uncertainty
N 's about the future. Germany Is az
now nov. rhou and will remain there. Man
hlaO ,yos already in Russian hands,
cns' port Arthur and the Liao-Tong PEN
anu fall TO her only little sooner
u'1 TnOland will probably seize Chusan,
.u,snd near Shanghai, suitably locat-
20 control the trade OF that great
~ .So, an almost English city, while
V.aace NAV take Hainan and territory
f' ,Ss mainland adjoining Tonquin.
~ %so now inevitable failure to pay the
Luz .sdomnitv will leave Japan in pos
's.siou of Wei-Hai- Wei.
To the we'll informed at Peking II
Known in 1895 that Russia had
..om;sed the reigning family in China
y maintain them on the throne and to
",asorye their empire. The most omi-
mons feature of the present crisis for
China is that this engagement seems to
have been repudiated, and Germany
nnst have acted with the assured con-
.srt If Russia and France. England
will not interfere in the programme OF
these three powers. In China she has
.acadad before French and Russian
aggression from every stand that the
English press has asserted that she
vould take 1t has always been China,
never the aggressor, that has been call
"A n indemnify when some fresh en-
oroachment has seemed to menace Brit
ish interests, and in every case Great
Britain has been content to accept some
Grant TO herself to balance the grants to
others The effect of this movement on
China is not difficult to state. Her au'
tonomy is gravely m aced, perhaps
lost forever.
II is not too late, however, to dc
omething for the United States, whose
trade interests there are second to those
Of England only. China is our natural
market The Chinese tariff treats al
alike. and China is the only great fielC
where the American manufactures:
meet all rivals on equal terms. The
treaties of the United States with Chi
ma provide that American goods shall
not be Disseminated against and tina
no monopoly shall be granted to any
one. With the seizure of territory thes'
treaties fall to the ground, and spheres
Of influence hostile to American com
merce spring into existence before TIT
European aggressors have time to rais'
the cry Of vested interests.
Let the American government demand
that whoever may become the master
Of the soil equality of tariff shall b.
maintained and the American manufac
turer shall not bear the burden OF "A ia!
imposed by his competitors.
Looked at from broader view, tn
action of the powers cannot but Gauss
regret to every friend of China in Amer
lea. 1t includes among its possible con
sequences the division of China, the fal
OF the Mantchoo dynasty, the introduc
ton of European quarrels into an Asiati
state always friendly to us. During tn
past three years the great powers hav
had an opportunity for the exercise of
benefcent and civilizing influence Il
China, which they have thrown away
BY Joining together and inducing tn
imperial government, which was favor
able to foreign ideas after the .apanes
war, to reform its fiscal system and ii
internal tariff and to throw open tn
development of its resources to the Ell
@rprise and capital of the west the
could have created great market an
svast field of industry impartially ope
"aH They could have raised up an
reformed an ancient government and le
great people undivided into the pat
Oh progress. The American merchar
ana the American missionary woul
nave asked no more than this.
seltShness however, has carried th
day' A field which could not be monol
onzed by commercial methods is bein
seized by force of arms, and instead {
me spectacle Of China being lifted NJ
civilized and developed by the whole
some process Of peaceful competitio
we are to see her ports turned into IN,
suaiiy hostile fortresses and her pro,
'aoes become the camping ground {
s,ien soldiery Charles DENLY. Jr.,
New York Herald.