Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The newspapers comment upon the thO friendly offer of or our OUT government ov to help China Chin put down her new ew boxers Washington Post Certainly It was as a radical departure from tho the doctrine of non intervention for tor Secretary Knox to otT offer r to do all we O could toward co cooperating cooperating co- co 0 operating with the Pekin government In checking the thc anti foreign outbreak S j It Is too Carl early arl to forecast the attitude of other otheT powers In tho the matter but first Impressions among amons foreign rep rep- r U es In Washington arc are to the th effect rr ct that the they aro c not un unwilling to Join hands with the United d States In hi the restoration of quiet In China Troy Times China gives gIre further proof of progress In liberal Ideas Idea by abolishIng abolish abolish- hIn h- h In ing somo of the tho forms of slavery existIng existing exist exist- ing In tho the empire The spirit of the Is that of toleration and freedom dom and the cast east Is coming well s within the sw sweep ep of this humane Influence San Francisco Chronicle In time lime as ItS China gets geh more centralized tho the foreigner foreigner foreigner for for- eigner may be bo made safe In any province province ince but he need not expect to 10 be liked He lie In Is and still will be bo a foreign devil de to be placated by tho people until they and their government get ct strong enough to hold their own against him and then tho Caucasian may speedily find out ho stands Dispatch Dispatch- The IS Issue ue of or the makes at least a significant be beginning beginning be- be ginning toward the ultimate freedom of the Chinese by official recognition of tho the Impropriety of the tho barter barteT and sale salo of human beings Changes come slowly ly In that land and while the extinction of slavery there may be deferred for fOT or years cars the he fact that It has at last been undertaken undertaken under under- taken Is 19 that much gain for civilization Chicago Record Herald Two remarkable remark remark- ablo able edicts have ha been issued d within the thelast thelast last tast few da days davs s 's b by tho the Imperial government govern o ment mont of China One reaffirms the Pledge to grant a constitution and establish stab lish parliamentary government and at attIm tho tIm same time summons a a national as assembly as- as whose who whoso functions functions' are arc not defined for for October The other restricts or abolishes certain forms torms o or domestic slavery slav slav- ar cry ery In the empire This Is better news nen's than the kind we were ere getting a n few weeks week ago news ago news of rioting foreign anti agitation destruction destruction of missions Baltimore Am American It Is gratifying and md encouraging hll that China should at last ha e i cached a 1 stage of progress wh where r an attempt Is to b bA made tn th tile tho Institution of slavery The Tho reform Is not to be a sweeping one the one tho retainers of the tho Manchu Manc-hu princes and amid the lie hou household slaves sla of the are not notto to be he emancipated Their status Is to tob tob tobe b be b however and tho tIm custom of tilling selling children Into slavery will hereafter here here- after bo he prohibited entire entirely It Is perhaps per per- haps as well vell that such a change chango In the social arrangement should bo be brou Lt about gradually Boston Herald Secreta Secretary Knox Is said to have assured China that sho she may count co on tho the forces of the United 4 In aid In suppressing a II revolt should It take tako an dynastic anti form or should the tho Imperial forces at an any point prove their need neelI of outside aid ald The logic of our present policy of friendliness toward China calls for 01 some Omo such action as this and It will be bo popularly supported Providence Journal The forel antl-forel foreign anti n feeling among the Chinese IK is probably al almost almost at- at most entirely due to the efforts of f mal a agitators who ho use every ery means I I to x the Ignorant people leading If them to believe bellevo that the scarcity of food Is due duo to the machinations of ot foreign merchants If Jr the tho ill feeling can bp he kept In check and confined to a single locality no repetition of the boxer hoxer outbreak need he be feared But should the always alwa's dormant dormant dor dor- mant hatred of foreigners bo be awakened In other parts of the empire the result sult would of course bo be a very cry grave ra e situation situa situa- tion There Is Is however no need aced to anticipate an an- trouble Richmond DI Times Dispatch patch The Tho Chi Ci Cinese nese neM government ha has h Issued a abolishing the slave trade trado In In the empire and greatly re restricting chattel slavery The Tho Manchu princes are Aro to retain their domestic slaves la and their personal re retainers ro- ro thou though h Rp special liberties are conceded concerted con con- ceded to both classes Technically speaking speak- speak ins ing ng slavery savery a as such will exist and those who r remain maln In bonda bondage e will be he termed servants I though their flet Is to be lifelong The imperial order further prohibits prohibits pro pro- hibits the sale of children In times of famine and says that no Chinese parent tn In n any circumstances can do more than bind out lila his children until the they are 25 5 ears 3 ears of age This Is not all what might he be desired but It is a n. blow for freedom and certainly certain marks an epoch In the progress progress ress reas of 0 China New York Toik Tribune Now th the lie spectacle of so va vas vast t and so ancient an empire voluntarily vol tc Itself is sufficient to pique the tho keenest curiosity and command command com corn mand the tho Intense Int Interest of the thoughtful thought thought- ful observer of current history making But the effect fl ct of the change upon the In Industrial industrial In- In and commercial problems of tho the world muot must bo be great and It may well en engage engage en- en gage dge the earnest attention of all who arc are concerned In Industries and trade There Is no longer any question qu of the tho n awaken awaken- ak n- n log ing of ot and of h her hr r emergence Into the till full uti modern order ordeT of things The question of f chief Importance Is what the attitude of other othor nations toward her In that achievement shall bo be anc and to what extent they shall profit or lose Ipso from her I performance |