| Show DIVISION OF CHINA there are two sides to the asiatic question as to all questions those con fe tending for a division of china giving many strong reasons for their position while the defenders of present conditions are not wanting in argument the pioneer press ot st paul S in favor of leaving china to its inertia and shares in the belief of many prominent writers that the part islon vt china among powers would prove a menace to republican the problem ct the awaken fag and development of china Is a ugo one says the press but it will tor to band before ife it will not do for the teu V c races small in numbers as they p comparatively to permit a hive Inhere swarms nearly half of the on ct the world to beaume the re iune ground of an absolutism aim in encouraging any whatever would be to strengthen Us resource a for the coming fl ashwith the forces of republicanism and freedom those favoring dismemberment who nd an able exponent in the san francisco chronicle can attention to the fact that a representative body of commercial interests of great britain with the tacit approval of the government and the applause ot the people bent J ard charles aford to china to v imade a proposal which must have had it been accepted resulted la erecting that empire into a formidable military by teaching the chinese and naval power how to effectively organize an powerful navy in commission army and put a they adulte overlooked the effective army and navy tact that an may be used for offensive as well as defensive purposes and that it might suit the chinese when their organization was completed to turn their arms against the hoopla who had taught them tha art of war at ond time the dread of such a result caused a european nightmare says the chronicle when gordon laid emphasis on the fact that the presumably su docile people inhabiting china could be easily converted into well disciplined troops who would fight with the desperation which is a trait of all fatalists there were plenty of critics who did not hesitate to denounce as a dangerous experiment the teaching of oriental barbarians the military methods of the occident the severest of these critics were british army officers and general wolseley them there Is was among BO reason for changing this opinion and it may be stated here that it is still almost universally entertained by british residents in the orient who know the chinese temperament and are assured that any accession of self reliance would lead not to closer relations with iche western world but to the prompt extrusion of europeans from chinese territory and perhaps to the bolder enterprise of attempting the dislodgement of the english from india under the circumstances and in view of the effect of militancy upon the japanese it seems like criminal foolhardiness for western people to give their aid under any pretense whatever to projects which could have no ether result than to embolden them to use their numbers and the wealth they may easily create against the vest |
