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 the United States, since the supply of men and women is virtually endless, and is now increasing at the rate of six or seven million persons a year. Only by liberating the natural money-making genius of the Chinese people by giving them reasonable economic guarantees, can Western civilization justify its invasion of Cathay, and its remorseless destruction of the old gods.

There remains one question, and one only, to discuss, and we have done.

This is the policing of the country.

The Chinese army, as has been clearly shown, has degenerated into a political police. To transfer it back to its proper sphere, and to reduce its numbers, is the work of education and sympathy as well as of political compromise. For it must be remembered that what the provincial generals have been doing in regard to the provincial capitals, and along the connecting railways, has been largely taught them by what they see in the metropolis and along the railway leading from the sea to Peking. Foreign garrisons, placed in the capital and at each strategic point in the metropolitan province, under the Boxer protocol have for nineteen