The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-15
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| foreign intercourse and religious toll
erance existed. Then, too, as DR.. WI
Ting-fang points out, the Chinese peo-
pie are not untried in self govern
ment. For countless ages they ruled
themselves and cultivated observance
of law to degree not found among
cotemporaneOus nations. They knew
peace and contentment SURPRISINGLY
sweet
During other centuries China pre-
scented the only specimen Of theo-
cratic government surviving to the
near present The EMPEROR was the
high priest of his people. We visited
the temple grounds where he used to
spend the night then worship heaven
and declare its will, for his was the
celestial Empire" Such irrational
dependence was placed upon superior
forces that the fortress surmounting
the city gate out Of which he went to
his worship has only painted mouths
of cannons at the windows. He evil
IDENTITY had not heard the western mot
to: Trust God but keep your powder
dry The people were the rulers
children and the family relation be-
came the basis of his authority. Des-
potic as the government was theOret-
ically; in reality it was encOmpassed
by restrictive forms and ceremonies.
Every imperial act went into history.
Once when censor was about to
write of, a deed which the emperor
proposed doing, the ruler ordered him
to refrain, but the censor said he must
then record the sOverign's prohibit
ton, whereupon the emperor aband-
Oned his purpose to do the act
The giant went to sleep and it be-
came the sleep of death. The devotees
of the old order, like the servants of
Solomon in the Koran tale, had
propped up corpse, summonlng
kings and princes to do it homage.
They bowed down before it, says the
story, so long as it stood upright. But
at last worms having gnawed away
the supporting staff, the decaying re-
mains lay prone in the dust.
Perhaps the highest degree of
China's culture was reached by the
Chow dynasty, B. c. 1122-255. Then
began the decline about which Con-
fucius grieved. In 213 B. c. the en-
peror commanded that the classics,
wherever found, should be burned;
and 46O literati, convicted of attempt
ing to preserve the books, were put
to death. An end came when the
Manchu government found it's power
gone; its glitter vain show. 1t had
built beautiful summer palaces with
money that should have increased the
nations DEFICIENCIES, thus inviting hui
initiation at the hands of Japan. The
people We're so heartsOre by reason of
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and within, it is said with considerable
reason, that much of the revolution
airy fighting was sham battle to help
the imperialist forces keep their
face" which is phrase perfectly un-
derstood here. Those near the facts
declare that at times each side would
warn the other before volley was to
be fired, and that both armies were in
more or less communication with the
Hero of the Hour
The valedictory edict of Kwang Hsu
stated: For the misery of the past
ten years Yuan Sin-k'ai is RESPONSE
BILE and one other. When the time
comes | desire that Yuan be sum-
marily beheaded" This pious wish
was not fulfilled for evidently, Yuan
leads a charmed life. Whichever way
the ball rolls he appears able to walk
on top. Before abdicating the Last
of the Manchus" surrendered authori-
ty by conserving to the terms Of the
proposed constitutions; and, in the
course of events, Yuan is the Man
of Destiny"
Among the ruins at Hankow, near
the origin of the revolution, are those
of the temple of the Dragon, that
mark the spot where the emblem of
conceit and crookedness went down
before the spirit of the new age. We
studied at first hand the circumstance
es entering into the final decisive
victory of a hunderd thousand over
ten thousand who were practically
permitted to escape from walled city
and go north by railroad. This part
of the warfare was good warfarce.