1HE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY MARCH 7 1912
CHINA AS WE SAW IT.minence and the gravity of "the
-The Real "Yellow Perf"
Yellow Peril," Not that this peril
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following places in China is for the present surpended-Hopeh, Secchan,
un, Kuelchow and Tangyuch.
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hoare any resemblanco to the) absurd bogoy that is usually cards are transmissible by the Siberian Only fally prepaid letters and post- mennt by that phrase. Europo Route to Europe.
· [The_following is the second need have no approliension that article by Sidney and Boatrice ita civilization will be endanger- Webb, the well known social od, or its military supremacy in workers, who were recently in perilled by a nation, howsser; Hongkong. This article is dated numerous, which is wholly Inek- Hongkong, Dec. 2.]
ing in intellectual or practical The Chinose Empiro-evon the capacity. It is a strango delusion Chinese City or the Chinese-Pro- that millions can effect what vinco can hardly be said to brains carinot. Numbers without exist as an organism. The family capacity are only an added im system and the guilds comprise podimont.
all that really exists in China in Nor is the,. danger one of the way of social organization. economic competition. It is a Boyond theso two imperfect de fundamental truth that no coun- volopments of social life the rico try need over be afraid of a low- cultivator or the shopkeeper hins wagod nation; it is the relatively nothing but, on the Governmental high-wagad nations like the side, a horde of officials who robUnited Sinten and Germany and him; and, on the business sido, a just in those industries in which erowd of foreign bankers and they pay the highest rates-that morelints who exploit him. The England finds its most dangerous whole Chinese nation reminds us, competitors. No lowness of wago In fact, of a race of ants or beer of will ever make Chinese labour gregarious habits, but incapable cheap-even if it were by cheap- of the organization of tlio ant-hill oss of labour, and not by pro or the hive. They show us, inductive capacity, that nations in-. deod, what homo sapiens can be dustrially thrivo,
if he does hot evolve into the social organismi.
If in the samo dry light we ask what signs of capacity the Chinese
́All suchnpprobønsions of China aro born only of economic ignor- ance. Tho real Yellow Peril is the moral and intellectual decadenco
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Yorck, 20th Mar, 11 Kaijo Maru, Jap. 2., 1,992 Yamaga
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exhibit, we find a remarkable into which this vast empiro has to how and Singapore-Peratichew phenomenon, for which fatlon; the helpless incapacity of
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sociologists should be invited to its people to creato eveu a deront Hoilow and Bangkok-Per Phrasiang, account. The Chinese, we are social organism; their failure to
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told, used to be a "groat" peo-develop the vast natural resources Heibow and Hangkok-Per Halvard, plo
All this, we freely ad- of their country, which aro, per- mit, entitles them to be rugarded hops, as extens ve as those of the Swatow-Fer Haiman, 8th Mar, 10 De one of the greatest" nations United States; their abject in-
of the past. But within the last two or three centurion something has happened his "great people, by reason of which it has become sterile and barren. It is not merely that, in marked con- wast with Japan, China has shown no capacity for adopted Western learning. It has shown, a far as we can discover, no capacity for anything..
A Stagnant Race.'
Let us begin with intellectual
ability aven to train their rivers sÒ that agriculture (and with it for- [eign trade) may not be disastrously interrupted. The serious evil that China does us is not to under- sell our artis me, but to lower the
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tone and coarsen the fibre of the M-Tor Sui Tii, 6th Mar., 1.15 Fatmang, European in the Far East. This living with inferior rucos"-mon-Ti ing races whom we think inferior
Chefso and Tient-is-Per
Tintin, 8th Mar., 3.
is a terrible business,"accards Bestow and Bangkok-Per Chowtai, į laivard,'
| ono intelligent obsorver,,
Tempting the Powers.
8th Mar, 5 rɔ.
Blugapore, l'eming and Rangon-Per
Fulinda, 9th M, 11, ..
Mar.,..
thinga. For a hundred years or Bat the Yellow Peril is graver Rest and Deli-l'er Jobnun, Sth
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SHANGHAT, Siboden Mail ta Etropa--Par Liyan, 9th | AT., 6 P..
Andy and Foodlow-Ter
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water and Bangkok-P.r "T-iučnu,
10 Mar., 9 A..
Per Zafiro, 11th Mor, 3 px
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Kutsang, 171) Alur., 10 x.m
6th Mar-Shanghai Sid
Mar., Gen.-B. & S.
Shanting, Dr. 8,,, 1,095, J. Rubia-
Bon, 7th Ma—Mají IN
Mar., Coal, &, S.
