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Among the Celestials : vol.1 |
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any case the country will advance. Even at
the time of our visit, a dozen years ago,
the pressure of the Russians had caused the
Chinese to construct telegraph lines throughout
the country. The establishment of an arsenal
at Kirin, for purely military purposes, forced
them to search for coal and so open mines.
And similar military pressure from the Japanese,
as well as the Russians, is now inducing them
to extend the railways from north to south.
So that military pressure alone has resulted
in the adoption of those measures which, of all
others, most conduce to industrial development.
And there is other than merely military
pressure bearing on Manchuria. Japan, India,
America, and all the states of Europe, are by
the advance of steam navigation brought along-
side, and London is to-day for practical com-
mercial purposes scarcely more distant from
the capital of Manchuria than is Peking. Last
century not one of these countries wished to
trade with Manchuria. To-day all are clamour-
ing for access to what may not inappropriately
be called a Land of Promise. All are striving
to obtain the means by which they may intro-
duce their own manufactures to sell to the
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