Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-01
The RULERS
OF CHINESE.
LBy r. L. McNabb.l /.

Fully nine out of every ten persons
that have conversed With on Chinese
subjects, since returning from the far
east, have expressed themselves as be-
ing surprised to learn that China is
ruled by a foreign dynasty. The tenth
person either knows, or has clever
way of concealing his ignorance, that
such a state5of affairs exists in the land
of Stnim The Chinese are a peaceful
people ard seem to have a natural ten
Edency To flee when attacked by a WE'LL
organized and determined foe. Yet this
q tendency is more seeming than real,
and is 10 be attributable the fact that
their peaceful disposition causes them
TO allow their armies to disintegrate;
what numbers remain in the camps,
Fgarrisons and forts are allowed to lead
lives of idleness; what few good weap-.
sons they have are not used enough to
keep them from rusting. Thus they
have been caught mapping by the Non
gols, the Manchoos and japanese. and
their undisciplined. tho multitudinous,
hosts We're time and again put to flight.
But the Chinese have shown them
selves capable Of warfare, and have
shown great proWess when We'll off
Yankee Ward and Chinese Gordon dur
ing the Tai Ping rebellion. This intro
ductory statement will help to explain
why a people numbering hundreds of
millions were subdued and held in sub
lection by Ave or SIX million Manchoo-
Tartars. The Manchoos lived original
lly in the neighborhood Of the Long
White Mountain. and belonged to
what is commonly called9the Monaghan
branch Of the human race, being thus
akin TO the Chinese. japanese. Mongols.
\ Lapps. Eskimos, Huns and some tribes
sat least of the American Indians, as
we'll as the ancient Medians.
The Tartars have furnished more
Thrones with kings and emperors than
almost any other people. The ancestors
iof the Tartars fed their hocks on the
shores of the Blue sea In Tibet, In the
j1;icb plains ofEcantral Asia. on the green
5Iplateaus Of northern China, and on the
! foothills and in the valleys in the vi
Iciniiy Of the Atlas mountain in Africa
The rulers Of Persia, Corea, China
a Japan and Turkey. as well az the mogul
king Of Delhi. India, the khedive OF
4 Egypt and the sovereign OF Morocco
i are all Of Tartar extraction. These
Iwild, numad tribes being masters over
5l5horse life, finally made themselves
masters over the neighboring agricul-
I5tural people. Attila the Hun Ga TARTAR
became "the terror of the west" in the
jtfifth century The ManchOos first over
i ran north China in 1l1s a D., and es-
a tablished the Kin" (golden) dynasty
4! They were driven out by their kins-
st5folk, the Mongois. under the mighty
4 Kublia Khan. He, together with his
Isons, conquered all Of China and estab.
sIlished the Yuen dynasty, which reignec
/ for eighty-nine years, until overcome
4 by the native dynastyof the Mings
4 This dynasty continued in power unit
the seventeenth century, when thu
A Manchoo- Tartars, under chief Of
Il marked ability. gathered strength ant
n commenced to farass the northern Dor
ders of China. And in 1913 Tien Ming
& the Manchoo leader, issued a manifest,
Eagainst the Mings. Heaboasted that HI
would celebrate he death OF his father
& Who had fallen in battle with the Chi
I, nese, by Strengthening 100000 Chinese.
! but he died before he had fully salts
fled his thirst for blood. and left hi
4 son, Tient Sung, at the head OF TIL
army. While these attacks were beini
made on the northern borders OF tn
!, vast empire, there were great Glssen
6 sions within Rebellions broke out Il
a different sections Of the country. Eacl
|.rebe hieftain was ambitious to pu
! himself on the throne. At last one Q
them. Ii Taz Ching. vas successful. H
) |3captured Pskin. but the Emperor Hwa
& Tsung, rather than fall into the hand
Il Of the usurper, first stabbed his ow
daughter and then committed suicide
!, thus fell the last of the Mings by hi
own hand, in 1913.
But the great Gen. Ng San Kwai re
Z fused to acknowledge the usurper a
!, emperor. He foolishly called to his as
sis.ance the Observation-Disclosures, VIII
were only zoo glad to have an excus
for attacking Pekin. They had bee
, chafing under the restraint PVT upo
them ever since Kublai Khan ha
! driven them back to their ancestrs
haunts on the Songari and Leau riy
ers. Tient Sung united his forces wit
Ng San Kwais army; and togeths
they captured Pekin and overcame tn
usurper The Manchoos were not slo'
to see their opportunity and aoon ~
4 Iclared the son Of Tient sung emperQ
sls(that Tartar chieftain havin0 dlSd]