| Show FERMENT IN CHINA The advices advice from rein China are IlIe not reas reaK reassuring suring euring from many loftily agree that a n sentiment similar to that existing tn In tx H lh country previous to in th the boxer outbreak Is being work worked ed Ott II up U So Ho strong Is h the feeling that mission stations are In danger The Tha rh Presbyterian and Roman noman Catholic missions minions near Amboy have ul ai ready been destroyed by mobs mob causing a 0 damage damn of Tho English lush Bish Bishop op 01 J C Hoare of ot Is IA re ro reported ported to have havo ad that the tho of the boycott bocott will be more to contend with Will than them the Boxer movement The Tho attack on tho tartan on tin tho the third of It this month he lie pointed out was wall particular particularly ly Iy daring as nil It occurred just Juit across the tho river front from the Canton settlement s anti and within ft it 1 few tew yards of oC European gun Run gunboats bolls boats botteA A very ery vcr significant report Is made by bya h ha a couple of American missionaries on their return to front from n a visit to u tu 1 Chinese school One of ot them had bud asked askell the boys which country they the COI con the better or Amer Anier America mer merIca ica lea and tho the prompt reply was Willi Eng England r England ng land The Tint missionary next endeavor endeavored ed cd eu to make the tho hon boy admit that Amer imor America mor lea ica was bettor bellor than either Germany or Switzerland but hut with as os little hittl site mic COM coss COI When questioned as to their vi tt vison son for tor this tItI animosity toward tin United States they tho without hesitation Americans oppress the Chinese The children of oC course only expressed tho the opinions held by their parents They rhe reflected a general Im Impression 1 teSS Ia n nIt It may he Iw necessary to have lIae ships and troops within convenient reach of at the tho Chinese waters In itt case Me Immediate uld niti should be bo demanded by b American In III any part of at the country countr The Tha duty lUty our government owes to the citi zene abroad cannot be shirked without evil con But hut further than thun that w WI we cannot go KO Wo o 0 cannot consistently b 1111 a party porty to tho the execution of ot any un plan the tue purpose of which Is U to force torce ourselves upon that Hint country Too Ton mush of oC this sort ort has ha already been beon done In hO China We 1 believe that a policy of justice slid awl righteousness rl In all our dealings I I ith the yellow race raco Is ls what Is now no mostly needed It U Is III duo to ourselves and tutu to the tho cause of ot humanity to work werk w rk for tor petite peace and good will towards all nil Undoubtedly a Cl military expedition to China would again humiliate that coun country country country try though not lIot without greater ac sac than were made Irude the tho last lat time an nn Invasion occurred It U would bo be accompanied l by atrocities similar to those tholo that made le tho the civilized world shudder tor during the Boxer Doxer war China would again be subdued quickly un unless unless less le s Japan should take lake a 0 hand against tho the contingency not en on entirely entirely impossible Jut But oven een It If the ob object obJect object were accomplished hed tho the expedition would only leave behind a 11 feeling of at more Intense bitterness than that now I pi VIe prevailing calling I There U is no other ot her consistent way of ot solving the Chinese problem than by recognizing tho the rights of ot tho the Chinese i fri 1 people under the rules rule anti and regulations rC that govern th the he Intercourse of oC nations I with each lach other If it wo tO 0 cannot over overcome overcome come como our cur prejudices or If It for t Or r other reasons Mongolians cannot be accorded the treatment of ot other aliens then we wo should keep away from rum them und leave them alone But hut If It we expect privilege lege ge anti and profit pro lit In China we Wo should reciprocate To take by armed force whatever we want In that country and antl then close cloo our doors door when tin nfl equivalent equivalent lent Is expected Is i robber policy It 11 Is I unworthy of ot a nation notion with our antecedents antecedents dents our mission |
