Arizona republican., 1900-07-25
MISSIONARIES PERIL
Presbyterian Board Appeals to
 Secretary Hay
Asks His Assistance in an Effort to Communicate With Missionaries at Pao-Ting-Four Causes For the Boxer Movement.

New York, July 2i.-The Rev. Dr. Arthur J. Brown, secretary of the for eign missionary beard of the Presby- t5riar. cr,urcl. today wrote e letter to John Hay. secretary of state. asking for information regarding the Presbyter- ian missionaries at Pao-Ting-Fu. The letter is as follows:
 'We do not wish to embarrass you by suggestions, for we know that the government is doing everything in it's power, but attention is so largely con centrated upon Pekin that it is pos sible that Pac .Ting-Fu is being over looked. We have five American mis- sionaries thers-Dr. and Mrs. Cortland Van Rensselaer, Hodge, the Rev. and Mrs. F. F. SimcoX and their two chil- dren. and pr. George T. Taylor. While all the imperiled missionaries have many friends. there is an unusual num- Der interested in those at Pao-Ting-Fu, for tn ir families are quite prominent in Nv York and Pennsylvania.
 "Any reassuring word that you can send us would enable me to give great relief to those who have been in heart breaking suspense for weary months, for May Ii was the date of the last let ter that any one received from Pao- Ting-Fu, and the only cabl=s we have been able to get since then simply stated that the Hodges. SimcoXes and Taylor are supposed rO be in Pao-Ting- Flu. Sincerely yodrs.
 "ATiTHUR J. BROWN"
 The Rev. HenrT Kingman, until re- gently a missionary of the American board at Tung-Ch near P kin. has written a paper on the Chinese situa- tion. which will appear in the forth coming issue of the Congregationalist MT. Kingman says that, while the naI tives have been axasp-rated by the methods of some cf the missionaries the friction in no degree accounts for the deadly earnestn-ss of ths Boxers and of the government at Peltin to eXterminate the foreign rs. The writer ascribes this attitude of the Boxers and of the government to foU- causes, i follows:
 First-The hereditary hatred and con- tempt for outlanders and all things outlandish.
 Second-The circulation for more than a hundred years of the vilest sIarders against them. accusing them of Kidnapping. murder and unmention- able crimes. This circulation was car ried on early in the century by the government itself through the mil lions of tracts showered like snow flakes over the eighteen provinces by both officials and literati.
 Third-The fear of fore gn despoiI- ment of their country. Not so much such despoilmcnts as those at For mosa and Kiaochau. but the draining away of the country's wealth through the various aggressions of commerce. The first reason is reasonable, the sec ond is the essence of unreason. and the fruit of ignorance. The fortunes that foreigners have reaped from China all the magnificence of Shanghai and Hong Kong-are supposed to have been r. 5aped at the country's expense rather | than to it's enormous enrichment. Fourth-Hatred of foreigners is but the instinct of self preservation for the present Manchu government under the empress dowager. That government rests upon the corruption and\ official abuse that the emperor was seeking ,o curtail. Reform is the deadly enemy of such corruption, and the foreign | spirit is the very spirit of reform. Ex- | termination Gf the foreigners is the only hope oI such a regime as that of the last tW years under the empress