The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-08

answer any more than residence of
years in touch with the legations and
the Govcrnme whatever the latter
happens to be.
have talked with some Of China's
highest onicials-al men of distinction
and hre ding; | have been among the
ChanCc1cries. | have gOssipcd with cor
Respondents of leading papers, Ameri-
can and Europeans | have held COM
mun.on at first hand and second hand
with facile and careful Chinese. They
have all hoped much, supposed much.
Those outside official circles have
shrugged shoulders and wagged chin
whiskcrs; they have hoped ard utly:
they have trusted. as men who hoped
obviously while they trusted fervent.y;
they have been sincere, cynical, pessi-
mistic. optimistic But nobody knew
That curously named hostelry. the
Grand Hotel dcs Wagons Lifts. is the
landing stage pf everybody foreign who
comes To the capital. that Is any one
with pr tension To style or Importance
of object. Just now 1t swarms with
a polyglot gathering that would come
close to a mass meeting around the
tower Of Babel the morning after verbal
MISUNDERSTANDING were started on the
globe. Some. of course, are mere tour
lists. taking their summer palace I'm the
morning. their Tempt Of Heaven in
the afternoon, their trips To- the bazaar
toward dusk, and the cinematograph
at night, sometimes making two days
Of it. and then off again to further
sk.mming Of the oriental pot. lad II
more or less with curios and IAN
tpucs" Of doubtful antiquity
But these are not the Swarm" it is
not the tourist season. II 10 were the
hotel people would not have quaint
wurkmen in queues and b,uc bluuscs
hamm ring, saving. pounding and clam
oring at the tops of their voices from
cock crow to shutdown. No: the swarm
does not mind the noise. can scarcely
hear II. 1t is made up Of German,
French, Dutch, Russian, English, Amer
lean. Austrian. Italian. Japanese pro-
motors Of big commercial enterprises, OF
concession seekers. of confident newly
appointed managers. Of Chagrincd rctir-
Ing dut" nf happy chaps getting a va
cation and unloading detailed advice on
the ln,um tenens who stays through
the dog days
i j. wonderful to watch them. Each
group suspects the other and So closes
in. heads together. and looking sideways
with as little movement Of the head as
y Ssihle. In few moments the group
s'attcrs. The hundred rickshaw boys
across the street take them up in twos
and thrces or singly and the Minister
from this country or that, some high
Chinese official. some middleman with a
Chinese pull" some rich Chinese mer-
chant with great inland trade receives
~ Il. 4
c!al. industrial, political intrigue never
was
For China. like a great dead lion the
dead Lion Of the Empire of china. lies
there before them its exposed vitals
warming with minute new life. That
wrirgling mass is the China of to-day,
the Republic Of China. its i000,OO0
square miles. it's 2O0OO0 900 to 400. O00,-
000 inhabitants. its eighteen provinces.
it's great wealth. its great poverty,
its slow ceascless activity, all inviting
exploitation. For, mark you. 1t is alive
all over And therein the difficulty.
who shah forotel Ia what it will evolve
with the old order gone an the new
one struggling if slowly solidifylng ex-
pertinent" can the best ahsou,ism inn
aCinlhlc endure once a people has had
taste Of representative government?
The rev luton Of 1910 awakened "A new
If, II has created aSpirations AS well
AS rNp.r,atious. oven in remote China.
thar is china remote from TN. soaboard
wis,,cr,s yyiy t,l van with feohl. p,r-
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