Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-18
CHINA A WORLD POWER
Chicago Traveller Says the Race
is Making Great Advance
ment
GAINED BY JAPANESE WAR
Making Best Use Of Lessons Learned
Opening Up Immense Coal Fields
Famine Now Under controI-Japan-
ese seIfishIy Aggressive and a
Menace.

Marquette, Mich, Feb. inc
| Chinese have made wonderful strides
| in the last few years and they are ad-
vancing rapidly said Ralph j. Mac
kenzie in an interview here yesterday
| Mr.. Mackenzie has recently returned
from China, where, in the employ Of a
machinery company of Chicago, he
spent two years in various parts of the
empire and adjacent countries.
las race they are bright - much
brighter than the Japanese-and they
are willing and anxious to be taught.
There are no better workmen on earth
than the Chinese, and both the COM
mon and skilled laborers are highly eff
ficient Education is the keynote of
their success.
1.-THE emperor is tolerant and friendly
to foreigners. Nearly all of the man
darins are highly educated, either in
the best colleges of China or of foreign
countries, many of them being grad
yates of Yale, Harvard, Oxford and
Cambridge. They are educating their
sons in foreign countries and the COM
ing generation promises to make
China a world power, which it could
never become unless it became modern
ICED and kept pace with the other ma
tions Of the world.
"Chtpa erairad much nv tho "a
Of the Japanese war, for it opened to
Manchurla The Chinese are making
the best possible use Of their opportun-
tiles and from their coal fields the
government will soon be supplying its
railroads, steamship lines and other in
dustries. The resources are wonderful,
and I look for most satisfactory re-
suits from the work now being done.
We did not feel the effects Of the boy
colt great real and it has almost
passed off now.
China is comparatively tranquil
now. The soldiers and brigands have
skirmfsh once in while, but 1t
amounts to very little, and the for
eigners do not suffer by the activity
of the brigands. The latter are friend
ly enough to the foreigners, and if they
are treated we'll they do not make trou-
BILE.
"There are still few boxers roam
ing about, but the provincial govern
ments have them pretty well In hand
now Every little while a few of the
boxers lose their heads and the others
are kept in check accordingly. AS a
rule the viceroys are highly intelll-
gent and we'll liked by the foreigners.
"The famine was just reaching the
province where was located when !
left there in December. 1t had for
merly been confined to the central and
more southern provinces but it has
been growing constantly. The condi-
lions are horrible. The people have
eaten everything edible and some were
so crazed by hunger that they devoured
the flesh of their children and others
who had died before them.
"The outlook for relief was none too
promising when left China, but l un-
derstood that heroic measures are be-
ing taken to stay the ravages of the
which the United States responded has
done much to relieve the sufferings of
the people.
IF some nation doesn't put its foot
on Japan very shortly there will be
trouble The selfish aggressiveness Of
the Japanese is bound to bring a
clash, and unless something is done to
avert it the United States or China, or
both, will be involved in war with
the mikado's empire.
Prosperity is too much for the Jap
anese. They won the war with Russia
and the praises and good wishes of the
entire civilized world We're heaped up
on them, but those who We're their
stanchest supporters during the conflict
9, 70 r,nu, 411rnino. AGAINST them -