The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-22

eigners may live on her soil she must pro
tect them. If she does not, the foreign
Powers will, themselves send troops into
her territory to de what China falls to
do. There is no evading this duty. The
existing insurrection, which seems to have
reached the capital itself, will be put
down, If not by the Chinese government,
then by the treaty Powers. If positive
assurances from the great Powers can be
secured to the effect that the partition of
China will not be attempted, peace will
prevail again and business will proceed
as usual. l repeat here, what l have
said elsewhere, that every riot In China
emphasizes the necessity of our holding
the Philippines. In the present crisis in
China we have been able to send in few
days troops from Manila to join In the
protection of Americans
1t may be disagreeable to the admins
traton to engage in what may prove a
war of some magnitude-but we cannot
abandon our fellow-citzens who are in
China under the stpulations of the trea-
ties Ssntimentalism must give way
to common sense. If a government does
not protect its people, what does il do ex-
cept collect taxes? We have never taken
any portion of China for our own. That
same position should be now maintained
While military cooperation cannot prob
ably, be avoided, it should be understood
that our troops are in China for the sole
purpose of protecting our people. 1 have
not space to forecast the questions that
may come up when China Is quoted.
Foreign Residents in Pekin.
residence under the shadow of the
imperial city was thought TO be the SAT-
est place in The Empire. In the summer
nearly all the foreign residents scattered
in the country. and passed several months,
ten, fifteen or twenty miles from the cap
ital, or at the watering place called Pei
taho, Wi h not the least fear, or dread of
attack. For nearly forty years no attack
came. The women and the children roam
ed unattended all over the country. There
were picnics in the old temples on the
hills and beside the streams, and idle
summer life went on on the borders of
the great plain in which dwelt one hun
dred millions of people. My family and
spent twelve summers at the American
temple twelve miles from Pekin. The
doors were rarely locked. No precautions
were taken. We lived with the denizens
of the temple, and the country people. We
bought their vegetables, eggs, chickens,
ducks, fruits, meats, and all that they
had TO sell. When there was sickness in
the nelghDOrnOOu we ulQ what we could
TO alleviate it. Many dose of qulnine
was administered by us. Unattended ex-
cept by single mafoo, we rode every
day for miles through the villages and
fields. We exercised some charity among
the farmers Everybody knew US. and
not once did we receive the slightest in
suit or injury. Perhaps / ought to men
ton that the Russian minister who was
sojourning at my temple while his lega-
lion was being built, was robbed Of some
money. but Il was strongly suspected that
the thief was one of his own servants.
1t is all changed now, These people are
savages. It is certain that many men, per-
haps millions. are banded together with
the fixed purpose TO drive out the foreign
ers II seems also to be sure that the act
ual government has Joined with the riot
ers TO accomplish the same end. 1t is an
uprissl of the dark-skluned man against
the white man. II is scarcely worth while
10 inquire who Is to blame. / could nv
self. from my own knowledge, point out
various cas- In which rank injus Ice has
been dcne 10 the Chinaman, as Il has been
done to the African and the Indlsn, but
in this emergency there is no place for
recrimination. We are confronted with
the most dangerous condition Of things
that ever existed in the Far East. Self