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Show MM IS WAKING UP; j ! SPIRIT OFPEOPLE AFLAME 1 An Outspoken Press Demands Free Expression and a National Spirit. NEW YORK. JRn ; -KM.lences of the tWa clijig. that ho, Ukcn place In the PI"! of the people of China are multiplied Wlin every mall that reaches mUHlOMT headquarter, here. Poetically all the mil- uonarlM in lhP rhanKe a Kroai oppor- , tunlty for ,he Christian religion, nn.l many I of thetll bp0.o that the opportunlty R O-.npl.j ltn ,ome rwrl, Q1bert Mrln.Jfn I lon .'" t."nnw!rl ,vllh Presbyterian Mis- t, , n,' T. Hl rhanKhai- "" Immense establlsh-I establlsh-I raeni which lart y.-ai prlnt-.l mr vi. i.h.,-,., I hTf.,1 , 'lu,-1"l"tial nn.l rILf;l0UI WOttU, "J0""! 'n th. Chln.-.e anUage. wrlten of tl MMi lWrUf,h "ak""'nK of u nn.l .mil -Pint In i hlra hj. hnj uin ihe native press. As lllustrattns torm.r conditions, he cites ine nr lH,,,,,, ,-nnil an,, Japwl whe ,no S "' "1" s"":h -1-s practically callous to what was Koln on In the north, and also i urn to the Indifference exhlldled for many )ars hy the chines:, internment to the in-ct-ni enlen.es it.-, ure a m,i cxpresloni ex-uerieneeil ex-uerieneeil bj Chinese emigrants .nterin into America That this Is all changed I" Indicated Indi-cated by tho alert patemll) of tbs O.vprnmfiit and the vIroi of th..- boycott ufrltallun for more favorable treaty regulation! The Press Waking Up. Mr IfcIntOSh ny that the UMSOM of the Mcenl war, and the belief that what Japan hat acBleed -nilnii a!f.. ,on accomplish, have ' ' 1 ne eighteen provinces into a puipi- latlnc hol- i if Intr- years the native pre. hr.s tnken rapid strides to a tr..n(f position In the gruldanre cf affairs. Here are for Instance, In-stance, a few sentence)) from two Issues of the Nnn-fojiK-pao ithe South China Dnllv Journuli Speaking of the press laws, the editor says . "A good newspaiier is worth niany eiinlKats at the present time Good newspapers, fn-4 and untramroeled. can do much for China. They r.tnnd with one h:md ufK.n the pule of the peoplo at home nn.l the other upon the PUlSS of foreign sentiment with reirard to Ohliia. Puhlh Ity Is the enemy of do-ceptlon, do-ceptlon, falsehood and knavery, and the friend Of virtue and truth. And so wu see that In those countries where the rul. rs are fattening at the i p- ne of ihe people, it has licen a settled policy to raf lh. press, and by this means to screen from the people the light .X truth, which Is an iittrlrmte. of their growth " "Yellow Peril" a Bogy. Notwithstanding Increased military efficiency, effi-ciency, the recent boyCOll proaganda. the fury of the LIcn-Ghotff mob. the memory' of the Cixer fanaticism, i.iel ihe iec.-nt t-.inh . utiage in lvking !r Mi tntosh insldera the "yellow peril" a bog , and he quotes Marqiil Tseng's opinion thut. largely from the ah-enct ah-enct of land hunger nn.l grnhl.lng proclivities, proclivi-ties, "the awakening of 3W.QQu,ono to a con-sclousness con-sclousness of their strength would not be dangerous to I he continuance of friendly relations rela-tions with the study "f racial char-acterlstl char-acterlstl i, Mr. Mcintosh rays, alv ret-eals little likelihood of t'hlna running amuck or b seaming s mllltmr menace Among the dwi Hers In the Rust thou- least fearful Of the yellow ierll and most hoveful for China are the missionaries, who know the people, th.dr language nno their needs. China Wants Schools. The awakening China wants schools, but the paucity of teachers renders even th- opening of primary schools In f.dequnte numbers an Intellectual end ' moral Impossibility. Tl.o awakening china wishes to copy .Inpnn. hut a nn.lj Quvemmenl Is not ablt t' make the necessary vacrLflccs. The awakening China wmts to DOM as a tr.m: rsiuer, hut the money raised for armaments Is wrung out of the ntr.-a'ly i verlaxed ii-Jile. who know that much of the money goes tc swell the gains of unscrupulous, officials. |