Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-12
Regent Heavily Guarded.

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| Since the occurrence extraordinary
precautions have been adopted to in
sure the safety of the prince regent.
The guards have been increased. and
every one entering or leaving the pre-
cincts Of the palace is subjected to
strict surveillance. When his highness
attends the court, shops on the line
of route have to be closed, and police
orders have been issued that in future
his escort is not to allow any persons
| to approach him in the streets for the
purpose OF presenting petitions.
One OF the problems created by the
growth OF the new learning in China
is that of providing employment for
foreign-train students. While but
sixty such students presented them
selves as candidates at the metrOpoli-
tan examination in 1908. last year the
new system OF examination it has be-
come customary for the Picking govern
| ment to draft few of the successful
men into various ministries or into
Others find employment in the new in
dustrial enterprises that have begun
to come into existence. But what be-
comes OF the vast majority is a mys-
terry. and in view of the new scholar
ship system which proposes to send
100 students yearly to the United
States, and the increasing exodus Of
Chinese youths to foreign countries
for modern learning, 1t is clear that
sooner or later there will be a supply
| out OF proportion to the demand of
Iforefgn-educated men in China.
Hence the Worlds Chinese Students
Journal advocates complete reorganiza-
| ton by the central government of all pro-
| vincfal institutions: the distribution OF
| foreign-trained students who have passed
| the metropolitan examination throughout
| the provinces, under recommendation OF
| the throne, as directors of government in
stitutions. hospitals, industrial enter
| prises. ETC.; and a system of promotion
based upon qualification and efficiency
| While sympathizing with the object in
| view. the North China Herald doubts the
practicability Of these proposals. Official
| customs, 1t remarks. are hard to change,
and. however rapidly the flood Of for
| eign-trained students increases, 1t must
| be long time before the older men. still
| more the old-fashioned ideas, can be elm
| mated.
Importance of the Censors.
| part is played by the censors. They are
the eyes and ears" of the emperor
and pending the creation of a parlia-
ment they provide the only check On the
| misdemeanors of administrative officials.
1t is their duty to denounce wrongdoers
| to the throne, and, as a rule. they dis
| charge with great thOrOughness. Occa-
| sionally, however. their zeal outruns their
discretion. Thus serious trouble has
| arisen over the action Of Censor Chang
| Chun-lin. who. greatly to the perturba-
| ton of the prince regent, has denounced
no less a parsonage than Prince Ching.
| The censor came into prominence a few
ing officials. He denounced the Governor
of Kiangsi for bad reputation Gov
ernor of Anhui 'for deception and IA
voritism,'' Viceroy Chang Jen-chun Of
Liangkiang for employing incapable sub
ordinates. For this last piece of te-
merity he was reproved by imperial de-
cree, and his subsequent request to be
allowed to resign was rejected as "a
piece Of audacity." 1t was then that the
censor, being a man of "unbending
Observation-Disclosures" denounced Prince
Ching as IAN old treacherous minister
who draws into the public service a
| crowd of incapable persons like himself
without appointing any one able or
| worthy
This was too much for the prince re-
gent. and the valiant Chang was prompt
ly deprived of his censorship. This is the
third time within the present reign that
| Prince Ching has been denounced, with
similar misfortunes to the hardy CEN
sors. In the present instance. however.
the whole body of censors have protested
against the treatment melted out to their
| cOledRUe, ana IL Is cFlUcnl IndC tney
will not lightly submit to the distinction
which has been drawn in the exercise Of
| their functions between imperial mobiles
and lesser dignitaries. The censorate
consists of two presidents Chinese and
| Manchu; four vice presidents, twenty
four supervisors, distributed among the
| six ministries, and ffty-Six censors,
among whom the empire is divided up.
in fifteen circuits.
Religion in japan.
| MIR. Shiba. chief of the religious bu.
reau in The Japanese department OF home
affairs. has lately advocated the enact
ment of more effective laws for the con-
troll of religious bodies in Japan The
official figures show that the number of
Christians declaring themselves such is
40. 900 oarishioners and 1870 600 heliev-
ers, and the Shinto officials 1880 600
parishioners and 10000 believers
| 1t is pointed out that in the case of
| Christianity believer has to receive the
rite of baptism, and there is, consequent
Iy, substantial evidence of the reality of
his faith But in the other cases the
figures are entirely misleading. In the
absence Of any tangible test of faith
many people are set down in both the
Buddhist and the Shinto lists Then.
| again, the number of temples with an
| actually organized priesthood totals LIPS
| and the number of religious edifices with
out administering priests is 37,417 Many
of these have practically no resources
| Hence the condition of many Of the
temples is poverty-stricken in the ex-
treme. and this state of affairs betrays
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