CHINA, Oct. 3.
Ir is a circumstance worthy of note that the campaigns in the United States for reciprocity with Canada and for the "open door in China should have taken definite shape so nearly at the same time, For the present at any rate, reciprocity has been killed. Whether it is destined ever to be resurrected from the cold storage of the American statute books, time and the evolution of British Imperialism alone can show. But the movement for the " open door in China thrives, and has just gained a notable success, if the Kokumin Shimbun's"—Peking correspondent may be believed, in the projected agricultural enterprise at Harbin. Fifty thousand acres are to be leased to the United States, we are told. China will bear the cost of transplanting emigrants to the spot and of troops to protect them while at work and the United States will provide the necessary instructors for what appears to be, at least in part, an agricultural training school. whole scheme from the reaction of popular feeling to which all spoilt children are sooner or later exposed. In short, Tripoli has for many years been regarded as the natural outlet of Italian colonial ambitions and it would be absurd to interfere with her wishing to regularize her position in that quarter, especially when there is certainly something to gain by non-interference and far more to lose by the opposite course. These considerations, however, need not mean that no attempt will be made to influence the combatants for peace. A war wherever fought, however eagerly restricted to a given area, is in the circumstances lof the world to-day an unquestionable source of danger; and already a way to a settlement would seem fo be opened by Tarkey's expressed readiness, if not to accept the Ita-lion ultimatum in its present form, any rate to make concessions. The main point of objection is that great advisability agriculture in Manchuria, story is discredited to-day. Yet it is, we know, in accordance with the policy which Viceroy Chao Erh-sen was sent to Mukden to develop, with the aid of " portion of the funds earmarked for this purpose from the currency loan. But it is also, and more importantly, in accord with the policy to which the United States Government and its representatives in China have devoted themselves during the past two or three years. What could not be won by a single stroke is to be gained by a series of small efforts. The neutralization of Russian and Japanese power, which the United States failed to obtain by internationalization of Manchurian railways, is to be brought about by stimulating China's own commercial and agricultural expansion.
How far this new trend of national activity has been realized by the American people at large,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.