By the time Yuan Shi Kai had finished the
wholesale arrests of senators, representatives,
judges and journalists which have made the month
so lively in Peking, there was practically nothing
left of the Chinese Republic except himself. The
capital, in the light of the latest despatches, has
become an armed camp. His War Minister is a
mere clerk, the foreign office is Yuan’s desk, and
the only treasury is his private purse. A few
score intimidated natives of China, some in frock
coats, assemble now and then as a sort of con
stituent assembly. With this situation, observes
the Paris Matin, the great powers are far more
satisfied than ever. There is someone with whom
to negotiate loans and from whom to secure con
cessions. Yuan exhibits clauses of the constitu
tion which apparently empower him to dissipate
or integrate the republic as if it were a mass of
building blocks. The one embarrassment to him
is the existence of so large a revolutionary ele
ment in the southern provinces. Patriots have
taken refuge in large numbers in provincial cities
inland from the great river. Conspiracy is every
where. It is promoted by the existence of preda
tory bands roving hither and quest of
plunder. Every provincial capital has its regi
ments of unpaid soldiery abandoned to pillage, to
murder and to revolution. >
Here’s Another Case For “John
Morris** of Mobile.
IN the Beaver Falls Tribune, Pennsylvania,
i there appears the following:
Beaver. —County Probation Officer Cora E.
