The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-01
THE CHINESE ENRAGED
They CenSuFe the JlplleSe Government
for Its Indifference.
Ii HUNG UNPROTECTED
Opinions Of Prominent PigtailS
Regarding the Assault on
the Envoy-A Great
General.
UNPROTECTED

New YORK, March 3l.-Sam Lee, laun- |
dryman at Columbus avenue and Seventy
ninth street, said in reference to the
shooting of Ii Hung Chang:
"Chinese in this city are. of course, all
enraged that there should be such an IN
suit offered to China in the person OF her
representative, and more so because he
was going upon a peaceful errand, to try
to stop the war. China's great trouble i'll
the fight has been that the soldiers were
not drilled in the way of fighting, and
that in the different parts of China the
people speak different languages, so that
they could not work together in fighting.
With the greater part of the Chinese Ii
Hung Chang was not known or cared for
at the opening of the war. though those
who knew him knew that he was one OF
the greatest men China had. But he has
gained friends right along since the war
began for, while he did his best against
disadvantages, he got no thanks from the
| government.
Now every Chinaman is sorry to see
| China trying to make peace with Japan,
and sorry to see her best soldier the one
to carry the message. But no matter IT we
like Ii Hung Chang or if we do not, we
are glad to know he is not badly hurt.
| But he ought to have had protection from
the Japanese to do his errand without
being shot. They say the man who shot
him was a crazy man. All right. Japan
ought to have protected him against crazy
men, as we'll as men who we're not crazy,
and for such an action ought TO be made
TO pay big sum OF money. Ihey are re-
sponsiole."
A. Kee, agent in Mott street for severrl
San Francisco importing houses, said :
"The feeling among Chinese here IN New
York is not so intense as 1t is in San Fran
cisco. There the Chinese colony is larger
and much more important than IN this
CITY. The members of the colony there
feel that they are nearer home, and so Zee
n deeper interest in the progress of the
war and in all home news. But there is
great division among them on the genera
question of the fight with Japan. There
are those who would have peace at any
price, from fear that if the war is allowed
to 90 on they will be wiped out entirely Of
simply made slaves to Japan. On the
other hand, there are proud people II
China who would not yield under any cir
cumstances, or so long as q single China
man had a leg to stand on. These people
arc the ones who will say that Ii HunG
Chang, great soldier and great man o
state, had lost his high courage and played
. tho coward in going on any begging er
rand to our enemies"
"They will even go SO far as 10 say tina
he got lust what he deserved, and that h'
had better take warning and go back be
foro the next assassin's bullet kills him
This class of our people have not forgot
ten what the Japanese did at Port Arthu
: how they killed helpless Chinese hk
| dors--and il will DO hard for them not I
| Judge every Japanese act by that. Mos
Of them will not believe that the man VIII
tried 10 murder Ii Hung Chang was
crazy man. as they say, but only that tina
Is an excuse 10 cover him up and 10 rC
, Iieve tho Japanese nation from the r.
. sponsibility which il ought TO bear.
"For myself, l believe that Ii Hun
2 Chang will yet be killed in some way lilI
that which was tried upon him in this in
stance, for he is a man OF courage an
4 has run tho chance of death too man
4 times TO fear it or to be frightened ava
: from anything which he thinks right c
0 wise. When the excitement has calme
down, however, think our people WI
= have a clearer idea of the matter. III
hoiheads cry Fight! Resist TO death
and all that. But that Is just what Japa
wants. They cannot despoil nation III;
prays for peace. and it is better not
!, damage our commerce any more in
i homeless fight, getting more and MOI
y into deb; and having more and more pc
y ple killed and towns ruined