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Show U'J RECOGNITION OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC Tho recognition of the republic of ' China b;. the United States, after the withdrawing from the six-power loan syndicate, is a natural sequence, say tae San FYancisco Chronicle, to the sympathetic sentiments toward that country recently expressed by Pres-'I Pres-'I Ident Wilson when he said I The awakening of the people of I j China, to a consciousness of I porfeibilities under free government lis the most significant if not the 1 most momentous event of our geh-I geh-I eroticn " j The Chronicle, though a strong ! Rt:ndpat organ. Bays! "During the more thar, a sr of lt existence the Chinese republic has; maintained itself successfully and with dignity and tho outlook for the iuture is brieh, "Everywhere In the eishteen prov-1 prov-1 inoes Manchu influence has become j. practically extinct Ejection? have Wbcen he'd throughout the country and H Tuesday a "ai tonal constituent as-i, as-i, sembly will meet at PoKinx to rnm-I rnm-I jjlete the framework of the republic, j It is apparent thar n-.n of all political i j faiths in China accept it and there jf6eems to be no reason to doubt lt j w rmanence. "The friendship of the I'nited I Stetes for Chlm has be-f-n consist-I consist-I ently shown and It is highly satisfac- I I torv that the first recognition of tho republic, although a tardy one, should j I come from this country. It is almost ortafn, too. that when tne money which China needs from foreign sources is furnished to Peking a qood proportion of It will 1h- lound to be' American. The dollar diplomacy'! which seeks 1o mortfcaae a country b j Ifuture in order to gain a sphere of Influence should have no part in our Bjoiincs, and U might have done so' I li this country had participated in the SX-pdWer lrnn It Is true of course, that our diplomacy has ho-n end always, al-ways, must ne rhlefh concerned with commerce, for our traditions nrc to-jtallj to-jtallj opposed to political alliances and entanglements In this sense I "dollar diplomacy ' lias no improper i inlffcance. Unfortunately howcer. j he lerm has become associated with a policy or diplomatic loot wholly at ! vr.riance with American ideals China s-houlri be allowed to develop her own industries, control bcr own loans and expenditures and make her own tariff tar-iff laws, according as her Interests require, and the more prosperous i inna herslf becomes the greater v ill be the advantage io the other trading nations " ntt |
