January 17, Autovan the queue may be going, it has not yet gone, and the history of the movement the change is here, there and everywhere. Enthusiasts sot the ox-ample; the Throne is memorialized, after the natural vacillation discovers a compromise, by allowing the two services and the police to dispense with the queue. The country, however, is declar far from satisfied, and the agitation continues. Popular demons\ are planned, and everything is dono to give the movement a national character. But so far there are only a thousand queues the less in Hongkong, and half that number the less in Shanghai. Isolated groups of students have removed their queues; others have been deterred from their purpose by the counsels of the teaching staff, as the people at large may in a fow cases have been kept back by threats from above. The fact remains that the proposal for the abel the queue has not yet established a hold on the popular imagi A country of four hundred millions existing under the conditions that obtain in China cannot fail to be conservative, for there is one aspect of conservatism thatspellsonly ignor rance. So far, indeed, no very potent argument for the abolition of the queue has been addvced—potent, that is to say, in the eyes of the Chinese masses. To the latter there does not appear much force in the contention that the wearers of the queue are conscious of being at a disadvantage in the presence of foreigners; still less are they likely to be moved by the theory that the queue is injurious to health. The two arguments that are likely to
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