El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08

WASH INGToN, Sept. 1, 1900. We
we'd very much like TO hear from
Pekin. II the censor would kindly
stop cen sing Chinese news and turn
his at ention to Champ Clark. is would
crafty the rest of US. Champ Clark
is q nice fellow and as Intelligent as
but hts stories are negative news and
he re me N bers more things that nobody
else has forgotten, than /. really wort b
while.
THE PEKIN TANGLE
The cards are being dealt face down
In the International diplomatic game
AMI as IL is just starting now, We
havea' Z learned the run of them yet
However, IL seems at this moment that
We are to sot In unity With Russia In
With drawing troops from Pekin to
Tien Tsin and the other powers are
PROTESTING therest. In which they are
probably wise because Russia is seld ON
acSu ated by motives of brotherly love.
In this case though, our policy Of nom
par tition happens to demand the same
m owe on our part. Il is q queer COM
pany we re 10.
Probably partition does not suit
r Issis's book any more than 1t does
ours-but for different reasons. A
division would give her only q slice
while by waiting che expects to In.
herit the whole-in which che may get
left. Furthermore, L! Hung Chang
has always been supposed to be In
Russian pay and likely there are Others
In the crowd around the empress.
WhicI il one reason of the row about
recoy ming LIS credentials.
FAMINE IN TRANSPORTS.
Then there is big solid fact in the
back ground; the Trsnsiberian railroad
Is nupelessly broken down and nothing
muc1 can be done with it till It is pr &C.
tioAI.g rebuilt, and mean while every
Ocean transport IL almost out of the
question. In the course OF the SpaE-
ish and Philippine wars we took q
large part of the available shipping Cf
the world; then Great Britain acquired
almost every thing ei-e 10 sight 20 car
~ troops 10 the Cape, anG finally
France and Germany came into the
market TO hire transportation
TO CT iua. There Is vessel
famine end the regular lines are
over ourdened with work. so many,
Of the tramp steamships having been
3 o-orb.d. Russia has coma Ia at tie
eleventh hour TO pick up the lame
and the tall, but she IL lot finding
enough even of them TO do her muc
good. AS an illustrative detail may
be cited the calling at San Francisco
} week or so ago OF the six big !
steamers hired by Germany 10 ply /,
back and forth across tie Pacific, !
carrying horses and food. !
GERMANY'S AMBITION. I
Germany and Eoglsnd are holdioR !
oack against the Russo American !;
.Rr cement. The kaiser has q dream of
ON quest In line with his allegorical
,aiaIing of Q year or two aRo-William
; in the habit of painting pictures Is
vell as composing music, preaching
ermons. carving statues In butter,
vriIirg plays, and so on-in which
,llied Christianity was shown as
,noc king seventeen different kinds of !
infulness out of the hestben
the leadership and general
up ervision OF Germania OF course.
Aud It comes with a jar II have to
PIT on brakes instead of going |
full steam ahesd": 1t would be so per-
ectly lovely to have Uncle Sam and |
he powers go ahead and conquer China
,nder Waldersee's generalship and /
Eive Germany she fruits of the victory.
She is still grieving over our Grass sell ,
ishness In not giving her the Philip !
Zines but possibly the Ysngtz.e valley
would console her and induce her to
orgive Us.
Eng land has been displaying very
weak diplomacy In the east for the
past decade and che wants 10 compen-
Iate now by a stiff, strong policy-only |
she doesn't know exactly what she
would like to do. dowever, che ia
quite certain that Whatever Russia
wants done lie all wrong and is oppos-
ing the present programme on general
pri ciples. Also she does not care to
have the negotiations in the hancs Of
Ii Hung Chang.
ARMY GOSSIP
Military circles here are amused at
she remarks attributed to Gen. Miles
ye sterday. Miles is q good soldier al
thought heisn'ta lot OF things which he