Arizona republican., 1900-08-21

built during the past forty years, but it is the private residences, the streets. the parks and, above all. the trees. It is probably the ensemble of all these attractions that go to make the city so marvelously beautiful, together with the great care that seems to be taken to keep everything in perfect condition.
 New York is much as it was when l lsft, except that the buildings now reach farther skyward, but Washington seems to have been built over new. We knew all about electric cars. of course, and other inventions of the past four decades, while the photographers art and the art of production had made us familiar with all that was notable in the building and construction line, but the beauty of Washington must sur prise everybody who visits the city for the first time, or after a long absenct. An idea of it could not be conveyed with ink on paper. It is an indefinite thing that could no more be photo graphed than could the air"
 MT. Roberts left China about the middle of last May. at which time the present uprising was only in it's in cipiency. with no indications that it would grow to such proportions. "I believe he said. that it will take but short time for the powers to wipe out the last vestige of the uprising. This talk about a Chinese army of 900. .00O disciplined and well armed troops is bosh. China hasn't an army of more than 30.000 men that are even drilled according to foreign understanding of what the drilling of soldiers means, and they will not stand in the open against Europeans. As for the mobs of Boxers. they will scatter like 50 many sheep before the fire of the allies.'
 Asked what course he believed the powers should pursue after China has been subdued. Mir Roberts said: Tt is imperative that the present dynasty should be Overthr0wn and a more li5- eral government established. The dOWager empress. though a very able woman is China's worst enemy. She hopes to preserve the Manchurian dy- nasty by blocking progress and keeping the people in ignorance. The deposed emperor was much more progressive. and would make an acceptable ruler. with proper foreign support and coun- s7l."
 Mir. Roberts is an advocate of com plete foreign control of the empire. either by partition among the powers. provided that each nation would prep erly govern the portion that fell to 1t or else government of the empire as a whole by single power. If a single power" he said. 'could take China and govern it as England has governed In dia, for the benefit of the governed as well as for the governors it would be a blessing to the Chinese and to the world as well. I believe the vast ma jority of the Chinese would gladly welcome government by some foreign power. They are peaceful and innO- cent minded lot of people, and want chiefly to be let alone to pursue the even tenor of their ways. That they are not opposed to foreign government is proved by the fact that 100000 of them have come into the foreign city of Shanghai, accepting foreign control and willingly paying their share of the taxes in return for the protection they receive.
 Mir. Roberts says there are zoo Amer jeans in Shanghai who are as intensely patriotic as any of their cOuntrymen on this side Cf the water. We never fail' he said. Ito celebrate the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving day. The English, too, are almost as good Americans as we are, and dur ing the war with Spain they re- joiced with us over American victories. All Americans in the east. by the way are strongly in favor of permanent American occupation of the Philippines. It has already increased our prestige to a marvellous extent, and W" are in a position to realize the vast benefits that are yet to come" Washington Post.