Arizona republican., 1914-04-13
SERIOUS FINANCIAL
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which the country knows
 Yuan Shi-kai's government has fal- len back on the old Manchu system of giving the governor formerly the viceroy) orders to send to the capital certain definite amounts. leaving the governor to collect as he can sufficient above the required sum to pay the pro- yinCe's expenses including the cost of his provisional army, and what sums he chooses to take as his own personal compensation. But even this plan hith- -erto has failed, for the central govern ment has not been able 10 recover the prestige and power which the Manchus held. feeble as they were. The Associ- ated Press correspondence from Peking has shown how the sO-called modern army refused to fight the Mongol tribes men within the province of the capital, Chili. itself: and how, when disbanded, the troops join brigand bands. one of which, in the province immediately south of Chili numbers, it is calculated over 900 men.
 Except where foreigners are given control, or measure of it-as in the case of the extensive salt tax. the salt gabelle-the government is able to col feet little in the way of revenue. Yuan Shi-ka might employ more foreigners and put them in authority. but the men Immediately around him, as well as he himself. have given continued proofs Of their unwillingness to give authority to foreigners
 "The men in high positions round the president are all of the old school al most every one having been high of . ficials under the Manchus: and it is generally understood in China that it was the Chinese and not the Manchus who opposed the entry of the foreigner l The opposition to foreigners exists, PhOwever, not only in the president S 1 palace. Whenever the presidential government negotiates with foreigners. in making loans, granting concessions, or any other business in which there l might be squeeze or the surrender of authority in any form, a noisy opposi- ! ton rises. And in view of the feeble
 ness of the government and the danger ! If employing the army, such excite | ments have to be curbcd and controlled
 by diplomacy The danger of them has been shown in very recent years. the
 S7e"huan outbreak which was the be- ginning of the anti Manchu rebellion l having been created on the Outcry , against the HukWan railroad contract In desperation the government is | now endeavOring to obtain another 1 large loan from the Quintuple group oi
 Bankers. composed of French. German British Japanese and Russian banks ! supported by their respective govern ments. It will be remembered that last years loan of 25.000.000 pounds was tht cause of considerable parliamentary outbreak among members agains 1 Yuan Shi-kai and was one of the prominent causes of the rebellion O
 last summer Feeling that Yuans gov iernment is too disorganized and un.
 stable to trust with another larg,
 lOan the quintuple legations are re quirng the banks to stipulate wha
 amounts to foreign control of China:
 finances for a period. 1t is stated, O
 fifty years as condition of any fur.
 ther extensive borrowing.
 Up to the present the governmen
 has refused this condition and is get
 ting along as best it can with smal l loans at high interest, parts of whicl
 are sometimes taken out in arms, am intuition and other necessities of thu ministers. Sometimes railway and oth | CT concessions are granted for Sucl
 uncontrolled loans. Rut it is believe,
 that the day of reckoning will sool
 arrive