The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-12
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sse does rot propose tnat that great line
g1afi end tf a saox bank. Ine position
which she ras taken up az hineES9 stA
rslsies in the rear - Port AFlH1r' = al
important oce from a Strategic point OK
vas.pv as q gIanfe ~ the mar Will show.
In fact /: Is fer more i-E TattanI than Ger
rasnY-z position AZ Klzocnsu- The iati6r
station Is rendered o. comparatively htte
valas 10 Germany from tie fart tai s3e
haz no coalinx station EeaTer The Asiatic
coast than tae Battle.
GhInsn win TO tn Pieces
Yes, as satd last Right, feel quite
ssre ,aai lt is only question q time
waen China. with her vast territory and
her sss9a@o Of people. viii go TO pieces.
ia fact she is already ia pieces. She has
never beeu q homogeneous nation The
people o. lhe various seetions~nosia,
south. east ard west-neisher understand
aor ike one another China IS at present
a Heterogeneous 8 * Generation CT prov
ins,s-s without any csntrz4. government
and without any ce8lraiLins political al
Anity. Ia time theFe viii bs q new
assortment OF the mefabers OF this
great agzlo:inatesi body. What the
apportiopmeBt among tae various
European nations viii be / can not
;9oFtionnaent Is once made there VIII be
great commercial development in the
East. There will then be feeling Of Sc
eurity such az can not possibly be had
under present conditions.
THE plain truth IS that China vas
great national hilmbug. and one OF the
chief results or the Iapaa-Cnina var was
tIe exposure ~ that aunbpg to the world.
For centuries China. almost without the
semblApce Of a vital national life. had
evcr~awed the Orient completely. and had
even cast her long. siantins shadow across
the council chambers Of European states
men ard diploma lists. But she was
merely a big balloon. Japan simply pune
tnred the balloon and ali the world has
since beer wondering that such g political
Fetch waa suffered 10 exist 50 long
japan Luokiag for War.
"As 70 Japan. arm inclined 10 think that
sooner or later possibly against the best
Judgment OF her hes: statesmen. she will
he forced into war In GREER TO preserve her
national Integrity and linity. Sie is just
uou ia Il critical coalition, For the third
;inue the emperor has been compelled TO
dissolve the national diet The trennen-
dous war indemnity which she exacted %
China was spent IN various national i'm
navy fortiHca;lon " naval ports railway
and other Internal improvements. But
ssese great measures are now In turn be-
G0min- sources Of expense. They must 1e
kept up and 20 keep them up costs vast
sums Of money. With them on her hands
japan is ike the man IN the old song who
had bought an elephant. ana as the eie-
pl4Gt grew his eTy was still more hay
Meanwhile Japan has gone on a gold basis
a fault perhat I should say aggressive.
II thIrsilng fof war. and sooner or later
am inclined 10 think she will get It, or
course the alder statesmen like Ito and
Okuma. know better; but they will be
simply overwhelmed in the pressure ~
general opinion
The Employees Hiii.
The bi making employees the first pre-
fetred creditors In all assignments. men
TONED IN yesterdays interview with Mr..
Fassett as being due 10 his efforts while a
member Of the New York senate, turns
out to have an interesting history. mas
much as II not only saves hundreds az
Thousands Of dollars annually 10 the Ia
boring classes of New York but is the
basis and model Of the similar statute in
the code ~ this state
When I proposed that measure" said
Mr. tassett yesterday ''and carried II
through the New York legislature appar-
emily little was thought Of IT, | arm FREQ
ga say today that It's weak point Ia that
is object may be defeated by mortgages.
and that its work irl order 20 be rendered
perfect must be supplemented by other
legislation.
'@ree odd part Of the story SO far az the
passage OF the bin Is concerned. lies i'm n
bit IF unwrittcn history. Wh n Mr. Cleve-
land ran fur president ~ the United States
the beneficial effects Of this measure had
become 80 apptreut that his friends and
tnenaE@rs who were conducting thu, cam
isalsn were not SLOW % I,Eve hii credit for
g. stmi Is because he had stsa.cd the hill
rs governor ~ New York. and hey issued
circulars that we're sent broadcast
throuah the country calling attention 10
what he had thus done foc the lahorinr.
classes. '.atcr s'iu Hon David f. Hlu
brcame candidate foY governor of New
York and 10 my old h'l was accrefi. I'd
20 tin fror, the fact that he had presided
in be senate when it was pa ~se1 ard hie
friends ~ tGrr claimed great credit FOR
him tn thus minis erfuE - the needs II
the c9Nwcn people L so CHANGED that
later on stood once more for the senate.
ara then Yves hrouxh; So light thar neither
NJ Cleveland aor Mr Hlii hut had hen
( eceNu7leis,ic for tha rr~oentton and mass
age - fbe hin Whgreuuau sht ri. as'e -
/ hash the sre3t Ifofn9erafic bead rs cata,,
h.fort ihe public With tbe assurance the.
tNc hip had never suOn-te3 - srvthsnv.
anyhow. Isn't e Ugtlc strange chat
ihry diau'i iH3 that ou1 when .ey v,er,
trying re- ust g as haoss 1or Cleveland
+ and Ffilt"
peeue,4rs cangr. es.srsi matters Nj
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