Unxess the Open Door policy has been proclaimed as the means of getting out of rather than getting into China, there need not be any doubt as to the remedy of Western civilisation against offending Chinese, That civilisation is not required to depart from its high moral standard and descend to the moral plane of China in order to adequately punish the guilty Chinese for the recent destruction of foreign life and property.
If the Government of China has been implicated in the conspiracy of Prince Tuan and others, it would be the right and duty of Western lowers to take action directly against that Government, and the remedy for such action can be found in the Code of International Law. When China entered into treaties with Western Powers, she became a party to an International compact, the safeguards and remedies of which are: clearly defined in the International Code. So long as China lives up to her Chinese Government has been made powerless by the magnitude of the rebellion it is still clear that Western civilisation has its remedy without lowering its standard. The laws of China are sufficient in severity to properly punish the crimes that have in these troublous times been committed against foreign property, and it is only necessary to insist t that Chi enforce her own laws against those who have violated them, and by such insistence it could not be successfully argued that Western Powers were compromising their civilisation.
If the Government pleads innocence, it must admit that Prince Tuan and his followers have not only been in rebellion, but have committed crimes of nameless horror, and for every such crime Chinese law provides 'a punishment of ample deterrent potency.
The most zealous advocate that Western Powers should not descend from their high moral plane could not object to those Powers seeing that China did actually execute her laws against the real offenders, nor could it be objected if Western Powers identified and bore witness against such offenders.
The crimes of Prince Tuan and his followers against every canon of humanity and international obligation need no colouring. The facts stand alone in infamy and inhumanity; they are fathomless in barbarity, Botha, reported by our German contemporary, with the appointment of the inexhaustible General Baden-Powell as Chief of Police in the Transvaal, seem to indicate that the war in South Africa is virtually over, and a great weight is lifted from all minds. It is too early yet to w the gains and losses in the we may hope that its close will be followed by a little more vigorous action in China on the part of the British Cabinet. For the last or more we have been told that we could not expect Lord Salisbury to pay any attention to China while the Transvaal question was unsettled. It is being settled sooner than our Continencal friends expected, and this has made Russia hurry her coup in North China. We should like to hear now that there are at least ten thousand seasoned British troops on their way from the Cape to China; and that with Germany and Japan we have determined not to be satisfied with a patched-up peace dicta ed by Russia, but will have at whatever rinanent settlement. ranted to ea Legs, Sores of all kinds, its effects are Thousan'ls of wonderful cures have been effected by it. Sold everywhere at 2s, 9d. Beware of worthless imitations,
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