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Show ORIENTAL WAR. The war in China has brought forth many diversified and conflicting opinions. opin-ions. From that of the peaceable hu- I man treatment up to the utter extermination exter-mination of the race every shade of policy has been advanced. The effects not only of the opinions advanced, but of the actual spirit manifested by the great powers now on Chinese soil will serve' to embitter the natives of the Celestial Empire against western civilization civili-zation which assumes the guise of Christian principles. D. C. Boulger, an able English writer, and a leader in the world of diplomacy, in an article in the Fortnightly asks for nothins short of "an indelible act of vengeance I and retribution." With him might is I right and revenge his war cry. He w ould not like the Good Master to preach I peace to his enemies, but join the howi-j howi-j ing mob who cried, "Crucify Him." I Here is how he expresses his venomous j spirit: "Let us hone that no false sentimentality sen-timentality will hold back the arm of righteous wrath, and that of Pekin as a city there will be made no end. In its palaces may there be desolation, and let the plowsheare pass over its polluted streets. The complete destruc-i destruc-i tion of Pekin alone will strike terror to ' the heart of the Chinese race, and at the same time it will simplify the solution solu-tion of the Chinese problem. " If we have lost the capacity of being vindictive, and the manner in which we have carried on the war against the Boers makes it look as if we had, let us hand the task over to the Japanese, who will do it in a thoroughly Oriental fashion, and wipe out the murderous brood of Tuan Tung, with the she-devil of an Empress at their head." Even the Boxers, who no more represent repre-sent the real Chinese sentiment, any more than the Anarchists do those of their country, could not be more bloodthirsty blood-thirsty in their designs to shut out and ' get rid of their rivals than Boulger in his plan of campaign. The "lost capac-I capac-I ity of being vindictive in the war j against the Boers" is a huge joke. The j war itself undertaking through greed, I and not justice, in a peaceable republic is worse than vindictive. Sympathy for the Boer will exist in honest hearts, when the greed and inhumane treatment treat-ment of the persecutors will be condemned con-demned by nations struggling for freedom. free-dom. The Boxers in China like the Anarchists An-archists the world over are brutal arid savage, but to punish the innocent with the guilty is not Christian, not up to the level of our boasted civilization. If all we read of the looting and destruction de-struction of property in Pekin, together ! with bayoneting of innocent babies be I true, well indeed might it be said that I the last days of the nineteenth century, 1 by bloody wars, are not surpassed in cruelty in any past age, and all under I the mask of civilization. I |