The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-28
RESULTS OF ALLIED WARFARE.

1t is going to be a good thing for the
future peace of the world to have the
movers show each other their military
PAGES on the same ground Many ma
tons have been brought to grief or
have caused needless wars by igno-
rance of the fact that soldierly virtues
are given to them in no greater meas
ure than to others. Insular con-
ceit brings on more wars than cupidity
The French, inspired by the Napoleonic
legend and by the fact that, in the
great conqueror's time, there were no
vassals more cringing than the princes
of Prussia, went to war with the Ger
mans as to a festival. Sedan and Metz
taught them that the German people
were no longer the vanquished of jena
and Austerlitz. Before the American
Civil War the Southerners believed
that one of their class could whip
five Yankees and they plunged un-
hesitatingly into the fight that ended
with their undoing at Appomattox. The
Greeks moderated the Turks and the
English the Beers. Undoubtedly if all
these belligerents could have seen each
other in the thick of such bloody COM
bats as the ones at Tien-Tsin and Pc
king they would have sought some
other arbiter than the sword for their
own quarrels.
Inc gathering in China is of soldiers
who need, and sadly need, the lessons
of respect which brave men can teach
each other. True, Englishmen are
pretty well chastened by their expe-
rience with the Beers and the Ameri-
can idea of licking all creation is not
what it was before the Philippine war.
Still they will acquire a knowledge of
continental and Asiatic soldiers which
can do them no harm. As for the cocky
Japanese 1t is time for them to learn
that there is a mighty difference be-
tween the rabble they evicted at Port
Arthur and the Russians, Germans and
Americans who are breasting the Chi
nese storm in Chill. After the war of
1S94-95 they affected vast contempt for
the white man, especially the Russian.
If their contempt shall give way to
respect it will all make for peace. And
so it will if French and German, TIA
liam and Russian, American and Ger
man and so on through the interna-
tional roster find in their Asiatic ex-
perience that warning with one another
would not prove to be a holiday pas
time
The accession of comradeship and
good will which we foresee among sol
diers of many nations who are she'd
ding their blood with common heroism
ought to make the future partition OF
the great Mongol empire easier than
could otherwise be hoped for. For
tunately the powers, with the excep-
/ ton of the United States, have already
marked out their spheres of influence
Russia has taken Manchuria with the
common consent of Europe; Great
Britain has reserved Wei-Hai- Wei
Hongkong and the eastern part of tn,
Yang-tse valley; Germany has the bet
ter part of Shantung; France, Hai-Nar
and that part of the Upper Yang-ts'
(Yun-Nun) which approaches Tons
King; Japan, Fo-Kien, opposite For
mosa and Italy Che-Kiang. The line
of demarkation having been laid tn
powers ought to drop into their spheres
of Chinese influence with as little fric
ton as they did into their African pre-
serves. 1t will all come the easier be
cause of the allied experiences in war
fare.