To, the Editor of the magnitude.. The people as a whole must be held responsiley and they lets she are experiencing' aigorder' and needing' remedy "NontH-CHINA Daty News."
Si—While so nruch has been, is being written'by our foreign friends on this subject, is. it nex cin for a Chinese hinisel? to be silent? Shall we, secure under foreign protection' in the foreign pettlements, forget our own identity, and look at all these wars and disturbances with indifference and apathy? Would that we could be present at this very moment in. Honan, in, Fukien, or in Liang Kuang Provinees and personally. witness and suffer what millions of our own brethren are witnessing and suffering every day! "Then. anti foreignism and—anti-Christianity: what are all these for? Trifling and negligible indeed would the worst tyrannies ever attributed to the foreigners appear compared with the foul, black, abominable crimes committed by our own countrymen against themselves! It is oppress vian we cannot bear; it is tyranny we revolt against; we see no dis. tinction in race except that tyranny perpetuated by our own countrymen.
all the more treacherous and hateful. The very name foreigners shows that they have tess in sympathy with us; but to think that brothers should' cut the throats of their brothers, 0 hideous Worse disturbances indeed China has experienced in her long history of 24 dynasties; after the decay or destruction of dynasty, the inevitable rule is chaos and anarchy when robbers annum their respective kill another and ravage and destroy everything' In-their pasha—Buch state of total confusion may last 60 years and even more than 100 years; but in the end peace is as invariably restored by the ascenduney of one tyrant who in strong enough to crush all others. This founds a new dynasty and history tends to repeat itself.
But, "now that time hhis completely changed its value in history, ay written, by the "Times," will it be reasonable to expect that China Will live through the present crisis 4g she did all other ones and that in the same way as before? Before Attempting to answer this question, We must see in what way history has made any essential change in its value. Tt seems to me the mos! important difference between China tocday and hersel€ in the past. is this: that the semblance of democracy has £0 far gained ground to make autocracy well-nigh ible. Absolutism must be, always associated with the Divine' Right of Kings. Diocletian succeeded in consolidating the Roman Empire by introducing oriental pomp and veneration. The success ful tyrant who founds a dynasty must be regarded followers og something. super og the "True Son of Hea\ if is which commands loyalty. and conditional obedience. With this wanting, the natural result is, the strongest supporter will in the nex: smament turn traitor, betraying his master for his own vantage.: Methinks this is exactly the state of affairs reigning in China at present, for nowhere else in Chinese history have I seen so much shameless desertion and treachery. Were China to isolate herself: once more from the rest of the world,—probably sooner er Inter the semblance of democracy would gradually die out and anther successful tyvtane vould, 50 or 100 years afterwards, found' another powerful dynasty, reigning supreme in peace and pro: sperity. But surrounded—as she now is by nations whose watchwords are freedom and equality, their mere repetition renders the possible; and one would be very rash indeed. to say that China will through her present crisis the same way as before!
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inese ation is undergoing a Period of vital transition, "The old Heals and virtues have become dis credited; but there io yet no veal faith for the news 'The very founda, tion' of "Chinese "civilization, of benevolent authority'on the part of the superior and unconditional sub fission on the part of the inferior, as began to fall downs ad nothing now lett boy scepticism and motel anarchy, Selfishness under the cover of public service, hypocrisy falsehood:" these are what we see pecially. in the higher ranks of ites while professing knowledge and freedom, men become. bind. tnstrotents to unknown Hens; sometimes an unthinking mob, the next moment they turn {0 be the meanest wor: shippers "of the "great and "the taterers of the rich! "The women are no longer contented with simple ways of living; but. must regard aivoree and aeerétliiaow us nothing satinty.theiy desires of Taxury and pleasure, Shame and' pride are no longer cared by men; the loades iamourers of reetam are. willing saver to money: and Infuence' how many deem itin glory to shake hands Frith the great; who does not Pretend fo know everything. when he. really knows nothing! Often times the sejealled highest classes are the most Fotten im the heart; and such' their" patriot thay they seem nothing dingracetul in' itself unfens the foreigners: should learn of itt Who lits' not fouls and short-ernings? If one has done wrong ders the impulse of the moments why mot boldly admit et What
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