Show XO NO FIt FOIt CHINA The Tho United States Staten thi th powers that Hint title this Ihl country will not In interfere with sith tho the plans of ot tho the ox eX as nil may bo ho dono by Ij hi diplomat moans means there appears to bo ho ni M obstacle In the tho way vay of at the partition o a or Mongolian till empire for forth thi time limo being refuse to ratify the tha treat treaty by which Manchuria Is transferred U to Russia but that does docs not change tho th fact that Russia Is already In lie of or that th t province and nd when whenever whenever ever It becomes become II clear to the powers thai tha thano t no withdrawn withdrawal In Is contemplated 1 Japan will In all 1111 probability occupy the tel ter rU ry opposite the tue Island of ot Formosa Then Theil Germany and nn Great ar nt Britain will show their hands It seems Booms to us that lent tho the Christian powers nr are doing everything to verify the tho predictions of at the Chinese sages and to justify thee the sO In China Chinn that has found tin un expression In lii term foreign devils applied to for tor foreigners eigners elgner Mongolian statesman nl from the tho beginning taken the tho view that the th opening of or the doors of ot the tM country to the tho outside world would mean In the tho end the thc overthrow of or the tho Ih government go nail the tho destruction of or a n civilization that has hns lasted for thousands thousand lf tt y arll On that account they tile ha hav e opposed tho tIeD foreign Invasion and given concessions only as nil they the were compelled to do so They have fostered among th people a 1 hostile sentiment toward the foreign foreigners ers erR Time rind lIn again they ha endeavored ored to shake off oft the tho foreign always to find It more firmly saddled upon their necks nocks Western peoples pc lease have h ve denounced their narrowness of ot mind and their hostility to civilization civilization tion hilt but now It turns out that nil all their sears fears wore were well veil founded Their Theft predictions of or national n disaster aa aa a re no result r nulL sult of or contact with the foreigners ore are about to rome comets true trite Their mist rei st stub burn burll resistance t tit a western civilization Is III a about to be justified Jus tI II Ill Hut But thee the entire story of ot Christian plunder and slaughter In China Is 18 one of or the th most humiliating in the annals of ot t the world Europe has received the he light of ot Asia and In Its lis rays It has lias en tn joyed peace pence happiness and ami power In Iii return It Mba Asia In to plunder the thc temples and shrines dis desecrate crate the tombs tomb destroy the libraries and ob oh observatories and loot till thee palaces p lareR Ito Itc really CAnny the Christian powers have do de declared dared for tor peace or humane warfare rc If it peace pence Is to tee be broken lint Dill Chinese cities eitle and villages hare havo been plundered without declaration of or war var and their Inhabitants have leave been slain chain by hun hume hundreds reds and thousands There can enn be L no Christian missionary lonar efforts after actor that The rice pagans must not be he blamed If It they the adhere to their own dogmas und mend Ideas In preference to a II which to thorn thom must appear to bo ho hypocrisy Hut But the lee final OMI chapter of ot the tho story may not yet et be bo written China may bo he brok broken en up and divided Hut But its 11 millions of ot human uman beings may mn thereby ho he awak elicit enoil to new nt life lite new activity What will happen then Is for future historians to 10 record Asia armed with modern rifles and taught the thee use of ot thee the cavalry horse horae and Inflamed with thirst for tor ven ven would yet et be capable of or sweep sweepIng Ing the thc world with the besom bosom of ot de destruction ns os In former romer ages |