Evening star., 1900-07-14
ATLANTIC CITY, n. J.

ward. by strategy. the empress was in
duced to order IT built up TO the CITY.
Inc foreign settlement at Tien Tsin lies
distance south of the native city and 1.
protected by a heavy wall of earthworks
with ditch outside.
"SmOthering" Foreign Iptruder.
The Chinese are peculiar people ana
nave peculiar ways Of putting down ther
numerous locsn Instructions They never
oppose such movements while they are
gaining strength. They put up Only pas.
slve resistance until the movement ha,
spent Its strength and shows signs Of col.
lapse Then they jump on II with ytgor II
is because OF this absence of active resist.
ance that China has repeatedly been con.
quered by small armies and by small ma
tons The powers must not conclude from
TINS. however. that the partition of China
will be a simple matter
The Chinese are largely Indifferent as re
the hgureheads who occupy the throne
out the perSistency of their race character
istcs Is remarkable. They know that they
are helpless before their foreign foes he
cause. gigantic as their resources are, they
are unable to marshal them. When they
are Invaded they make only a feeble resist
ance nut once the intruders are well with
in the country the Chinese people simply
swarm and smother" them. They are inc
greatest amalgamators the world has ever
seen. They have grown by being con-
quered- The Mongols under the great Kub-
ereignty, but a short century sufficed for
the Chinese to absorb their conquerors and
To make their country tributary 10 the
dragon throne. Still later the Manchus
conquered China and seized the re'ns of
government, but they. too. have been en-
gulfed in the rising tide Of b'ack-hafred
men, and their country made into a prov-
ince. Neither shall the modern invaders Of
China escape IKE fate. While present
conditions prevail there the spheres Of in
fiuence claimed by the several powers would
doubtless fall an easy prey to the powers
claiming them, but when they have supp led
the empire with modern facilities for trans
portation then will the Chinese come into
their own again and history repeat itSe'f
The Chinaman VII absorb the outsiders.
and IL they be not separated from him by
too wide sea, he will add them to his en-
pire Within its borders already dwell one
third of the entire human race. Its half bl-
lion of population promises trade that is
recognized as the grand prize Of future
commerce. All other markets fade into in
significance beside Il. II is not strange,
therefore. that the powers have been striv-
ing by threats and coercion 10 bring n nm
der their control and that they have Jealous
ly watched each other while seeking to Sc
cure additional concessions for themselves
and to en- arge their own spheres of infiu-
ence. One reason that the Chinese govern
ment has apparently favored the demon
stration of the Boxers Is that It has heen
hoped that IL might afford an opportunity
for repudiating some of the concessions
that have been granted to foreigners in re-
cent years The common people in China
are peaceable and hospitab'e and not op-
posed to the Introduction of modern fnven-
uons. 1t is a sight never to he forgotten
To see a train lead of Chinese riding second
class on open fiat cars. As the train goes
faster their queues fly out behind while
they hold onto their hats and shout and
laugh II II were the greatest sport IN the
world GUY MORRISON WALKER.