The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-17
rlru CHINESE; PROBLEM.

can forcscc with any degree of GER
tainty. At present the situation is
chaos. with the prophecy that the flu
turc Will prove more chaotic before
the end. Apart from its current poll
teal aspect. il involves shaking, If not
overturninS. the foundations of the
oldest governmental and social order
Of the world--An order evolved out Of
II nebulous past far back OF any cnron-
icles of civilization. 1t has for weeks
exceeded the proportions of the great
TAPPING rebellion. which lasted four
teen years, in both formidableness a.
represented in the numbers OF the dis
affected engaged, and in area of ter
,itory affected. and agencies and re-
sources are at the bidding of the revo-
lutionists that Will enable them, f
necessary. to carry on the fighting much
longer than tho Taipinrs could have
done. even IL Chinese Gordon had not
appeared upon the scene Of that struS-
gle and taken command of the inn
perial armies.
Only one thing appears anything
like certain, and that is that the
Manchu dynasty is doomed; for it is
In an infinitely worse plight than 1t
was when the TaipinGs were turned
back and their uprising suppressed
while they were virtually laundering
at the gates of Picking. 1t is between
the upper and the neither millstoncs,
seeing that the spirit of revolt has
spread TO the three great provinces Of
Manchuria, and the people OF these
have also declared against the dynasty
and for an independent republic OF
their own.
That this is more significant OF the
desperate straits in which the imperial
house is now placed and much more
indicative OF the fact that its fate is
sealed than is the artidynastic move
ment in the middle kingdom. no mat
ter how much greater may be the
number of those engaged in the latter
must be obvious, since heretofore the
"Manchurian clan" has been the main
stay of the throne In all demonstra-
tons against 1t. For generations tho
Manchu worriors have Loyalty support
cd the usurping regime In the Forbid
den city, but now, in it's hour OF sorest
need deserts 1t. Tho causes for the
by Picking OF legitimate and vitality
needed development OF Manchuria for
sclash exploitation in China proper
and the infection of the Manchurians
with American and European ideas
But, be they what they may. it can
hardly be questioned, It Seems, that
they have led TO the infliction of a
fatal wound to the perpetuation of
alien rule. In the house of it's friends
We were told in the early stages of
proposed, after eXpelling the usurping
Manchu rulers, to establish a republic.
and that statement has been iterated
several times since. The concept Of
II Chinese republic is little less than
fantastic, not only to occidentals, but
10 some OF the most earnest and in
tc1ligont native Chinese reforners who
have made 1t their duty and business
to study the worlds republican forms
OF government. More recently 1t has
been indicated that, owing to lack Of
homogeneity, and absence among the
revolutionists OF concrete common
cause. save that OF driving out the
hated Manchu, the belief is widespread
that the finality will be a splitting
up---a self partition of the empire
and the grouping OF contiguous pro-
v1nces geographically related into sew
eral republics. One OF such prospec-
tive republics, the three Manchu pro-
vinces. 1t is learned. is taking steps
prominent and influential Chinese
statesman and reformer now in exile,
is that the solution OF the problem
Is destined to be constitutional
monarchy. when the proper and in
evitable leader. now unknown. shall
arise to consolidate the nation-make
it HOMOGENEOUS
As we have minated discussion of
the solution is, in the circumstances
OF the nnarchical and chaotic condi-
tons largely academic. But the
thought must in,rude itself. that while
the latter solution might be better for
China. the former might be better for
the world safer for the world and its
rcace For should there evolve
homoscncity In China, with her 49,
oOo.0oo OF population. under central
ambitious leadership. 1t might we'll
be that the spirit of invasion and con-
quest would he again aroused, with
the terrible sequence of Europes wit
Messing another Attilic drama
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