The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-02
1he ADVERTISERS
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racy and obedisdce Tn merkmanship ana
 steadiness under fire they have been tried
 the riSicuioas Ss aS co.s ~sn of monthly VI per % man
 for pay and provisions.
 India. Leaving out of account the terri
 ble, Sepoy risings of 175e and 1857 and the
 continued muttering of Hindu discontent.
 different race to deal with. To equal
 pride and fanaticism with the Hindu they
 add greater force mentally. morally and
 physically. besides q practicality ana
 stranger. Furthermore. objectionable as
 is the government and civilization of Chf-
 na in many respects, 1t is far superior to
 the bloody tyranny or the ola ralans
 ernnity impossible. China can never be
 conquered as India was,
 Another. point--tlne Chinese are not %
 sssRd ssa hsstas as tnsy psssv,ty
 partly because they are SO. childish in
 many things. we have formed a contemp-
 tuous opinion of their mental abilities
 ago ieo Chinese boys of the average aee
 of g years were sent tc the United statea
 by their government to be educated. Az
 they they Sss a
 birth or breeding yet their progress was
 In addition to the mental labor required
 become familiar with one of the most
 difficult languages In the world. to revo.
 iultoniAc their own habits of thought, and
 to master all the thousand little intrica.
 cies of daily life in an alien lana n
 spite of ali this far from home and friends, every one of these boys etood as least in the upper half of every class. Al
 ths 5ne ynd schoo their behavior and studiousness were perfect.
 girls took the examinations for admission to one of our largest colleges. None of them had had any preparation outside ot a mission school in China. Among hum dreds of candidates for admission the boys took the highest rank Tn Latin. the girls in mathematics.
 But 1t may be objected thgt these were picked scholars. Then take the case oa | beggar girl. rescued from "a sChinese gutters. who received first honors in one | of our best colleges for women; or of a | destitute boy. sent here by missionaries | for education. who took first prise for English composition at Yale. ..si;la
 But this is sufficient to prove that once | the Chinaman shakes on theh letters ioi | superstition and conservatism ne VII | give us a close race in every department.
 na in for Work Se pos sesses great superiority. In another de cade and a half China will have nothing l to learn from us. She will be making | nef own ndcutncEy dNiho anu .AAAtAN'AA | ton for her own services with her owr | hands. She will have railroads. steam | CTS, a powerful and skilled navy. and ar l army of half a million men drilled and | armed to equal any in the world. Wha, then? She will drive her teachers and
 prosecutors into the sea and repay th' | debt with usury N N.
 | win the Chinese go farther and attack
 the world? The Chinese will not. fol | they are peaceable by nature. by tn: l Manchuemay. They are the rulers oi | China. and theirs Is very different blood | the Mongoi Tartar blood. Though now | sadly degenerate, they come from race | of world conquerors. the names of Jen' | gis. Khan, Oktai. and Kiblei in the thir' | teenth century. and of Tamerlane In thu l fourteenth, spread terror through Asia | and even Europe trembled. From thu | fifth to the seventeenth century Asia wal l the breeding place whence issued swarmi l of Huns. Magyars. Turks and Mongoliani | to overrun Europe. Jangis Khan ana | Oktai his son. conquered and ruled ar | empire from the Pacific to Poland. ana from India to Siberia. What If in twenty years from now { | twentieth century Oktai should sit on tn, | throne in Pekin. an effective army ot | million men obedient to his nod, an iron | clad fleet to carry them worldwide ant | all the most complete modern cnginer. l of destruction? Would not history nor | than repeat itself?
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