The daily sentinel., 1912-09-25
.DO|NGS OF THE NEW
REPUBLIC, CHINA
Associated Press.

Associated Press.
Peking, Sept. 25.-Not only be-
tween China proper and her depend
enoies, but also among the Chinese
provinces themselves. conditions tnat
threaten dlsintegration become more
and more serious as the leaders OF
the republican movement fail to re-
organize the gov crnment and deIay
IN reestabiishlng central authority.
Ihe chaotic condition of China is at
present such as would cause wide
spread dangers, International as well
as domestic, IL the country were not
so favorabiy isolated from the rest OF
the world and ii tue people were not
of an exceedingly peaceful tempera-
ment. Their conflicts are primarily
struggles with money and not with
armf.
IN the late revolution there were
10 battles in which more than a Gew
thousahd men were engaged, and the
Agnung generaily was OF a feeble
,naraoter bartering usually took
the place of fighting, and some of the
surrenders of imperiaist commando
ers were the result Of monetary pay
ments. whiie their loyalty might nave
been retained had the Manchus been
NpA' VI "iiiAhE ~ PioNidt a bltdltl
number of silver taels
fne same means today, it is gem
orally believed, would save China
from her officials, who, with very
lew exceptions. are men who at one
time or another also heid office under
the Manchus. Among these officials
those who are honest suffer from the
racial failing--laCk OF moral cour-
aSe-and fear to accept the s..,-na-
tioDs' loan with the requirement of
foreign control, and the others are
working up the national opposition
because they desire no supervisor
over their system of 'squeezes.
Meantime, Japanese consuls in the
southern part of Manchuria and
Russian consuls in northern Man
churia and in the vast territories be-
yond the Cobb desert may impose
their authority as they will, and the
Chinese officials in those border
countries can obtain but poor advice
and little support from the cabinet
in Peking, whose attention is con-
oentrated on maintaining its preear-
ious political position.
In Thibet, TO whose sacred city the
British have shown their ability to
penetrate with few hundred men.
many of the Chinese garrisons have
been defeated and driven out. even
from Lhnssa itself, though the SOL
diers of the Lamas are little more
than an ill-armed rabble.
The deop-rooted prejudice against
the foreigner and the fear of him
seems to be the greatest factor con-
tinuiug to hold together tho provin-
ces Of China proper, which are jeal-
ous of one another and sectionally
pnfriendly. The national govern
ment, being afraid to contract for
eign 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 capital. Such order
as exists is maintained locally and
is due chiefly TO the peacofulnoss OF
the people.
But there is, apparently, no organ
lied party with secession or count
er revolution in mind; nor is there
amy foreign pressure on tho nation
except in tho so-called dependencies,
over which the Chinese have held but
nominal control Tor many years. Con-
dtious in these dependencies affect
only few idcalists and not the great
lunrpuiDrphuudiug Chinese masses.