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In the middle and high latitudes, the Chinese are larger, stronger^ 

 bigger-boned, more masculine, more individualized, perhaps 

 slower and seemingly duller, but more independent and more 

 aggressive, notably so as they merge into the co-national and 

 kindred peoples who dwell on the Manchurian plains and on 

 the Mongolian plateaus. \t Hankow, a metropolis of the 

 south, you many note a policeman — one of the signs of 

 the new order of things — standing on the side of the 

 street and looking apologetic ; in Mukden, the policeman 

 stands in the center of the street with the bearing 

 of a soldier, and cart and rickshaw and coach alike pass scrup- 

 ulously on the appointed side. There was no temptation to test 

 it, but the policeman's bearing suggested that you might easily 

 look down the barrel of a revolver if you insisted on taking 

 the street at your own sweet will. Chinese immigrants to 

 America are almost wholly from the south and center of China, 

 where the ancient tendency to outflow is most marked. There 

 are few immigrants from the more sturdy races of the north, 

 practically none from the open fields of Manchuria and Mon- 

 golia, or from the adjacent provinces which are overflowing 

 into these uncrowded tracts. 



Now/ we may well ask ourselves, whether, having thrown 

 down the barriers and forced these peoples to adjust themselves 

 to contact and intercourse with ourselves and the rest of the 

 world, the adjustment shall be on the lines of peace, equity and 

 the truer forms of cooperation, attended by all the higher 

 qualities of which the western world boasts, not the least of 

 which is its scientific spirit and method, or shall it be on the 

 lines of war and aggression in which the west, notably the 

 European west, is past master. In a world, is the readjustment 

 to be a fitting together for peace, or a fitting out for war; a 

 fitting together for mutually profitable intercourse or a fitting 

 out for inequitable trade and the fierce rivalry of grab. 



If we continue to elect the latter alternative what may be the 

 issue of a forced education of four hundred million people in 

 the art of war and the spirit of aggression? In traveling 

 from the metropolis of the southern interior toward the capi- 



