The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-31
There Are Chaot.
ic and Present Government
is in Jeopardy.

PICKING. Aug. 31.-Not only be-
tween China proper and her Deepen
denotes, but also among the Chinese
provinces themselves, conditions
which threaten disIntegratfon become
more and more serious as the leaders
iof the Republican movement fail 10
~reorganize the government and delay
in re-establishing central authority,
The chaotic condition OF China is at
present such as would cause wide
spread dangers, International as well
as domestic, II the country were not
so favorably isolated from the rest of
the world and If the people were not
of an exceedingly peaceful tempera-
ment. Their conflicts are primarily
struggles with money and not with
arms.
In the late revolution there were no
battles in which more than a few
thousand men were engaged and the
lighting was generally Of a feeble.
Echaracter. Bartering usually took
place of AHghtlng and some of the
Isurrenders of lmperialist commanders
lwere the result Of monetary pay
nents, while their loyalty might
have been retained had the Manchus
been able or willing to provide a
greater, number OF silver taels.
The same means today, it is gem
orally believed, would save China
IRON her officials, who with very few
Exceptions, are men who at one time
or another also hehld Office under the
lManchus. among these officials those
who are honest suffer from the racial
faiiing-iack Of moral courage-and
fear to accept the siS-nation's loan
with the requirement of foreign con-
troll, n the others are working up
the national opposition because they
desire no supervisor over their sys-
tenn of 'squeezes."
Meantime Japanese consuIs in
southern Manchuria and Russian con-
suls in northern Manchuria and in the
vast territories beyond the Cobb Des-
ert may impose their authority ms
they will. and the Chinese officials in
those border countries can obtain but
poor advice and little support from
the Cabinet in Picking. whose attention
Is concentrated on maintaining its
~precarious political position.
In Thibet, TO whose sacred city the
British have shown their ability to
penetrate with a few hundred men,
many of the Chinese garrisons have
tbeen defeated and driven out, even
from Ihasa itself, though the soldiers
of the Lamas are little more than an
m-arned rabble.
The d~eep-rooted prejudice against
1.-The foreigner and the fear OF him
seems to be the greatest factor con-
%tinuing to hold together the provinces
OF China proper, which are Jealous Of
one another and sectionally unfriend-
". The national government, being
afraid to contract a foreign loan and.
afraid to impose taxes or even in some
provinces to collect those instituted
by the Manchus. is unable to purchase
Authority beyond the walls of the cap-
ital. Such order as exists is main
tanned locally and is due chiefly to the
peacefulness of the people.
But there Is. apparently, no organ
lied party with secession or a counter
revolution in mind; nor is there any
foreign pressure on the nation except
in the so-called dependencies, over
which the Chinese nave held but NOM
inal control for many years. Condi-
lions in these dependencies affect
only a few idealists and not the great
uncomprehending Chinese masses.