The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-06-07

us, our gods will bless us, th'
spirit of our ancestors will smile
upon us and soon our country shall
be cleared of these intruders once
for all. Let us be up and doing
for our existence is at stake.
THE CONFLICT ON.
The spirit of this crude Patrick
Henry spread like wildfre through
out the province and soon the boxer
movement was on with all its horror
and barbarities. Once more in the
history of the world Christian
and pagan civilization met. The
conflict was short; the latter was
put to rout. What is your conclu-
sion after studying the events with
in the last twelve months in Gilman
Whatever your conclusion may be,
my sad conclusion is that it is a
competition for championship be-
tween barbarity,that is heather and
barbarity that is Christian. The
agonies and sufferings of the
thousands, yea, tens of thousands
of men, women and children, inno-
cent or guilty, will never be known
to us, but God alone knows who
has contributed most to the cup OF
sorrow, For the present. China
finds her consolation in that sooth-
ing saying of Socrates. (which is
the greater evil, to do or to suffer
wrong?s This episode is yet UNI
finished, and we wait with great
anxiety for its final issue.
Whatever may turn out, OF one
thing am sure, the old China is
dead. She has made her last
struggle, she has gasped her last
breath, she is a thing OF the past.
The Empress tried to revert the
wheels of progress, but in the at
tempt she was crushed. She may
as we'll go stand upon the beach
and bid the main flood bate its
height" she ''may as we'll forbid
the mountain pines to wave their
tops and to make no noise when
they are threatened with the gusts
of heaven" she ''may as well do
anything most hard than that
which is harder to stop the march
of progress.
NEW CHINA AT HAND.
The new China is at hand. What
shall she be? One burdened with
the sense of wrong or one filled
with the feeling of gratitude,
peaceful one or a bloody one? It
depends upon the treatment dealt
her while she is weak, it depends
upon the ACKNOWLEDGMENT or integ-
rity. In the case of the former, let
me prophesy this much: As ! look
into the future ! can see the sons,
the grandsons, yea the great grand
sons of Christendom, marching
forth to face in battle array the
youths of China whose hearts shall
be af1ame with one ambition, to
throw off the foreign yoke, with
one aspiration, to re-estaolished
unified country, and who shall not
stop short of determination or sue
cess. A shudder runs through me
when / picture to myself my coun-
try with her soil Redeemed with
the bloods of the patriots, her
whitened with the bleaching bones
of the lntruders, a country covered
with smoking hamlets and villages,
country .devasted and ravaged.
May God forbid such a scene
but if thou seest fit that the new
China can only come out of such a
fiery ordeal. let it come, and help
thou her to be true to the test. IT
handful of Cubans were bold
enough to defy Spain, if tribe OF
Filipinos are daring enough to
challenge the United States, de-
pend upon it that four hundred
million of the Chinese people will
dare 10 defy the world. We will
beat our ploughshares into swords
and pruning hooks into spears and
there shall wage a struggle the
magnitude and desperateness OF
which the world has never seen.
GOLDEN AGE OF PEACE.
Is this the only way that is be-
fore us? Thank God it is not. If
the present disruption be settled in
Justice and equity and treaties made
upon a more reasonable basis, and
a true spirit of brotherhood and
helpfulness manifested, then when
the smoke disappears, the din OF
war hushed, there shall reign
peace and tranquility throughout
the length and breath of our land
Doors will be thrown wide open, all
outsiders shall be welcome to dwell
within our borders and to share
our fruits Of peace. And ! doubt
not that in the course Of another
fifty years the new China, freed
from the letters of the past, throb-
bling herself the life and hope,