Scores of organizations and [Chinese papers throughout the country are daily making public statements and appeals, under official protection and patronage, which directly incite the people of China. to. violence, Every. time a foreign Power meekly asserts its rights these numerous organs denounce such action Will the "Powers See At Last?
The Chinese are excellent at fol-ike this. well is money ury tariff and all the rest of it if they were magnanimous enough to pay a just debt to France. If the Powers, however, have any understanding whatever of the nature of the situation in China now, they will make it their business to see that this sequence of events to come is rudely broken, Foreign policy in China has alvondy gone entirely too far giving the Chinese to understand that they can demand and expect al sorts of favours and indulgences and give nothing in return. Lega tion policy has gone much too far in leading the Chinese to believe that they can default on everything, yepudinte obligations whenever convenient and not only "get away with it," but be rewarded for it. During the past few years the Occ dental Powers and Japan have retreated all along the line from the strong positions which they have held in this country since 1900, partly because it has been impossible to get them to work together, partly through misunderstanding: of Chinese psychology and at times through "denice to win, Chinese ase the Chinese "have charged attitude an will, In every
whooping into the deserted trenches assuring one another vociferously that they had pushed the foreigner that much nearer the beach and that it would not be long before they would push him into the sea. The immediate effect of every concession madd to China and of every show of toleration has been an increased display of anti-foreignism in one form or another. usurpation of China' sovereign rights, but every time a Chinese perpetrates an outrage upon a foreigner" it is an act of patriotism which is applauded by all the addle-pated ones from Can-{ton to Moscow. The less Government China has, the less hope there fv of her evolving a respectable Government, the more clearly she demonstrates that she cannot self, the more she sacri-rights to consideration, does to demonstrate a the equal of others—so the more do her officials and her professional agitators—shout about her sovereign rights and demand "equal treatment." The louder these patriots talk the more clearly do they show how little they know bout international affairs, how impossible it is for any of them to follow a logical argument to a logical conclusion and how badly it country needs that very digeipline which "the Powers" are relaxing. A conciliatory measure of any sort now is not only an inducement to these people to preach an anti-foreign crusade but tends directly to promote chaos within the country itself. Good will can mean nothing to them but concessions nothing but and conciliation nothing but fan inclination to surrender.
The Bolshevik Help The Bolsheviks are now getting credit for stirring up all this foreign feeling. This is as inexact as it is to say that Chinese anti-foreign feeling is waxing. The Bolsheviks are helping it along mightily of course but they are not ing anti-foreign feeling, they are simply giving the Chinese the courage to say boldly what they' have had in their hearts all along. The Bolsheviks have not done half as much, however, as the pusillani-_ mous attitude of the Powers towards.
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