The Coconino weekly sun., 1891-11-19

where he awaits trial. In yesterdays paper he writes letter in which he claims that he gave himself to the movement for the purpose of diyulging its secrets, and the ones of those who employed him. He says that the leader of the scheme revealed to him the following programme of his policy in the coming new empire.
 1. Limited boundaries with cOnse- quent partition of the country. ?. Likin barriers (for collecting transient tax) would everywhere be demolished; imports, foreign or native, would pay a single duty on arrival (about one and one-half per cent and then be free to move throughout the land untaXed; this rule to apply to coast trade as we'll 8. Duty on tea would be ex- perimentally reduced. Foreign cigars and wine would be taxed. Coal left free until native mines were developed. The tariff on yarn and cotton goods arranged so as to give cheap clothing to the masses, if necessary by home manufacture. 1. Trunk lines of rail- roads woul doe built, roads made, horse carts introduced, and canals drcdged 5. The employment of foreigners throughout the army and navy and customs, and in various posts of police duty and tax gathering, while foreign merchants would everywhere be flee to establish themselves in trade, the people to be taught by proclamation that trade is the source of their com fort, and that foreigners Gin the land) mean trade.
 II told him." says Mason, that it was delightful Utopian programme, but that past experience would hardly justify me in supposing it possible to carry it out He maintained however, that striking, as it did, at abuses which the most ignorant countryman felt with every bowl of rice he ate, they could count on the immediate sympa- thy and docility of the masses. He assured me that the true heads of the movement were mostly rich merchants with a few prominent officials, well acquainted with foreigners and for eign forms of government, who were spending their money with truly patriotic spirit and without any mo- tive of self aggrandizement."
 "The following extract from the columns of the North China Daily News, shows the state of the public Coreign) mind in Shanghai"
 We conceive that it will be the greatest possible mistake to postpone our demands on the Chinese Govern ment because they are threatened with rebellion. We do not see the Govern ment taking any serious steps to put down the rebellion. They have at Tientsin their highest official Li with a serviceable army and fleet. Is he doing anything to rest Jre order? Ab- solutely nothing; in fact at the very beginning of the trouble, he made preteXt to take away the Ranking Viceroy's fleet and keep it away. Iii it must be remembered is not like the Tsungil Yamen (he foreign affairs of flee at Peking,) He does know what is going on in China, for he has agents everywhere, who serve him well, and keep him informed, and there are per sons who can make a shrewd guess as to why he gives no assistanc towards the repression of the disorder in mid China"
 "As result of the present status, we are told that foreign trade with the interior is greatly paralyzed, the ware houses at Shanghai being fuil to oyer- flowing with goods offered before the disturbances began, three months ago. The effect on mission work, is also seen, in schools and hospitals thinly attended, chapels filled, with inqurers not after the truths of religon however but to act as newsmongers and spies seeking some new ground for old islanders"
 After the bear raid of about a week ago, the stock market has been gradu- ally improving, and it has kept this up in spite of the moderate selling in London, presumably to realize large profits, and in the face of fresh efforts to depress pricess. Upon its surface the market appears to be quite as pro fessional as it has been for some weeks past, yet there is an uudertone of strength, due to demand the nature of which cannot accurately be deter mined. The speculative interest is most pronounced in the Granger stocks in Union Pacific, which has scored an