Show NO ALLIANCE V ITH CHI CHINA lA A distinguished delegation including one of the royal family of China is in this country ostensibly for or the tile purpose of expressing the gratitude e of China Chinato to o the United States for remitting of the indemnity allotted this s country for the expense of sending ending a small arm army to China when the boxers threatened Pekin and all the foreign legations in that hat city but in an interview in San Francisco the leader eader of this delegation mentioned that he lie outranked outranked out- out ranked the Chinese minister in this country while here and that he proposed remaining in Washington for or some months We rather suspect the outcome will b be be- bean an attempt on his part to induce our government to enter into inton an n offensive and defensive alliance with Referring Referring Re Re- ferring erring to this a Tokio paper says China has adopted a a. reliance upon America as a basis of her whole policy Am can friendliness has encouraged his this confidence and aud the agitation for an alliance is a natural result If that is the purpose of this delegation from China w we suspect they will fail at least we hope they hey will fail The United States can ean serve China b Better without an alliance and it is impossible to estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate what the United States might be called upon to o do if it really had an alliance with China As it is the world gives the United States credit for doing I not only what is square but the generous thing tiling by China While our army was there the insistence of this his government was that the integrity of the Chinese territory must be bo maintained and now it has remitted what was equivalent to a judgment of against China The world looking on praises the United States for its magnanimity and unselfishness but mt were our country to enter into an alliance with China the charge would instantly be made that our country had played for that from the first It would excite the jealousy of three or four European powers especially Germany and Great Britain and it might involve this country in a great war Hence we do donot donot donot not believe that the tile matter will be considered in Washington at all Beyond all that it is against the policy of our country to make any entangling alliances alliances al- al with any arly power and when the matter is properly properly prop prop- erly explained we think the statesmen of China themselves themselves themselves them them- selves will understand that our country could d serve Chinas China's best interests more effectively ely as a friend than han as an ally |