| Show LET THEM FIGHT IT OUT As the japanese forces pro progress greit ii becomes evident that they followay fol follow lowa plan of campaign skillfully fully laid in jr ah its details and so 0 o far there sterns seems to be no indication that they will meet with reverses while one division of the army has hae successfully crossed the yala river and driven the chinese forces back to den the capital of man churls another division has effected a landing near bear port arthur and is ia now under fair way to capture that strong hold they will then be able to advance on pekin from the north and the south simultaneously and ana probably contemplate to dictate the terms of peace within the he very walls of the chinese capital the sympathies of the rest of the tb worlo world are somewhat Bome what divided between the two belligerent powers power oatle sian han missionaries and fand huma att niter UZI liar generally earnestly desire the tee victory of the progressive I 1 as aa a means of break edg g down the and open in that country to all ua the of 01 they long for the time when all the world shall hall be look ing with reve reverence reace to the banner of the crow and regard abe subi of china as ose oae great gnat step in that direction on the tb other hand baad many clear seeing statesmen tsar fear thel th results of the biar war they look upon the disruption of the vast mongolian empire as a disaster to the world thoy they P out that the imitative chinese it if oncel once awakened from their lethargy might be able to do the th manufacturing for sal all mankind and as they are in a po dation to labor for five or ton ten cents a day completion com petion would be utterly useless on n this ground they think J japan spun should by bj abe tb european powers be prevented from breaking up china H her er should be maintained and perpetuated by armed in tr ference terie rence it need be it will not be denied that there Is ie some ome plausibility in thin argument and that the forcing of western civilization on china might be fraught with grave possibilities yet the dangers should not be exaggerated the earth is in hardly yet too small to maintain comfortably its if inhabitants Inh abitante provided some are not given undue advantages to the detri anent of others when W hen the time comes for the mongolian races to walk in the paths achs of caucasians the roads will naturally be widened so as an to give room enough for all As an civilization penetrates china the possibilities of that country alone to maintain the will be doubled several times it is 1 true that some provinces of the empire are crowded to a depree degree hardly conceivable yet there are vast provinces witt alto comparatively low few inhabitants and with modern jues Doof communication and scientific lentino ao methods ot of utilizing the resources ot of the soli there is no reason why the country ULry should not be capable of suc out eight hundred million people instead of halt half that number then then js is the immense country of 01 siberia liberia to the north only waiting for mcuen millions Millio oB of human beings will some ome time build their homes there here it Is safe to suppose that as ae civilization expands the necessities of the family of mankind will grow in an equal qua ratio which means that the desa demands ands lor for the productions of manu fae gorles will increase proportion aljy for thia ibis reason it seems to argue that the prosper ity of the world demands that asiatic nations be kept where they are in a tate state of barbarism barba riem if this to ia go ao it tight be equally true that barbarism would have to be forced upon BOMO western nations for the benefit of the rest on the whole armed interference in asia by the great powers of the world would probably not result in the benefit contemplated japan is evidently bent on establishing herself as the queen of asia centuries of misrule has ban bred a rebellious rebellions spirit in the heart of china ready to break breakout out at any moment china must ultimately either reform or fall to pieces the oata catastrophe strophe way may be delayed by the navies of europe but it cannot be averted oath grimado it Is i maintained that be beat polley ta W pursue Is ie to lot let japan and china fight their differences out between themselves lTeR and then lay jay a strong foundation for a long and regime of ot peace pence |
