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would rather die thin endure it. They in practice a distinction of great and small would never submit. Let the Waiwupu | Powers. Eight were labelled great, and (Daily Press, March 21st.)
note this. On Wednesday afternoon, the thirty-seven, by implication at least, were The Cantonese, if not the most fervently leading merchants and "several thousand" | exteg ri»d as small. Says this clear-sighted patriotic people China claim, may others connected with the Self-government | g ntleman of China, the Great Powers perhaps be admitted to be the mest bellicose Ass ciation marched to the yamon of the naturally availed themselves of their power inembers of that Empire's enormous and Viceroy. They curriel white flags (a sigu | t› benefit themœlves by coercing others on When they wish to diverse community. If ever there is to be of mourning) which boro characters sigui- the pretext of law.
the anything in the nature of a Chiness equiva-fying unutterable disgrace and shame, and carry on proposal they tried to sway lent of "afficking," it will be in Kwang- they prosented a petition signed by "orer assembly by an oratorical a, peal to each tung, and particularly in the Cantou district, ¡ fift on thousand people" of various classes | other, and when they wished to defent a that we must expect to find it. On many and guilds. In this the Viceroy was in- | proposal they secretly exereso 1 mthods of obstruction to promote diagreement.” In occasions Cantoù has offered the spectacle formed that the temper of all Canton wis of a flag-waving mob of excited chauvinists, now aroused--a piece of information that witness whereof he cites the rope sontativas "both of and we learn that the chauvinists have been
the of Brazil and of the Argentine, must have s emel superfluous to
whom displayed great knowledge of law," at it again, since China yielded to Japan's ¦ alarmel official—and that if he did not
as protesting against this eufrenon of demands in connection with the captured prevail upon the Waiwapa to cancel the steniner, "Tatsu-Maru II." Wo use the decision to surrender the vessel to Japan, Peico bông turned into a provoker of War. less respectful word for sucli patriotism as the people were retly to carry their protest | Pasibly tey exaggerated a little to en the Cantonese are just now displaying, to extremes, calamity would fill upon the fores their protes, but, the Chinese Mini- ste indicatos, to first Conference was in because after all the fore they adopt wards | Government, whese power would fence. their own constituted authorities cannot be | forward he su ered at by them all, and | fact followed by the South Atriem and the wars, while the second said to be rousistent with the real thing. (inther by way of an anti-climax this ther· | Russo-Japanese
Mark now box | conference coincided with the difficulties It is perhaps the secret of China's weakness | would be a general strike,
and Morocco, He concludes, that there is not anywhere any of the ral, strong is the long arm of government in in Kor a hall-marked kind of patriotism, which makes | China. Instead of sternly bidding the mol though not only from those promesses, that the removal of the calamity of war is not men pull together, with no one for the disperse, and respect the imperial com- In Chiun mands, the Viccray "showed them a Party, but all men for the State.
an attainable prospect. A kuling London Possibly nervOIES it seems to be the rule that the noisiest sorrowful couutentice
paper, commenting on the memorial, pa. #However we MILY patriots are always for the Province, and about his personal sfety in such a patrewzingly romack«,
anuunication of such a view seldom for the State. Peking has more
sionate crowd, and really we in urlly regret the than encs had to snub the patriophobes of blame him, His Excellency replied taxt Canton and to remind them that the seat of personally he woul I rather lose las position, Government is Peking rather than the even his life, than submit to such disgrace
As the knew, he Southern City of Rams. There was, for But what could he do? example, the agitation over the patrolling had already protested to Peking against by foreign war craft of the West River and any polity of surrender, Canton Delta. That arrangement was in what more he could do. tolerable to the Cantorose, though it seeme 1 hour of this sort of mutual condolence, desirable enough to the Central Govern- Viceroy must lave lan ment, and now we find Canton in an uproar because the Chinese Government has not defied Japan and dared her to do her worst in the "Tatsu-Maru
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to the Chinese Goy rnment, it dong not require a very large endowment of um igina. tim to enable us to sow that it not at all au unatural deducti na to be drown by a Omo tal, muveraol in the conventional jes He did not sen
of the Wes, from the spectacle of Gregg After about an
l'aers ca reing anib unes even in a Paci the (^»nfreness This 144nugh to mike a eat Not at all an secretly 1 lie,ed | laugh, as the saying is.
