| Show CHINAS COMMERCIAL MOVE I Is teported that the Chinese gov eMiirient Mil send a commercial commission com-mission to Europe and America this Year The object is to study the industrial in-dustrial and trade systems and conditions condi-tions 01 modern nations for the dou be purpose of establishing commercial commer-cial agencies in all the principal cities and inaugurating needed reforms at home Chinese lack of enterprise want of International sociability commercial isolation and all the other peculiar characteristiCs for which the empire is noted have been leading I dangerously near the brink of dissolution Russia and England are eagerly awaiting an opportunity to iv1 I > the kingdom of flowers between them The lion and the bear are ready to make their beds among the roses There is but one chain for dhlna Either the garden wal must be torn down that the world may see and hear and know what Is gring < on within or in the I name oi humanity It villjMCplore and S I v L y 1 learn for Itself The day has gone forever for-ever when any power may enclose itself I It-self in 3 shell and tell the world to attend at-tend to other business more distinctly its own The brotherhood of mankind Is broadening I Is reaching out In every direction taking interest In fellow beings be-ings everywhere solicitous about their welfare and determined that justice shall rule in every zone Nations have passed the frontier stage They have no longer any patience with nations which are unneighborly As the facilities I fa-cilities for travel and social and commercial com-mercial intercourse are extended the world is growing correspondingly smaller There is no longer any room for the recluse There is no place for those who are absolutely worthless to the whole and consequently useless to the plan of civilization Powers like China must change their policy or get off the earth This may seem harsh but It Is the trend of universal thought Unless China makes a short sharp turn the end is near The empire of Confucius within 3 short period will cease to exist ex-ist save a a geographical expression unless 3 different policy Is pursued I will be added to the long list of empires em-pires that have fallen since Babylon for their own good and that of the world Perhaps these dangers these possibilities possi-bilities this pending ruin may have been pointed out to the Chinese government gov-ernment Perhaps the empress is awakening from her pipe dream of indolence in-dolence and indifference Perhaps she ha concluded that it were best to beat be-at home when nations call hereafter I may be old Li Hung Chang has told her of the great world beyond her narrow nar-row range of its drift its purpose its aggressiveness its determination to turn the searchlight of education on i the dark places of earth What else can account for the newborn resolve of the dowager to investigate commercial commer-cial conditions and establish closer j commercial relations with the leading I powers of earth She surely scents the danger She aster Is trying to avert the Impending dis I |
