To the Editor of the ON ru-Cams Day News." ask of your courtesy to xpivin d-arly to foreigners the real iGine of the dispute now pending botmeen the j"vple la the provinces i ud the authorities in Peking vu with the present railway question of principle which, as you hae been raised by the people's delegate frm Canton, You describe thie ing of the question of prine'ple as clever mov'. Yon then go ea to say that compromise the part of the Peking Government would be fatal and that the present question is " supreme agree with you that it supreme tost case, But I am afraid that you do not quite understand greatness and impor! saco of the priac' which the Cantonese delegates have now.ained and the momentous eonsequences depending uta it. The principle invclred in the prevent dispute is not the policy of railway nationalization or The principle be reform of carrying out of measures for introducing foreign methods into China rull be decided and carried out and n.onopelized fow persees who hapy.n to have the ear of the Prince Regent ard others ho ate in power; or shall it be carded out by and with full and free i consent of the whole ast Tu other words the real iseae of the question now in dispute between the ponpie in the provinces and the Central Gurerument in Peking is whether the Gorernment la hios now shel! be a Gorernment by.
rchy om Constitations Government the trae sense of the word which moops te. seroment with the foh as2 free tie whole ion.
tle bunk which I published some the ego called the Story of the When the Chinese court returned to Peking after the Boxer cataclysm, the Chinese Government with the consent of the whole Chinese nation was committed to the principle of the Europeanization of Chins." I farther said: "Although the Emprees Dowager was prepared to obey the will of the vation for the Europesnization of China, she was determined that every single act and measure of reform for the Europeanization of China should be carried out not by the fist of any individasl will, even of herself, but only with the fall free consent of the whole nation."
short the Empress Dowager decided that if there most be revelation la China, which the Earopeanisation of Chivs practically and really amoonte to, it shall be, o8 the great English Doke of Wellington woold eay, "as revolution by dae course of law,"
Let me say here that the reason why the late great Marquis Ito wae able successfully to carry out the reform in Japan was, as be did me the honour when in Wacbang to explain to mein detail,—because he understood the principle contained in the saying of the great English Dake of Wellington, "revolution by dae course of law," which means the carrying out of revolationary reform with the consent of th nation, The reason again why the late Li Hang-chang failed to carry out anecessfolly the reform in China was because be tried to carry out his reform by means of an oligsreby.
It is indeed curious that the present bead of the Yoch'uanpn, H. E. Sheng Bie i-huai, who was " member of the te again trying to form new olige for the carrying-out of reform in China. To be jast thera was really some excuse for the Li Hung-d oligarchy, is time the majority of the nation was still against reform or the introduction of European methods into But théte is now absclately of excuse for Shébg Heiienbaal's new el pation now the introduction of railways, eto, or reform. As the course of true reform committed by the late Emprers Dowager to Li Hang-chang aod his oligarchy not only fail~d, but ended in disaster, moment that mitted to Sheng Hi new oligarchy, will also not only fail, bat end in greater disasters The present question in divprte between the people in the provinces aod the Central Government in Peking fas ye say, x ocpreme test case and thr ate is whether the re-ball bos revolasion by due course of law which will mean" peaceful revelation or a reform conducted and carried out by the wishes and in the interests of an oligarchy, which wilt men not only 2 bloody revolution, but the impossibility of reform and the break up of the Chivese Empire.
All foreigners who really wish for the success of s peaceful! and in Ching in the test interes:
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