22nd August, THE number for "July of this journal is. especially interesting ecause it is largely devoted to, the question of the administration of the hinese Exclusion Laws, Mr, Foord, begins his "Current Comment" by welcoming the then approaching Peace Conference, but, he says, "for obvious reasons, all talk of an armistice is premature, and must continue to be so until the true significance of the present situation in Manchuria has either been demonstrated by the actual ordeal of battle, or an acknowledgment of all that it implies"has been extorted from the Czar and his advisers, As this latter contingency is still doubtful, there may be no way of avoiding another huge sacrifice of human life, by way of con vinoing a -brainless and ruthless despotism that its Far Eastern ambi. tions have suffered final collops Mr. Foord notes with great satis faction that to President Roosevelt has fallen the role of peacemaker. "Tp is ab least," he says, "a plausible inference that consummate tact and scrupulous regard to the susceptibilities of both combatants have nob been lucking in the President's personal conduct of this highly delicate series of negotiations." In dealing with the mutiny in Russia's Black Sea fleet, and the other rebellious phenomena in that empire, Mr, Foord suggests that they have had so little effect on the. European Exchanges because of " the prevailing impression that the worst which can. happen in Russia has been anticipated and provided against—that revolution is: the only final solution of the problem, and that it cannot come too soon.... The menace of Russian aggression will cease to be the formidable arrest to human progress which it has been in the immediate past, and the devel-lopment of the. Russian Empire may take rank.with that which has been accomplished during the last generation by its Asiatic Conqueror." ~I'wo notes are devoted to the administration of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Mr. Foord fully confirms our contention that the threat of the boycott did good in "awakening both public and official sentiment to the magnitude of the interests which this country (the U.S.) possesses in the Chinese Empire,.and to the supreme folly of tuffing with them." The excellent letter of instruct*~ issued by the President is"
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