The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-28
The Army HoneycOmbed with Them
tute China's Greatest Danger.
CAUSE OF THE RIOTS OF 1891
KOLOA HUI AND TRIAD SOCIETIES
AND THEIR MILLIONS OF MEMBERS.
Families of Thieves and Blackmailers
The Jay Gould of the Empire
The Bankers Powerful Guild.
copyrighted, 1891, by Frank G. carpenter)

alarmed over the TeDeillOn mat 10 pe-
ing fomented in nearly every state of
the empire. The Picking Gazette is full
of tine reports of the arrest OF members
of the Koloa Hui Society, and execu-
lions are taking place in many of the
cities. 1t is now death to belong to this
are hung UP outside of the cities as a
warning to others. Notwithstanding
this. the organization steadily Increases,
and it is being recruited from the dis
affected soldiers and others of the en-
pire. 1t is said to have had its origin
among the soldiers of the Human prov
ince. which is one of the most rebellious
of the Chinese states. The Human men
are noted for their bravery, and hum
dreds of thousands of them were en-
ployed in putting down the TAPPING re-
bellion. After the wal was over num-
bers of them were kept OF in the reti-
nues Of the different viceroys, and no.
tably so by the Viceroy of Marking. A
few years ago an attempt was made to
dispense with their services, and some
of the soldiers got together and organ
lied this society. BY others it is said to
have been founded about sixty years
ago, but it undoubtedly had it's great
impetus through these men at Marking,
and to-day its membership ms well up
into the millions, and it has it's secret
r-eetings in every city of China. 1t is
avowedly against the Manchu govern
ment, and it's motto is China for the
Chinese" It's members swear to be
faithful to the society under penalty of
death, and each society has it's execu-
toner, and any member is supposed to
commit murder at the command of the
order. Members are initiated by the
drinking of hot wine mixed with the
smoking blood of a cock which is killed
at the time, and the ticket of member
ship is a small card of linen, or calico.
stamped with a few characters, two of
which are China" These cards are
diligently looked for by the officials, and
the man who has one upon him is i'm
~mediately arrested The society num-
bers among it's members a large num-
roy of Marking, who died not long ago,
was, for a time. an active member. 1t
may have been this that made his cap
ital the center OF their operations, but
toward the latter part of his life he be-
came lax in his support of the society,
and, it is said, finally disobeyed its or
ders. Within a week of this time he
died very suddenly. n it is currently
believed that he was poisoned. The
next Viceroy played fast and loose with
the society, and it is said that his &C
ton was. to a certain extent, the cause
of the riots against the missionaries in
1891.
NETTING TO RIOT.
/ was told at Marking that this secret
society had threatened the Viceroy tina
If more money was not paid to the SOL
diers they would cause him trouble by
mobbing the foreigners. Shortly after
his the Devils Picture Gallery was
issued. This was made up of vile car
toons charging the missionaries and for
eigners with killing Chinese babies, with
inveigling girls into their houses and
cutting off their breasts for medicine,
and with stealing the eyes of dead and
live Cinnamon and using them as photo
graphic material. Millions of these car
toons were circulated. and the people
were urged to drive the foreigners from
the country. This caused the Viceroy
OF Marking INC the central government
a great deal of trouble, and they had to
pay a heavy indemnity. This spring an
organized rebellion broke out near Can
ton, and the soldiers were fighting there
at the time that the Japanese came into
Corea. The recent trouble in the Shan
tung province, where the people refused
to respond to the call for troops. was
backed UP by the Koloa Hui, and there
lG a largo hrannh of tho nrOo yiuo f;on -
Manchuria, and 1t exists in great
strength in north China. 1t is so organ
lied that in case of the fall of Picking a
simultaneous rebellion would be brought
to the front in nearly every state in
China. and the government might fall
at one blow.
1t is hard to understand much about
the present trouble without knowing
something of the different Chinese
states. The country is divided UP into
eighteen different rulers. more or less
firmly bound together under the one
Picking government. The common people
OF many of these states Go not under
stand each other. The coolie of Human
could hardly make his way in Picking.
and the Cantonese provinces have a diff
ferent dialect from those in the western
parts of the empire. The province of
1unnan Is said to have twenty different
dialects. and the people, while they care
a great deal for their own homes and
for their families. have no interest i'm
the government and support it ONLY as
a necessary evil. The family and the
clan form the basis OF Chinese society.
A great number of the punishments OF
the empire are inflicted by the family.
and most disputes are settled without
recourse to the courts. Family ties are
closer in China than anywhere else in
the world. If a man makes a fortune
his forty-second cousins from all parts
OF the empire swoop down upon him and
he has to support and help them. If a
man gets a position he is supposed TO
TAX his own family in first In the
choosing Of the subordinates, and nepo-
tism reigns supreme. / met, while
was in Canton. the Jay Gould of China.
His name is How Qua, and he is worth
$50, 000. 900. He was keeping four hun
dred relatives, and his sisters. and his
cousins, n his aunts to the third and
fourth generation we're sucking the life
blood out Of his big income. He was.
judge, about forty years old, and as an
instance of how strong family authority
Is, he obeys his mother to-day In ali
matters of society obligations, and upon
being asked by Consul Seymour to din
ner not long ago he replied:
II don't know whether / can go or
not. / must go first and ask my mann
ma"
1 afterward met his mamma. She was
an old lady, whose eyes shone as bright
~ as the diamonds which decorated