Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-10-11
REAL YELLOW PERIL.
IT WILL CONE NOT IN WAR, BUT IN
TIME OF PEACE.

Victories in Domain of Commerce Views
of an American who Has Lived in
China = Startling Observations Japan
the Ally of China Wonders in Imitation
An American who has lived in Chi
ma for the past three years, and who
was at the headquarters of the allies
since their entry into that country
until six. weeks ago, was in Washing
ton recently. Owing to his important
business interests he refused to allow
his name to be used, but with that
condition expressed himself freely to
Star man as to his view of the situa-
ton in the Orient He said:
THE awful crimes of three of the
allied powers will not go forever un-
punished 81 China. France will be
driven out of southern China some
time in the near future. Germany will
lose the money invested by her citi-
zens in Chinese enterprises, for the
atrocities committed by her soldiers
will not be forgotten or forgiven. The
nation which will lose most of all is
Russia. The day of settlement will be
RACES committed by the Russian troops
on the Chinese of Manchuria, where
between 100000 and 1000 were MUIR
dered last winter, will remain fresh
in the memory of the Chinese nation.
IN the distant future, when Ii Hung
Chang and all Of the other thieves
who sold themselves and their coun-
frv n Pnccio nd txrh0 fnl ha
given to them by their country to build
forts and buy arms, ammunition and
supplies, are gathered by the devil
unto himself, and when the patriotism
of the restored Chinese emperor has
injected some honor into the army Of
China, there will be trouble for Rus
sia.
have an ally in Japan, people any
other nation in the world may well
dread to meet in war, one with an un-
dying hatred for Russia and everything
Russian; people lying in wait and
praying for the hour when she can
strike the czar deadly blow, feat
she cannot hope to accomplish alone.
lnC JdpluCot dIc udllOh Va ool-
diers, and as soldiers l admire them
greatly. Their best men go into the
army. Their army officers are proud
OF the army, of its honor and reputa-
ton. Their ambition is to keep faith
in all ways as do other western ma
tions. In business, however, where
the second grade of Japanese are
found, there is no sense OF honor. of
business integrity, of the solemnity
of the promise engagement or obliga-
tion which under any pretext can be
evaded.
'In China the reverse is true. There
the BEST the brightest, the most ambi-
tious of the race choose a business
career, and while they squeeze you
hard in any trade, if they finally agree
and give their word it is faithfully full
filled in the most minute particulars.
In politics they are corrupt as indi-
viduals and as a nation, and are with
out political principal, conscience OF
honor They rob their soldiers of their
beggarly pay; they rob their country
of the money given without stint to
strengthen the nations defenses. Be-
ing themselves without patriotism
from the empress dowager down, their
pernicious example, set for generations
has stihed all patriotism among the
masses of the people.
MY hope is that the allied powers,
from jealousy of one another, will
keep China intact; that their own
greed to secure the unlimited wealth
of the empire will make them force
the Emperor Kwong Hsu, whom they
will enthrone, to open the country in
fact as we'll as in name to foreign
trade. The public spirit of the en-
peror, assisted by progressive minis
| try, will do the rest. Kwong Hsu's
ideas are at least a century in ad-
vance of those of Ii Hung Chang, who
has ruled the empress dowager and as
sisted her in degrading the empire to
its present low estate
Assuming that all this will come to
pass, that Kwong Hsu will be restored,
| the country thrown open to the build
| ing of railroads and the development
of mines and other industries, there
will follow a growth of material
wealth such as no nation in the worlds
history has ever conceived possible.
ut is realized, however, by those ia
miliar with the situation and the char
acter of the Chinese people that this
wealth will not be for the outside
world that will develop the resources.
The profit will be reaped by the Chi
nese, and for one | am glad it will be
SO. The industriots, tireless, thrifty,
shrewd Chinese; those who have al
ready grabbed good share of the
wealth of Hong Kong, Shanghai and
Tien Tsin; who own the mines already
open, the large banking interests, i'm
mense shipping interests and who mo-
nopolize the mercantile trade already
established, will, with the increased
facilities furnished by foreigners, not
only hold their own but increase their
wealth a hundredfold.
when the western world opens
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