WRITERS IN THE JANUARY FORUM. HON. JOHN CHARLTON, M.P., was born near Caledonia, N. Y., in 1829, of English and Scotch parentage. Was educated in New York, and moved with his father to Canada in 1849. Went into the mercantile and lumbering business in 1853, and is still actively engaged in it. Was elected a member of the Canadian House of Commons in 1872, and has since been continuously a member of that body. Is an advanced Liberal, and has always advocated closer relations with the United States. Is a high financial authority in Canada, and a publicist of repute. Is the leader in the Canadian parliament in moral legislative movements, and is a member of the Anglo-American Joint High Commission. HON. WILLIAM TORREY HARRIS was born at North Killingly, Conn., in 1835, was educated at sundry academies, and for two years and a half was a member of Yale College in the class of 1858. In 1869 the College bestowed upon him the degree of A.M., and, in 1895, the degree of LL.D. Established in 1867 the "Journal of Speculative Philosophy." Dr. Harris was superintendent of public schools in St. Louis from 1867 to 1880, and since 1889 has been United States Commissioner of Education. REV. WILLIAM DEWITT HYDE was born at Winchendon, Mass., in 1858. Was educated in public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. Graduated from Harvard in 1879. Is D.D. and LL.D. of Syracuse University. Has been President of Bowdoin College since 1885. Is the author of "Practical Ethics," "Social Theology," "Practical Idealism," and other works. PROF. BRANDER MATTHEWS, born at New Orleans, La., in 1852, was graduated from Columbia College in 1871, and in 1892 was appointed to the chair of Literature in that college. Prof. Matthews is the author of numerous works of criticism and fiction and of several dramatic compositions. MR. EARL MAYO was born at Springville, N. Y., in 1873. Graduated from Cornell University in 1894. For the year following was an instructor in the Department of English at Cornell, at the same time pursuing his post-graduate studies in social and political science. Removed to New York, where he joined the staff of the "New York Sun," and later occupied an editorial position with the S. S. McClure Company. MR. ELWOOD MEAD is a native of Indiana. Graduated from Purdue University in 1882, and pursued post-graduate studies in civil engineering at the Iowa State College. Is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a consulting engineer in irrigation and water-supply engineering in the Rocky Mountain States. Has been successively United States Assistant Engineer in river and harbor improvements, Professor of Irrigation Engineering in the Colorado Agricultural College, Assistant State Engineer of Colorado, and Territorial and State Engineer of Wyoming. Is now Expert in Charge of Irrigation Investigations in the office of Experiment Stations, of the United States Department of Agriculture, and holds a Professorship in the University of California. Is the author of the Wyoming Irrigation law, and of the water-right provisions of the State constitution. Has written a number of reports for the State and for the national Government on the land and water problems of the arid region. Was REAR-ADMIRAL George WALLACE MELVILLE was born at New York in 1841. educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. Entered the United States Navy as assistant engineer in 1861, and served through the Civil War. Headed the expeditions which recovered the records of the Jeannette expedition. In 1890 was gold medallist and advanced fifteen numbers by special act of Congress for bravery in Arctic. Was appointed Engineer-in-chief in 1887, and reappointed in 1892 and 1896. In 1899 was appointed Rear-admiral. Has invented many mechanical appliances. Is President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. MR. SUNYOWE PANG was born in the Canton district of China about thirty-five years ago. Has been a resident of the United States for the last eighteen years, and has married an American. Was at first a resident of San Francisco, but has been for several years in business in New York. Has followed with the closest interest the political course of China as well as the progress of his Chinese brethren in America. Is an adherent of the liberal Chinese party, which, through its educated representatives in this country, has done much to set China herself on the road to modern progress. Mr. Pang has embraced the Christian faith. PROF. PAUL S. REINSCH was born in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1869. Was educated at the University of Wisconsin, and studied contemporary politics in England, Germany, France, and Italy. Is Professor of Political Science in the University of Wisconsin. Has published monographs on the common law in the American colonies and on "French Experience with Representative Government in the West Indies," and a book on "World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century.” MR. JACOB SCHOENHOF was born in Germany in 1839. Came to America in 1861, was naturalized in 1866, and followed a commercial career up to 1885. His experience in trade and manufacturing soon brought him to recognize the antagonism of facts with the generally accepted economic views. As early as 1869 he published in German periodicals his views on the errors of economic theories. President Cleveland appointed him Consul to Tunstall, England, and gave him a commission to inquire into the state of technical education and the economy of production in Europe. Mr. Schoenhof is the author of "Wages and Trade" (1885); "The Economy of High Wages" (1892); "History of Money and Prices" (1896), etc. HON. JOHN F. SHAFROTH was born in Fayette, Mo., in 1854. Entered the University of Michigan in 1872, and graduated in the literary department in 1875. Was admitted to the bar in 1876, and practised law until 1879 at Fayette, and afterward at Denver, Col. Was elected city attorney of Denver in 1887, and reëlected in 1889. Has been in many important cases before the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado. Has been a member of Congress since 1894. His speeches upon the Philippine policy, the War in the Transvaal, and Bimetallism attracted considerable attention, and were published in whole or in part by many papers. MR. MARRION WILCOX was born in Georgia in 1858. Was educated at Yale University, and graduated in 1878. Is an LL B. of Hamilton College, and has been admitted to the New York Bar. Has studied history abroad, and was an instructor at Yale University. Since 1893 has been writer and editor in New York city. Is the author of "A Short History of the War with Spain," and of a "History of the War in the Philippines." COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY THE FORUM PUBLISHING COMPANY. PRE88 OF THE PUBLISHERS' PRINTING COMPANY 82, 84 LAFAYETTE PLACE NEW YORK The Forum FEBRUARY, 1902. THE SETTLEMENT WITH CHINA. ALL Europe sallied forth to punish China. A resounding blow was to be struck for justice and civilization. Nothing was considered beyond the strength of the allies. There was much talk of deposing the dynasty. At all events the crafty and cruel Empress Dowager was to be forever shorn of power. China was to be humbled and forced to repentance. The irresistible might of the West was to crush the guilty and awe the innocent. Speaking generally, this dramatic invasion of the East by the West has resulted in failure and ignominious retreat. Prince Tuan, General Tung-fuh-siang, and many another of the Boxer leaders still live, unwhipped of justice. China is not humbled and she is not repentant; she has merely postponed her revenge. We have made martyrs of the Boxers and rallied the nation in support of the policy of "China for the Chinese." We met barbarism with barbarism. We made the country between Tientsin and Peking a desert, and called it peace. We did not administer retributive justice; we let loose on the Chinese a composite, incoherent, and ill-disciplined army, a part of which, at least, gave itself over to unchecked vengeance and barbarous spoliation. The foreign army marched to Peking gloriously enough, and then ingloriously indulged in raids, euphemistically called punitive expeditions. The West has been given pause. The ease of Japan's victory led to the false assumption that the Chinese were a dying nation; that they were utterly devoid of national feeling; that they could be despoiled with impunity; that they were meekly submissive and could easily be ruled by a foreign power; that they were waiting for the war-lord to stalk Permission to republish articles is reserved. |