Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-08-01
WHAT TO 10 WITH CHINA.

According TO the latest news from
eastern Asia the foreign representa-
tives at Pckin are set alive and anx.
lousy waiting for the rescuers Dur
ing the assault on the legations. q num-
Der Of them We're killed, OF wounded
but the survivors We're stul holding
their ground ON the 22ud Of July The
news seems 10 be accepted as anthem
tic and It cannot fail TO spur the pow
ers on to energetic action TO put an end
20 the terrible suspense.
A London dispatch states that on the
2Oth OF June 'China declared war"
and it appears that the savage attack
on the legations commenced the same
day. II the expression declared war
IS 90 be understood literally It puts the
imbrogllo In an entirely new light
Then the government must be held res-
ponslhle even ~ the Boxers led the as
sault That Is the very point concern
Ing which the powers have been go the
dark. II China has declared war; 1t ia
difficult TO see how the world. IN view
OF the massacres that have taken place.
can avoid accepting the challenge But
IN an probability fun light on the sltu-
alton win not be had before the min
.stgrs have been rescued, and their
story IN detail can be- told
The great problem before the powers.
should a war Of revenge Doe decided ou.
.s. however what TO DO with China af-
ter the punishment has been admins
tered There IS serious objections 90 the
process OF viyisectiou. that has been go
Ing ON for the past five years and there
are equally serious objections 20 leave
Ing her intact iu the hands OF govern
ment that might again instigatc an am
u-foreim uprising Perhaps the best
solution OF the problem would Doe 20
free AN the provincial governors from
their allegiance 20 the central govern
meut and make them s1yere.sns in
their respective provinces China would
then be broken up into eighteen in-
dependent states. each OF which would
Doe of respectable size as 20 area and
population. although not formidable
as am enemy
Were such am arrangement desirable.
q could De- accomplished with less diff
naulty than the Balkan states were
segregated from Turkish domain. Chi
na IS now very Ear from being a unit
There ls no such thing as a Chinese MAJ
ton. as understood Ga western coun-
tries. China itself Sc inhabited by die
f.rent races. with different habits. re-
l.rlons and languages The people IN
the central and northern provinces, we
are to'd scarcely regard those OF the
southeast districts as fellow country
mUu 4 man from T.en Tsln can no
more converse with a Cantonese. with
out having learned the language than
q Frnchman can with a German. And
u.s mutually hate one another A
writer u the Nineteenth Century Re
view relates am Incident in illustration
Of thls he says:
% Dos; the best Chinese servant 7 ever
had because being from the north,
nothing would induce him 20 accom-
uluy me m the south Of China where
bis speech would have betrayed him.
Cantonese ycly bad man. master he
said to nae. 4 go home
The curious lnter-hatrel he contin-
ues. So conspicuous where Chinese from
different parts of China meet together
as. for example. IN Bangkok, or on the
plantations IN Malaga or The Dutch In
dies. Savage faction fights are of
constant occurrence. Consequently So
is easy 90 raise a force OF Chinese in
one place 10 fight Chinese in another
Undoubtedly most of the provincial
governors would welcome their enamel
rauan from the hatred M1nchu rulers
The control exercised by these has been
gradually growing weaker II De- a
marvel that they. so few IN numbers.
have been able to keep up a sem-
blance OF central government But &c
has not escaped the observer that some
Of the governors, II Hung Chang. FOR