Arizona republican., 1911-10-20
The War Cloud in China.


 it is worth while to pay attention to his prediction that a civil war of vast proportions is impending in that country Very properly. therefore. the Associated Press has given pub licity to his opinions When, how ever. Fighting Bob" also predicts that the Chinese troubles will ulti- mately involve the great powers of the world to the extent of bringing on world wide war, his prophecy is entitled to no more weight than the opinion Of any other well in formed person. The most that can be said on that point is that the Chinese question is full of possibili- ties of international trouble. Recog- milton of this fact has led the Ameri- can government to adhere 10 the settled policy of upholding the ter rtorial integrity of China-it is rec ognized that whenever the dismem- berment of that great empire and the apportionment of its provinces among the other powers is under taken. there is bound to be the prob ability of a fight over the spells.
 Admiral Evans is merely in line with the views of educated China men in this and other countries in taking a serious view of the present insurrection so far as concerns the fate of the Chinese government. The downfall of the Manchu dynasty within the life of the present genera ton has seemed probable for some years. The reigning house is quite as for eign to the Chinese race as are the Japanese and the Koreans No doubt the Chinese. the Manchurians. the Japanese. and the Koreans all sprang from a common stock. but it was so long ago that national characters tics have developed until there are sharp lines of racial difference. Reigning as conquerers over the Chinese. the Manchus have never been popular with the masses. The lack of a na- tional spirit among the Chinese has been. in a negative sense, one of the factors of safety for the reigning house But with the education of hundreds of young Chinese men in America and in Europe there has de- veloped. coincidently with their return to their own land, the embryo, at least. of a national spirit
 Chinese students are not respons- ible alone. however, for the spirit of unrest which is now stirring the country to rebellion against the throne. This feeling of dissatisfac- ton with existing conditions, the more or less definitely shaped am bitions of the masses is of deeper and broader import than is attrib utable to the influence of few hundreds of returned students upon the minds of hundreds of thousands. Some foreign observers undertake to explain the Chinese awakening" by pointing to the influence wrought by successful uprisings of the people in other parts of the globe in recent years. They point to the uprisings of the people of Turkey, the de thronement of Abdul Hamid and the establishing of a representative. con- stitutional government upon the ruins of the despOtism; to the sue cessful rebellion of the people of Persia against a tyrannical autocracy; to the overthrow of the monarchy in Portugal and the building Of a Portugese republic; to the overthrow of the Diaz despotism in Mexico and coming of the people into their own in that country-and to the progress of the democratic move ment in every monarchial country. as the moving reason for the develop ment of a democracy in China
 But this is an explanation which falls far short of being satisfactory, because it amounts to a begging of the main question. What. for ex- ample. put the spirit Of revolt in the people of Turkey. Persia, Portugal, Mexico? Is it not more reasonable to believe that this awakening of the people of the whole world is due to the will of a Supreme power?