Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-08 | Page 4 | Bandits Should be Pursued

BANDITS SHOULD BE PURSUED With great rigor and firmness C the United Stales States government I with the tho Chinese Chinesa should deal v gov gov- government government 1 at Peking in seeking the return to safety of the Americans rho ho bo were taken from a train at at atS S and made prisoners It If there is 18 any display of ot weak weak- w weakness weakness nes ness on the part ot of the tho Chinese the talk of ot sending Bending American troops Into the province ot of o should be followed up tip tipi i The Chinese respect nothing I short hort ot or force The bandit element J n 1 should mould be given a Its It's lesson leaden en some l what what t similar to the tho one ono applied applied to tho Boxers when foreign troops marched against them thorn and relieved the legations l in to Peking One ap ap- ap- ap application of ot force might serve to discourage future bandits with de- de designs designs Big ns signs on American or European travelers When Whoa you yon study conditions condition In China the wonder is that a larger percentage ot of the tho people refrain from acts ot of violence Halt Iatt of ot the Chinese are arc hungry or are on the verge of or starvation Millions never have their for food tood antis satis satisfied tied fied al at It anyone any one time timo All but n afew few are poverty PO stricken They are aro fatalists and have no rainbow is In their sky With those conditions In America there would be a wild mid and stormy time and neither life lite nor property would would woud be bo safe until the spirits os o the masses be crush crush- crushed crushed ed cd by tho the weight of an unbearable load The coolies ot of China have been beaten Into subjection They have yielded to the lash of or adversity un- un until until un until til they are without resentment and they have no ambitions ambition beyond mere existence The bandits must be r recruited from the farmer fanner class that retains some small degree of Independence