The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-08-01
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From C,r O,cn Correspondent.

WAsHINGT ID. c., July 80, 1900.
The prese situation ir China pre-
sents some remarkable features The
administration is committed to b belief
in the genuineness of Minister Con-
gers dispatch, anu is confronted with
the refusal of the European powers to
accept it or to order an advance,
although they now have nearly $4,000
men available for-that purpose. The
United States with only about 5000
men at Tien Tain and few more on
the way, cannot advance alone. But,
it has some 10000 in the Philippines,
only short distance away, which
should be available if the stories Of the
suppression of the rebellion" there,
spread broadcast by the administra-
ton, are true. Yet, it does not dis
patch them to the rescue of it's minis
ter and citizens, whom it declares to
be still alive though in frightful dan
ger. More. it is taking no steps to
move in the future, but is leaving
everything to coterie Of selfish land
grabbing foreign powers, who by their
hesitancy and their evident intention
to discredit the Chinese government in
advance. show plainly that they are
animated rather by the profit they
hope to obtain than by the desire to
save their subjects. 1t now seems that
months more will be wasted by the
allies in deciding inconsequential and
unimpOrtant details, and that by the
time they are ready to move-if they
ever are-the Americans in Peking will
be dead. In the face of this hesitancy,
the President sits on his front porch
and waits for something to turn up,
instead of calling Congress in extra
session to furnish him the men and
authorize him to use the money that
would save Minister COnger and his
companions. 1t is not suggested, of
course, that any troops now authorized
by Congress could be expected to reach
China in time to save our people, but
they could take the places of those
now waging war ii the Philippines,
and let them be sent at once to Tien
Tsin and Peking. Instead Of doing
this, the administration is giving out
inspired statements to the newspapers
declaring that if the allied powers con-
tinue in their refusal to advance upon
Pekiug, and are obstinate in the OBJ
jections which they now offer, "and it
becomes apparent that the United
States cannot advance alone" there
will be no further effort on the part of
this country to attempt to reach the
Chinese capital. If this is not the
policy of t'scuttle" 80 soundly con-
demned by President Mckinley in
recent waste of words, what, it is
asked, is itq 1t is even intimated at
the State Department that the assist
ance Of nther pew -rs "a preventing
the Iand-grabbing game OF the ma
jority, is not desired. Such an offer, it
is declared, would greatly embarrass
this country. 1t would be much bet
ter, in the opinion of administration
officials, that we should stand alone,
in opposition to all of Europe, than
that an alliance between the United
States and one or two other nations
should be forced upon us. And why
would it be better. Because, on the
threshold Of a campaign, when all init
nations of an alliance are frowned
down by the administration, the spec
tacle of this republic leagued with
European nations, would not be q
pleasant one to contemplate. Further,
the Presidents consent to mediate be-
tween China and the powers is most
remarkable, considering the fact that
he was unable to mediate for the Beers
because Great Britain had not asked
him. Has Europe asked him now?
Reference to the partisanship of the
Treasury Bureau Of statistics has sew
eral times been made in this CORES
pondence, and it now becomes neces-
sary to chronicle another instance of
it. In the last bi-weekly bulletin sent
out by it to the press, the bureau
appeals to the pocket books of Ameri-
cans to sustain the administration
anti-Boer sympathies. Mr. Austin
quotes extensively from an article
recently written by an unidentified
prominent merchant of the Orange
River Colony" as Great Britain has
assumed to rename the Orange Free
State. Thus the British eulogist pro-
ceeds: 81 think all are agreed that
now the British flag is hoisted in Pre-
toria, declaring unmistakably to the
world Britain's supremacy from Cape
Town to Zambesia, symbolizing se-
cnrity, justice and equality, that the
country will soon enjoy IN unprece-
dented era Of prosperity. would
warn our manufacturers. especially
agricultural implement makers and
those in kindred trades, to be first in |
the market. It appears somewhat
invidious to single out particular arti-
cIea 2or special ::::.see::issi0n, so great will
be the demand for all classes Of mer-
c-.e....ee; Sc. s. :. :. :s imperative 70 the
interest OF agriculture and agricultural