Show THE CHINESE UPRISING In the Independent Margherlta Ar llna Tlamm says that 4the revolution now taking place in China Is the effort of nn ancient system of society and civilization to protect itself against anew a-new and stronger one The writer does not believe that it is of a religions I character though it has been marked by the indiscriminate slaughter of Christians The article points out that with every advance of the foreigners new hardships have come to the natives na-tives and that the Introduction oC 11f roadthe steam devlhls an all absorbing fear to the people Perhaps thIs Is all true but still I Is In a measure meas-ure Inexplicable because tho higher order o Chinese arc the very shrewdest shrewd-est people In the world in a financial sense and it seems to us that they cannot have failed to see that If the gates of China arc to be opened to admit ad-mit the foreigner they cannot Lc closed against the egress of the products of Chinese labor and that In a few years they ought to be ible to make the generous nations as anxious to close their own doors against those products as they have been anxious to open those of China for their own Of course a person looking from this distance can see but little and with confused vision at that but It seems to us the most noticable feature of the sudden uprising has been the absence of any thing like careful reasoning I has been simply an outburst of reasonless rage and resembles a stampede of Texan cattle more than an organized plan of human beings I has on a large scale borne all the outward characteristics of a fishwoman on the rampage We have all heard much of the Empress Em-press Dowager of China and the accounts ac-counts have boon so conflicting that It has been difficult to form any Idea oCher oC-her except that when aroused abe is an ungovernable fury The North China Herald describes her as an Ignorant timid selfwilled avaricious langulnnrv usurper of bud prlvatn character the French acter who was responsible for and Japanese wars In lW rlic usurped the powers of government beheaded BX I of tho leaders of the Now China party proscribed all the members of that party and sentenced to Imprisonment for life or banishment all who wcro iUDoosed to be friendly to the Emperor She offers a reward re-ward of 1M N taals for Kan Ya Wcl dead or alive and orders that his ancestral ances-tral homo be mado a dunghill She arrests ar-rests women and children because their relations In America are supposed to favor fa-vor reform Sho has driven the Emperor from his throne has locked him Emreror Island and Is slowly having him done to death with the vlow of putting another child on the throne so that she may have another period of regency Reading that description and then considering what has probably been done In and about Peking during the past few weeks IB not the parallel between I be-tween the woman as described above nnd the awful work that has been done most significant And If the foreign Ministers have been saved it has probably prob-ably been due to the innate cowardice of the cruel creature whose nerves finally broke down at the spectacle before hor and the possible hint of he retribution that would be exacted for her bloody wont The real Inside history his-tory of the work of the past few weeks in China could It be fully written would be something for the world to shudder at Of course we do not know that the terrible woman has been In the least responsible I may be the devil Prince Tuan but It has been through devilish instincts rather than reasoning that has Inflamed the mighty mob and converted them into human wild beasts And the question will not be settled by killing and driving hack that mob I will remain the question of the century |