Show C CRY y fOR REfORM IN CHINA CHINAT T HE insurrection against the Chinese T I government which has just broken I out in a province In i the south of China with a narrow frontage on the Gulf Gult of Tonkin will aill call wi er at attention to ti the unrest and In the interior ot of the t empire ago reports from on time the upper declared that another r Box Boxer er uprIsing was aas threatened thorn there One of the latest to speak of these dis disturbed l con conditions Is Dr O 0 Franke the I of nf Chinese ThIns In tte fbi spry ice of the German government Bc c says s I that Chinese scholars and agitators have I been writing pamphlets bOOKs booss and placards ards and reports on neEded reforms In which they present widely divergent views as to the political dangErs Qt time country and the causes autes that make time the empire weak Many lany of these publications ar arc issued from time the tr treaty at orts Only Onh a little while ago the Peking made a futile extort to have writers In Shanghai taken to the capital fOE fo trial because their writings were objectionable to time tac government Many lan of th the writers think tIme the only wa way for China to hold her own is to open the doors to n knowledge machinery and Ideas of pro progress It Is Interesting to note how sum aura up the causes of Chinas troubles and how the they c nt t China will other nations to the great disadvantage of oC their own empire The following quotations aM ar takEn from translations which Dr Frinke has jl just st published mid and in the first one the there re reformer form Cl Rang Kang You Yeu Yel Wel contrasts European powers with China Great states tatos have hae a J Income of man many billions their wt well lI trained armies number millions mUllens their armored cruisers count by hundreds they haVe mod rn sciences ma machinery machinery chinery thousands or of new inventions new books are brought out every year yeara ear eara a multitude or of peasants handicrafts mer merchants merchants chants soldiers scIentists Improve from year Jear to year their respective brandies of learning women and girls youths anti children all aJl know how to read and write And we e Our yearly early revenues amount to o our debts to this refers to the indemnity of war with Japan ma m 19 95 aU all this shows our financial 1 We do possess well troops nor armored this shows our I military weakness ss mod mo modera l lern era ern m are ara ot of no Int interest to us ah ws our s in t tOu I Ou army has n education our mr men do not understand anything pertainIng to military matters matten our flier mer merchants chants have hae no schools they need med our ourI I peasantry lack education anti and this shows the Insufficiency ot of our educational sysler tern 8 devote to contemplation ler Vt if mind the sf lack f c ce cn e erg b and this shows the weakness ot our character For this deplorable condition I 1 vill quo Chung Iuis Huls words The weak must be subjugated We Ve have havo not made any Innovations for years In the foreign stat states s neW lIf life rules but we always remain the he same and learn nothing new Our high follow th the rule Honor the emperor and keep away time the barbarians Foreigners laugh at our an antiquated antiquated ceremonials and studied which are mcanin loss We uVe have not learned how to utilize time hence the catastrophes In th wars with France and Japan Janan but these rc mx verses did not teach us anything there therefore lore fore we have to surfer suffer what Is occurrIng today occupation of The Chinese are governed y scarcely high dignitaries There are general governors and nd governors but not one of them has ever traveled ab o ul or Is familiar famUlar with the modErn works of European conditions These jud men brought up In ways do donot donot not consider it to know any anything anything thing of new Inventions and modern ideas or state ot of affairs In for ign coun tr following is an flOm the th address delivered by Lian Kt El Chao mit at atthe time the opening ot of the tho high for mod modera era science In the ot of Hunau Knowledge Is 1 power Ower the strength or of ofa nation a or diminishes n portion to Us Its wider or know elge Time The colored races ma may SIO as asan asan an example of this The ha o Indians arc beginning to tota ta take e high places in the land where the they were occupying only subordinate positions positions I because they are constantly Im Improving proving In knowledge On th the contrary I the African nf negroes groes the tho In t I dl diana and South Sea Islanders been enslaved again I Formerly time the ruling classes wanted I Ito to diminish the power Dower or of the tho masses therefore they ther Icet them In Ignorance rance I POv nos it Is desirable to increase the thc neo ace ies power therefore their knowledge wl db Is widening It Is essential bt before Cor every CCO thing else to spread knowledge and dl di diminish minish Ignorance r ett It tS is what m makes kes a state powerful or what weakens ns It Iti ho hots knowledge Is fostered n nd anco diminished d It Is necessary to I Ize cannot exist lG as sin j If it lt up In ts old views ws and ideas Sf t I Jap nes and European I works must b read In order to tt ec th that t I I t I life s on the aws of int and e of o other her pun I trios r must s b be e r read d J order t set an i idea ea or f the thO laws 1 them Only atter this Is don dons should at attention attention be given Ien to the old classics and old tiers Here Is a brief f extract from a rEcent Chinese e book Reform Move loe Movement ment of rhe o extract Is taken from froma a chap T l or of China Chinato t to the f A dying ein man ir in 11 his s de delate late solitude e lim m res Itt YO wait beIo teeth are arc waiting Even t smallest vermin flies mind moths mites mind nd ants swarm in great numbers jQ ye e their share Such is Chinas position tc today Tt b be sure when the man suddenly I sprin springs up the who whole It crowd s away aWa but when he remains still then foxes and and vultures fall one upon fight t lt r m J ChInas existence or destruction n Isa Is a question ot of the greatest im X lit iii I the worlds world polities politics Today loda the decisive outcome ot of the question is at hand What hat wIll be the tate fate of ti to sick man I There is a remedy for lor him if he hee takes e ft he will live j not u he l die Ho knows elt it e h wants a 8 to t tkO it He to gulp it down but a harder matter in his throat It If his ratter atter IS the Invalid will willbe be itt swallow and shall shaH live It not he wont be able to swallow and shall lle cb Thus life and death are In this case separated only by a hairbreadth Such I is Chinas situation toda today The rhe ChInese ore re also writing more than ever on en questions and ar are i giving special prominence to the tte view I that Confucianism oan the only world th t lit fl the ourse of a few d years ll nations will acknowledge t edge this fact and embracE the teach teachings Ings o Confucius then th the world will willbe be OD one brotherhood and wars will cease Sun |