Evening star., 1901-06-18
REAL YELLOW PERIL
It Will Come Not in War, but in
Peace.
VICTORIES IN DOMAIN OF COMMERCE
Views of an American Who Has
Lived in China.
STARTLING OBSERVATIONS


An American who has lived in China 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 Washington today. Owing to his inn
portant business interests he refused to
allow his name to be used, but with that
condition expressed himself freely as to
his view of the situation in the orient. He
said:
1.-The awful crimes Of three Of the allied
powers will not go forever unpublished by
China. France will be driven out of south
ern China some time in the near future.
Germany will lose the money invested by
her citizens 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 long delayed, but
the appalling outrages committed by the
Russian troops on the Chinese of Man
churia, where between 100000 and 100000
We're murdered 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 country to Rus
sia and who stole the money given to them
by their country to build forts and buy
arms, ammunition and supplies, are gath
cred by the devil unto himself, and when
the patriotism of the restored Chinese en-
peror has injected some honor into the
army of China, there will be trouble for
Russia.
Japan the Ally of China.
when that day comes China will have
ally in Japan, a people any other ma
ton in the world may well dread to meet
in war, one with an undying hatred for
Russia and everything Russian; a people
lying in wait and praying for the hour
when she strike the cZar a deadly
blow, feat she cannot hope to accom-
plish alone
The Japanese are a nation Of soldiers,
and soldiers l admire them greatly
Their best men go into the army. Their
army officers are proud of the army, of it's
honor and reputation. Their ambition is
to keep faith in all ways as do other west
ern nations. In business however, where
the second grade of Japanese are found
there is no sense of honor of business in
tegrity, of the solemnity of the promise,
engagement or obligation which under any
preteXt can be eVaded.
In China the reverse is true There the
best, the brightest, the most ambitious 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 fulfilled in the most minute
particular. In politics they are corrupt as
individuals and as nation, and are with
They rob their soldiers of their beggarly
pay; they rob their country of the money
given without stint to strengthen the ma
tiops defenses. Being themselves without
patriotism from the empress dowager
down, their pernicious example Set for
generations, has stifed 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 kwonS Hsu,
whom they will enthrOne, TO open the coun-
try in fact as well as in name to foreign
trade. The public spirit of the emperor,
assisted by a progressive ministry, Will do
the rest. kwong Hsus ideas are at least
a century in advance of those or LII hung
Chang, who has ruled the empress dowager
and assisted her in degrading the empire
to it's present low estate.
Material Growth of China.
Assuming that all this will come to
pass that Kwong Hsu will be restored, the
country thrown open to the building Of
railroads and the development of mines
and other industries there will follow
growth of material wealth such as no ma
ton in the worlds history has ever con-
ceiVed possible.
at is realized, however, by those familiar
with the situation and the character of the
Chinese people that this wealth will not be
for the outside world that will develop the
resources The profit will ve reaped by the
Chinese, and for one | am glad 1t Will be
So The Industrious, tireless, thrifty,
shrewd Chinese; those who have already
grabbed a good share of the wealth of
Hong Kong. Shanghai and Tien Isin; who
own the mines already open. the large
banking interests, immense shipping inter
ests and who mOnopoliZe 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 China to
the great manufacturing and wonderful
mineral possibilities of the latter country,
when other nations point the way, China
will develop her resources in such man
ner that nation unwilling to let her la
boring men live as the Chinese live can
hope to compete with the native popula-
ton. My admiration for the physical
strength and endurance of the Chinese
knows no bounds. Physically they are pos
sessed of vast reserve strength 1 wish 1
could tell you of what have seen them do
how they work like giants twenty-four
hours at a stretch never closing their
eyes. singing all the while and living sole
ly on rice Physically these men are the
wonder of the laboring world.
Wonderful in Imitation.
'"They are initiating, ingenious and inven-
tive When foreign stoves were selling in
Tien Tsin for 500 in Mexican money 1
have known the Chinese to take one of
these foreign stoves and use it for a mold
from which to make new castings, imprint
ing the names of the foreign manu-
facturers SO we'll that detection was i'm
possible. From this one stove bought of
the for eign dealer they would make many
and sell them at a profit of 900 per cent
country whose people do this, and
many other things like it, will. soon as
the utilities of the civilization of the west
are appreciated, build up manufacturing
and commercial industry which will mark
new epoch in civilization.
THE allied powers have driven the iron
deep into the soul of the Chinese nation
Who can say, with Kwong Hsu on the
throne. that these people may not learn the
lesson of patriotism. They learn all other
lessons given them, and this last one will
be told to their children's children No
ghost stories will be needed in China to
terrify the young until the occupation of
the allied powers in the last year of the
old century has been forgotten.
Those who ridicule Sir Robert Hart are
wide of the mark. His only error, in my
opinion was putting the cart before the
horse. Yellow Peril will not come first in
the form of war for it's victories will he