The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-02
THE STORM CENTRE
 OF THE WORLD
eBy pr. R. warren conans.,
CHApTER Xn.

tBy Dr. R. Warren Conantl
 CHATTER XII.
 And now comes the shadowtng interna- tional question of the twentieth century.
 Are broken tne 5,ss Enropean Uu powers; or will its heterogeneous elements. welded oy blows into Q compact protectiie, pc I'm.
 ssesS Sy tSs %itn cn which ssa Those who find light for the future only in tn. ashes of the past must n, Snen grope in in
 be found in history and no situation nke parallel is in Japan, but even there com parison fails The Japanese, although sup posed to have come originally from Chi | na, are of an entirely different character | While the Chinese are stubbornly opposed eager as the ancient Athenians to tell | or to hear some new thing; the former | are slow and solid: the latter alert and
 thoughts and habits or centuries, the lat l ter are versatile and adaptive; the form | CT cling to their isolation. the latter wei
 come stranser:; the ,, rormef wi,, n,.nsvrs nevee | from without. the latter have worked out l their political emancipation in two de-
 cades in their own M .. way; ., Ioron |. | oY little value in forecasting the future. | The best we can do Is to get below the
 surface of Chinese characlsr; possible. | A l carefully those minor circumstances | which serve as straws te indicate the d.
 rection in which the nation Is drifting.
 vidual that nothing happens. without | cause; given the thoughts and feelings | of the great mass of a people the course the 9son updsr ds ss naton s only | aggregation of individually pius the nor | al effect of numbers. Superfcially the Chinese are tne moss | rfh In | among the most sensitive. The Engisn-
 men and the American are reputed 70 | carry the concealment, of feeling 10 tne
 highest degree of perfection. yet their
 words and faces are an open book com,
 pared with the Chinamans. A natural
 talent for secretiveness a pride nourtsh-
 auirements of a complicated etiquette, a
 sensitiveness which is galled by the
 slightest failure to render all the .consid-
 shfs Sy o
 have made the Chinaman past master
 in the art of saving his face"
 John never says Just what ne thinks.
 no. The directness on which we pride
 ourselves he regards as a mark Of crude
 ness With him it is a matter of pride pride
 the impenetrable mask of his yellow face.
 or, If he does desire to express his real
 wishes, he considers 1t more civilized,
 more dignined to reveal them indirectly
 TO him our frankness seems childish. and 1t is one of many reasons why he calls
 us barbarians. In this he Is thoroughly
 "a man of the world"
 The extent to which this is carried,
 whe ther in the hovel or the palace, IS
 almost beyond belief. For instance, 1T
 servants anywhere in the world than n
 China-is dissatisfied with his pay. he VIII
 not say so, instead he will come to you
 with some yarn about his father being
 very sick or his mother bed-rfdden. and
 viii state with many apologies and the
 profoundest regrets. that he is obliged In | consequence to leave your Excellence | most honorable service.
 If you are green. you will sympathize
 with his misfortune and express regret
 at his being obliged to leave-ali to- to nis as
 this kind will earn you the profoundest
 contempt of all your servants as an un-
 mannerly cad. And they will make you
 feel your contempt in ways which will be
 none the less effective because they leave
 you no possible ground for complaint.
 But If you are to the manner bred, you
 fellow servants why % Long is dissatis-
 ned. Having learned that hc wants larg
 CT pay, you will in a day or two inquire
 the course of the conversation will men
 tion casually that you are going to raise
 his wages. Apparently he will take nc
 save his face by all the time Keeping np
 the pretense that you believe his story
 his parents health will improve rapidly he will be able to remain with you and
 servants, recognizing that though bar 2 barian, you do know something of man. ners. will treat you with the respect dae The same indirection will be practicee international importance. This nationa ed reputation for deceit, and ignorance of it has been at the bottom of much o l the difficulty with foreigners. Silly as II ! all seems to us, the fact must never bt lost sight of that these heathen hay, their own standards of what is right an' : proper, of which they are tenacious tt the last degree and by which they 1ndg 5 in the world to insult Chinaman grossl! 3 and yet be perfectly polite, according t' our standard, and this alone is sufticien s to account for the contempt and dislik which they feel for us. When to thi have been added years of ill-treatment it is possible to understand the perfectl! fiendish hatred for foreigners which the, 2 manifest when once the noodgates O their repressed feelings are opened.
 All this must be taken into account fl point to be considered Is the futurity o the Caucassian in airing and drilling tn, S very people he has insulted and injured To sell the Chinese the best moderl use of them, is as sublimely idiotic as 1 , would be to hand a man g loaded revol yer and then proceed to kick and cuf 1 him. Can any one doubt what the yelloy man will do as soon as he feels it saf g to act out his real fellings. The Boxe rising Is but hint of what Is coming. B But it may be urged that India ha ! been held in subjection by her own sone 2 drilled and commanded by English offi } cers Also, that the English, with thei
 usual military sagacity, have already be gun to apply to the Chinese the sam
 system which they have found SO success
 full elsewhere. For more than six month
 their officers have been drilling at We 4 Hai Wei the First Battalion, First Reg a iment Chinese Infantry, comprising 36 men. Their success has been remarkab ble z By hard drilling they have transforme stupid awkward coolies into soldiers a