The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-20

an apology to Berlin. The money i'm
demnity to the various powers will
amount to $780, 900. Where China
will find this enormous sum it is i'm
possible to say However, there are
mines to develop and railway conces-
sions to be given away, and there must
be much accumulated wealth in the
imperial and princely Golfers. AS the
monetary affairs of China are to be
managed on western methods and un-
der western supervision, this portion
of the punishment will be carried out
probably with little friction.
But the harder terms are yet to be
detailed. The Tsungli Yamen is to
be abolished. This has been a body
which conferred with the foreign min
listers and was adept in the art of how
not to do it. The Tsung-li Yamen is
probably responsible for the major part
of the friction between the Chinese
empire and the western powers. 1t
was composed of ignorant and bigotted
men, and had great powers over the
Chinese representatives abroad. In
place of this clumsy board, China is
to have a foreign minister like any
other civilized power. But far more
important than this is that the foreign
ministers shall have unrestricted in
tercourse with the emperor whenever
they desire it.
This latter will be a most important
concession and will break down the
eastern eXclusiveness of the Chinese
coast, as Lord Mccartney first broke
the kotow system which had been in
vogue before his time. 1t may not be
generally known that in all the western
nations the foreign minister has the
right of access to the sovereign at any
time he chooses. Such a right is not
needlessly exercised, but it exists
Minister Choate could arrive at Wind
sor at 3 o'clock in the morning and de-
mand to see the Queen, or Don Basilio
of Nicaragua might arrive at the Win
ter Palace in st. Petersburg and de-
mand to see the Emperor, and in each
case the demand would have to be ac-
guessed in, no matter how embarras-
sing it might be. No minister is going
to worry the Emperor of China at I'M
seemly hours, but he ought to have
the right of entry at the court of China
just as he would have in any other
country in the world.
These points are permanent. If they
are carried, and they will be, they put
an end forever to an arrogant assump-
ton of eXclusiveness which the present
times cannot tolerate. 1t is not the
| breaking up of China, but it is the re-
commenced. The old order of things
! has passed away, the new order is COM
ing in. The incubus of a semi barbar-
Gus, ignorant, and yet pedantic court
will have been removed, and the re-
guar official business of the empire
will begin to feel it. Gradually the
national mass will be permeated.
Lastly there are the punishments
which are demanded from those re-
sponsible for the recent outrages
These are heavy. No less than clever
leading Chinese princes and officials
are to expiate the crime of bounding
on their countrymen against the west
ern stranger and the Christian con-
verts And these executions are tc
take place in the presence of those
who know the men to be executed
There will be no substituting unimpor-
tant criminals for the real culprits
Then the Taku forts are to be dlsman.
tied, guards are to be always in charge
of the legations at Picking and the rail.
road from Tien Tsin is to be guarded
The terms are probably the hardest
since Rome stripped Carthagae of heI
power. That they are too hard few
who know China and the Chinese gov.
eminent will agree 1t must be {
break down of power once and forever