The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-24

faith that the arts of peace are su- perior to the arts of war Our tradi- tions. our education, our very dress have conspired to make us a nation where intellectual accomplishments have ranked higher than the physical and the brutal When l was a boy every tendency toward play or phy- sical exercise was frowned upon. When 1 manifested a tendency in that direction, as boys will do, ] was told that l must remember l was not to ha rowdy. A distinct change has come over our people of late years At ev cry educational institutions through out the length and breadth of the land the greatest encouragement is now given to sports and exercises tending to physical development. The boys are now put, trough the .settling-up exercises familiar in all military in stitutions. and in many schools mili- tary drill is a part of the routine.
 The young Chinese of to-day take very kindly to all sorts of physical eX- ercise and soon grow to be very ex- pert. Perhaps similar results will follow with the spread of the military spirit. And should war come-who knows what would follow? The Chi nese have been excellent warriors in days gone by, and it is an exceedingly easy thing to strip from any human being the veneer Of civilization and resolve him back to the natural and brutal man. Perhaps the day may convert China into fighting nation may feel they have gone too far"
 With regard to the complications with Japan. MT. Liang declined to give details. Tt is true" he said, in re- sponse to my direct question. that We are constantly nagged and hectored by the aggressions of the Japanese, but what can we do? They are trying to overrun Manchuria regardless of Chinese rights, and in every possible way seem desirous of forcing an issue with China. We are doing the hest we can to withstand their aggressions but with the other nations seemingly at Japan's back, and with the inter esting object lesson of Corea staring Us in the face, the feeling is strong throughout China that Japan's thought of war-if she has one-is di- rected toward China rather than to- ward America"
 Liang Tun-yen possesses a highly interesting personality. His face re- fleets the scholar rather than the po- litician, and he Is an able student of world affairs At this time, when Peldn is torn asunder by political strife, many an aspiring man feels il the part of wisdom to remain away from the capital, either retiring from politics or taking refuge in some pro vincial post Liang, however, is here
 in the thick of it. in a sense a centra figure as the connecting link between | the two camps, and he is the more in | fuential and powerful because al | know that his work is inspired by | patriotism and not at al by considera. tions of his own political future, Il | Is the knowledge that China has such sons as he, even if they are few
 that gives hope to those interested ir | the nations development along the right lines.
 He is a distinct power. With Taf and his famous class of '7S dominating
 the situation back home, and witf
 Kiang of 'S2 the key to the situation l here in the Orient, may well the envi- l ous uarvardite ask: "Is Yale trying tC monopolize the governments of the World ?"-Pekin Correspondence New | York Herald