Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10


nusSlau number OF years absorb the
Reformation attention and energies Of the
car and his people. Under
the supervision of so great an architect
as M. White the Russian house SO unduly
shaken by the storm must be repaired. and.
II need be. rebuilt from the base.
The assumed retirement of Russia from
commercial as well as military activity in
the affairs of the far east leaves the United
States to contest with Japan the CONNER
cial. IL not the political. superiority In the
Pacific. and especially In China.
Baron Kanelo was given a special mis-
sion to the United States to allay any sus-
ptclon that was expected to arise as to
Japan's aspirations which might conflict
with the future OF the United States In
the Pacific. But Notwithstanding the as
surances OF the mikado's sympathetic agent
certain portion of the American press in
sists that there is probability that the
United States will find that It's chief COM
petitor In the commerce of China Is Japan.
In this regard a cablegraln from Berlin the
9Th instant reports the kaiser to have said
In an audience accorded several American
congressman: 1.-The Japanese will follow UP
their military successes by closing the open
door. and by their command of cheap labor
force Europe and America out of the orien-
tai markets. Japan would indirectly own
tons to shun the yellow peril by uniting.
The only power tina Japan feared was
America. and it was good thing for the
world that the United States was on one
side of the Japanese empire.
In the Revue des Deux Mondes for Au-
gust, ID. REM Pinon has written an extra
ordinary article entitled:
EHect 1.-THE Japonixation Of China"
on China. 1.-The Russo-Japanese war"
he says. will have strange
results. Russia the victim. China. the stake.
both feel the shock to the very depths OF
their national life, and the war will cause
radical change in their constitution ana
their destinies. The elimination Of Russia
from the seas of the far east leaves in the
foreground In the face of China in convul-
sions. triumphant Japan. In waiting Is the
American competitor. who Is preparing ana
arming. Japan Is the master or the Yeilow
| sea. She will seek to force her will upon
| the middle kingdom. In the struggle for
| the Pacific Japan is the conaueror."
| China In her feeble effort in 1894 to as
sert her traditional rights over Korea, was
defeated. The shock awoke China from
| her sleep of ages. The awakening created
no desire to acquire the western civilization
adopted by her rival but 1t begot an ambi-
| ton to be and to do what Japan had become
| and had done. Her wounded pride and van
| ity had been touched. The spectacle OF
| her oriental conqueror holding place among
| the allied foreign troops sent to rescue
| Picking from the grasp of the Boxer rebel
| lion; the recollection of the Indemnity to the
| allied governments; the souvenir of the In
| demnity and loss Of Formosa to Japan
| these reflections. like needle points, excited
| her ambition-decided China to emulate, not
| Europe, but her yellow rival become her
| patron and friend. 1t Is not singular that
| Japan should seek to control China's des-
| TIMES when threatened either with exappro-
| priation or Europeanization by Europe. The
| coming of Baron kentaro Kaneko to ex-
plain the mysterious marriage OF an 'orten-
| tai and occidental civilization, the aspira-
| tion," he said. "of Japan, was logical and
| timely and served at least the purpose OF
distracting the Americans attention.
The influence of the wise Marquis Ito.
| who is just now being made the object OF
the i'll humor of Tokyo mob
Reform "a comedy inspired by the
| in China. foreign office-created the
ideas of reform in the mind
| Of Kouang-Sin, the Emperor Of China.
| Kang-Yu-Wei the well-known liberal.
caused Wong Tong-Ho. the emperor's
| preceptor, to read to him the history Of
| Peter the Great. The lesson was not lost
| en- the emperor, who, in his desire to be-
| come like the great Peter. issued liberal
edicts which. If executed, would have trans
| formed China as by miracle. But Ii
Hung Chang and the Manchu Iong-Lou In
| tervened and sustained the opposition Of
| the empress dowager. Tze-Hi annulled the
DEGREES and. causing the emperor to sign
| his own abdication, relegated him to the
recesses of the palace and resumed the
reins of government. KangYu-Wei fled to
Singapore, where he awaits the passing of
Tze-Hi The passing will not be long de-
layed, for within few days an attempt
was made to aSSaSsinate her.
Another element of reform has it's center
at Hongkong-quite unofficial. this party
and supported by the active symp athy OF
the British Its adherents. composed of
Cinnamon partisans Of European culture.
may be found in Hongkong. Singapore.
| Java, the Philippines, Hawaii. San Fran
| cisco and Japan. 1t favors the overthrow
of the Manchu; would set up Chinese
dynasty, and aims as commencement TO
| establish separate government composed
of the two provinces of Kouang. Kiao Chan
| and this Yunnan. Canton Is the proposed
| capital, and the government is to be modelled
after that Of Great Britain and America.
| The chief is Sun-yat-Sen, who has made
three unsuccessful attempts at revolution.
His party is known as Young China
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For a fact, at that time both Japan and
Great Britain were looking out for a
| sphere of influence" in
Englands southern China and In the
Interest. valley of the Yangtse, where
Great Britain hoped to Gre
ate a New Egypt. Things have changed
somewhat since then. Japan, who was be-
| ing led by Great Britain, is now the leader,
and the world is asking with some curiosity
what the Englishman will get out of his al
lance with Japan, If anything. In this
connection it is instructive to cite from the
treaty of January 20, 1901, the following:
Art. 1. The high contracting parties hav-
| ing mutually recognized the independence
of China and Korea. declare themselves to
be entirely uninfluenced by any aggressive
| tendencies in either country. Having In
view, however. their special interests, Of
| which those of Great Britain relate prin-
cipaly to China, while Japan Is interested
in peculiar degree politically as well as
commercially and industrially in Korea. the
high contracting parties recognize that 1t
will be admissible for either of them to-
take such measures as may be indispensable
in order to safeguard those interests IL
threatened. either by the aggressive action
of any other power or by disturbance aris-
In In China mr. nd in bo