The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-22
CHINESE SOCIETY FOR PEACE FEARS
 JAPANESE B0GEY
Large Sums Contributed By Chinese to Promote Pc
 tential Monarchy.

Picking, Oct. 22.-The newspapers announce that the promoters of the Peace Society (caned in Chinese the
 Chou An Huei) have recently receiv- ed $200,O0O for the purpose of pro-
 noting sympathy for the potential monarchy throughout the country, and it is estimated in some quarters
 ment circles. The Peking Gazette says that "a weeks study of the supreme issue raised by MT. Yang Tu and his fellow promoters of the Chou An Huei leaves us convinced >thatLunless the menace indicated further on is. understood-a trnonarchial restoration in China is a tcertainty.
 Referring to the sNanking agree ment'' between President Yuan's par ty and the revolutionary government which was esta blished at Ranking, the! paper says: This settlement is un- derstood by the South in the sense of a great national charter which forever ended the cycle of alien conquest that hitherto swept China; and it is also prized as the title-deed which vests in the nation a country hitherto gov erned as the private domain of the reigning monarch and his house. The South looks upon the national settle li1aent done at Ranking as the funda- men tai bufwafk against the recurrence of ancient wrongs and laches; and, rightly or wrongly, it is a living fear there in the regions and beyond the Yan -tse-kiang that, if the Republic and the great human things and as- pirations denoted by the idea disap- pear and pass into the night haunted ! by the ghosts of the past, the force and power of habit. custom tradition and the other agencies of national en- vironment will drive US to the re-es- | fa1I IjSaT ant of moi in essentials to the regime that was shat tered in 1911.
 ''The question of expediency has aI- so entered itself about the personality | of the new monarch. No Chinese that l is not a slave in spirit would care to if there is to be monarchicaI restora- ton in China, 1t can hardly be doubted that the President would be entitled to the sceptre. But it is equally a
 matter of no little certainty that such l a sceptre would be but a bauble if it passed into the hands of the President 1 in circumstances that might be inter
 preted by the nations in the sense of 1 a seizure. Unless regality is the free 1 offering of the people, no fonarchical
 system in China would olItlast either the life of the monarch or his control of the military forces of the country.
 There are not a few who,-belieying fthat the facts of national destiny de- | Tnand monarchica1 restoration in this untry-fear that, if such restora- l ton is effected as result of the move
 ment initiated by the promoters Of
 the Society for Peaee1' there will go habroad among the nation this idea of Ia forcfbIe seizure of the see ptre. But these views of expediencY, re- 1 levant and powerful as they are in any discussion of the question, are l in a sense theoretical as we'll as spec | ulative; and for this reason they may l pass undecided when set off against the undoubted ability of the Chiang Shuns (Governors1 to maintain order l in the provinces in the event of a
 monarcnial restoration A considera-
 tion, however, that is not at all idle
 and speculative is, the attitude of Ja- pan While the other great Powers may be more or less indifferent to the l transformation of China from a re- public to a monarchy-alfhough the 1 United States may not be very easy | to p1acate-there is every reason to 1 believe and to anticipate that no such Indifference will characterize the at I titude of Japan
 The article then brings up the per
 manent Chinese dread that Japan will seize any opportunity or situation here to promote her authority, and that
 another revolution would be we1com- ed by her.