Oot. 12.
Ovx Peking correspondent's tele gram to-day places a different and far more serious complexion upon the events of the past two days at Wachang. Without the dramatic ment of the revolutionary plot which Viceroy Jui Cheng has unearthed, the position would have been grave enough in all conscience. But disaffection among troops can. after all, be defined and overcome. Seeds of discontent can ba uprooted and grievances redressed. Far otherwise is it with revolutionary propaganda, and the fact cannot be: concealed that the condition of popular feeling along the Yangtze might well alarm the best prepared. conan The death roll in the tive that the Fisorder there must szechuan rising is proof presump-
have spread far beyond the confines of a mere railway agitation, and there is reason to believe that the revolutionaries are finding a ready soil for the inculcation of their pernicious doctrines in many parts of China. The reason is plainly seen in general misgovernment and over-taxation. Nevertheless we use the word " pernicious" advisedly. It will be the worst possible policy on the part of the genuine representa tives of the constitutional movement tocountenance in the slightest degree the doings of the apostles of bomb' and dagger. More than this, it may be said that the truly patriotic will, at any rate for the time being, forbear from harassing the Government on points of constitutional fold of the railway policy, that principle. Whatever view may be
question sinks into insignificance compared with the prime necessity of maintaining law and order Without these, China can neve hope to solve the problems to which she has set her hand.
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