Show RECONSTRUCTION OF CHINA I In a mad carnival W blood and rapine I pine n new China has been born The change might have come otherwise could have come one Is tempted to be lieve had the crime of September 1S98 not been accomplished with the tacit I consent or active sympathy of the ncte representatives rep-resentatives of the great powers of the West An awful price has been paid fori the trustful optimism of the legations I and the policy of creating trouble by seeking to avoid It which has been so much in favor in quarters to which the Chinese reform party looked for encouragement I en-couragement and support But the nwokonlng has been to horrible to permit per-mit of a lapse Into Indifference again Let diplomatic precedent be strained a I It may order must come out of this chaos of savage passions and mad am 1 bitions and regenerated China will be the result Punishment just and exemplary exem-plary must have its course which should however be all the shorter because be-cause those primarily responsible for all the nameless atrocities of the reign of terror are high In place and power But reconstruction must go handIn hand with judgment if I onefourth of the human race ia to be saved from I falling a prey to the contagion of their own lawless I passions manifested on a 1 scale unheard of in tho history of man klnd John Foord in the Engineering EngllccrII Magazine for August I |