CHINA PREPARES FOR A PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 304, 28 December 1907, Page 4

CHINA PREPARES FOR A PARLIAMENT.

Einv.vnox To l!l', .MAUi: c'o.viti.s(>i;y. I in' lir-t stop towards enn-titntioiial frovernnicnt in China Ims been taken in llic tun,i of mi Imperial Edict,. which makes education compulsory throughout tli'> empire. Local L'overnnicnt institute* arc to ho , —t.ilili-hcil for the pnrpo-e of tcachiii" principle, of constitutional . ■vith a view in ultimately c-t,il,li-liin-an elective I'arlianieni. J lie l',,iict. which c\pre->-r- the mix id v "f 1 lie Kmpcror and Ihe Dowager Knipre-- to e~tal,li-h a Parliament, -tales lhaf t lip -ucce-is ni the innovation will depend on I he education and knowledge of the representative-. i lie !-.diet making education conipnl--ory t ]ir„ii L!lt,,lll China follow- closely on a nnnilter of -iniilar edicts lor I|c reform and nioiiernisalion of the empire. A -hon time aL'o, t h,■ - : ,|e <,f opin'll ami the of women'- led were made illegal, while a roniarkal'lo plan «a- prepared for the I'u-ioii of Ihr Chi-ne-c and the Manchns hy intermarriage, and l,y lln- leoroanisalion of the al'mr. Moreover, a Ministerial Cahincl is to he appointed in the near future. Many of the mwliaeva! feature-; of the (!ovni, at l'ckin- have alrciidy been ;W cst away.