The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-07
THE CHINESE EMPIRE.
Progress of the Partition of the Ancient
Land.

Progress Of the Partition of the Ancient
Land.
According to Wu-Ting-fang, China
/ has maintained the autonomy of her in
situations for four thousand years, as
shown by authentic history; she has
witnessed the rise and fall of Egyptian,
Persian, Grecian and Roman dynasties;
she is the survival of the fittest of an
cient nations. The great problem to-
day among nations is the Chinese ques-
ton Of partition and division of the en-
pire. The encroachment by modern ma
lions upon Chinese territory the last
few years has been one Of aggression
and conquest and acquisition of terrific
ry. All nations except the United
States have not considered the gravity
of the situation and the potentiality of
that empire If once developed and
brought within the pale of modern &C
tivities.
According to the last census and es-
innate, China has 6,447.0O0 people, or
five times as many as the United States;
China's area, including her Dependent
cies, is 4,21S401 square miles, which ap-
proximates the area Of the United
States and her new possessions. Now,
if the combined nations of the world
should endeavor to partition the United
States, they would be repulsed and cast
into the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The United States can defend herself
against the world. China has five times
more people than the United States, in
Guiding territory appurtenant. Then,
when China becomes aware Of her dam
ger of dismembership, can she not by
the heer number Of her soldiers repel
this invasion?
That exploitation of China was begun
in 1851 by Portugal, which seized the
island Of Macao, near Canton. Then in
1912 England extended her civilizing
method by compelling China to open her
ports to the introduction Of opium, and
incidentally other articles of commerce.
For this encroachment England COM
PEELED China to cede to her the island of
Hongkong and pay large cash indem-
nifty. About this time the so-called
evangelization of China began; the mis-
sionary entered the empire with an open
Bible, and the merchant with cargo
of idols, warranted not to warp or tar
nish In any climate, and the war be-
tween the missionary and the seller Of
idols has been waged ever since with
varying success. The statistics as CIV
| an hty "a Ty,1Ifa faf CHI ~
thousand Protestant and one million
| Roman Catholic converts. But as to
the number of cargoes of idols imported
the tables are silent. The converts are
/ from the lowest casts. As General
. Chaffee has said, the educated Chinese
never express any desire to embrace
, Christianity, nor take any interest in
, this religion. Their religions are suffi-
Client and adapted to their civilization
and environment.
, But 1t is not the object OF this article
, to discuss the religious phase of the
, Chinese empire. So, let the spiritual in
, vasion Of China rest and turn the I'M
vestigation to the physical invasion.
After the war between Japan and China
in 1895 Japan obtained the island Of
, Formosa. lying ninety miles off the
| coast Of central China. The acquisition
; of territory was In settlement of war
indemnity, and, therefore. wholly legiti-
mate under the rules of international
! law. But other modern nations seized
, territory upon the merest pretext. with
r out law or equity. So on November 4.
1897, Germany seized the port Of Kiao-
. Chou on the northeastern coast of Chi
! ma, asserting the cause of this action
/ was the desire to obtain satisfaction for
, the murder of two German missionaries
= on November 1 of that year.
e This port was held by German war
= ships until treaty was forced from
e China by which the port and adjacent
0 territory were leased to Germany for q
- TEEN Of ninety-nine years. Germany be-
( ing given the right to land troops, con-
struct Notifications and establish a
coaling and naval station, and German
subjects having the right to construct
railways, open mines and transact bust.
: ness in the rich mineral and agrieultur.
!, al province Of Shan-Tung, i'm which tfe
[ port of Kiao-Chou is located, the Chi.
nese vessels having the same privileges
' in this port that the German govern
U ment might decide to give to other ma
- tions. In the annals of history 1t will
e be hard to find more unjust aggres
q sion and invasion than this act of ac
QUESTION of territory by Germany.
The European and Asiatic nations
Is could not be deprived of this opportuni
+ ty of self-aggrandizement by invasion
|. So on December 20. 1897. Russia OBJ
n tanned permission, by the force of diplo
d matte duress, for Its naval squadron t.
" winter at Port Arthur, on the Lao
a Tung peninsula, which 1t had in con
Ie certed action with Germany and Franc
L in 1895 required Japan to abandon. Thi
r was not enough to satisfy Russia
h Therefore, by the diplomacy which il
.e known to modtrn nations an agreemen
e was entered into between China ant
I Russia on March 27, 1898, by which Por
e Arthur and the adjacent port of Talen
u VVap yera Jaosed for q term of twentv