The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-10-30
SOME ROADS
TOWARDS PEACE
Or. EIiot's Report On the
Far East

The Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace has just published
for public distribution, the report OF
Dr.. Charles w. Eliot, president EN-
eritus of Harvard university, describ-
ing his experiences and impressions
on the trip to the far east which ne
made in 1912 under the auspices ofthe
endowment in pursuance of its pan
for international visits of representa-.
tive men, with view to acquainting
the peoples Of the various nations
more fully with the history, institu.
lions and ideals of other nations. DR..
n lot w6s the first American chosen
to make such visit and his labors
is one of the most interesting, pene-
trating and suggestive publications
that has ever been made Ipon the
Internal conditions in the two great
nations of China and Japan-one OF
them absorbingly interesting at the
moment to students of political SCI
ence everywhere because of the re.
cent revolution there. DR.. Eliot was
in China at h very critical period in
the establishment of the republic. He
describes with dramatic detail the
extraordinary difficulties with which
the young statesmen have to contend
and with many of whom he came in
to intimate contact while at the Chi
nese capital, and a large proportion
of whom were educated in American
univ ers ties, and are striving to put
into effect in China the ideals of de-
mocratic institutions which they ac-
quired by contact with the American !
people. They have a Herculean task
before them; they are confronted !
by Incredible problems. such as new.
er before confronted nation. For
DR.. Eliot makes it plain that the
Manchu government was a sham. 1t
turned over to the republic no gov
eminent organization in the modern
sense, no national revenues, no trust
worthy army, no efficient navy, no
roads. no schools. no system of taA
alton, no national police, no courts
or body of laws in the western sense.
no public health service"-nothing in
70 hnt IA To-,
cessions to foreign countries and
corporations, and many Gripping
treaties which pawn the national re.
sources. The unnumbered masses %
the Chinese people are ignorant. sup
erstitious, almost childlike and Ia 'e
no conception of the meaning Of
democracy or a constitution.
One of the chief difficulties which
the chinese Statesman encounter in
the organization of the new republic
arises from the lack of trained ma.
tives, competent to administer the
public offices, and distrust of ex-
perts named by foreign government
for such service. Too often in the
past, it appears, these foreign experts
have served the nation which named
them rather than the country which
paid them. One direct result of DR..
Eliots visit to China is particularly
interesting. The government was
about to prepare permanent consti
tuition and was confronted by tn dir
fculty above reference to DR.. Eliot
yeGtured to suggest that the Carne
gle Endowment might be able to help
them 10 obtain an expert adviser on
this delicate and important matter.
Shortly after his return to America,
the Chinese government asked the en-.
dowment to nominate ar advise.
which It did in the person OF Prof
Frank J Goodnow, Eaton profess, =
O. public Jaw and municipal science
in Columbia university who is now n
China, under a three years contract
and rendering most satisfactory serv.
ice.
Another great handicap. DR. Eliot
points out, is the absence of any