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sian retaliation for thu. terrorism 50 I'M
espectediy brought about by the Aianchus
was but the natural sequence. And no
more 50 upon Muscovitc than upon our
own sol untisr similar circumstances
hiry Ike III principle if not IN extent,
marked the early history of almost every
State in the Union
a personal knowledge of the situation
anterior to the T-1cent Chinese trouble
through a stay of some duration in
Blasoyenschensk-the scene of the terrible
vengeance taken-enables comprehension
of causes leading up to ii possible through
no other means the eoodiy part of a year
spent among the peoples scattered
throughout the great expanse of WIG
country from the Japan Ssa to the Oural
Mountains afforded fairy intelligent IN
derstanding of their relation TO each other.
and the common unity of purpose neces-
sttry of maintenance in SO remote a sec
ton OF the world.
1t would not be an over-lvely stretch OF
imagination to liken Bla sovenschensk, Hab-
beronsk and other principal s tuements on
the Amoc- from a week TO ten days jour
neT distant-the enc from the other-to
1lIe leading centers in our Western States
a half century ago Or more compreher-
sive, perhaps so far as significance of
composition as TO population, would be
ern citf,s where the negro inhabitants
outnunfber the Write. Blagoverschensk
had a Chinese or ManchuIian population
largely IN excess of the Russian. Aside
from the soldiery. easily three TO one.
The Nfanc,lus were the hucksters, the
fishermen. boatmen. teamsters and what
mot: often domestic servants. cooks and
men Of all work: in short. filling much
such Iolac,s in the general community as
the blacks with But different from
the latter they. as a whole. constituted a
separate community, having their own
part of tlr> town with its stores and gem
erai features quite distinct from the
whites.
Among the yellow people there We're
those who had amassed fortunes through
close relations with their Muscovite neigh
bors. Many of them We're money lenders
on a large scale; capitalists with substan-
tial investments in steamboat. mercantile
and real estate enterprises; contractors on
the Siberian Railway, brokers in the snug
gled gold forming SO material feature of
trade in the section, and middlemen in the
extensive fur traffic. The natural suppo-
sition would be that, with The in1er-asso-
citation consequent to such advantages
dependent upon thorough good feeling all
around, the Chinese would be the last TO
incline 10 an overt act whereby the close
comfy of years would be destroyed. Ger
tainly the Russians themselves would be
the least likely 10 believe ii possible. In
4ercpurse between them and the ManchlS
was pretty much as with Us and the ne
groes the whites dominant in everything
and in nothing more than personal assump-
ton. The Manchu, fsurativeiy speaking,
walked in the street when the RUSSIAN ne4a
possession of the sidewalk. Far less COM
bative than the negro. not at all given
to stimulating drink Of any sort. ana
wholly devoid of the animalism which in
the black has at times led to such intensi-
1y OF feeling here. the Chinaman IN Rus-
STA. as in other centers OF White supfeina-
cy. has been characterized by "a docliity
and absolute non-resentment, no matter
what the manner Of the proVoca'soE' rem
derins the transformation to fierce vim
dictiyeness all the more starting
CHINESE AND RUSSIANS.
A scene in BlagoveIlschensk one sunday
afternoon is recalled as an Illustration ~
point showing at one and the same tiiiie
Iht. Clinanlan's natural dissemination 20
7,hvs,cal defense and his confidence in the
-sfficacy of the law. Two young Russians
of the lower class, ana the worse Tor the
vodka they had drunk, We're IN an after
cation with "a Chinaman, the latter So
powerfully built and muscular IS 10 nave
easily mastered both his assallants had ms
courage been at all commensurate win
MS physical development. He was sltlA-
inrlv Droport,oned and stalWart feiioW,
and as he held by both hands to the IA
mel of the coat of the smaller huSsiaii'
his cries for the sendarmes to come 10
his assistance would have been luolcrous
had they not. almost the plainIFehsSS 81
the child in them. Meantime the RUSSIAN
cor,1panion participated no further IN the
melee than TO verbally insist the emma
man should release his friend. ana poth
Russiaps We're i. evident apprehension OF
The eendarnaes putting IN an apieatdtiee
at any moment Every now ana tnen me
,,nunr fellow in the clutches of the emma
mar, v-ould make short handed jabs at the
,atte- sometimes on the head, then on
40 breast and arms. but with no other
effect than to cause a redououns OF tiie
aopea!s for the police. closer ihSl.ecsivii
disclosed that the Russian boy, lot nc
was scarcely more. had succeeded IN draw
49, ,nti o,eyine. his pocket knife and was
dirpinr into his captor when ana "hsfe-
.,,ar he could get an opening. Inc emma
nam was fairly covered with blood, TWO OF
three face cuts having caused MN ~
,,resent a most sanguinary aspect. bul
while be made no physical izsastance "tat-
a,-er 10 the repeated trusts and siashes
of the knife or attempted IN any way "
Szars,,d I,,,,self he held on TO his man IKE
rim death Finally the second Russian
T,,nnio- up, struck the Chinaman 1u!l III
the face with his fists, the blows Doing
delivered in such quick succession as 40
confuse the IalIpr mo ASLt1i'Sa -
VIII n ou!ci; wrench the other hand was
freed and both the sIuscovtes lit out
as .f shot from a gun. Examination SNOW
ed tins, Manchu'ss wounds were dur iitie
other than skin deep, and his iei!o"
countr,rnen appeared TO regard the loss
OF the few cents the Russian owea' ana
FOR which he had been so tenaciously de-
tanned. imIneasurably beyond the INJURIES re,
sustained in the attempt to coiieol uie
amount through the Intervention or ihe
police. ,,,,os.a m
the theory that the uprising AGAINST me
Russians on the AMOR was animated oE
a feeling Of revenge for real OF taneee
wrongs sustained The Chinaman Is hot
yenseful and far more inclined to mimih-
lie than TO exagserate the evils OF sitna-
ton out of which there is certainty. OF
even a possibility. Of his making money
He will be patient under whatever eSac-
tons may be imposed when the chahce
for trade exists, and his intercourse Win
the Russian has not been such as 10 IN
culcate animosity. He has had his ups
and downs with the Muscovite the same