. Review of reviews and world's work. is necessary is to en-courage and to require the firm establishment inauthority of a liberal Chinese imperial govern-ment, such as the young Emperor himself couldsuccessfully carry on if the Dowager Empressand a dozen of her malign advisers could be de-ported for life. England would do well to sendGeneral Cronje and his brave Boers back homefrom St. Helena, and to turn the island over tothe allied powers for the use of the ChineseDowager Empress. ^?f ^L Germany has a foothold in China,.European and IS evidently determined to usePurpose. ^YiQ present opport
. Review of reviews and world's work. is necessary is to en-courage and to require the firm establishment inauthority of a liberal Chinese imperial govern-ment, such as the young Emperor himself couldsuccessfully carry on if the Dowager Empressand a dozen of her malign advisers could be de-ported for life. England would do well to sendGeneral Cronje and his brave Boers back homefrom St. Helena, and to turn the island over tothe allied powers for the use of the ChineseDowager Empress. ^?f ^L Germany has a foothold in China,.European and IS evidently determined to usePurpose. ^YiQ present opportunity for furtherterritorial seizure. Russia has not the slightestintention of relinquishing Manchuria. Japan inthe past two months has been quietly but activelyputting additional army divisions on a war foot-ing, with the design, very probably, of seizingKorea while Russia is occupied in know that the Japanese press has urged thiscourse, England in a languid way prefers thatthese things should not happen ; but England. LI HUNG CHANG. (From his latest portrait.) I: THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 405 meanwhile is making all lier plans to console her-self by seizing, as she has always done in thepast, a good deal more than anybody else, if thegame of grab once fairly sets in. France, also,is definitely prepared to advance from her exist-ing bases. If China had been wise enongh tomaintain a liberal government for a considerablelength of time, the country would have madesuch progress that it could have relied upon itsown army to protect it efficiently against theseunscrupulous European foes. It will be the dutyof the United States to speak with the utmostplainness in condemnation of the European policyof Chinese spoliation, but it will not be possiblefor us to fight about it ; and the only thing thatcan save China will be the Chinese they show a readiness to permit the Europeansto partition and annex their country, the thingwill inevitably come to pass. There
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