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through highly accredited international agencies. And, further, 

 that foreign supervision of these loans, their application and 

 disbursement, should be allowed, consistent with the mainten- 

 ance of the dignity and prestige of the Chinese Empire. 



For many years past the Occident has been urging the 

 Chinese to " wake up ! " Towards the end of the last century 

 the clamours in this direction became most vociferous. The 

 present upheaval is China waking up — nothing else. The 

 outcome is fraught with colossal possibilities. China needs 

 roads, railways, rolling-stock, machinery to develop her 

 agriculture, mineral resources, and potential wealth generally. 

 All these and very much more she stands in need of. Will 

 the Occident merely furnish the samples and patterns for the 

 Chinese to imitate, and ultimately supply ? Or — and who 

 knows ? Granted a staple Government, the Chinese people 

 can accomplish much. I do not believe in a " Yellow Peril " 

 in the nature of a possible military conquest of the West. It 

 would be necessary to fundamentally alter the Chinese character 

 in order to make it militantly aggressive. But in their virility 

 and industry they are unconquerable people, quite the equals 

 of the West in these qualities. If they thoroughly " awaken," 

 what is to prevent them becoming in commerce and industry 

 the great competitors of the white race ? Time solves and 

 adjusts all problems, and it will this, the real Yellow Peril, if 

 such a thing be within the realm of possibility. 



To the people of the Occident in general all forms of 

 civilization other than their own appear effete and retrograde. 

 This is, perhaps, very natural, but will the Western ideal always 

 dominate and remain the criterion, and must all the other 

 peoples of the earth conform to it or become nonentities in 

 the world's future history ? The people of the Middle Kingdom 

 will undoubtedly accept from the West and utilize all the material 

 advantages and mechanical appliances that have resulted from 

 the discovery of steam and electricity and may yet retain 

 their own ideals of life. On the tenets of their older civiliza- 

 tion these people can wisely build and maybe they will evolve 

 a state of existence intrinsically higher, more restful, and better 

 suited to their nature and needs than that contained in the 

 Western ideal. 



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