Religious Press Urges American Aggression in China
THE Independent asserts that “the duty of America in China” is, in fellowship with the other Powers, “to occupy Peking; depose the empress dowager; restore Kwang-Hsu, or, if he is dead or dying, find some one of his type, and proclaim him emperor under an international protectorate.” It declares this to be “the immediate task of the Powers in China;” and that “such action is essential.” There is hardly any room for doubt that the religious press of the United States will be in the lead in urging the nation onward in a course of aggression and domination, and into war to accomplish it. They may be expected to look upon China as only another Turkey, and to deal with her accordingly.