Show PRINCE II VINDICATED A generation ago China and Japan were both semicivilized nations contented con-tented with their intellectual status and apprehension of western innovations innova-tions The men of Japan were wiser than those of China and its rulers more responsive to the appeals of the party of progress The one nation searched for knowledge knowl-edge the world over and with a readiness readi-ness without parallel in the history of I mankind wheeled into column in the great onward march of civilization The fruits of this remarkable wisdom are apparent on every hand throughout through-out the island kingdom and have been brought clearly to the attention of an admiring world In the war now raging Japans unwieldy and unprogressive neighbor China has not been without its wise and far seeing men but the policy of conservatism has prevailed It is to the everlasting credit of Prince LI the grand old man of China that he has been able to look into the future and there to behold tho conditions con-ditions which now so unhappily affect af-fect his native land He has been the active agent through whose instrumentality instru-mentality China has accomplished what little has been done in the direction direc-tion of progress and now when the Flowery Kingdom is i in dire distress brought about by the failure of his Emperor to listen to his oftsounded notes of warning it becomes his melancholy mel-ancholy task to arrange the details of a peace in which his country Is the vanquished He may have the melancholy mel-ancholy satisfaction of little value however to a patriot that his policy would have prevented that which his diplomatic skill is now relied on to alleviate China has the resources of a giant among nations This little affair with Japan will be worth to her all it will cost Among the elements of Chinese future greatness may be enumerated the selfsacrificing economical patient pa-tient hard working characteristics of the people and the boundless resources of the Empire She will now arouse herself from her lethargy and become by reason of her wealth and size a powerful nation whose vengeance may well be feared by her now successful rival II |