New Britain herald., 1915-11-29
.MONARCHIAL PLAN
 ISLOSING STRENGTH
Chinese Attitude Toward Move
 ment Growing Wabbly

archical movement and were inclin- ed to accept without qualification to the statements of it's leaders, are now becoming somewhat wobbly in their faith as the result of the "farciaP' elections now being held The North China Daily News of Shanghai which IS generally recognized as more or less official mouth-piece for Eng fish interests in China, is one of the early supporters of the movement which is weakening. The following extract from an editorial in this pa- per shows it's position:
 Meanwhile the trade of Shanghai is suffering, and foreigners want to know whether they are watching comedy or farce. Foreigners and the majority of Chinese are quite prepared to sit through the perform ance as long as it promises to reach a nedouncement in keeping with real lie. They are prepared even to applaud as the curtain falls and to call Yuan Shi-kai in front of it to receive their braves. But they do not want to be led on from scene to scene towards a finale that is merely Iantast1c. These wordy mandates, this manoeuvering of so-called popu- 'NeA whole bag of tricks, do they or do they not represent genuineness some where, a goal somewhere and definite approaches to that goal? Or are we watching a sham and nothing but a sham, the prolonged evolutions of a topsy turvey piece of nonsense made as elaborate as possible only to cover the absence of any connected, rea- sonable plot. Is the doctrine of mas kee Git makes no difference) being carried beyond the point of indif- ference to means and to the point of indifference to ends also. If so, we warn Yuan Shi-kai that his finale will be an interrupted and a troubled one.
 Disastrous to Country
 If this much talked of monarchical movement with it's elaborate inves- tlgatlons of pros and cons, with It's up of musty records and US oe-spectacled peering into dry as-dust precedents is nothing more than a grasping of power for selfish purposes, then it will prove disas- trous to those who are taking parr of 1t and disastrous to the country as whole. The great bulk of the | Ih1nese do not care two straws what i government they have as long as it IS a good one. But it must be a good | 'ne, and unless the abandonment of 1 'epubl1canism proves itself to be a genuine effort to bring such a gov- rnment into existence the monarchi- al movement will earn the rewards 'f the sorriest farce that has ever 'een staged in China'
 Commenting on this changed atti- Jude of the North China Daily News he Picking Daily Gazette, which is owned and edited by Chinese only, ! say: Ut is clear that what is moving | the Shanghai paper to lower valua- ton of the movement is the introduce 1 tion of the apparatus of unreality into it; and just as a sense of reality and actuality is a condition of efficiency and success in the West, so does the exhibition of a marvellous capacity of unreal in serious affairs strike the for eign mind at once as plain for failure and as Intellectually offensive. The statecraft that is at work in our coun- try today-so typically manifested in the gesture of the hour-is based on an order of ideas which may have cor responded with reality in the seven teenth century, when China stood in splendid isolation; but in these days
 
 in the trust of friendly powers, me- dia eval concepts of government must give way to the other order of ideas, which inspire men in the west to gov ern a country as a nation and not as a family domain. We write these words less in the sense of active op- position to the monarchial movement thar. of caution and counsel to those who may know China even in her re- cesses, but are in truth lacking in the foreign experience which alone can enable them to understand and to deal otherwise than groping1y-with cer- tain categories of foreign affairs.''
 Needs Foreign Sanction.
 Continuing the discussion of the monarchical movement apart from the attitude of the foreign papers, the Picking Gazette says: While we fear that there may be tragic possi- bilities in the movement which is hurrying the nation to the foot of a throne, we are free to admit that the president-whose knowledge of his people is unmatched by any other living Chinese-may yet be right in believing that China must be ruled as an empire if her salvation is to be achieved. But not the least of the things that may make for the possible success is the necessity of envisaging the momentous change as a transac- tion that cannot be complete unless it receive foreign sanction and approv- al. The elevation of the president to the seat vacated by the 'Manchu has hitherto been regarded as a pure ly domestic matter. Nothing is more calculated to lead the authorities astray in capital direction than an adherence to such dubious and false view of the relations of this country to the outside world We have to in sist upon the real connection that lies