Ebook The Fall of Tsingtau

While China may nominally be in possession of many of its sovereign rights, the fact is, the power which controls Tokyo, for all intents and purposes, now controls the Government at Peking. Events yet to take place in the Far East may be depended on to prove this assertion. Be that as it may, China, we believe, will yet be a nation independent, possessing sov ereign rights, and governed by its own people. For the Chinaman remains a Chinaman. De prive him of his country, isolate him from his people, and whether you find him in Caracas, Cape Town, or Halifax, he, and his generations that follow, will cling to the customs of his former country. The Chinese have not learned what patriotism is. They will in time. Then let a leader arise to join in one cause the four hundred and fifty millions of people of China; let patriotism once be grasped by them after repeated humiliations, such as have already been their lot in the last thirty years, and then one will recall the words of Napoleon, who said of China, There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep; for when he moves he will move the world.