Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-20
,copyriehl 1000. by Frank G. capen-
teri

Downright 1900. hg FRANK w. '"'P'"-
teri
shanghai Sept z. l9oo-The evidence
OF a great conspiracy 20 drive AN fore
emers out of ,he country IS steadily
grcumuIatlag This conspiracy seems
10 have been organized by the Chinese
government Do was headed hy the
cmprass dow8s.r and most u the high
officials one implicated Iu It, IL IL O.
conspiracy 20 Dust from CHINA every
thing foreign and every foreigner u
Is conspiracy which has been hatch
ing since the close OF the Chinese-Jap-
anesa war. ana which had Il not been
preclpuated by 'he Boxer uprising
might have resulted .n the massacre "
every f0re,rHe. and the destruction of
every piece of foreign property in the
.rrrIre such h the belief of many
OF the oldest residents OF China. foreign
pIs who are acquainted with foreign
methods business men as Well as mis-
sI0uarIeg They think that the powers
Hrc being deceived boy the Chinese dIplo-
mats and laugh 100 the idea of the Box
prs being iha cause of the trouble,
A WAP NOT a REBELLION.
said an American who has been con.
nocted with Chinese matters iu a dipl1.
matte and business way FOR more than
twenty-five years 20 me the other
night
There are two things about the sIt.
uauon which you must bear Ia mind
The first rs that this crusade Is not
autI-mIsslouary but anti-foreigu and
the second that Il "a "a war and not a
rebellion as our government would
have us believe. The Chinese so reClg.
rlze A.. The Boxers were organized by
the empress doWager az part OF the
force with which she hoped 90 sweep
an foreigners into the sea. They We're
paid out OF the imperial eXchequer,
they were armed from the imperial ar
senals and Prince Tuan and Kong VI
We're In an imperial edict. appointed
the leaders o. what some would have
as call this rebel band
Documents have been found Do the
ylce-regal yamen at Tien Tsln which
incriminate the imperial government
beyond all hone of escape Among
these are lists Of Boxers, receipts OF
aWards paid 20 Boxers FOR foreign
heads. receipts for arms ammunition
and stores supplied by the government
10 Boxer leaders. and also the imperial
edicts Of June 81 and August order
Ing the determination % an foreigners
IN China"
WERE THE JAPANESE IN IT2
The extent Of the conspiracy has not
set been disclosed. The leading vice.
foys including IL Hung Chang. were
probably In A. There IL evidence that
Japan may have been a secret party
10 A. and that she was ready 90 act IN
concert with China az the proper time.
She was incensed az the treatment she
received from the continental powers at
the close OF the Chlnese-Japanese war.
and especially at their support ~ Rus
STA Since then her relations with the
Russians have become more and more
strained She has been insuted and
restricted In Corea and Just before the
Boxer rebellion a Russio-Japanese war
-,as everywhere predicted. The rebel.
lion preclpltated matters and Japan
shreWdly changed her attitude
Among the straws which show how
the wind has been blowing between
japan and China was the appeal OF the
Chinese emperor on the 3rd OF July last
10 the mikado. asking him 90 ioin forces
against the foreigners. In his appeal
Kuang Hsu states his belief that the
powers wish TO swallow uD Jauan as
well as China and that tho Chinese
and japanese. the two great nations OF
the east should Join Co fight the west.
tn this the Jau8uese emperor replies
automatically and kindly saying that
be- win use his best efforts t0 help China
conserve her empire n she VIII suppress
the insurrecton and rescue the foreign
ministers
HOW THE CONSPIRACY ORIGI-
MATED.
The beginning OF this conspiracy 500
q is believed. was shortly after the
close Of the japanese war The pm-
press dowagcr Prince Tuan. Kanr III.
d. Hung Chang 81 Cetcra. saw that
something must be- done 900 once.0r they
would be- ousted from power. AN over
China the thinking classes Were dis
GUESSING the result ~ the war and pose
slhlo reforms 4 reform party sprang
up about thirty newspapers were Csc
tlhIished and tracts uropos.ul thn
vsstemiZIug OF china We're distributed
No many quarters Some Of the re-
formers got 10 Pekin and several even
i1 the emperor himself The head of
f'tso were Kang Yu Wei the man who
.w I'M hiding outside OF china with
reward OF 100000 taels fIi0lU upon
bis head Kang va Wei had persuad-
20 the emperor 10 adopt the new civil
l.alI1u. His majesty had planned 20