Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-07-20

~ empire arc bookmen. those
Who have passed successfully the civil ser
vice examinations In philosophy. ethics.
pr3ss and poetic composition. history ahi
the like. There are no questions on mill
tarS OF on naval sei-ne-. nothins that re-
f-Fa to means Of protecting the country
from the ''0uieF barbarian The literary
class rule and steal NhIls the troops 80
ragged. are undsFpaid. und-Ffed. robbed
and held IN eontsmpt. The best part OF
th1ir wages s0.s into the mandartn's
strong ban.
Archery and wrestling are still part Of
the training OF IN. Chinese soldier.
Wrestling includes boxing. whence the
ifossrs-ths diseOntsnIsJ. hungry rabbis
that Is making 50 much tEoabl- al pres
ent-
In japan military siory has been the
greatest glory siae- the beginning. The
songs Of the sehooiboy aTr war songs.
songs OF the snord. Nal. singers at sn-
f-rtainmenis chant OF the proves Sf de-
parted heroes. The military eiass-the
ssmursi- has ruled always. and to-day,
though easJ- distinctions have gone. those
who we're military r-tainsrs of
f-tiiai i1Fsir-hnid the great Offices. The
spirit Of Jatan has b~-n military too lons
for chans- To take place suddenly. The
legend. THE sword Il tn. soul OF the sa-
mural" was a true ons and II Is true TO.
day.
Some say that Japan IL becoming a COM
merrial nation and l. forgetting her an
eirn, honor. That is q mistake She 10
making great effort 10 develop manufac-
tuT~s and 10 Increase her foreign trade.
but she is doing II a. a means 60 an sni.
In order 60 establish hsrs-if as the En-
gland Of the East" she mus, have an
asfsf aNstfh fh.-. =hs-a astV
not have without wealth. 10 she = busy
with commercial cntc1risr.
In japan -v-ry abic.Soil-d man il a
soldier. and even the children know tho
usc Of arms. Military driii l. a part Of
the regular education In the schools
throughout the empire. Schooiboys dress
In n military uniform cut on the pattern
of cad-; uniforms In Europe and America.
Their Instructors arr regular army ON
e-fs. veterans Of the war with China.
and some Of them 0f the sat.una rebel
lion of 1877. This has Its cfcc, on tho
youthful mind. ever prone 20 hero wor-
ship. nnd trcbiy 80 In Japan. where folk
build temples TO th-is heroes: for the dr.ii
master tells the pupils what he saw with
his oEa Sycs. how he rufTcrcj. how he con-
uuervd. how nn- IL all was: anil the pu-
pills arr keen for chance to do likewise.
So Il l. that to achieve success. In war
bring great glory In Jaran-aifno-t diyin.
iiy. To serve Dsi Nippon. to die for the
miisRia or Tcnnn. the heavenly emperor
as ti.ey call hiFi. l. to Join those spirits
whom p=.tgTiiy viii worship through
coming aEes. Every year tho Imperial
troops draw up before the great Shinto
temple Shokonsha. at EoJlmachi. In the
heart Of Toxic. and present arms 10 ''our
soldIcrr who died In BATTLE II Is an I'm.
80 h., lapsa
heart. and makes her pulse beat faHtcr.
In China how different all things are!
The literary classes. made up OF those
who have passed the civil service exam
nations in ethics. phlios ,phy. poetry and
prose composition. etc. have control.
There are many ministers OF foreign af-
fairs. and OF these only onc-Li Hung
Chang-kncw anything OF the outside
world before tn, war with Japan. These
men now think that Japan Is more power
full. but they still hate Europeans and
Americans. They have gone 30 far AZ TO
send 100 young chinamen. many OF them
the sons. Erandsoas and ncphcws OF Vice
royz. over to Japan TO learn how to de-
fcnd Themselves In tine OF war: but. says
Clarence l.. Browncll In the New York
Press. there Is not much OF what "A Euro
pcan would call national spirit or ambi-
tion. The average Chinaman does not
care about national honor. He admits
that come chinesc had the worst of It
at the hands of some japanese In the late
war but he himself was not there. No
one hurt him. II was none OF his busi-
ness. He would not die for the emperor
II he could avoid II. Not much The en-
peror IL not Chinese: he Is Tartar. He IL
a usurper. why his family has sreigned
less than $50 years. Were II not for the
fact that he takes hls wives aud concu-
bincs from Manchu instead of from the
Chinese families he would have been set
aeidc long ago. Indeed. Chinese Gordon
offered to put Ii Hung Chang on the
throne, and could have done It with the
ever victorious army"
In his Chinese CHARACTERISTICS Arthur
Smyth says: "Thc question Is often raised
whether the Chinese have any patriotism,
and II is not n question that can be an
swered In word. There Il undoubtedly
a strong national feeling. especially
among the literary classes. and TO this
feeling much OF the hostility exhibited
toward foreigners and their inventions is
to be traced. But that any considerable
body OF Chinese are actuated by de-
sire to serve tn cir country because II Is
their country, aside from the prospect of
emolument, is II proposition which will
require much more proof than has yet
been offered to secure its acceptance by
any cne who knows the Chinese. 1t need
not be remarked that Chinee might be
patriotic without taking much interest in
the fortunes OF Tartar dynasty like the
present, but there is the best reason to
think that whatever the dynasty might
happen to be, the feeling of the mass
of the nation would be the same as 1t Is
nova feeling of profound Indifference.
"Thc keynote to this state of affairs
was sounded by Confucius himself in a
pregnant sentence found in the Analects
The master said: He who Is not in an
Office has no concern with the plans for
the administration OF its duties To our
thought. these significant words are
pretty much the result, and, to very
great degree, the cause, of the consti-
tutional unwillingness of the Chinese to
interest themselves in matters for which