The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-18
Dealing With the Dragon.

The voice of the American people, the
voice of aggregated humanity every
where, speaks in the following verses,
which we republish from the Chicago
Times-H Herald:
There is blood on the dragons teeth. and
under his foul feet lies
A maiden whose throat fs lorna maiden
with pleading eyes,
And the dragon sweeps his tail and
crouches upon his prey,
Sinking his claws in her breasts and tear
ing the flesh away!
And the brothers Of her that bleeds meath
the dragons poison feet.
Strong-armed, are standing where the
walls and the rivers meet
Horror is In their looks and anger Is In
their speech.
But gripping their swords. they stand,
arguing each with each.
II claim the tail Mat he curves" one
knight to his fellows cries.
And the monsters left hind leg another
names as his prize.
And they threat and haggle and plead for
the ears, the teeth, the claws,
And he that would rush to slay-the 9TH
ers command TO pause.
Blood drips from the dragons teeth; he
thumps the earth with his tail.
And over the marshes floats a low. long,
hopeless wall:
And the brothers of her who lies meath
the monsters poison feet
Strong-armed are arguing where the
walls and the rivers meet!
The first crime IL China's. The sec
ond Is ours. Shall the world stand idly
by and wait for new horrors to stir its
sluggish blood to action? Shall greed
and land-lust give lordly command to
waiting humanity? Is the worlds care
the partition Of the territory of China.
or the establishment there of a govern
ment under which life and property
shall be as secure for people of all COL
ors and races as they are in any other
nation? Is commercialism or civiliza-
ton closer TO the worlds heart today?
These are the questions that will find
their answer In the policy adopted by
the nations in their dealing with the
Chinese horror.
II 1t In China's ACKNOWLEDGMENT and
the appropriation of her territory that
has paramount interest, the nations will
go on as they have begun. There will
be feeble and inconclusive councils be-
tween powers anxious about the allot-
ment of booty. There win be pslaverine
about the respective contingents that
they are to furnish: about the COM
mand of them; about the field OF opera
lions; above all. about what IL to hap
pen and what Is to be the reward OF
each when the dragon IL driven from
his prey. And the close of the nine
teenth century will write Its record
In lines OF blood that tears can never
wipe away.
If humanity and civilization are to be
In the ascendant. the nations viii know
but one common purpose. They will
take counsel with one another as broth
ers on whom rests the duty OF rescue.
the ONCE of judgment. the safeguarding
of the future. They will plan for main
tanning the integrity Of the Chinese en-
pire. and so Danish the one possible
cause Of dlscord. They will understand
that the problem is best worked out
by other means. They will see THAT 10
is for the common interest as well as
the common honor that China should
be governed by a dynasty OF her own
race. with its administration checked
and supervised at every point by an In
ternatIonal concord and protectorats
That being understood. they will bs
ready to act with a single purpose and
an outstreiched arm Of Irresistible
strength
While they wait and waver. the gloom
darkens and fiercer lishtnlngs dart from
the murky cloud. Such deed. are be-
ing done as may not even be whispered.
Resistance grows apsce The Mongo-
Ian ia losing the wholesome fear that
hitherto tempered his hate. Our forces
are being beaten back There can be
no rescue, no effective cooperation, no
intsrpOsition such as our common hu-
nanity demands until Ne move not as
Jealous nations, bu, as men and broth
ers animated by one spirit In one high
and holy cause. Political objection TO
such harmony q action. sbiurins the
thought OF conquest and holding for cur
purpose only the reclamation % this
savage zen. there can BE- none The
heart Of the world cries. TO the res
cue" Has the world grown Erea;
enough and good enough to answer that
appeal. or mus; We wait. while our own
are perishtnE. upon that adjustment T..
political and material interests whose
presence in the forefront % our battle
Will leave us with a smirched and tar
nishcd honor worthy only Of the drag