New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-24

would do large part Of the work SIN would lIbi
power with their views in favor of the open door.
Russia, YOU know, is medieval and is the least
ton, and her IDEAS about mission work as ex-
pressed in the Greek Church would probably not
benefit US so much as those OF the other nations
mentioned. 1t is much, however to have the
matter settled.
Luther D Wishard. the organizer of the inter
national Young Mems Christian Association move
ment among college students, and associate of
the Rev. C c. Creegan secretary of the Amer
lean Board of Foreign Missions. said that his worry
growing over the danger TO missionaries every
where in China. His thoughts were:
Here it is eleven days since have had any
full or satisfactory news about China. The paDers
are filled with rumors, and when the missionaries
send any message il is Unsatisfactory If we could
only get word or two that the people at Peking
men saved and nothing said about the EaIf a hun
dreu others Why can't these missionaries send
ferent boards willing pay hundreds of dollars
if they could but learn just what danger their mis-
harder and harder every day TO endure this doubt
fH& you'd Ta 0q have 5een al nough me
region Of the present denger and have ,,,I many
about them can fs dPI ThS sd IN 1S bsg3
Centre Princeton ever had Every s5hooIboy in
s. ana around there knew him He is the seGre ere
4 |I uf and chile are with him You Know Tien
China. II has medical and ar and war colleges.
China and it is the home of many business men.
7 don't understand why can't get some salts
flying from there. I see why we don't
find much about Seymour and the people at
Picking. because the wires cut
There is something TO be glad about though
China's judgment day has come. matter If
things should grow better right of. The nations Will
never again let China have a chance to put their
citizens in such danger as they now That is
just that the will rise tomorrow.
Just think of it, these things happening in the
last year of the nineteenth century. Yet have
great love for the Chinese. Ny idea is a pro-
tectOFate with the Emperor restored 10 power. II
will be nearly impossible to partition China. on
the coast and up the rivers far naviga ton
goes the difficulty would not be great but hold
the interior of country of three hundred million
inhabitants made up Of people with anything ike
the go in them that the Boxers have, would mean
eulistng million and throwing them in
there, That would be impracticable. and not TO be
thought OF. unless Russia shall seize Mongolia and
provinces. Tken England will take the Yang-tse-
Kiang Valley. the Germans a share and the French
the south. In case Of a protectorate. d commits
sion, Ike that OF Berlin after the RussO-TUrkish
War, made up of the most eminent statesmen of
the most Interested countries would hold meeting
and decide what should be done. The capital ought
% be moved further south and toward the coast.
Now il is too near Russia I would not be
prtsed, either, if il were taken TO Marking. near
the mouth Of the Yang-tse-Kiang It would not
he hard for the countries Of the DrOtectOrate to
keep the coasts entirely safe and the rivers as far
up as the gunboats But any way China as
she has been is soon TO cease to be.