The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-18

! the Tartar sway 200 years and is Tartar
still at heart. Poland, Hungary, also
fell, and then this ferocious tide of
Monaghan conquest struck our own an
: cestors and, curiously enough, never
| tried it, cleared out at the approach of
the German army.
lengths did not complete the conquest
of China, but he took Pekin after an
heroic defense and his sons desolated
and subdued the whole of China For
140 years these Mongollans owned and
ruled China. The Chinaman is not a
Monaghan any more than the English
man is a German, yet as compared with
an Arab, for instance, the Englishman
is a German, and as compared with
anybody else the Chinaman is Mon
golian. They say, you know, that you
scratch a Russian and you find Mon
golian; also if you polish a Monaghan
you make Chinaman.
The Chinese did not like the Mongol-
ians. They We're expelled finally by the
native Chinese, who in turn ruled them,
and they held China, while they did hold
it only by adopting the manners and
letters of the Chinese, restoring, or pre-
tending to restore, the ancient consti-
tuition and completely submitting to
Chinese prejudices. Jenghis himself,
who after bis first victory tossed sew
enty leaders of his enemies into seventy
cauldrons of boiling water, on the other
hand never had anything which he
wasn't willing to share with his SOL
diers and was so catholic in spirit that
he permitted all religions, insisting only
on the existence Of one God, who was
the author of all good, while in domes-
tic life lies, murder and adultery We're
punished with death, Such arc GER
tainly the elements of great race. The
! trouble with the Mongol is that after all
he doesn't civilize. The American In
dian is probably Mongol and well IL
lustrates the tendency Of his race to
disappear before rather than absorb
civilization China was the best chance
he ever had, and after being weighed
in the balances for 140 years he was
found wanting and cast out. But when
you ask who the Chinaman is the Mon
golian In him is to be taken into con-
sderation throughout as well as in
those provinces which are nominally
Monaghan.
For well on to 900 years down to the |
time OF Cromwell in England China
continued unnterruptedly it's own Chi
nese way. Then again in one of these |
border pastor tribes more or less kin to |
herself rose an exceptional man and |
people, coincident with exceptional po-
litical weakness and corruption in her
own state. These We're the Manchus, !
the present reigning house and domi-
nant race in China, Beginning with an
army of hundred men, the chief of the
tribe slowly fought and drilled it to
formida BILE size and skill. AS in all
conquests, you have the virtuous, SIM
plelivng hardy farm boy or herder to
begin with. You make a soldier of him
and then you bring him down on a ma
ton not at all rotten itself necessarily,
but with q rotten admins tration and
rotten high class, and the whole thing
goes like dam before a freshet. This
Manchu chief went through the for
mality of drawing UP a list of griev-
ances against the Chinese. but with
Orientalism instead of
sending it to them he burnt it in the
presence of his own army so that heav-
en- might judge his quarrel This con-
quest of China by the Manchus was
long, laborious and full OF adventure
and great Battles as any an
nails in the world Among other things
as the contest deepened in intensity and
it became difficult to tell friend from
foe the Manchus decreed that when
overrunning any province or storming
my city all who shaved their heads in
token of surrender should be spared.
Hence the pigtai since become such an
object of passionate devotion to the
Chinaman.
These Manchus again have been able
o complete their conquest and maintain '
t only by themselves becoming thor |
,ughly Chinese. The Chinese have die $
ated manners laws and letters to the I
onquerors, so that though China has =
vice been conquered. 1t is the same old 2
china still IT is as if after the federal \
onquest of the south the rebels had a
the nation to adopt slavery. O
t is not a court fiction. but reality, n
hat the Chinese empire is unbroken v
ince it began, and as such is the oldest c
mpire in the world. |
Who, then, are the Chinese? They
re the Chinese, as they always have
cen. Whether the time of their change
t last draws near remains to be seen. S
Jothing has changed her in 5000 years. /
hat she has been so kept by God only d
} furnish land to Russian tax collectors C
r market to English and American e
'usts is absurd She must have some t.
reat errand to humanity. S
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