CHINA FOR THE CHINESE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13095, 7 February 1906, Page 5

CHINA FOR THE CHINESE.

THE MOVEMENT SPREADING.

THE AMERICAN BOYCOTT.

By Telegraph.Press Association.—Copyright.

Pekin, February 5. Open agitation against foreigners is rampant in Central and Southern China. The members of the Young Progressive party are impatient with the slow development of reforms, and the present regime is insecure.

(Received February 6, 9.32 p.m.) New York, February 6.

The American Government proposes to make a radical revision of the regulations regarding the entry into and residence of Chinese in the United States. .-*

The alterations provide against delay in the admission of Chinese, abolish the Bertillon system of identification, and provide for Chinese labourers now in the country to bo notified on departure of the conditions for readmission.

The North China Daily News (Shanjrhai), of December 30, says:—"Young China, or the section of it which calls itself the Patriotic party, but which has shown itself in, reality a very unpatriotic party, has apparently two aims in view, tho removal of the Manchu dynasty, and of the burden of extraterritoriality, and it thus, in the most light-hearted and ill-considered manner, declares war against the (Jovcrnment and against all Foreign Powers at the same time, instead of dividing its intended enemies and engaging them separately. As far as regards the Manchu dynasty, thsre seems to foreigners generally no real patriotism in endeavouring forcibly to replace it by a purely Chinese dispensation. As a matter of fact, the actual Government of China in more Chinese than it is Manchu, and'statesmen are so lamentably scarce in China, that no one ever heard of an official of promise being rejected because he was no a Manchu. At tho present time, the Empress-Dowager is so far from being narrow-minded in this direction that she is appointing Chinese to' posts hitherto reserved for Manchus, while there are some Manchu high officials who are as enlightened and capable in every way as their Chinese colleagues. Whether the Chinese as a people would gain anything by the removal from power of all Manchu officials from the Empress-Dowager down is more than doubtful; the gain would certainly not be worth the loss to the country that another rebellion would cause. The ideal of the patriotic party apooars to be a Republic, and they are certainly the only people in China who think the nation is ready for it, but to them it seems the only chance of getting power into theic- cwp hands. The extraordinary thing to foreigners is. that the officials everywhere, at the capital and in the provinces, seem to bo very much in awe. of the Patriotic Party, and afraid to provoke it to action. It must, apparently, be very much stronger than wo believe it is, or tho Government very much weaker thai) even careful observers have imagined it to be.