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Show j BLAMES FLOUR FOR TROUBLE. j Missionary Says Chinese Farmers Aro J ealous. Boston, July 11. Some of the missionaries mis-sionaries are no more to -blame for the troubles there than is our American flour," said Rev. Charles H. Daniels, secretary of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, when asked his opinion of the cause of the Chinese uprising. "The Chinese farmers," Mr. Daniels went on, "are not different from our own tillers of the soil in the west. When they find that the Americans are sending flour to China and selling it there cheaper than the price at which the naUis can raise rice, thev naturally object, just as the people of the western states would, if the Chinese were selling wheat in the United States at lower prices than they themselves could produce it. "The missionaries may be partially at fault, but they are certainly no more so than the tradesmen. They were attacked at-tacked first because they were the most exposed, many of them being in places fr removed from . the bulk of Christian inhabitants. The missionaries mission-aries have always tried to act in accordance ac-cordance with the Chinese laws and customs and have been treated courteously courte-ously by the authorities." In regard to the best way of settling the Chinese question Mr. Daniels said: "The American board. I think, is quite in harmony with the United States government in the position which has been taken against the breaking up of the empire. We favor the open door policy. My theory concerning this outbreak out-break is that it is simply incident to the reform movement which was started start-ed by the emperor. "One of our missionaries sent us an order for 150 books, including the Bible and many commentaries, and those books went into the imperial household. house-hold. Of course, we do not know that they were read by the emperor, but they probably would never have entered enter-ed the household without his consent. "At present it is the business of the powers to create order. After that many things will be explained and there will be new conditions to face." |