Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-05

ed the country has been to foreigners
for It's advancement.
China Is an eXempliflcation of the fate
That befalls n nation which sets itself
\up against the progress of civilization.
Marching onward with Irresistible
force. conquering, compelling, civilza-
ton may be a beneficent deity or Jug
gernaut, either taking along with 1t and
blessing those who accept its teachings
or crushing those who seek to oppose it
beneath the cumulative weight of pro.
gressive centuries
Claiming precedence through It's an
tlquity as nation, with dynastlc
chronicles extending back nearly 5000
years. China has ever stood in the path
way of progress, blocking the road and
refusing to stand aside. Viewed in the
lGht of history. there can be but one
tate in store for such nation, for
against it are arrayed the combined
moral, If not physical, forces of the
world and 1t must obey the mandate or
perish In an Intellectual struggle for SUI
premacy. Tho world will not tolerate
even negative assent to the universal
creed that He who is not with us is
against u.s." 1T demands an active par
ticipation in affairs that make for the
ultimate best the universe can yield
with the origin of her people shroud-
cd In the mists and mysteries of a great
antiquity China dwelt by herself for
thousands of years before the outsider
penetrated the barrier she had erected
around her empire. At last the great
Mongol, Gcnghis Khan, preached the
walls and compelled the Chinese to
stand on the defensive. About the mid
ole OF the thirteenth century a grand
son OF Genghis went to the MD of the
(rhinaGa ga N OF fho To
Ing Peking very much to his liking, re-
fused to go away after the latter had
been expelled.
This man was the famous Kublai
Khan. who crowded out the effete ma
tive Sung dynasty and brought 1t TO an
end, establishing himself as emperor
OF China about the year 1860, firmly fix.
Ing himself as such nine years iatnr
kublai Khan may be called. perhans
the first foreigner who came to rescua
China from the depths OF Ignorance
into which she was plunged. she
ala not want to be rescued to be sure
ana the ciViiizing process went on much
against her Will. Whether his conin,.
was for her welfare or not Is onar, -
question. since it would seem that tbis
breach In the walls Of exclusivenass
was but the precursor to her eventual
downfall and disintegration.
having brought with him some wise
men from Persia and having invited to
MS capital that eminent traveller and
historian, Marco Polo. Kublai Khan SET
nlfnself to the task of rcorea nizino
chinese affairs. He extended Chinese
territorial limits beyond Tonouin and
, China and also extended the
'il,i's OF Chinese knowledge
me astrologers and astronomers who
ohnae WIN him erected tower for the
observation of the stars, set I'D instru-
ments, which may be seen on he waIis
uas peking today, and taught the Chi
snio, ..iucn more than the rudiments of
tc,,. winch they already possessed.
d,naa' passed away in 1924. and his
tSra" IN 1865 when a revolution over
sT NV IT, and then succeeded the
Minss, native rulers who reisned until
, oar. During the nearly 500 years they
Csi, I" power the Mings did little for
Sasna' but held their own until the