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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31st, 1912.
THE GREATEST EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE
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MATRICE E. BANDMANN Presents
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SWEET. NELL OF OLD DRURY. Shakespeare's Sublime Tragedy
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February 13th.
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OTHELLO.
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the forbidden land to all foreign influences Japan practically was when she set out to work out her national salvation on modern lines. At the same time we must not over- lock the fact that the greatness of China's area and the immensity of her populations lay the country open to retrograde" move- ments which were naturally non-existent in the case of Japan, and the inevitable lack of homogeneity in aspirations which both her area and her population numbers must ehtail constitutes a factor against very noticeable and immediate progress that cannot be totally disregarded. The task of governing China under what night be described as. modern conditions is one which calls for statesmanship of a very high order. Whether among the men who have come to the front in the recent movement such ability is to be found we cannot say, and whether the pro posed form of government, namely, Re- AND CIGARETTES obtainable, consistent with price. publicanism, will satisfy the generality of the people, to be thus ruled is yet another moot point, Unless there is the possibility of a widespread pet sane appreciation of the benefits which the new system of administra- tion should bring, and unless these benefits World-wide reputation. are very real, the populace at large may look upon the change as one of a King Log and
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these conquerers of a highly civilised and highly cultured people has been weakening for years past has been apparent to even the most castial students of Chinese history, and te must be equally apparent that had the Manchus been destroyers as well as con- querors movements on the part of the Chinese in the direction of greater liberty and of renewed industrial and commercial progress would liave been, up to the prescat at any rate, improbable and, perhaps, Impossible. The reputation for ability and endurance into the performance of his allotted tasks which the Chinese worker has carmed, both when in the employment of aliens in his own land and when labouring in foreign countries, furnishes us with very reliable evidence that but for some repressive cause on his en-gressive government is capable of accomp. ergies, physicial and intellectual, at home lishing wonders, both industrially and com the undeserved reputation which has been mercially. That the accomplishment of these commonly attached to his civilisation would wonders will have a very direct bearing upon be non-existent. It may be said that China all European trade interests in general in (to-day is in the position Japan was some China and of British trade, interests in parti 40 years ago. For centuries both countries cular cannot be overlooked. At the present were governed by a ruling caste, and in both time China constitutes one of our most im cases popular oppression of the worst form portal markets, solely because the Chinese obtained. To assert, however, that Japan; in the past have not been able to manufacture when she Westernised her methods of gov. the goods they take from us in sufficient ernment and set out upon that industrial quantities or of equal quality. Tariffs would and commercial career which has been the not be wanted to protect the growing Chinese wonder of the universe, was an uncivilised manufactories turning out these goods, and country in the generally accepted meaning Chinese-markets would be soun-supplied- under favourable political conditions the of the word, is preposterous nonsense. Japan
with all the consumers were likely to require may have received her earliest lessons in arts and crafts from China at a time, when Chin-t, in the majority of cases, prices below the ese civilisation probably fed the world, but cheapest imported goods. The loss of Chin- these acts and crafts never died during the
ese markets to European and American pro- aspirations of the party working—and, long period the island kingdom was under ducers, would be serious enough in itself, incidentally, fighting to bring about a better the harsh domination of the military caste but if in neutral markets we had to face condition of affairs will be realised. Although and clans. The removal of this tyranny plus Chinese competition a still more serious dit is impossible for any one to foretell or even the adoption of the best of European methods velopment has to be taken into consideration, to pretend to foretell what the outcome of served merely to give in impetus to already In point of cost of production, even if we the present movement may be, it is fair to existing industries and industrial and con- confing qurselves to one factor, namely, that assumic that sooner or later the industrial mercial aspirations, and the very general but the cheapest civilised competitors-if we that it may take place as the result of this of opentives' wages, not only fireat Britain awakening of China must take place, and acceptance of the new condition of affairs by rule out India and Japan-would be hope political upheaval. The dismemberment of the erstwhile dominant section of the popula-lessly beaten. When we look-a-little further China on the lines thought possible even-len tion accelerated rather than retarded the pro-ahead, and find ourselves compelled to years ago, however, is extremely unlikely, gress Japan has made during the past 30 to acknowledge that an arrangement between and a more or less cohesive China under any
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China and Japan for sca-torne goods and Government, only slightly more progressive Whether it will be possible for China to dounmanufactured material would be inevitable, than that which in courtesy we may describe for herself under a more equitable system; we are not in any way exaggerating yet an- as the existing one, must always be reckoned of government what Japan has managed to to assume that China would not follow Japan manufacturing interests doing trade on
other untoward possibility, and, in any case, a potential source of danger to all European 'do, and to succeed in achieving a position as polent as that of the island kingdom in as a shipbuilder would be disregarding an large scale with the Far East.
40 years.
inevitable development on her part. The
as brief a period of time, is naturally an open competition Europe and America have already question, and one, indeed, only China can effectively answer. No one but. n Chinaman to face from Japan in neutral markets for can say what Chinamen really think of the manufactured goods has been possibly ex- Manchus, and, given the general acceptance agerated from time to lime, but that the by the Chinese of the proposed now form of competition exists and that it is steadily government, it yet remains to be seen competition between China and Japan for increasing cannot be denied. Eventually. whether a policy of extirpation with regard neutral markets, from which these countries to the desposed dominant class one which would lead to the amalgamation of these have practically ousted European and Ameri hitherto conflicting interests will he adopted, can made goods, would be bound to occur, But, whether the Manchus are to be absorbed with results that can be best left to the or whether they are to totally disappear as imagination, although it is fairly safe to assume that we and other Western manu-
a factor in the life of the country, the fact facturing nations would not materially benefit remains that the Chinese are capable, under from such a struggle. India has, in some adequate and honest government, of develop measure, taught us what to expect from the ments which, in a now time worn phrase, development of local manufacturing in- might well stagger humanity. Years might possibly elapse before the stigma of the de- dustries producing goods which were at one gradation of centuries to which the Chinese time the extremely profitable produrts of have had to submit has been perfectly re-our looms and factories, and China may ac moved, hut, on the other band, the judicious centuate the points in this lesson the blending of what is best in European civilisa future. When to the possibilities of Indian
developnient and the already acknowledged: tion with the best that remains of Chinese: civilisation might work wonders, in a. mar growing competition of Japan we add that. vellously brief neriod of time,
In any case,
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Eastern trade when recarded from the China cannot do, industrially and com-
standroint of the British manufacturers, in a mercially, and, in some directions, do even particularly optimistic vein. Pessimism of better, for it must be remembered that China, Curse with regard to this outlook is on the despite admitted „barkwardness in govern- presumption that matters in China will pro- mental methods in the past, is not to-day reed according to Cocker, or rather that the
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