The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-10-18

The Ruralist, one or the Leading fu-
sion papers in the state, on August 9Th,
says:
The Boxer movement in China
seems to be nothing less than a
revolution of the Chinese people as
protest against the influx OF for
eigners and interference by foreign
governments in Chinese affairs.
The hatred of the Chinese against
Christians is not at all puzzling.
The missionaries are pretending to
pray for the heather souls and
while they are praying the Chris
tan statesmen are stealing Chi
nese territory The Boxer move
ment is a really patriotic revolu-
ton to put an end to the hypocrisy
and robbery OF these foreign dew
lis" as all Europeans are called
since good Queen Victoria's'
opium war.
Senator Pettigrew is right in line
with this, one Of his chief organs. Re-
Gently during trip to New York he
gave an interview printed in the New
York Times as follows:
1--WE should let China entirely
alone The missionaries have no
business there. They should be
withdrawn. They are not convert
ing any Cinnamon. The Chinese
have their own philosophy, relig-
ion and moral code, as we have.
The work for the missionaries Is
In this country.
"As for the legations, do not
believe they are in danger. | have
lived in Pekin myself, and know
the conditions. II the German
minister has been killed, there are
other causes for it than the anti
foreign sentiment. All our news
OF the situation passes through
English channels, and the oppor-
tunity is Just what England has
been waiting for, to work up
popular feeling and drag the Unit
ed States into the situation in
China. I believe these stories are
absolutely false / believe the
United States should send no
troops whatever. Withdraw the
missionaries and that is all that
will be necessary"
This was before the relief of Minis.
ter Conger and the other Americans in
Pekin 1t has been shown conclusively
that the legations were in imminen,
danger, but like a dog returning to his
vomit, Pettigrew made the following
utterance to Chicago reporter on the
23d of August. just passed:
"The United States has no busi-
ness sending troops to China. We
should keep out of China and stay
In our own country. When the
missionaries found they were in
danger they should have sought
places of safety, and Minister Con-
ger should have done likewise.
The Chinese have given us no jus
tifcation for sending an army
there. When forty Chinese were
massacred in the west they did not
send an army to invade the United
States, and neither did Italy when
Italian citizens were murdered In
New Orleans, but as soon as the re-
port reached here that few Amer
leans were In danger In China the
government rushed an army there.
81 believe England is at the bot
tom of the whole scheme. and be-
lieve that most OF the alleged Chi
nese news we have received was
manufactured in England. 1t Is
the habit OF England. when she
wants to attack country, to call
the attention OF the rest Of the civ
ilized world to the depravity OF its
inhabitants. and she has done so In
this case. do not believe the
flimsy brick wall which sur
rounds the British legation In Pc
kin could have resisted the attacks
OF the Chinese two months. as re-
ported from London. A half dozen
men with cedar log could destroy
that wall I believe most OF the
stories of attacks on the legation
were manufactured by the British
to cover their designs in China"