Show SAID SAIDI I TO BE WANING 1 S Merchant Sorry They Went I It Into I It ItI STUDENTS ARE t PO OF TROUBLE IN INI HE FURE mh I P Aug Amer American cn boy a moat the peace cene as a topic pf of ln In china Accounts reaching Pekin from I tr trading ding centers indicate tha the the move moe melt Is its greatest strength I early in Augst August arid and since then ha been een decreasing Nowhere except In i has bas AmerIcan business re received a serous serious blow The boycott h have e been equally at Tien Tsin Tein whIch Is a distributing mar market ket for tor American goods second only t tI Shanghai except for the the determined repressIon of Yuan who Is al almost almost most the thc only Chinese se viceroy realy really ruling his own Lukewarm Support The Pekin government In response to Minister representatiOns issued d instructions to provincial of ofil dais which which read read wel well but which the officials construe with the bele belief tat tattle tle the government sympathizes with the te sentiment against the exclusIon of AmerIcan goods although obliged for formal formally mal mally to oppose the method ot of it Its ex cx expressIon Several minor officials are implicated In the thc t at Shang hal hai and It Its leader holds tb the rank of total The government would pun punIsh punish Ish them by depriving them of honors according to the Chinese custom if i it were in earnest Are Now Repentant Many important merchants who em embarked embarked barked In the boycott bocott now r repent pent of the he scheme but I It has passed beyond their control Into the hands ot of agi agit ag t t rs tle tile majority of whom are stu students dents many recently returned from Japan and some America who relate at meetings and In newspapers or of outrages received at the hands hands of American immigration of The agitators ac are active prIn prIncIpals principals in the central and southern cit cities cities ies The They have abandoned the inal demand that Chines Chinese students and merchants be admitted to America as aa freely treely a as thoe those of other nationalities and now are demandIng the unrestricted ed of al all Chinee Chinese Th They y grue argue that If this movement succeeds the same coercion may be employed against Canada Australia Japan and andal andall al all countries ln n whIch Chinee Chinese Ue live Agitation in Newspapers The natye native newspapers which have become influential only since tIle the Boxer uprising nd the number whereof is multiplying are a powerful factor In funning fanning the agitation The bet bent Informed foreigners believe that the bO boycott cott h bus passed Is its climax and will gradually subside that the cessation of orders for American goods goodsIn In It merel merely temporary and that a do de crase crease ot of order orders now wil will l sult In a it corresponding In increase later In iii the year The principal piece good goods merchants of 01 Shanghai telegraphed to Viceroy juan proposing to have Tien Tein consignments y to Tien Tsin Instead of through Shanghai as heretofore and r requesting him to take measures to stop the boycott thereof ad and civil administrator tor issued a proclamation accordingly Better Times Ahead The end of the war warby warby by opening ManchurIa would give a great Impetus to American trade That country practically has been closed to Imports throughout the war largely large because the armies ol all means of transportation Most American products sold in are handled by Brish British and Get Get Getman man firms on commission and the bulk of the loee losses fal fall upon them What Is considered the greatest significance of the boycott is the possibility ot of future Use of this method of coercion if the first attempt succeeds The which launched te the move movement movement ment are forming a a permanent organization aton and have haye plenty br bf funds to send orators about about the country a and d sow cir circulars circulars broadcast The They boast of re rc man and mes messages messages sages from American sympathizers Proportionately as the first boycott succeeds the weapon capon may be expected to be employed against an any govern government ment th that t offends the Chinese |