IS CHINA STABLE?

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1913, Page 13

IS CHINA STABLE?

"The truth seems to be that the instinct for trade in China is stronger than any adverse internal conditions," says The Times. "Given bumper crops, the people will buy and the merchants will somehow supply their wants. China is a vast organism which does not continuously require a heart. Jour hundred millions of people within her borders have to live and be fed. They constitute » political entity which is practically indestructible. They will even accept an alien domination, like that of the Ma-n--chus, if they are still able to go about* their daily business. "Just now large areas in China are in a condition somewhat resembling that of Europe in the Dark Ages, when life and properly were insecure, and small communities had to defend themselves, but fields were tilled and human hope survived and triumphed over all misfortunes. Yet we are disposed to j adhere to the belief we expressed three months ago that the longer even a weak Government endures in Pekin the' stronger it will become. Nobody is known to the outside world who could take the place of President Yuan ShihKai and the Manchu dynasty has evidently lost all chance of regaining power."