The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-27
The MikadO's People Expected
to Control the Future
Of China
FINE FIELD FOR AMBITION
Mandarin of Prominence Believes
Only Cultivated, Literary Chinese
Oppose the Friendly Offices of
the Smart Little People.
Special Cable to The Globe.

to play the same part in Asia that the
Teutonic-Celtic race has done in Europe?
The japanese have long believed this
to be their predestined part in the East
and to that end have adopted Western
methods with a rapidity which has car
ried them in a few years to position
where an alliance with them has been
consider ed desirable by the most pro-
gressive and powerful of the Western
peoples.
TO the cultured Chinese, however, the
polish Of the Jap Is exactly expressed in
the word ''shoddy."
The educated Gilman an has a horror
of his volatile. mercurial, insular cousin
He considers that his presumption in
hoUing to the inf1uerce Of Western civ
ilization ahead of the parent stock should
be met by snub to his inconsequential
dependent or relative.
But IS this prejudice on the part of the
scholarly Chinaman only an evidence Of
the fact that he him self is doomed as
an anachronism and that the Jap will
take his place as leader of the illiterate
among his own countryme
Again, to go further, is it not from tho
element from which spring the Boxers
that the social revolution is to proceed?
They are the restless, dissatisfied spirits
who have been responsible for creating
the present situation, therefore why
should they not continue the most prom
inent factor in the EtraEsformatiO
Japan Entitled to Lead.
THE learned Chinese may pretend to
Gespise the Japanese said a well known
Chinese mandarin of excer tonally lib
eraI views to ME one day recently but
the facts are these. Japan has Shown
an adaptability to modern methods
which entities her to the lead among
Eastern peoples. 1t is not the Chinese
alone that have slumbered so lorg. What
of India, Persia and the other Asian
countries? japan alone has awakened to
the necessity of meeting the European
competition and has fitted herself to
guide her sister nations in Asia.
1.-THE ascenGency of the Japanese is not
feared i'll China, because it could never
be detrimental to us. What could 40,0O0,
0CG of Japanese do against 100000 600 of
Chinese? In the end it would moan the
assimilation of the japanese by that
Chinese. In the case of Russia it might
be very different Russia Russianizes
wherever she goes. Her religion and
ideas must be adopted by the subject
power. The change effected with the aid
of the japanese would to a certain eX-
tent come from. within, but with Russia
it would be from without, denationalt-
cation, a Europeanjzirg Of us which
would not be for the best for the Chinese
whatever it might be for the Russian.
I question Whether it would be the best
for anyone. The ethnelegical divisions
of the human race and their disposal in
different territories certainly have some
purpose and even if they lrave not. can
not be ignored or abrogated. Miscegena-
ton cannot materially change the pro
portion Of blacks whites end browns in
the worlds popula ton in thousands Of
years and a Russianized yellow race
would be entirely an anomaly, where
'Japanned' one would not.
CHOSE Chinese who affect to despise
the Wide-awake Jap belong to the dog
in the manger class. They would never
throw off restraint and work themselves
into practical usefulness in the new order
of things. But there are Cinnamon who
are adaptive and millions of them. There
are already signs of a desire on the part
of many of our young men to go abroad
and acquire for themselves that educa-
ton which the Jap has already estab-
lished at home.
Japanese Not Perfect.
True, the Japanese is not perfect, but
who can fail to admire the prodigious
progress made by them in all that goes
to the making of a leading nation. The
curse of our system is the corruption
AthCl pC1uiScI6S every DIdHcn OIL InG
government. You will generally find the
ofhceholders are those most bitterly op-
posed to the Japanese and any kind of
reform. The disciplining of this class of
Wrongdoers is the most difficult task
now before the government and we may
hear of many rebelions similar to the
present one in the south.
Checked in her many aspirations in
Cofea Japan adopted other tactics which
arc Not, "a
these acute little gentlemen. Sne sees no
country in the world which she can so
successfully exploit as China Rejected
in Australia and unable to successfully
combat the native in the United States
she sees in the Chinese empire an illimit-
able field for her enterprise, where she
need fear little rivalry of an intensive
kind
Whether she will be allowed to carry
cut her dreams cannot now be foretold
Certainly she has shown herself capable
and has compelled the respect of think
ing Cinnamon by her actions. The lesson
she taught us in the late war was de-
clsive and complete. I refer, naturally,
to the Chinese-Japanese war, We had
expected to find her army and navy a
bag of wind. We despised her so that we
Gid not take necessary precautions in 60
ing into the fight
Fought Better Than EurOpeans.
But what did we find? The fighting of
European troops even surpassed. A dis
cipline finer even than that of the Ger
mans; marvellous mechanical obedience.
Everything in the way of detail carried
out on the field of battle with the abso.
lutte precision and daintiness of the NAV
ground.
THE GOODNESS of the English. the dash
of the French, the fearlessness of the
Arab and the stubbornness of the old
guard
Their commissariat arrangements
were perfect and their plan of campaign
SO we'll made that it worked out to The
letter, every victory being won as ar
ranged, the union of attachments effected
without hitch. 1t was the same with
her navy. The *'paper'' sailors were mar
velous. They gave lessons in naval tao
tics to Europe and led the way with
actual application of submarine tactics in
the destruction of forts and by compelling
the capitulation of Warships.
These are facts. We have seen Japan
do this Yet only think how short a time
since she was as helpless as ourselves.
If she could accomplish so much of her
plans in SO short time, what are we to
expect in the future?''
This is not the only intelligent China
man l have heard talk this way OF
course none ever believes that Japan will
acqui-o any rights but those of man
agerial and transitory character in the
Celestial kingdom. But China lacks the
initiative, which Japan possesses to the
fullest extent
The Japs are not slow to appreciate
the prestige which the alliance with
Britain has given them which will spe-
cially be utilized to assist them to prom
inence in Chinese internal affairs