Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-03
ORIENTAL DUPLICITY.
Commissioner Rockhill Gives
Out Some Plain Talk.
SETTLETHETR0UBLE FOR ALLTDIE
Really Important Work Remains 20 BE
Done - offieiai Messages Have Been
Tampered with Financial Panic Eerces
the Money Rate Away Up.

Shanghai, Sept 3. Mr. William
Woodyille Rockhill. special commits
sloner OF the United States government
to investigate and report on conditions
in China. in an interview with rep
resentatiye of the Associated Press.
emphasizing the Importance Of harmo-
NOUS action OF the powers as meas
ure of self-defense, said:
IF tile Chinese government is able
to break the concert of nations and to
bring about disagreement or Gle part
of any government, In such Il way as
to secure any relaxation of the joint
demands, al the foreigners in China
may as well pack mp and leave.
This Is the very opportunity to set
tie for all time the status Of foreign
ers in China. If that matter is not
settled now. the Chinese will be en-
couraged to persist in their present
policy, and the powers will have the
whole trouble to thresh over again
every two or three years. | believe
that all the governments are impressed
with this truth, and believe that most
of them realize that definite and per-
manent settlement of the status of for
eigners and the establishment Of free
dom of trade are more important to
them now than the acquisition of ter
ritory.
This has been a deliberately planned
movement on the part of the Chinese
government to expel all foreigners.
The DEGREES printed in the Imperial
Gazette prove this. The movement
has I,aa,a esr4anCCfftt eli
every foreigner in the interior has
been obliged to seek refuge in the
treaty ports The imperial govern
ment merely utilized the Boxers as
convenient accessories to its scheme.
"I'he relief of Picking is merely an
incident of the crisis. The really im-
portant work remains to be done. Mar
quis Ito. probably the best informed
man alive on eastern politics, said to
me that the present was the greatest
crisis in the history Of China, and that
all preceding questions sunk into insig-
nificanee beside it Are civilized ma
tons to yield to the Chinese conceit
of their own superiority2'
Mr.. Rocl5hill and other officials in
Shanghai, like the public. are utterly
ignorant If the course of diplomatic
and military events in Picking. The
consuIs of the various governments
have sent frequent kilograms to their
respective ministers, but have been
unable to get replies. II is suspected
that official messages are tempered
with between Shanghai and Che Foo.
The attitude of the southern yiceroys
in protecting foreigners commands
confidence in their good faith. and ne
gotiations win probably he conducted
through them.
There is a financial panic in Chinese
business circles here. Probably an iIn-
portant factor is the money rate, which
is now 36 per cent per month. The
traders are trying to get the ear of the
officials.
IIHung Chang remainsin Shang-
hal. He is thoroughly discredited. but
is intriguing to get the foreigners to
quarrel among themselves. He told
American and English diplomats that
the Russians had promised to with
draw from Peking regardless of the
policy of other nations. His statement
is not believed. On the contrary. it is
thought probable that he is simultane-
ously assuring the Russians that the
Americans and British have promised
to withdraw.