The record-union., 1899-03-19

American-Japanese action any better
government than that destroyed. FL
nally each Power would have to en-
bark in adventures never contemplated.
To establish a European and American
system by conquest among the Chinese
would be exceedingly problematical,
dangerous and practically hopeless if
undertaken in a half-hearted way. In
which Judgment the. essayist will find
Americans to eoneur with an unnistak-
able emphasis, indicative of flat refusal
to become partners in any such a
scheme. IN lfxi,
Mr.. Boulger suggests way of ac-
complishing a desired end in saving
China from dissolution. The present
dynasty cannot save China The Chi
The ruling caste stands pledged against
reform, and Imperial Manchu thinks of
nothing but preservation of it's own
privileges and allowances as a first
state charge. The Dowager Empress
is the bitter enemy of reform. Ii Hung
Chang has influence no longer, and the
Manchu princes are leagued against
British reform suggestions So, with
the existing Manehu reign beyond rec
lamation, something better must be
looked for to help China, and we are
m ct in ho faJ1 Of
the empire in search for that something
better.
While Manchu influence is supreme in
the north, where Russia is bound to
dominate, such is not the case in the
Yangtse Valley. At Marking and Han
koW the Viceroys are not Mancnus,
slaves of the Empress or the tools of
russia They are honest and we'll
meaning; whether they realize the dire
straits of their country and whether
they are ready to accept English ad-
vice and cooperation are uncertainties
Ihey are welded to the past and may
shrink from rebellion against imperial
authority.
But they know that that authority
mas now no real value; that the young
emperor is a prisoner. if not in his
coffin, and that the ship of State has
no directors to lay its course. They
nave their personal grievances. also;
their advice has been unheeded and
their provinces saddled with the whole
OF the Anglo-German loan. OF one
lhlng, then, the essayist is certain
that they must have aid of English
o1ncers to train their troops The
formation of such a contingent is the
nrst best means of securing China's
stability, and experience shows that the
chinese can be trained to be excellent
soldiers.
such force, modest, but supple
mented by a British river fotilla is
not enough, however. Russia has not
broken over the border, but if we wait.
says Mr.. Boulger, until she does. it
VIII be too late to form any plan. The
Philo-Chinese Powers must. therefore
contingent" for political purposes as
well as on military basis, that it may
become the nucleus of a political, social
and military reform
Such force and organization would
be Independent of Pekin, and increase
the confidence of the Chinese in the
advent of new era It should have
a distinctive badge signifying social de-
velopment, for the pigtail has been Tor
two centuries the badge of conquest
This the new force should give
up and be allowed or com
PEELED to wear the hair long like
the Taepings. The consequences would
IN his opinion, be far reaching, and the
reformed troops would become fore
runners of a civil propaganda that
would include abolition of the contor-
ton of the feet of women.
We are not, therefore, to think of
conquest, but rather of development of
latent sources of strength for the pur-
poses of preservation. Foreign capital
introduced in mining and railway build
ing will aid in China's deliverance. The
French declare they are about to ex-
pend eight millions on railways in
line from their possessions, which will
stimulate the British line through Bur
nah to Yunnan. These enterprises will
bring in foreigners, against whom the
Chinese have great antipathy; hence
disorders are likely to arise. In addi
ton, the simmering insurrection in the
southern Chinese provinces promises to
become active. 1t is, indeed, reported
that rebels are now marching north
ward through Human. If SO, they are
closely initiating the acts of the
Taepings of half a century ago. The
march of disaffected bodies is known
to be going ON into the sections where
the secret societies are most powerful
and there may be an alliance between
them as there was in the Taeping re-
bellion. Here, then, are two movements
of an opposite nature tending to accel-
crate the deliyerance or enslavement of
China So the rate of disorganization
or reorganization in China is likely to
be much accelerated, and thus hasten
the action of foreign Powers interested
in the fate of China
At such a juncture, therefore, Mr.
Boulger thinks the United States should
step into the arena of this great ''hu-
man question and aid in it's regula-
ton which will invnlve strenuous ac-