Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-08

Britain has enough red blood in circulation
to crimson a cheek. well might It hide its
collective head In shame as it reads tho
appeal OF the Chinese Christians Of Cl,Croo
for the abrogation Of the opium treaty. y
copy Of the appeal has reached The Bee
office from the international Reform
bureau OF Tientsin, China, under daSe OF
January 2, 1911. An accompanying Circu-
lar tells OF the progress being made in sup
pressing the cultivation Of the poppy anJ
its use among the natives. From this It
appears that the Chinese are really in
earnest in shaking off the curse OF west
DO ern civilization, and would make still
greater progress were foreign opium for
hidden to enter the empire. Under the
treaty with Great Britain China cannot
restrict the opium traffic from India
although Great Britain has agreed TO
gradual decrease of the quantity annually
shipped into China The treaty has been
In force for fifty years. 1t is subject to
amendments every ten years As one Of
the ten-year periods is about to expire the
occasion for the appeal Is apparent as we'll
as urgent. I'VE crave your help" says the
appeal, addressed to the people of Great
Britain" we crave it just now and hope
you will not wait another year Delay is
freighted with tremendous ruin to count
you, the British nation, think OF these
things before It is too late to save our
nation from physical moral and spiritual
ruin, and too late to save yourselves from
the terrible results Of an unrighteous traf-
fic which must surely come upon those who
uphold and maintain It, II you do not come
to our help that we may be delivered from
the ruin which now overwhelms our coun-
try The question Of the restriction Of the
opium traffic is to be further considered
at the international conference of The
Hague this year.
Russian diplomats knew the weakness Of
China when they demanded certain conces-
ksions in the III region in the province OF
Sin Kiang the price of renewal of the
treaty of 1851. The government in Picking
was incapable Of resisting Russian en-
croachments, and therefore made the best
of the situation by conceding as much OF
the trade rights as satisfied the greed OF
Russia. According to the Oriental Review
III forms the major part Of the province
or Sin kiang, or new region" approx
mately twice as large as Manchuria. 1t
has mixed population of Kirghiz Persian
halmuck and Chinese. Kuldja the capital
OF the province, Is $3.50 miles from the
nearest Chinese railroad. Russian traders
are able to reach the province from the
frontier towns such as Lashkent and Semi
palatiensk. Russian merchants peasants
and manufacturers have been pouring into
the country for thirty years past and ma
turary monopolize the trade which China
did not cultivate. The Chinese authorities
gave so little attention to the region that
no means OF quick communication was es-
taollshed and four or five months would
elapse now before PelSlng could control
anything that might happen in that out-of
the-way region.
As coronation compliment to the princI-
pality which gave Lloyd-George to the
kingdom and from which the heir to the
BRUSH throne takes his title. it has pleased
hlhg George In council to decree that
arms of the prince Of Wales shall hence
forth show the royal arms charged in the
center with the arms Of Wales. II has long
been grievance among welshmen that the
British royal arms show in their four quar-
ters the English lions Scotland's solitary
non, the Irish harp, and the English lions
again. The substitution of the Welsh arms
Tor the second brood of English lions was
considered carefully by the king in councn
but disapproved The arms for Wales tbot
have now come into their own are those
OF Llewellyn, the last and most powerful
OF the Celtic princes in Arthur's ancient
realm,
The federal system Of representative goy-
eminent for the British empire is given
fresh impetus by a speech delivered re-
Gently in Sydney by Sir Joseph Ward the
premier of New Zealand. 1t has attracted
much attention in England and is in line
with suggestion offered by opponents Of a
uenatur1Sed House of Lords. The NeUy
zealand premier suggested the creation of
an imperial House Of REPRESENTATIVES re-
turned according to the population OF the
various parts Of the British emnira ana
an imperial Senate, to which each conn
try OF the empire would send an equal
number of members This imperial par
lament would be limited, he said to the
discussion of strictly imperial questions,
ana would aim chiefly at the maintenance
OF an lhVincible navy. In his opinion such
a scheme would best fit in with federal
ism in the United Kingdom. He arpued
that since 1860 the area OF the arnnir.
had increased by 20 per cent, the over-seas
white population alread amounted 70 ~
WVOOO and Great Britain could no longer
Keep up the two-power standard unaided
We cannot continue" he said, TO expeot
the British taxpayer to provide for our
protection. We must contribute to our own
and also TO the empires"
American cotton growers must take ao-
count Of Egypt as a factor in the worlds
crop. Cotton has been a product Of the
Nile delta for ninety years, but only in
the last decade has sufficient attention
been given to the details Of cultivation To
make the crop worth while, American
Consul Birch OF Alexandria, in a report
TO the Department Of Commerce and La
Dor, shows that the annual crop has in
creased from $4,000 cantars about 100
pounds each) in 1900 10 100000 cantars in
1910 Forty per cent Of the cultivated land
in the delta is devoted to cotton planting
and IL per cent In upper Egypt Develop
ment Is much retarded by primitive meth
DDS Of cultivation and failure to rotate
crops. These conditions the government
is endeavortng to improve by forcing the
native farmer TO discontinue certain prac-
tees, such as overwhelming and careless
picking. Last years crop Is valued at