Show l i < tDINESE OFFICIASVIEW 11 I Ho Yow Imperial Chinese ConsulGeneral at San Francisco Fran-cisco Writes an Exhaustive Signed Article on the Present SituationBelieves that We Should Extend the Aonroe Doctrine to Asia for Our Own Protection T Copyright1900 Lcsllo Newspaper Syndicate NeW York Y San Francisco July 20 Events V crowd each other so rapidly in China now and the reports which come from V tho capital are so conflicting that it Is impossible to grasp the real situation V with sufficient comprehension either to analyze it or to forecast possibilities possibili-ties A few days ago I thought the foreign Ministers had all been massacred mas-sacred In Peking today it seems probable V V prob-able that all save the German Minister may be alive A few days ago we were told by the dispatches that the Emperor was dead and that the Empress Em-press Dowager had escaped somewhere V to the west Today it V appears that V V the latter has resumed the reign of Government and that It is highly un V likely that the Emperor has been destroyed V de-stroyed V Undoubtedly the counter revolution q to Prince Tuans movement developed by Prince Ching Is clarifying the atmosphere considerably and permitting permit-ting the normal functions of the Government Gov-ernment to gather strength and reassert V re-assert themselves V It Is comforting and cheering that the Empress has commended Prince Ching to protect the foreigners at whatever hazard and i that the Prince Is reported to be re victualing the Europeans and defending defend-ing them against the rebels Along with these reassuring tidings V V come the statements that the rebellion rebel-lion is being firmly held from spreading spread-ing by the Viceroys of the other provinces V pro-vinces and that the revolutionary V orders sent from Peking to the Vlce royfl have been by them generally disregarded V dis-regarded All these reports seem clearly to indicate that the backbone of the revolt is broken and that the celve Indeed In these contemplations V the continent Africa painted as its V map now is with the colors of European Euro-pean States seems to be the model by which the western mind measures us Your people here forget that the portions of Africa partitioned to the powers was merely the roving ground of savages little better in their capacity capa-city than the beasts of the Jungle on whom they lived Western knowledge of us seems to be about on a par with the Africans knowledge of things in general You forget that we have a civilization InV which government is V understood and applied in which industry in-dustry is I specialized and assiduously pursued and in which learning is diffused dif-fused and exalted Moreover there is a racial continuity among us stretching from Mongolia to I Cochin China and from the strand of the Yellow sea to the sands of the desert of Gobi It is the racial characteristic char-acteristic to which the Chinaman adheres ad-heres wherever he removes his residence resi-dence His blouse Jacket is emphatically emphatic-ally Chinese as was the gabardine aSh a-Sh loclc the badge of his Jewish nationality na-tionality and wherever he goes all doubt which his complexion otherwise raises as to V his nationality among darker races of the world at once Is I dispelled by his queue and shaven head which always are In evidence The tribes of Africa never have shown any distinctive cohesion and It is in magnitude magni-tude of territory alone that any parallel can be drawn between the two countries coun-tries as subjects of the divisional processes pro-cesses of the Europeans If It shall be said that some of the Chinese in various parts of the empire show profound weakness In their regard re-gard for the people of other provinces and for the Government it may be stated that this always is the case where countries are large population dense times hard and Intercommunication Intercommuni-cation so difllcult that people do not move among one another All of this I V V V I J i1 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must Jju hort lived cery < reason to hope that when the unioke of the trouble settle but few foreign l lives shall have been found to be lost and that at no tIme dAl It V ially present the danger of becoming r the widespread conflajjratlon thnt atc at-c ne time was thought to be Imlnent In such aspect of the situation what concerns ua most is S the coating UI or r thi accounts which China must make with the foreign nations hatis l to r1 b > the character of this Indemnity I i which they will demand The United r V State wo know will nsk nothing L1cI but a money Indemnity but will the Integrals of Europe be content with ra this Must new Tonkins be carved out for France new Manchurhis for RuS sin and more Shantungs for Germany I V Must Japan find further Formosos on main land and England get another i V WelHalWel If this is to be the result iO VV re-sult of the revolution It may well be i1 teared that the difficulties have Just V marled in The dlfmclnberment 4 of China Is S V spoken of by many writers with about j3tJ the same levity In the use of words that u careloHfi carver would employ In his operations on a fowl It Is spoken of V h3 uu an event certain to transpire In the hies order of things and that China IB to V be partitioned among the powers has V no far advanced aa a conclusion In the VV Western mind that we even are told that Europe secretly lias mapped the thing out and determined the speclllc chare of thc spoils that earn fp to re frrL tItZ V can and will be changed by the network net-work of railroads which within a few years will gridiron the empire RaIlroads RaIl-roads are needed in many wnys they are required for the development ot the country for Increasing the earning capacity of the people and hence raising rais-ing wages and they are needed as I strategic facilities When It becomes possible to concentrate at one point I troops from all parts of the empire to I converge the vast military strength of China in one locality and when it occurs oc-curs that Chinese soldiers are well drilled and adopt In the use of modern arms then what power or what com bination of powers could stand against China In her own laud Why the paltry pal-try thousands that Europe could send against hor would be brushed away as an unchained force of nature wipes out I the human myriads I Lord Wolseley surveying with