Lao Nai-hsuan's charge against Chinese officialdom that it is more corrupt to-day than it has ever been is, we trust, an exaggerate It is however, unquestionably true that things are no better than they were during the last years of the Manchu regime, That period selected for comparison merely cause it was brought to a case a revolution which, in some quit ters at any rate, was driven forward by emotional causes, and which for that very re pected to effect a genuine change. The mandates which Yuan Shih-kai is now hurling against corruption show only too clearly that expectations have been si falsified. Will fear of puni~ be more successful! The experience of the world suggests that it will not. That people cannot be made moral by act of Parliament has become a truism in the west. It Germany cannot be trampled on with impunity—a fact of which the world has for a long time past been fully aware. But the reader rises from a perusal of Prince Balow's pages without any strong conviction that, should the necessity arise, Germany would readily trample on others, It 's, at all events, abundantly clear that whenever any German interest is involved no moral obstacles will be allowed to stand in the way of furthering German views by the resources of a diplomacy which not overscrupulous supported ivy ligious force in the background."" This estimate was formed and expressed long befor" the outbreak of war, and roused the wrath critics who thought better of Germany. Events have amply proved who was right.
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