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Show HEGEMONY IN CHINA. The Felting Gazette, a hiuese newspaper, news-paper, re.-ent lie atl'-iript of a British paper to belittle the ie.terc-: of liu-I'niled liu-I'niled Mates in tin situation whkh has developed a : a r-iilr of ihe (dash bet wee n the hiu.Mi ami .1 apaneso sol-dier; sol-dier; in Mon-niPi. The (ia.ette appreciates appre-ciates in the I'u Me.- L cxlfiit tin.' powerful power-ful i 1 1 f luences w ielded l.'.v this count ry and declares thi ' undoubtedly Kurope wouhl follow if Amerira should indorse the ( hinc-e it w that -lapanese hegemony hege-mony in ( hina on Id be a menace. ' ' While the wish in.-y have been father to the thought in the case of the Peking paper, there are good grounds for the belief that, the United States will continue con-tinue to insist that the treaty signed by the great nations guaranteeing the integrity in-tegrity of ( hina be repp;ted. Both Japan and Russia have given assurances assur-ances to that effect, and the United States is precluded from further inquiry in-quiry until another cause is given. But the Chinese question is not definitely defi-nitely settled by any means, and when the Kuropean war has .been brought to a bloody conclusion and the representatives represent-atives of the great powers assemble to , take, account of all that has happened j and adopt measures that will prevent such occurrences in the future, the : rights of China will have to be considered, consid-ered, for it, would be utterly useless for the representatives of the powers to mako any kind of an agreement without with-out i in dud in g the oriental country which is now trying to shake off its lethargy ( of ages and adopt the methods meth-ods of western civilization. A Japanese prot ect orate over China or Japanese control by forced concessions is a positive posi-tive menace, not only to China, but lo j the peace of the world as well, j The British paper in Peking will I never, convince the Chinese that the ! United States will not uphold their j right to enjoy a free and independent j country, for had it not been for the j attitude of this country during the past ! twenty years China would have been 1 1 benevolently assimilated ' ' long ago. The 1 ' open door ' ' became a part of tho fixed policy of the government at Washington and the inquiries recently made are merely a continuation of the policy of ""Secretary Hay when the question ques-tion became of prime importance. The Japanese are not deceived as to the attitude of this country, and .while the Tokio statesmen are attempting to attain at-tain their ends by underhand work they know full well that the United States will not allow them to shut off the American trade in the orient, no matter what view may be taken .by the European Euro-pean nations. |