The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-05-14

| Hs8 SSs-.=s&S shot and shell at
| EiN&&N u .r.ss..l...1 Taku last June.
| DtSt4$k lDAln@ he imperial
| E|YNXWEA throne has bet
| nv ME}4 ter "face" with
| lin vi S@ the empire at
| llaAp large and the
- -. ------ Celestial people
higher respect from the world at large
than when the gauge of battle was
thrown down and CHINA stood at war
with martial Christendom. =
| After all the falsehood, misconception
and cruel Judgment of the past ten
months the subject is clearing up, and
the outsider, sitting under the evening
ate the situation in China better than
the average man who is closely mixed
up in the oriental problem.
AS to China's discontinue in the con-
fict which the powers juggle them
selves into believing has ended in tri-
umph of civilization over barbarism,
she has really lost nothing. The west
ern world will foot the bill of damages
laid by itself through the duties on it's
/
| in the turbulence of last summer have
been sacrificed, but as the world never
heard of them before so China will not
miss them in any future crisis of her
affairs. Scapegoats are cheap in China.
True, China has been desecrated and
Picking lost to the court. But what of
that in the face of China's triumphs of
diplomacy and chicane? The powers
demanded everything in sight, and the
Chinaman, with his finger to his nose,
| can whistle, Cali right, and much good
| may it do you" The concessions have
been mere words, the surrenders mere
| scraps Of paper. AS Ii Hung Chang
put it months ago: with your hands
at our threats we promise everything,
but afterward we forget all about it at
our convenience. You westerners do
the same" China hasn't played her
own game, at least not played it out.
The foreign sword fell in the nick of
time to check what might have been
/ the most calamitous outbreak of Celes-
tial hostility ever known. But it is by
no means over. The snake is scotched,
not killed. China has been "desecrat-
4 ed" by foreigners too long to expert
ence deep humiliation over the irrup-
ton of western devils" as an offset to
Boxer outrages. AS for Picking and
the court, it was announced in June,
1900, that Prince Tuan, the power be-
bind the Boxers and the throne and at
the bottom of the whole movement,
had it in mind to transfer the court to
the mountainous regions of northern
China purposely to secure it from for
eign influence. At Signan-fu the capt.
!. tai is beyond the reach of hostile ar
mics. Assuming therefore that China
wants to take up the game she had in
hand when the Boxers and the Chris
tians so suddenly clashed on the Pei
Ho, she is in better shape for the strug-
l gle than year ago
The Picking authorities have very
clearly insisted until the world has
| accepted their view of it that the
| outrages on the legations and all the
dark business of the Boxer regime
= We're due to local rebellion which the
: imperial government could not subdue
> Nothing could be more erroneous fol
the powers to accept and abide by thar
this explanation. China would have
B the world think that a little stamping
out of rebels here and there. with {
strengthening of imperial power. is al
that is needed to restore order and t.
, maintain it. The truth is that Chin:
: has been in rebellion for an untol,
number of years. At last it came t
the point that the foreign encroach
ments. actual and prospective, wer
unbearable. Japan first carried thing
with high hand, opening the wa
for Russia. Germany. England an
France to seize what they wanted a
entering wedges and to lay out on pc
per plans for the complete destructio
a of China. This could only mean TIL
:. end of the ancient Celestial empire c
!: war with all the world except of cours
\ the United States.
! In spite of the talk of Chinese d.
+ generacy the race is not to go dow
Z without last struggle for life. 1t ma
+ be a frantic. barbaric. suicidal figh
7 but China is China, and the Celesti;
! has his own notions of what col
Z stitutes barbalism. He thinks thu
!. land grabbing is quite as bad as mu
+ dering missionaries. The soil of Chin
!. is not only his heritage for bread an
+ butter. but it holds the sacred ashe
]. of his ancestors back for thousands {
I years.
!. When the reactionary empress an
I. her chief adviser, Tuan, saw that Oh
]. ma was drifting on the tide, soon to
IF the sport of the foreigner commercial
and politically, they seized the bull |
NJ the horns and set about saving the Ell
nj pire. Strange to say, the Boxer bus
it. ness all arose out of China's tradition
ok and well intrenched peace or nonmi
by tary policy. The spirit of war has bee
nd drilled out of the heart of the Chin
II. man by process going on for age
u All the teachings of his gods, his a
- cestors and his immediate rulers ha'
lv' been against the war spirit, again
iiv strife. against violence. Those OF