Show HURRY THE WAR THROUGH I The Christian powers ought to hasten with all speed a settlement with China If It Is to be warand we cannot see how it can be avoided then It should I be pushed with all energy Some people peo-ple ask how can the world make headway head-way against four hundred millions of people I will not have to The strength of the empire is on the coast and for a short distance up the main rivers Beyond that there Ij I calm and the people know nothing of war or anything any-thing else except to make their daily struggle for food But there Is I i formidable power near the coast Of I course Chinese soldiers cannot yet fight the Caucasian in the open but with longrange magazine guns and smokeless smoke-less powder the Chinese can Inflict vast damage before being subdued But the work should be flurried The dark races are stirring The echoes from China will penetrate starving despairing and desperate India anQ L the Mohammedan portion at least might respond In that case the war might spread to Northern Africa and stir the millions there and modern L great wars especially where nations fight a long distance from their base are awfully expensive Again the Chinese Chi-nese war should be fought to a finish before through Its erosion the Chinese Chi-nese as a nation take on an Idea of their strength and are rounded into a nation of soldiers They are fatalists they do not fear death It is not much for them to give up the hard lives which arc their portion and when L once they learn the uso of modern arms and become accustomed to wars clamors they will be dangerous soldiers sol-diers Then how long will the Western nations act In concert Should it transpire trans-pire as we all expect It will that the Ministers and other white residents of Peking have been slain and a general war Is decided upon our belief is that there should bo a congress of tile Western West-ern nations called to dally consult and to give advice to their respective Governments Gov-ernments perhaps to outline a general code to govern In the administration of fleets and armies and to decide when vexed questions arise upon the general course to be pursued I Is a I bad business We do not know when the world was ever before called upon to meet just such an emergency All the Western powers will have to carryon carry-on operations thousand of miles from home and the matter of procuring coal for thcashlps will alone bo a problem Then too the Chinese coast Is not healthy The filth of five thousand years taints tho air and tho water and all the burial places are filled with i foreign dead Hence the matter should be hurried hurried with all possible dispatch for it is a situation that grows more and more dangerous with every days delay v |