Hongkong, 6th March, 1912.
F. A. HEWETT,
Buperintendent
NORDDEUTSCHER
LLOYD.
BREMEN.
Belgravia, Gor..., 4,000, Hildebrandt, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
7th Mar-lamborg "and
Singapore Is: Mar, G U.. A. L.
Itas, rs, 2,948, J. Ledei, lang ang. Br. 8., 1,359, H. Wilde. :) Fon
4th Mar-Amoy 3rd Mar, Gen. Sean Tack Long,
Br. 8., 2,251, 1. S. Mal-Prinzess
Lin, 29th Feb-Bangkok and Koxichangirl Tab, Ri's—J., M^& Co.
Nor. ... 1,060, U. ‘Ander-1 101, 4th Mar-Smutov Prd 11 r. Gen.-A. `, & Co Heleno Ricka 1o. Gër, 8,9., 2,246, Fr. Mans, 5th Mar.—Kaṛates
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6th Mar Singapore th Fe'., Goa-doo Tek Saug. Hongkong, Jr. es, 780, Coraciussen,
1 Feb.-Haiphong 271 Feb., Gen.-A. R. Mary. Jolinane, Ger... 953, M. Ipland
It Mar-Singapore Hoilion 20th F, G¢).–J. & Co.,
And
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Alive, Ger, ..., 6,629, 1.
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BRISBANE. SYDNEY
Am. 24, 2,103, M. C. Smith,
7th Mar.Manila 4th Mar.. Gas.-8. T. & Co.
CLEARANCES AT THE HAR- BOLT OFFICE. inan, Fur Contoh.. Forsa g, for Koba, Kwangish, for Shan:liai foldenfel, for lamborg.
Binkiang. Br. u.,, 1,328, Bubertuschig, for Fose.w.
4th Marlainan ad Mar Chen, for Shanghai. Ballast.-B. & S.
Knight
Compation, Br. ., 4,175, J. Kindall 21st Feb.--- Phii'a- Co'plii2ith Dro.. Caso oil. ---9. 0. Co. Ratsang, Br. 8.a., 4,195, R. C. D. Bradley, 6th MarMoji Mar, Gen.-J., M. & Co.. Lowk, Ger. K., 1,021, G. Sehuulizen,
204 Mar Bangkok
mora un Chinese person seems to still. China lies, like a stranded have written an original book on whale bearing the costly amber- any sorious subject whatever, gris, befo the greely eyes of Experts tell us that the same is the civilized Powers; tempting true in painting and porcelain, in them, almost beyond their powar bronzas and carving-there has of resistance, to an armo inter- been no good work for at loantorention, and a scramble for an- century, There has certainly nexation which is only to likely to boon no revival in religion or light the torch of European war, in metaphysics. The race has, in the course of which (as markedly the meantime, beou accomplish happened in Germany; in the ing nothing in politionl or social soventeenth and to all Canti- administration, or in manufae-nental Europo in the eighteenth tures or international finance. century) ourown civilization and They have accomplished nothing morality may retrogrado, to n | Maulla, Mangadu, Iloilo mal Crin- in law or in philosophy. They lower level. have done no better in war than The best defonce agafast this Kobe-For Muttrs, 12th Man, 15 x a in the pursuits of peaco,
real Yollow Peril is the elevation Stow-Por 11ṛmen, 12th Mar, 10 The Chineso are commonly said and training of the Chinese them-Singapore, Penang an! Calentia-Per to be unrivallol in business; and solvos. Those are doing moro to : they are certainly skilful enough ward off from Europe what would at kueping a shop or a monoy.
be an incalculab'o" disaster, who gbanger's office. But we could are helping the Chincs to raise not toarn that the Chinoso had themselves The new schools. come to the fore, even in their own and colleges of the Chintose Go-. country, in any of the more high-vernment, the olucational and ly evolved forma of business modical work of this missionaries, enterprise. Indeed, after the instruction of Chi soso slu- my inquiries, wo do not feel donts abroad, all the efforts that sure that, in all China, there existaro-now-being made-to-improve more than a handful of Chinese Chinese administration-every- business firma that havo rison thing that tends to raiso China Bhoys the status of the local store from its humiliating dogradation | Manila, Cebt and Ikib-Pér Kaifong, ar bank, in such a way no to have boforo tho Western Powers, and." bench establishments in other to restore to the eluented! Chi-Singapore, Penang and Coomb-Term cities than those in which thoirnesa thoir national self-respect- principals live.
