The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-29
MONARCHY IN
 CHINA IS GIVEN
 HOT CRITICISM

Peking, Nov. 29 = Newspapers which were originally friendly to the monarchial movement and were in- cIined to accept without qualification the statements of its leaders are now becoming somewhat wobbIy in their faith the result of the r'farcicaP' elections now being held. The North China Daily News of Shanghai which is generally recognized as a more or less official mouth piece for English interests in China, is one of the early supporters of the movement which is weakening. The ~A following extract from an editorial in this paper shows it's position:f fa
 Meanwhile the trade of Shanghai is suffering, and foreigners want to know whether they are watching com edy or farce. Foreigners and the majority of Chinese are quite prepar- ed to sit through the performance as long as 1t promises to reach a, denoue- nent in keeping with real life 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 fantastic. These Wordy mandates, this rnaneuvering of so-called popular assemblies, these petitions, the whole bag of tricks.vdo 4 l. uineness. somewhere, a goal some where and definite approaches to that goal? Or are we watching a sham and nothing but a sham, the prolonged evolutions of a topsy turVy piece of nonsense made as elaborate as possible only to cover the absence of any connected,f reasonable plot. Is the doctrine of maskee tit makes no difference) being carried beyond the point of indifference to means and to
 
 also? If so, we warn Yuan Shi-kai that his finale will be an Interrupted and a troubled one
 eff this much talked of monarchiaI movement with it's elaborate inves- legations of pros and cons,j with it's hunting up of musty records and it's be-spectac1edf peering into dry-as- dust precedents is nothing more than a grasping of power for selfish pur- poses, then it, will prove disastrous to those who are taking part of it and disastrous to the country as a do not care two straws what govern ment they have as long as it is a good one. But it must be a good one, and unless the abandonment of republ1- canism proves itself to be a genuine effort to bring such a government in to existence, the monarchial move ment will earn the rewards of the sorriest farce that has ever been staged in China
 Commenting on this changed atti- tude of the North China Daily News, the Peking Daily Gazette. which is owned and edited by Chinese only, says: 'tIt is clear that what is nov ing the Changhai paper to a lower valuation of the movement is the in troduction Of the apparatus of un- reality into it; and just as a sense of reality and -actuality is a condi- ton of efficiency and success in the West, so does the exhibition of a mar velous capacity of unreal in serious affairs strike the foreign mind at once as plain for failure and as in telIectuaI1y offensive. The statecraft that is at work in our country today so typically manifested in the gesture of the hour-is based on an order of ideas which may have fcorresponded with reality in the seNenteenth cen tury, when China stood in splendid isolation; but in these days when our very existence as a nation is in the trust of fNend1y powers mediaeva1 concepts of government must give way to the other order of ideas which inspire men in the West to govern a country as a nation and not as a family domain. We write these words less in the sense of active opposition to the moparchial movement than or caution and counsel to those who
 may know China even in her recesses,
 
 eign experience which alone can en- able them to understand and to deal l-otherwise than gropingly-with cer- tain great categories of foreign af- fairs
 Continuing the discussion of the monarchial movement apart from the attitude of the foreign papers the Picking Gazette says: While we fear that there may be tragic pos abilities in the movement which is hurryings 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 oth- CT living ChineseArnay 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 en- visaging the momentous change as a transaction that cannot be complete
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