The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-02
PEACE WILL AWAKEN CHINA.
DIR. SEAMAN SAYS THAT SHE
HAS GREAT PLANS AFOOT.
Has Sent, an E.missary to America 10 Sug.
spst That We Found Scholarships for
Chinese with the Boxer Indemnity
; --s.he Has New Army Plans, Also.

another disccrdant note in the chorus OF
praise Of the peace Of Portsmouth. II
has been sounded by DR.. Louis L. Seaman,
who has just got hclEe from visit to Man
Ch,ria, where he saw both the Japanese
and Russian armies at the front. He had
s9mthing to say yeste Iday at his home,
Twenty eighth street and Fifth avenue.
not only about peace but Of the awakening
and undermining of the Chinese Empire.
"The so-called peace of Portsmouth,
said DR.. Seaman, will, in my opinion,
come to be regarded az one Of the great
mistakes OF the century. That which is
called peace will be, in my opinion, only a
prolonged armistice. I have been fairly
near the firing line Of both the Japanese
and Russian armies and believe / know
something of the temper of the men who
have fought this war. know something
of the spirit Of the house of Romanoff,
Of its MOBILES and of the Russian people.
| have more intimate acquaintance with
the temper Of the people Of Japan, and tell
you that the so-called peace Of Ports
mouth is welcomed neither in st Petersburg
nor Toxic.
There are several good reasons why
the peace treaty which is now being written
can only be prolonged armistice. In the
first place, Russa-she 10 still one Of the
great nations of the earth-wil never con-
sent to be bottled up and will never be
satisfied until she has regained the prestige
and the territory which she has lost in this
war,
Furthermore, and fear it Ia not generally
known to my countryRen, Russia is
most fertile territory. Acre on acre and
mile on mile of the soil OF the empire needs
only to be tichled in order to bring forth
rich harvests. With the Black Sea closed
and an uncertain way through the OAR
daneIes to the sea and with only a poor
water way to the Baltic, Russia must have
an outlet for her commerce Of the future.
She will go where she can or where she
may She will find her way to the Persian
Gulf and, if necessary though China and
over the battlefields which she has 40 re-
Gently lost aud upon which she has left her
dead. The great empire by the frozen
sea will not stand still.
And while the Russians are gettin &
ready the Japanese will grow more and
more FESTIVE. Do you suppose Nogi's
veterans, tho mon who followed wherever
Oku led or the soldiers of the splendid army
of the masterful Kuroki can forget. for in
stance, that they won by their valor all of
Sakhalin Island. only to have their Emperor.
the Elder Statesmen and the plenipoten-
tiaries of peace give half Of it back to the
Russians whom they thrashed? Do you
suppose that the men who fought with Togo
will forget that the battleships which only
escaped the merciless fire Of their guns in a
fog and found shelter in the harbor of Manila
have been given back under the terms OF
peace to the Russians? The big white
soldiers of Russia and the little brown men
of Japan will come together again and the
roll OF the war drums will be heard in the
East. Then will be fou ght to a finish that
last final battle for supremacy, which. for
ths good of mankind and the welfare Of
Russia and Japan. should have been fought
now by the armies OF Oyama and Linievitch
in northern Manchuria.
belligerents and the world In general are
reck Oning to-day in the East without China.
Some day, and il is not far distant: China.
with it's militant millions, will be the
power in the Orient: We can no longer
Of China. She has already awakened, and
yet the world knows little of it.. On my
trip home met DR.. Tong, who has been
sent by the Chinese Government to nego-
tiate a new treaty with the United States.
talked to him Of his country and his people.
and even \, who know something OF China
U have been there nine times) was amazed
at the story he told. So amazed, in fact,
was that asked him to reduce to writing
and in the form of a letter to me the SUBJ
stance Of what he had said.
cordial relations that have always existed
between China and the United States, and
reminds me that the Chinese people, from
the days Of Confucius, have Eeen a people
of peace, who have been taught, more than
anything else, to revere the works and the
spirits of their ancestors. Chinaman
who dies leaving no son is regarded as a
lost soul. because he leaves behind him
no one to venerate him. Yet there Ia an
old Chinese adage that 1t ia better for
man to leave no son than TO leave q son
who becomes a soldier.
in spite of this and in spite of the thou
sands Of years of tradition and the wall be-
hind which they have lived Dr.. Tong writes
to me that the edict has gone forth that
a school for modern and Western education
shall he established in every district In
every prefecture, and that there shall be
a college or university in every province.
The teachers In these institutions shall
be either Cinnamon taught abroad or
Americans or Europeans.
But that is not all. From what DR.:
China herself were preparing to take her
mart in the wars Of the future. An army
Of AZ, 600 men is to be raised by order Of
the Empress in each of the twenty-three
provinces Of the empire, and these armies,
also by imperial edict. are to be Differed
and drilled by Americans or Europeans,
or by Cinnamon, who have learned thor
ghly, as the Japanese have learned,
the best methods of the armies Of thew Western
these things DR. Tong told me, hut it
was not all and in my opinion not the most
interesting Of all that he said. You remem-
ner that following the Boxer rebellion In
China the United States exacted from the
Chinese Government an indemnity OF $40
600 900. 1t has been proposed that we
should return this indemnity TO China.
DR.. Tong spoke OF this proposition and
amazed me by saying that China would ap-
precate it If the United States did no such
thing. On the contrary. he said, the thing
which China would like best would be for the
United States to invest that twenty millions
of dollars in it's own Government bonds
and with the income provide scholarships
at various American colleges and universi-
ties for the free education of Chinese stu
dents who in the years that are to come
shall be the soldiers and statesmen and
tradesmen of China.
-If the Flowery Kingdom isn't already
sitting up and taking notice, then 1 don't
know what real live wide awake one ID.
DR.. Seaman was asked about the methods
of the medical corps of the Japanese Army.
simply wonderful no replied. -The
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