his military eye our vast resources of men has said that It China ever developed de-veloped military prowess and strength she would be a menace to the nations of the earth He recognizes that ware w-are good material for soldiers needing only training food and fire to go anywhere any-where Hence his Lordship is apprehensive appre-hensive If this apprehension were Just rung I Into the European sovereigns In some slight degree what clouds of possible trouble might roll away They then would abstain from asserting claims to Chinese territory for it Is not reasonable reason-able that when the mighty dragon of the East does raise Its lirebreathing head it will likely swallow those who I have their lingers In his teeth and V their arms about his claws Are not the nations setting up their Governments on Chinese soil simply storing up trouble for themselves In the future Aro they not doing thy very things which arc most prone to lead l to possible ara1 If the Boxer movement move-ment has any meaning at all It means that the Chinese wish to be left alone China and the Chinese cannot be Jet alone in the manner In which these V Boxers desire China must roll on with the universe or roil off the universe roll verily she must Progress ever advancing progress must be her action and she can take no back steps But this sentiment senti-ment which fills the Boxer that China must be for the Chinese Is i very general gen-eral not that It Is general In the narrow nar-row and harsh sense that the Boxer feels it but In the broad and lofty spirit that It is felt by LI Hung Chang In other words with nil the apparent I indifference of the Chinese of the several I sev-eral provinces there Is a Chinese patriotism pa-triotism broad and deep which needs I only to be well handled by a strong I Government to convert it into a most effective weapon of national defense But what do the land grasping nations na-tions propose to do in China If we shall study the history of Spain In the I Orient we may look for an answer to I I this question But England and Germany Ger-many contemplate Industrial operations I opera-tions which must have the effect of Increasing In-creasing the power of the people among whom they are placed By the very processes of their operations in China they produce the condition which will culminate In thdir removal Moreover their presence in the country as governing gov-erning bodies vastly quickens the Chinese Chi-nese Government to increase its industrial I indus-trial and military strength in order to be able to defend itself against future encroachments so that all the forces operating In China today even the Boxer force itself by the very power of its excesses are tending to bring China on the plane where she will be able to protect herself and moreover a will be highly developed industrially Even in the little skirmishing which has transpired already between the Boxer rabble and Prince Tuans troops on the one hand and the powers on the other at Tien Tsln we have seen that the Chinese in arms are infinitely more effective than they were in the Japanese Japa-nese war that they now are using modern weapons and know how to handle them Assemble a million or more of these men thus drilled and equipped and I repeat where is the power of the earth that can stand against them But Lord Wolseley need have S no fears that China ever will become a conquering nation or that it will send troops abroad to despoil other people As I have before said somewhere China Is and always has been surrounded sur-rounded by small kingdoms Korea Japan the Philippines Borneo and the rest China could have annexed them years ago If she desired but she never has harmed them and she never will I harm anyone if she is not imposed up on and then only to the extent necessary neces-sary to assert her rights The Chinese people are not people ot a military temperament They are Industrial and mercantile and will shortly as I pre dict raise China to be a nation of vast business and of enormous benefit to the world And herein lies the real policy of wis dom for the nations of the West to pursue pur-sue with regard to China Instead of sending their ships and troops thither seizing ports and provinces and put ting in operation their military rules let them combine to help China to her feet Let them see as the United States so well sees that the real gain to acquire from China is to make her the enormous industrial nation whfch she so readily can become to Join modern science to her vast potentiali tics of labor and turn the two upon the endless resources of nature of which in her land there are such de posits and possibilities as would make the whole world marvel It Is by trade and the transactions of business that the nations are to profit from China V and profit immensely and in the ways that help both sides This is the way of nature and the way of reason If I were of your religious faith I would V say it Is Gods way while the other is the way of the prince of outer limbo leading only to strife and endless dis aster Plant a foreign nation In control of a district and you have at once an undprground China there Secret so cieties organized ramifying iig every V where plotting and scheming against the ruling power and the foreigners who sustain it and amidst all this there Is great insecurity of life and property and consequent interference with business The United States today Is the great nation of the East Whatever a handful of labor unionists have In flicted upon the laws of your country regarding us here the minds of the men ot your administrations of Wash ington are of different stuff They are wise farseeing and noble in their conceptions of Justice and their appli cation of its principles They are wise In regard to the Chinese and are not less so In behalf of their own country They have taken the position that the integrity of the empire must be main tained They are men too profound not to see that the United States never can allow Europe to front this country on the oceans The balance of power of the world would he destroyed and peril always would be at the doors of this nation on two coasts As our Min luLet I his Excellency Wu Ting Fang well has said It must be the ollc policy oC the United U1nltet States to extend the Monroe doctrine to Asia Her own safety demands it HO YOW imperial Chinese ConsulGeneral San Francisco Cal |