The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-07-10

impossible. Some Cinnamon who work
in other paris Of the city tiocked TO this
quarter to hear the latest news, A
Chinese mission preacher, who held
forth at the junction Of Mott and Pen
streets, spent some time in explaining
the weeks developments in China.
At the gospel tabernacle, Or. Wang,
a convert OF the Christian and Mission
ary Alliance. who has just arrived
from Tien Tsin, China. preached in the
afternoon and evening. At the begin
ming Of his sermon. he outlined his idea
of the situation in China. He said in
part:
When left Tien Tsin on May H.
We expected this trouble to come, but
did not look for it so soon. The fate
Of the missionaries in the danger dis-
trict is still unknown. but do not be-
lieve they can escape. at least not
many Of them. The thousands Of ma
tive Christians in northern China have
even fewer chanoas. The rioters hate
them worse than they do the mission
aries. Some OF them win be forced TO
give up their new religion and may es-
cape by that means. l believe. how
ever, that most Of them will die for
the faith, like the martyrs OF old.
China will doubtless learn q valuable
lesson from this trouble. The Chinese
viii see what civilization can do with
them. 1t will not make them any easi-
er to convert. They don't want re-
ligion and no amount of war viii make
them change their minds"
Rev. F. Bell. of the Christian and
Missionary Alliance. cabled the station
OF the Alliance at WI Hu. in Central
China. asking for information about the
missionaries in the Pekin district. He
has received news which leads him to
believe that there are at least two mis-
sionaries visiting at Pekin besides the
five regularly stationed there. The
regular Pel1in lorce includes Miss D. ".
Doan. Of Albany; Miss Amy Brown. of
Meadville. Pa; Miss Anna Gowans, OF
Scotland; Miss H. Rutherford, and Rev.
N. c. York.
The Alliance has thirty stations be-
yond Pekin at which there are 80 Eu-
ropean missionaries. most of whom are
from Sweden. They have II children
with them. All OF these stations are in
the greatest danger if. indeed. they
have not already been destroyed.
NEW YORK. July "a special to
the Herald from Washington says:
War with China would certainly be
detrimental to American trade with
that empire.
This statement was made by Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson. He con-
tinued:
For the time being American trade
would be destroyed. because the mer-
chant would not be able to reach the
interior Of the celestial empire with his
goods. Of course there would be a spe-
cial demand for wheat. oats, bread
stuffs. horses and mules. and the Unit
ed States would have 10 meet the de-
mand of the allied armies, consequent
ly the expectation OF cereals and ami
mails would be increased many fold.
On the other hand. there would be a
marked falling OF in general trade, es-
pecially in such exports as cotton man
ufactures, kerosene oil, iron and steel
manufactures, tobacco. lumber, manu-
features Of wood, parts Of clocks, books,
maps, etc.
THE total value Of these articles Of
export in 1898 was s9,296.52l The value
Of wheat exported to China has aver
aged barely 100000 a year for geveral
years. On the other hand. the value Of
wheat -four exported in 1898 to Hong
Kong, much of which undoubtedly
went into China. amounted to 1885,
727. The total value Of our agricultu-