It is of interest to note that the iesnes before the people of the United States in the Far East, which we commended to the consideration of the Commercial Commissioners daring their tour through China, are appealing with special force to various publicists in America, In its August number the "Journal of the American Asiatic Association " had reproduced in fall and withoutdeprecatory comment an exosedingly bitter attack on British diplomacy in China from an obviously interested jaarter. A month's interval has caused the "Journal" to realize that there may be another side to the question that the Chinchou-Aigan Railway scheme, however eagerly desired by the American Backing Group, was not really the pivot of the world's diplomacy and it admits that British statesmen have "larger considerations of empire" than the construction of " few hundred miles of railway. After farther consideration of other aspects of the Far Eastern situation the " Journal" finds that " st the present moment the United States appear to enjoy the solitary die tinction of standing where the other Powers professedly stood with her in Feb-rosy 1902," when Mr. Hay made the third of important declarations regarding China, Much water, however, has flowed down the Yalu since then, and it is surely advisable for nations to adjust their positions sceording to the logic of facts, In the "larger considerations" that receive such tardy recognition we would place in a prominent position closer ties between the two sections of the Anglo-Saxon race, and on this account avy misunderstanding over a railway line (to be magnified by yellow prese~ men into " casus belli) cannot be too strongly deprecated.
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