There remains to be considered the agency by which intervention might be attempted—the so-called Treaty Powers. Of these the ones which have the greatest interest in stable and well governed China, and which at the same time can contemplate the expense without at once finding it prohibitive, are! Great Britain, France, America ard an. The Power which is so) iturited as to make the job the ssiest for her is, of course, Japan: and the one which could best afford to undertake it is America. But we know that the American people would not think of sanctioning such proceeding, either by their own government or any other. They would consider it not only morally and ethically wrong and militarily impracticable, on grounds which have been examining above, but they would be distrustful of the spirit in which it would be undertaken and carried through. They would have no confidence in the altruism with which even our own government would take up al trusteeship of the Chinese people and administer it in the sole interest of the wards, as political minors, until these could be trained to take over the management of their own estate, and they would be quite certain that shady finanders, or even well-intentioned busi-ess men naturally solicitous about their own interests, would exert such an influence on the administra. tion of China as to give it altogether too much of the character
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