The Nome daily nugget., 1908-01-31

{ undoubJed military efficiency which they have achieved and amid the uu usual erie from tn" delighted popu- lace, such a. Long liT. our national army"
 Good and enlightened people, of fa,- 'isn aa Hru as native born. have been rroachiue to the Chinese for ooutur- ic- the ahsurdity and cruelty of foot binding as rracticcd hy lurtr women but all to little purpose. Rut when the Niccroy Chang joined Yuan -Shi-kai n his military crusade and amouuccd that women with crippled feet arv uot fit to become th~ mothers of +oldir's. {, great h|ow. 4 fatal our a,+ -oue hope. Was struck ai Jh. auctcu practice. 't is a little matter. cor at least it seems -", but it shows Nhion way the wjnd is bloWiue Ten years a-p. at lie out break of th" war with Japan. the aver ag" woman of China. if u had hoeu suggested tn her that the eo -.c was carrying near hor heart might hccomo a soldier would have jumped into Dhc canal or ai dl events entertained thoughts of 4olr-dc.nucttou bat to- day she i- willing to fur.go a long cherished and dietjugui-hmg habit in order that some day hor son wly l., strong euougH to hear a mu~kot
 There are some who mamtam that thc Russian and thr Jaranceu invading armies aud tho conungcnts of the al- lies who marched to Prl,iu loft oulv pleasant thoughts and rrrollcotious be- hind them; but the dctcl1nination of tn" Chinese to prevent repetition of these holiday raradc-, even at the cost of throwing oTcrboard an their tradi- tiuuS and customs. would scocm lo fur- ni+h much t,id,no. that the otIrl story of the campaign ,h. mIIoas. ant ouo that na- gcn,rany -uppro -,d Ter doridrd 9- s,u-aIoua rom, ucu,1 the truth
 Today Yuau- Shi-Kai and those vho W"r|, with hin aro ror-aIinp the ton- ot~ of runfuciu-. Thcy have thrown away the staff of wisdom upon which they leaned sn long and are cuuNertha tucir ancestral aan~ into armed camps This remarkable rcyulsiou of forltn4 in The Chinese world upon the question of miIituism iS the most striking ir- ridrul of tUr progress Crnl~toi uoud call II uuugr.~-iuD of tho world js the last decade. uud the reason why ur hear -o litth of these aieaujo chang. which ar" h.iu@ carried out by inc nov men at thr helm in China i- that tp detail they are gloai~umc and taken iu tho aggregate thcl constitute d rrl- oluliou which i- difficult to grasp m- r.-s unless you have seen uitn yau own eyes a modem cnu,., army ~l lurr the yellow dragon tlag and na:rd Chinese soldiers shout from out ol their sorricd ranks. "long live ou army Long liNr our laud!" This from people Who Were thought ,o Hv,. aud die utterly devoid of parrio.- i-m
 The man who has dou, these things "thr organize, uf mmr victories
 they call hau iu Chma ie apparently !" Ncry ordinary man, q mcr, I.loddlu4 of hcial, He has neither the inches uor the grit of his great patron I.i Hun4 Chang, but he has by his hard and uu- rcmittug wort, eucc"od"d in doing nm der more favorable circum-tmcr-. ,f course, what hat man of genius failed to do. He has aroused his counuymca to the many daugcr~ which threaten their national existence. and from these it k said by those in his conG- dcnce, he does not exclude thc menaac which may flow from the spread pf Japanese influence throughout the land
 He is not soldier. and never was one. Until the outbreak of the Boxer rebellion, which found him as viccroy of the provinc" of Shautmg. he had never seen repeating rifle or knew that there were other and more effect ive tactics than those gone through with hy his own troops. such as "tho infuriatcd tiger charge and the stub- born wounded elephant retreat"
 He had clerk in thos, day5 who commanded the provincial troops when his clerical duties permitted. but tho viccroy of Shantung was the one man in China who profitcd by the Boxer re- boIlion and tn" parad" to Pollin of thc Powers. Even with his obsolete mus kctS he was able to k CD the Boxers out of his territory and he camc through the trying months of the for cign occupation as tho one man in the country who could at once please the foreigners and placate his own people.
 From that day to this his studies have been upnn military and kindr d subjects.
 II" k hoarding up money, and yet he has sent this year 13.00O young Chi ncsc to school in ,I,pan.
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