| Show IJ The burning of at a number of native Cat CatholIcs ol In China by the boll boNers at n a time when hn It I is supposed the imperial government I is anxious to IU pC proves either that the govern overn mont Is playing a doubt double or that I it Is i against the leaders of that It tt ii to form torm torman an any judgment I as to which of the two conclusions I is the true Irue one but front the th on one or Ih the other Iler there Is no escape The Th tact fact puts puis the pace peace negotiations In a peculiar lIght They Im like Uke of time Agreements enter entered Into wih with a party unwilling to crry carry It out or to do 1 so I if willing cn can have no value I It looks a a It if the Chi nees minister In Paris Pari M 1 Lu Iu lieng Heng must mut be gIven credit for tor a correct ecU t mate ot of the tho when he Ild ald that the lers formulated by the Imbu ambassadors dorl dors ar are Impossible of execution and that the Chinese authorities wi will regard the Ilac peace anI only as an armistice to be ended AI a Ion coon as al China Is I strong enough lie He ought to kno know And nl I if e so what Is th object of the ultimatum that lies hat been agreed on 1 Th The situation I is most ot unpleasant It If the fe power without impress impressIng In Ing upon the Chinee Chinese ople th the nece sill of treating the foreigners In ac croll with one grest object of at th the elaborate of the country countr wi will ha have failed and aDd W we may p for tor new assaults ul on the foreigners and heir friends I If on the tho theother other hald hand It I iii to further open Ul the pt gates of oC China to 10 the commercial nn and missionary enterprises ot of the worl world th per power I It seems must ke keep a a pr per manent military for force of no small ml pro proportion portion In the empIre to a sOs tO 10 It that those doul doors are re not closed lOe U fact tut as they a are being pried open oln When th the Chinese trouble was started some ot of the pwen powers undoubtedly hoped that It would end In a grand division of the empIre be between between tween the foreign nations Since then the policy of at keeping tM the country Intact hu prevailed but p poe this Wl will In the tbt coil Jve prove led Ical no matter how desirable It might bt b Slut ut I if so 10 I it II is the fault ot of the Chinese people themselves their at a time when th the bt best dl diplomacy lol or of the world I is straining e every nerve nene to cave a their countr country from the tate fate of kIngdoms that baYo lost their autonomy autonom through the madness of at their rule and the blind or of the nl ppl people |
