New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-05

republic Preposterous as the contention
is on its face, the actual facts will most
amply sustain the contrary. We take II
that the recognition OF any government
by it's own people is best indicated by the
presence or absence of organized hostili-
ties against It's existence. There is no
hostile native force within the borders OF
the republic aimed at its overthrow; the
country was never in all its long history
SO free from rebellious plots and upris-
ings.
When the Manchu Emperor abdicated
in favor of the republic lin obedience 10
the will OF Heaven as manifested by the
will of the people he thereby acknowl-
edged it's supremacy and existence, ana
the tacit recognition of his former SOW
ereignty by the Chinese people was
transferred, along with the other rights
and prerogatlves that hitherto inhered In
the throne, to the republic as the solo
declared heir of the empire.
BECOMING NORMAL AGAIN.
Since then all the officials of the coun-
try have been fulfilling their admins
trative and judicial functions. and COM
merce and industry have been resumed
with added eagerness and enterprise.
Every branch of civil life has been. or is
being, reconstructed or modified to accord
with the new national spirit The people
as a whole are content and pleased with
the government they have ordained, be-
cause that government has. even in the
short space OF a twelve-month. demon
Of rt and tta
loyalty to the national ideals. Thus It IL
seen that In every practical sense the re-
public is recognized, respected and sup
ported by patriotic, a united people.
The most significant indication Of the
full recognition of the republic by the
Chinese people was its pronounced sue
cess from the moment OF It's proclamation.
And this proposition is historically 1usti-
fed. The failure Of hundreds Of insur-
rectons. including the great Tai-Ping
confiagration of 1S50-'65 was not due to
the lack OF leaders, money or soldiers;
the Tai-Pings at one time controlled half
the area of the empire and for fifteen
years defeated the Manchu armies and
nearly swept the Manchu Emperor from
the throne.
why, tnen, dld tnat reDeIlOn ana otners
of only less magnitude succumb finally to
a handful of Manchus. aided by few
foreign adventures? The suppression OF
the Tai-Ping revolt was not a victory OF
Manchu arms: rather was 1t signal
triumph for the innate good sense Of the
Chinese people. They saw that although
the Tai-Ping was racially Chinese
movement to expel the Manchus they
could not tolerate 1t. because the self
constituted Tai-Png Emperor and his
government were really worse than the
Mancnu. OF the two evils they chose
the less In order to give themselves an
easier task finally to overthrow It,
All the previous revolutions had the
one aim OF substituting one dynasty for
another. and the Chinese had witnessed
the lowest depths of degradation to
which kings and emperors have sunk.
If the Chinese people were animated
solely by racial considera tons, they
might have accepted the native Tai
Ping Emperor and found in him a more
vigorous and cruel tyrant in place OF
the weak. debauched Manchus. Had the
Tai-Pings, however, declared for the en-