Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-07-20

the nresent Manchu government, rn ha.
dor the Empress Dowager' ..,n '
NV l.ovornment rests upon the corfup'
ss;onand ot,icial abuse that the I'LL
VI !,on as "n am neror was seeking to cur.
ta;t reform is the deadly enemy o..
such corruption, and the fore ign sp'a,'
is the very spirit of reform. LAuo eav
,ination OF the foreigners is the oIly
hone Of such regime as that OF lne
1ast two years under the Empress
Doawager.
a. There is great danger that our
own government, partly through an
honest desire to escape entangllng al
liances. and partly in the effort 10
maintain "good politics, should puf-
sue a course at once inglorIous anu un
wise, In these last weeks OF tlle cur w.
minating agony at Peking' there llaS
been in the dispatches from Wasillns
ton-so far as they have appeared III
tee Western press scarcely one yia-
hle If honest indignation, eltner
against the duplicity OF the fekIns -
government or the fiendish atroclllee
Of the imperial troops. Inc ohly
warm utterances have been those OF
indignant reputation OF the soaue-
menf that the government was pre-
naring to do more than send a hano-
full of troops to give late burial 10 10
murdered citizens. .;.,,o
This will certainly not continue
but it has been the case, 10 OF :
shame. during the whole month Oh
June. And yet the interests OF inner
lea in China are incomparably greater
than those in the Philippines ana
second only to Great Britain's. Ana
it is as solemn and sacred duty as
could come to any nation, not only 10
exact punishment-for not all emma
could give reparation-for the 1resll
slaughter, like that in Cawnpore IN
the Indian mutiny of 1857, but to see
that a firm and orderly Chinese ad-
ministration is established at Peklng'
or better at Marking, IN place OF the
one that we have helped to over
throw. The opening of China through
foreign interference means, IN lac''
China for the Chinese. Japan was
opened by force and every japanese is
grateful for the foreign interference
that first gave to him his country.
s, There is little danger of any
practical ''partition" of the empire
The press speaks OF it tiippantly, az
though China were another savage
central Africa to be apportioned ou'
among new owners with as little al
tention to the wishes Of its inhablt
ants as those of the monkeys IN III
| trees.
A moments reflection will shoV
how impracticable such a procedure
is with a race capable of; opposing
| infinite moral and physical resistance
All the troops of Christendom woult
be insufficient for it's accomplishment
If the five Powers chiefly DESTROYS o
territory should divide it event.
among themselves. each would have
population to govern as large as tina
of the United States, with many mil
lions of them at SIX or elgnt weeks
Journey from the coast. The YER
mention of the conditions is demon
stration of the impraclicablity of an
true partition. y
A strip of territory along the coas
or either border might be held so lon
as the national consciousness was no
awakened. "Spheres Of Influence
may be delimited. A stringent fol
eign oversight may be exercised. Blu
that China will continue to be gov
erned by the Chinese is as certain a
that Americans will continue to gov
ern the United States. We ma
spare ourselves any fear of the "pel
manent disintegratlon' of the empire