Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-22 | Page 7 | Boycott Should be Suppressed

BOYCOTT SHOULD BE suppressed che foo doc 26 10 p m A prominent european official who la visiting che foo crystallizing the opsa sous of persons there thoroughly acquainted quain ted in china and with the pres art disorder that the shans hal troubles were the direct of th american boycott he thinks american of ficiala a washington should have opposed the chinese demands for a revision of the exclusion laws and insisted upon tae immediate suppression of the boycott he characterizes acte the boycott movement as an excuse for an exhibition of anti for eign fooling resulting from an inflammatory propaganda carried on throughout china since the commencement of the buoo japanese war while the boycott in la harmless continues the official quoted it has been used ly the revolutionary anti foreign faction of the chinese to precipitate a repetition of the boxer troubles though it Is that the excitable have eluded the control of the real conspirators and caused demonstrations unless the washington authorities take immediate and strong measures to suppress the agitation to shanghai concluded the official quoted troubles which aro not merely local will spread the fallore of the bodycot agitation appears in cho foo to be due undoubtedly to the stern demand 0 the american consul that the chinese refrain from holding meetings or issuing inflammatory flam matory placards resulting in the inability of the dangerous chinese clement to successfully their agitation