Of the treaties entered into between China and foreign nations within the past secede there are two made with Japan which wre special in scope and f resigh'. Half a century of previous negotiations d: d not do as much to enlarge commercial intercourse with China as did the treaty of Shimonoseki, and the treaty which was recently negotiated at Shanghai between thes" two Asiatic Empires touches the very base of China's conservatism and would place formidable barrier in the path of Russia's northward march.
For with Peking open t" foreign trade the citadel there of dense conservatism would be razed, and with the political and commercial interest of Western nations centered in the c.pited of El would be an ever watchful Rursia's aggressions; those nations would not and cauld not be quiet while one of the number was extending its territorial thus yarrowing tye tradal areas preposed to notice one or two ions in the tr-aty recently signed at hai between the United States and Cluna and to point ut what sooner or Inter may prove lurking dangers, In no revision of this treaty did the fine hand of Chinese diplomacy show itself more plainly than in the provision for the opening of two new markets in Manchu It was a move on the part of China to enlist the ait of a strong friend to drive Russia out of Manchuria, and this is not the view of an alarmist, for before a copy of the treaty had been received at the American Department of State the Chinese Minister at Washington had applied there for such aid, It is true that the application wi not of " bel rent character but such w: the logic of its intention, Before the treaty was entered into it was well known to the United S: ates that Russia was in Menchuria by virtue of a Peper writing signed by China and as a consequence Russia had acquired valuable rights nnd expended large sums of money in Manchuria, China had the right ta muke the concessions to Rus-la, und did make them without protest from any other nation. In fact, after China had consumed half of a summer in the attempt to kill all the foreign Ministers at her capital, the nations represented by those Ministers immediately—acknowledged China's right to concede what she pleased, and as it now appears she conceded rather much to Russia, It is not meant to justify or palliate Rassia's course in Manchuria, but rather to present the view that after Russ'a has inauvursted systems of railroads "ud made jays in money and materials to improve and cause them to he remuntrative. she ought not to be expected to lea tment t" be safeguarded by Chins. China cannot or will not safeguard her own interests and that was why her skilful negotiaters readily agreed to the opening of Moukden and Antung, They knew that China could not force the evacuation of Manchuria and when the contingency arose China could turn to the United States and say: "Now you see Russia obstructs the execution of the treaty, I am powerless and you must arrange in some way with Russia." The contingency has arisen and the danger of an +strangement between two old friends lurks beneath.
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