The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-08
REVOLUTIONARY CHINESE.
The Reform Elements Desire to Jap
 anesen the Empire.

1 The Reform Elements Desire 10 Jap
 anese' the Empire
 In an article in the London Chronicle
 George Lynch, the English war cores
 pondent, describes an interview he had with the Chinese roformer and revou- 1 tionist Sun Vat Sen, who headed an in surrection against the Chinese govern | ment near Canton last September. MT, after the instruction,
 "The table in the middle of his room" !" writes Mir Lynch, was strewn with papers books and maps, It was per- feet arsenal of warlike literature. He spoke quite freely about his late cam paign. and taking down a map, gave me the history of it-how it started before he was properly prepared, owing to the premature action of some of his followers: how, starting with only three hundred men, poorly armed, they had captured weapons and ammuni- ton from the Imperial troops; how, in twenty days, they had won six battles and taken possession of five towns, and how, after twenty days fighting his little army had increased to twenty thousand men, and they found them selves absolutely without further sup ylies of ammunition owing to the non delivery of the same which had been brought from a Japanese contractor
 Ut was most interesting when we came to discuss the ultimate aims and object of the insurrection His ambi- ton is to revolutionize China in the same way that Japan was revolution ized thirty years ago, to Japanese it, to use his own expression. He is con- vinced that there is no chance of doing this otherwise than by doing away with the present dynasty and deposing the present emperor Although he quite admitted the desire for reformation which had been manifested by the em- peror some time before, yet he be- lieved that he was too much handl- capped too powerless, surrounded as he was by conservative influences ever to accomplish anything.
 'The Chinese" he said, Fare much cleverer than the Japanese. They be- long to a higher order of intelligence; they are quicker to learn, although more robust and powerful; they are equally superior in refined delicacy of artistic temperament and the essen tials of success in the initiative arts. The Chinese would do in fifteen years as much as it has taken the Japanese thirty years to accomplish
 "I pointed out to him that if that were so, that if they were so apt to learn and that in their rich country in dustriaI developments progressed at anything like the same rate as they did in Japan, the competition from China would be a very great and serious men ace to the trade of Europe
 "You must recollect,' he pointed out, "the better class of the Chinese and all classes to a lesser degree are people who thoroughly enjoy comfort in their domestic life. They are self-contained, sef-supporting people. And they are no more anxious to push their goods on foreign people than they are anxious to have foreign trade thrust upon them more than there is a military Yellow more than there is a militory Yellow Peril, unless indeed a military reforn1a- tion should be thrust upon them by the necessity of protecting their own exis- tence-unless, that is conscription should be forced upon them as it has been on France and Germany. But the Chinese are a pastoral, peace-loving 1