The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-12-07
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE
Tt the Senate and House of Reprcsento.

last session of the Fifty-sixth congress
with evidences on every hand of indi-
vldual and national prosperity and with
proof of the growing strength and in
creaslng power for good of Republican
institutions. Your countrymen will ioin
with you in fclicitation that American
liberty is more firmly established than
ever before and that love for it and the
determination to preserve it are more
universal than at any former period OF
our history
In our foreign intercourse the dominant
question has been the treatment of the
Chinese problem. Apart from this our
relations with the powers have been
happy.
The recent troubles in China spring
from the antiforcign agitation which for
the past three years has gained strength
In the northern provinces Their origin
lies deep in the character of the Chinese
races and in the traditions of their GOV
eminent. The telegraph and the railway
spreading over their land, the steamers
plying on their waterways, the merchant
ana the missionary penetrating year by
year farther TO the interior. became to
the Chinese mind types of an allen in
VaSlon, changing the course of their ma
tlonaI life and fraught with vague fore
bodln@S of disaster to their beliefs and
their self control
Posting of antiforcign pacards became
a daily occurrence. which the repeated
reprobation Of the imperial power failed
to check or punish. These intlammatorv
appeals to the ignorance and superstition
OF the masses, mcndaciouS and absurd in
thelr accusations and deeply hostile in
their spirit, could not but work cumula-
i've harn. They aimed at no particular
Gloss of foreigners: they were impartial
III attaching everything foreign.
An outbreak in Shmgtm% in which
herman missionaries were slain was the
100 natural result of these malevolcnt
teachings. The posting of scditiouS pla-
cards "NhoIing to the utter destruction
OF foreigners aud of cycry foreign thine.
continued Wrrhuked. Hostile dcmonStra-
lions toward the stranger gained strength
by organization.
The Boxers.
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novrors oco,,,,,i,,,. +a,.,.;t, :" ''v
ing snbnrns Of inaronao T.,
cular proposals of 1900 invitin., fro,,,
them declarations of their intentions and
views rs to the desirability Of the adop-
ton of measures inSuring the benefits of
equality Of treatment of all foreign trade
throughout China.
with gratifying unanimity the re-
sponSeS conceded in this common policy,
enabling me to see in the successful ter
mination of these negotiations proof of
the friendly spirit which animatcs the
various powers interested in the untram-
mcled development of commerce and in
dustry in the Chinese empire as n source
of vast benefit to the whole commercial
world.
In this conclusion, WHICH | had the
qualification TO announce rs 4 completed
engagement 10 the interested powers on
March ~, l9VO. | hopefully diScerned
potential factor for the abatement of the
dlStrust of foreign purposes which for
year past mad appeared to inspire the
policy of the imperial government and
for the effective oXertion by it of power
and authority to quell the critical anti
foreign movement in the northern PROV
lnces most Immediately influenced by the
Mantchoo sentiment.
Marine Guard withdrawn.
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