Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-04
CHINA'S FUTURE?

ed with the action of Ii Hung Chang. Joined
( the Tai-pings. whose cause he championed
| with the same ability and success he had
achieved for the imperialists. On one occa-
/ de sac I sent him an invitation to come
and dine with me, which he did. When he
retired l gave him a sack of gold for his
| men, and Burgevfne generously let me out. -
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| Gordon had little esteem for Ii Hung
Chang. 1t was understood that IL Suchow
should fall the lives of the
| Sh1nese" garrison should be saved. In
/ Gordon. spite of this promise they
| were massacred and Gordon
! resigned the command In rage. He would
| have nothing more to do with Ii Hung
Chang.
| Ward and Burgevine have left ineffable
souvenirs upon the Chinese What the
name OF Chinese Gordon has done for
| British policy in China the names of the
Americans Ward and Burgevine may still
accomplish for American prestige and COM
merce there.
ment that Mr.. Marcy. Secretary of State.
| expressed the opinion in 1857 that the
British government had objects In China
| beyond those contemplated by the United
states and we ought not to be drawn along
with 1t, however anxious 1t may be for our
corporation" He wrote the United States
| commissioner to China February q, 1857:
! Tho President does not believe that cur
relations with China warrant the last re-
sort you speak OF. The last resort means
war" In the following May Mr. Reed was
| directed ITO cooperate peacefully with the
| allied powers The United States cs,n-
cluded second treaty with China In 1858.
MT. Burlingan,e in 1864 described the
policy he was pursuing IAN effort to
! for force"
| In the summer of 1868 Mr. Burlingame
who had resigned his post as United States
| minister, arrived In America as the chief
! of an important Chinese embassy At a
| banquet rendered the embassy June q in
| New York he said:
China, emerging from the mists of time
| but yesterday, suddenly entered your west
| ern gates and confronts you by its repre-
! sentative here tonight. What have you to
say to her? She comes with no menace On
| her lips She comes with the great dec
| trine of Confucius uttered 1900 years ago:
| DO not unto others what you would not
| nave others do unto you She asks you
| to forget your ancient prejudices, to aban-
! don your assumptions of superiority and
| to submit your questions with her, she
| proposes to submit her questions with you,
| to the arbitrament of reason. She wishes
| no war; she asks of you not TO interfere
| in her internal affairs. She asks YOU not
| to send her lecturers who are incompetent
men. She asks that you will respect the
| neutrality of her waters and the integrity
| of her territory. She asks. in word, to De
| left perfectly free to unfold herself pre-
| clSeIy IN tflat form or clF1liZatl0n or WnIHn
| she is most capable She asks you to give
| to those treaties which were made under
| the pressure of war d generous and Chris
! tan construction"
China was al war with France in 1SS2-'s5
| on questions relating to Tonkin which re-
| suited in the treaty of Tien-Tsin April 4,
| 1885. Then followed the unfortunate inter-
| ference of Russia, Joined by the United
! States, in taking Korea from the suzer-
| ainty of China and setting up her protete
! as a separate state an ill-advised AIT
| which provoked the Chino-Japanese war n
| 1894. That war cost China the loss of
| Korea the island of Formosa the peniIl-
| sula of Liaotung and the payment to Japan
| of a war indemnity of 2o0,0oo000 taels.
The joint protest of Russia, Germany and
France compelled japan to abandon LAD
tung ard be content with
1Ilple Formosa and the war in
| Protest deinnty. Russia in the same
year effected a loan in
France of SIT ,20O,0 900 for the purpose of en-
abling China to meet the indemnity In
1896 the sum of $50. 00a,eO0 was raised by
German and American capitalists, and in
1898 a like amount was advanced by the
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora
tion and the Observation-Disclosures Bank, in
return for which China granted valuable
railway and trading concessions.
In 1897 Germany seized Kiao-Chau in
the Shantung peninsula and obtained val
! liable concessions as reparation for the
murder of two German missionaries In
1893 Russia acquired possession by lease
of Port Arthur and Ta-lien-wan, and Great
Britain occupied Wei-hai-Wei on the same
terms.
The rebellion of the Boxers. known in
China The Fist of Righteous Harmony,
was inspired by a revolt against the en-
croachments of the foreigner. The rebellion
was finally suppressed by an allied army of
JaDaneSe Russian. British. American and
French, who occupied Picking August II,
1900. The allied powers concluded a proto-
col, signed February, 1901. whereby China
was held to pay an indemnity of 450O000 900
taels 1888, 000, 600.
Since 1901 numerous railway and mining
concessions have been accorded to British.
German, French and American corporations
by the imperial government at Picking. The
creation of such interests constitutes an
element which will unite in emergency
to protect by force if need be the entity
of China.
Japan has violated the treaty of Shi-
monoseki by the manifest absorption of
Korea, and England's action in Egypt will
serve her as precedent.
Gen. Yuan-Sie- Kwai is the successor of
the late Ii Hung Chang as viceroy of
during the Boxer rebellion won for him
the praise of the allied army. The occi-
dental powers Europe and America) may
perhaps count upon him again a point
of support to maintain against Japan the
political entity of China In that connec-
ton Is recalled the declaration, already
cited, of Capt. Mahan, u. S. N, namely:
Of the United States government proposes
to protect the territorial integrity of China
it will be obliged to employ its navy to
effect that object
Europe is even seriously discussing
that proposition with reference to the flu
ture of China
! CHARLES CHAILLE LONG.