The Daily News. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1900. THE YELLOW PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 247, 14 December 1900, Page 2

The Daily News. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1900. THE YELLOW PERIL.

Thkbb are many who iiavo carefully studied the Chin si question who consider the reaio iy for t lie present troubla in China is tl;o paitittou of that great nation. Wo are amongst those who believe thut the gi-eatsst blessing that could happen would be for each of the European Powers to undertake the government and civilisation of a portion of that vuai Empire. The present concort of the Powers, which many to much rejoice to so:,- is. in our opini'in, only deferring tho e%il d*y whea b.5 white and y*ilow rem tv>N luvo. to fight for suprsuuey, and wh'e.i ifi is considered that there avo 400 milliens of*the latter, wo musS co&fass the prospect is net inviting, The greatest jliving authority en the Ohiniio, Sir Robert Hart, the Director cf the Chinese Customs, in the last number of the FortnigMy Ee'iiiew to hand, imp an article on somewhat similaf •lines.' He, as it were, constitutes himself for j the moment a Chinaman, and presents the position as a patriotic Chinaman sees it. He says that the movement which has so exercised the public mind of the outside world is patriotio and to a certain extent justifiable. The "Yellow Peril" is, according to Sir Robert, the logical effect of previous treatment of China by the and the present episode is only to-day's hint to the future. " Foreign dictation," he fay, " must some day cease and foieigoers some day go." "Twenty millions," he continues, "of Boxer*, armed, drilled, disciplined, asd animated by patriotic, if mistakes motives, will make residence in China impossible for Lr.-igners, will i take back from foreigner j evarythinj? foreigners have taken from China, will pay ofi old grudges with intersst, and will carry the Chinese fl«g into many a place that even fancy wijlt not suggest to-day. In fifty ycara' time there wil) be millions of Boxers in serriod ranks and war's panoply; thi?ro is not the slightest doubt of tba*. Atd if the Chinese Goverdment continu s to exist it will encourage, upheld, avid develop this national movement'. It bodes no good for the rest of the world, but (China will be acting within its right, and will carry through tho national programme." Nothing but partition, or a miraculous spread of the best form of Christianity, will avert this catastrophe, and Sir Robert fears that neither alternative is within the limits of practical pplilies or practical propagandism, He foresees that the present lawlessness must ba condoned. The trade in arms will not coase, and our sons and grandsons wjjl reap the whirlI wind.