an Ormstal, to see the mob more off, as our inforunatari delu tion"--fr mant writes, "with tearful eyes and angry
any rel in the conventi -nalities of the West What a hands me admisiin! Or shouts, all preferring to die, rather than
vlint a foolish nation, ac Beuys might inve submit to such a disgric-ful terision'
The de luction was not only a a work or two, we hope and have luil - phoved at doubt, they will be able to swallow their natural ane; it seems to me the only pic
fr ny intellect not wholly rice without so many choking sobe, and they sild • will probably be less set on ding. I «mothered in "thoavention dives of the Weg." The Canes · Miner is parlapa. illustrates the difficulty that Peking ca
21 so unyetod ng he is psintol, th`mgh it tinually finds itself in, with fo
is pocelli - ues a word other than and fos within. The formuli “tremble
verstimulati se “" for the thing that prev in and ober may mean more in the envir on-
us fram song oursely v as others son u ment of the capit if than it does nt. Canton
Many of us Westerners who are ver««d have It certainly does not seem to have much
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Wo learn that the announcement of the release of that vessel put the city of Canton into a state of the most intense excitement. The superla- tives are probably none too strong, for when the Cantonese start a-mafficking they generally do it well. There is a socity there called (as nearly as our translator can help us) the S lf-government. A «sociation, and to judge by their on-goings in the last few days, the last thing its members can mat age is to govern themselves. Not only have they gone into a fine frenzy themselves, but they have done their most to stir up anti- Japancee, and incidentally, anti-Manchu
WHAT ARE GREAT POWERS" feelings amongst the masses of Canton. They denounce the ministers of the Wai-
(Daily Press, March 23rd. wupu as traitors, and accus› them of selling We all admit at times that it would be China to the foreigners, whom they weakly | odifying to see ourselves. ax others hope to placate. All foreigners are devi's, bat it may be salted f and the Japanese are the worst kin!. Yet manage reully t» du ∞. I may b the Foreign Office at Peking has ruined the [ogi that Buss, who gave Empire and brought disgrace to every | spoke of it as a remote e e fargenes patriotic Chinaman. The Self-government | spoke of it as a rapacity we all nato la m, Association has got a lot of circulars printed a gift not yet best cand
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to that and similar effect, urging the people manage to get that point of view, we would, to stand firm, not to submit to such tra- {he prophodel, le fried from chery, but to unite to wipe out tæ dis. ; blunder and many a foolish moʻra,
Pro grace put upon them by truckling to the bably the nearest in at of us ever get to it foreiguer. In addition to that, they sent 18 tu sen ourselves 44 we think others w
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a telegram to the traitorous Waiwupu, bus, and the results of that are varaland signed by
ten thousauf people." ¦ les certum. aver
We may distend the chest (We do not guar uten the figures, for evon and twirl a musti be by that mon oft n when not excited, a Cantonese idea of a big 3 than we bite the lip and blush borly while number is somewhat vague.) That tele-voxing to the tune of Poe's raven gram pointed out how unfair the Japanese, it is always safe to flirt with mortification, demands were, and how to grant them was ... the cliance of esprising repeatone; se
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already anticipate | this Chanes -exposure of the tatility of the Pence Conference, a id wa would not have thought the Chines- critic moduly severe if he had spoken of the hyp cry of the professions of those who have » emel « keen to sệc the clunity of or removed. B- ~10 men like Mr. Spean happen to appear in the right when they als wate the manten ture of Briku's maval sapore dit vo we need not what our 444444 .. the fact that the r blitt com. dities be ra insw angel ther monsen p previsus peior priestations were worth. What ver 31 Westerners protend on San- 1ས་ས WB - Annet day fat on the a her IT days we re ne if night were right; and wo sen no pespect of - ur evor noting otherwise, Sane of us pofer to be honest almigt it, and When the *** 1 us d't, that is all. Cuinese Muister jun's out that nat n ›l greatasses “depends upon the etli oner ola mmuter's g vern nental wyst m, tuethods of law, and military and naval priparation*,* h.s
aume of his to the first tæpu A definition right wily in theey. In practice © Great Power in hue whose military and
Maver uglørtel. naval preparations are When tray
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to bury China under au i tolerably load ot we shall dwell remorselessly on tan news of contempt. Such ignominy cau'd not be, the Chiness Minister in I hand, whome tolerated-certainly not by the patriots of ¦ delightful report of the last Hague Cu Canton. Not only the Chinese Government
forenes has just apparel in our columns. Adapan was not invited to pin the frost rank
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was disgraced, but also the wh 'e ut on, This Chim se observer daly niti. « the fact of natone tail after it hat beitru Russia,
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and at this end of the Empire they, that while all the water « must know the people and merchants' the Hague were in theory equid, there was
And it will by sheer hambug të pretend that that was sevia id:ure. The
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