The National tribune., 1900-11-08

quiet dignity, won him at once the good
will of the people.
RESULTS THAT WOULD FOLLOW ADOPTION
OF PROGRESSIVE POLICY.
The report has reached here that the
United States has recognized the Peace
Plenipotentiaries, Lii Hung Chang, Prince
Ching and others.
There can be no doubt that China ap-
preciates the policy of the Stars and
Stripes, and in future dealing will return
| the kindness, for she is not so ungrateful
as she is made out to be by foreigners in
the East.
| BY the way, no one seems to understand
exactly what the latter wants done to
China. They talk about retribution for
Chinese perfdy, at the same time hoping
for progress and reform in China, by re-
storing kwang Su to his throne, with the
power of Emperor, instead of being a
mere fgure-head. They seem to forget
that progress in China means their ruin,
for it is n fact many of these wOuld-be
| advisers to their Governments as to how
to deal with China make their living out of
| the ignorance of the Chinese. They fat
ten themselves on Celestial helplessness,
physically and mentally. Woe to them
when China wakes up and no more impos-
ing allowed on her. They will talk in a
different way then about introducing
Western civilization among the heather
Chinee
That this is so we have only to look at
Japan. Not many years ago they talked
in the same way about the japanese. Well,
Japans took their advice, formed a strong
| Government, backed by schools and col
| legeS, and now she has as good show as
any other nation on the face of the earth.
All foreigners in Japan are subject to her
| jurisdiction, and are the foreigners in the
East satisfied? By no means; they speak
| now of the pride and well-headedneSS of
the little Mikados. In the same way they
will be dissatisfied with China, even if she
| does take their advice and become pro-
| gressive.
These people wish now the punishment
of the Empress Dowager, that poor old
lady, who must be blamed for everything
that is displeasing to the foreigners. ''She
should be banished to the Cold Palace ian
imperial PRISON., or to end her days among
the tombs of her ancestors in Manchuria. )"
"A punitive expedition should visit Pao-
tingfu, Taiyucn, Taiku, Fenchoufu and
other cities and infiict such q
chastisement that neither officers nor peo-
pie throughout China would dare again to
! commit or allow such acts Of cruelty" In
other words, a war of determination,
which may, by the way, characterize the
military movements of the Allied Army in
the North, should be declared on the Chi
nese
They do not deny that the Empress had
plenty of causes to hate the foreigners, for
their Governments have made repeated in
roads on Chinese territory ever since the
japanese war, and the loss of territory is
considered the most disgraceful thing that
can happen to a reigning person.
If she had resolutely sat upon the re-
construction of the Chinese army, and had
at length demanded the restoration of ter
tt~itI n, oil Iy-n IL
while giving proper protection to foreign
ers residing in China and native Chris
tians, nothing but commentator could
be given for her courage and ener-
gyr' As if she had not tried to gain the
good will of the foreign nations. For this
reason she gave special audience to the
wives of the foreign Ministers. Her Off
GERS and representatives made gentle re-
monstrances and mild demands, but what
good did they do, for China has no mill
tary power to back her.
When the Boxers started disturbances,
she was accused of favoring them. When
open and honorable means of obtaining a
hearing and redress are ridiculed and dis
regarded, is it remarkable that she should
make use of doubtful means, assuming
that she did sympathiZe with the Boxers?
The besieged in Peking write and mention
several times of food and fruits sent to
the Legations, when Chinese soldiers were
supposed to be bombarding them. and the
Empress Dowager was the donor. Such
actions appear hardly consistent. No doubt
there were unscrupulous and anti-foreign
officials, who counseled her ON evil pro-
jects.
VANDALISM IN PEKING.
The violence and barbaric proceedings
of the Allied Army in the North is some
thing beyond belief in this century. That
of lal Ch,.,s
lied nations, trying to spread enlighten-
ment and moral education, should conduct
themselves in such manner is something
quite incomprehensible, and will confirm
the opinion of Chinese that these foreign
ers are barbarians anyway. A detailed
account of their doings would take up too
much space and sometimes be too revolt
ing to be put down on paper.
The great and magnificent building de-
voted to the worship Of the Ancestral Tab
lets of the Manchu Dynasty has been
broken into and the carved cases contain
ing them destroyed, while the tablets
themselves have been taken out and will
be sent to the British Museum. This is
the most insulting and violent act that
can be offered to the Chinese Government
Devastating and opening graves or desc
Grating a cemetery cannot be compared
with the seriousness Of the act.
All the imperial palaces have been more
or less destroyed and their contents plum
dered. In fact, there is a regular system
Of pillaging the residents of Peking The
personal apartments of the Emperor are
used as common mess-rooms of the Off
GERS. One of the most ancient and famous
seats of learning in the history of the
world, the Hanlin University, was almost
| totally destroyed. The wooden types of
the most valuable works, the collection of
priceless prints, copies of rare books,
| which have taken years TO collect, encyclo-
pedias, unique and covering a vast num-
Der of subjects, were burned in the course
of an afternoon.
China feels humilated, but not pacified
She is going to rise again and revenge her
self, or at least right her wrongs. She
| suffers from many acts of injustice, but
she is unable TO publish her wrongs and
have them recognized. She is like child
who has been wronged, and on account of
lack of knowledge of its rights and privi-
| leges, is nevertheless severely punished.
The child remembers them, though, and
grows sullen and dark with revenge as it
gets older and wiser. Y.
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