Deseret Evening News | 1902-01-31 | Page 4 | Chinese Reforms

I Springfield Republican It H Is cause for national Uon l pride that out our hits has returned to tho the Chi Chinese neso nese government the tho sum aunt of ot which was seIzed felted In sliver silver bullion bullioh at ut tho the sack suck of ot by American ma marines tines rines The act not is all nil the tM more praise praiseworthy worthy because It 11 Is III a l confession lon that American marines joined In the lie looting of ot the tho city Tho humiliation however Is distinctly overbalanced by b the moral mural courage of or 0 the time act of ot restitution St Paul Patti Plotter Pioneer Press Chinese seem scorn to have lave learned It its 1111 recent lesson leston le on very ory thor liar thoroughly Chum China has ha to raise some 19 19 l to pay la the this charges on Its It recent Indemnity Tub Tills Is IR about an liB much again as s It UK til to pay lint Hut Instead of or adopt adopting ing the Ille reforms suggested those UIO ro fe for tor the tho collection of taxes arc tiro tanking making excuses und anti permitting tho the pro irro provincial governors to continue their old peculations They ore likely to learn that bitt when the tIme Occidental pocket p U is I touched something drops heavily San Ban Francisco Chronicle Any n measures of teal real t 1 reform In III In III Internal administration will wiil ho bo bitterly not only by the tho reigning Man chum chii dynasty hut but by nil alt the class which by the present cor corrupt corrupt rupt rUN methods These Interested letl influences nib enN Will viii be ho backed up by I the intense Inton e national reverence for tor the past liast of or which tho ho worship of ancestors Is l the themo mo mOlt t striking The sto MIn stolid Stolid lid resistance of ot the superstitious lIu mus musses Sell see will wili probably be lie found even a mm mor serious obstacle to reform tItan than that supplied by the resistance of ot the pr dalor mandarins