is tonding to diminish the Yel-Ewalow, And even in their own staple low Paril that wo have reason to products; their incapacity standa fear. The now t wernment Wai. revealed. Wo were told that the versity at Hongkong, which Sir Sigasaki, Kobe #ul Yodohum-Şer quality both of the ten and the silk Fastorick Lugard is organizing has, in the past generation, for the use of all South Chine, markedly deteriorated, owing to may prove in this way, if given faulty cultivation, caroloss pre-time, a more potent bulwark of paration, and fraudulent packing. the West than either tariffs or Certainly, tho not risult come to battleships.
bo, as one thoughtful Chineso put It is from this staaljeïnt and it to us, that Chinn, as a whole, in this sense that the prosent Is
is, so far as can be ostimated, volution is full of hopu..
actually producing less, year by
year, oven of material products;
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DEPARTED.
Mar. *.
aling, for Coast Forte, linas, for Sumužilní. Fraksang, for Moji. Lyermoon, Ger. A. 1.286. Vzor, Sungking, for Haiphg.
Orsay, for Bangkok. 7th Mar.-Saigon 2nd Mar.
S
Ilice in load-II A. L Mail ild, for Haiphong,
Monteagle, Br. .., 6,188, W. Darium, fur Aoping.
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Mrs. Steve. 27 ha
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Australian
and that the nation is really The weight of the soot de- poorer to-day, in wealth as in posited by the chimneys of Soto, everything else, than it was a London in the city annuilly is century ago.
co uputed by the Loudon "Lancat" at 78,050 tons.
A Degraded Survival
To sum up, this so-called
"great" race, whose capacity is
New Zealand's portal revenues
so much extolled by those who is larger in proportion to popula: profess to admiro them, and tion than that of any other coun whose reputed achievements in tty. It excended £1,000,000, Inat the distant past claim our respont, year, or SĮ for overy inhabitant, is, to-day, by all the available evid-
-
enco, capable of nothing! Itssole The last general election in the achievement in the past few con- United Kingdom cost £078,312; turies in that it has endured. the main item of expense being We: annat liers even hazard a £385,160 for printing and station- suggestion as to the causes of theory. There were 1,192 candidates sterility or decadenes which seems for 070 seats, nul 5,235,323 to have fallon on the Chinese votes were polled. The personal
P.M.
T. K. K.
Ger. 8., 1,118. G. Weil, 4th Ma-Sualow 3rd M r, Mr. Ge.-B. & S.
Kammo mara, 13th Mar., 11 | Chmung, Ger.1.02. N.0.toler
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Be 1996, 1,570, M. Picknell 3 rings 1. 20th Fub —Ataats Mazo,| 4th Feb,-Sural: ya 14t Beatmusa !, Madinoa Ceylon, Chlo, Cooktown, Csis "owusville, Brisbane, Sydney, Taiw-u. 1. s Maleskii, 214
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31ml-1
Furtle-Pet
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Tatruta, B. 1,8., 830, A. Kansko, Güi. Chow, Himaɔ Marn, Polymosian, Søg - Fo chon-Fer
Ent. Canton 5th Mar, Elaiyang, 14th Afr. 19. Telvinschas, Br. 6, 1,840, Fraser,
|ra, Shohwn, Delka Niskiora,· BIN] Shanghai-Per Chinh, 18th Mar., 3
2nd Mar Saiga | 20ch | Murals~Flintshire, Himalaya, Hitsahij Fa'•., Gon.—Wo Fat Slag. Mare, Konang 6i, Nyuzi Barou Maru, Jap., m... 7.268. E. Innandale.
Australian
Mall.
Siberian
Mall.
1.M.
Manil., Ubu, Iloilo, Thursday Island, Cooktown, Cairos, Townsrile, Brisbane, Sydnay,") Holurt, "Launceston, Nes Zainud, Dunedin, Melbourne. Adivide, e ti and. Freman
1 Per Nikks H®mu, }&£« Mag. 11am.
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Tenys
Bent, 4th Mar.-S' Fran-
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8.
Mar"—Pe'as, Indrawali, Pak Ling. Vestfold, 'Nar, xa, 1.112, Berizleń, Ard Saigon 28th Feb.. Gea.-A. T. K.
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Yolo ama, Hostal and Savingsang, Dr. T. H. Listen,
Frantico (Beian Malto Europa-Per Teajo-mara, 18th Mar., 11 a
people Bat we realise, as we expensos of candidates amountedį Bap1 kan-Ja: Mansang, 10th May nover fullsed before, the im to £10,020.
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