The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-09
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The Real Purpose.

tina, ] am weil-informed and say nothing
lightly.
The Real Purpose.
Religious persecution is only one object.
The real purpose Is the determination of the
Europeans. a purpose which is clearly SET
forth. and written upon the banners or
Boxers. Their assistants await them at
Pekin. where they will begin by attacking
I the churches and burning the legauons
With here at the Pai-Tang, tho day
practically is ended. Al! the city knows.
all the city is speaking Of II. and popular
outbreakinc is manifest.
Yesterday evening. forty-three poor
women and their children. flying from the
massacre. arrived at the house OF the sis
iers- More than so persons accompanied
them. saying TO them that II they had es-
capped this orce. they would soon die VITA
the others.
MIR. Minister. do not speak TO YOU Of
piacards without number, which are posted
In the city against Europeans In general
Each day 'new ones appear. more eNpiict
than the others. Thosc who. thirty years
ago. We're preser: at the Tien-Tsin mhssa-
ere. are strnck with the resemblance Of the
situation then to that Of to-day; the same
placartis the same threats. the same warn
ings and the same blindness.
Then. also. to-day. the missionaries
wrote and duplicated. foreseeing the hcr-
Tible awakening.
Under these circumstances. Mir. Min
lister. believe II my duty 10 ask you 10
kindly send us at least forty or fifty marines
To protect our persons and our property.
This has been done under circumstances
much less critical. and hope you will take
into consideration on: humble prayer.
please accept. Mr.. Minister. the assur-
ances Of the respect and the profound graft
iude with which I have the honor to he
your ENcellency's very humble and obeiient
servant.
,SigueGt "AIF FAVIER
"Ei~h - Apostolic Vicar at Pekin.
- JARLIN.
bishop coadjutor.
&C. GUILLOuX
Vicar Generel.'
uHci.> u. M. 81
Mr. kiilie TO Mr. Conser.
''Iin-Shar. San-Ho County tS5 miles east
.: Pekin,, May 6. l@e.-Honorable Edwin
r. Conger. Z. f. and NJ. p. etc. Pekin.
China. Dear sir: l have delayed giving
you the list Of villages in this district.
where the ! Ho CHuan Cor TITAN, is in
active operation unit, l could verify be-
yond question the statements heretofore
made concerning the same ! am now pre-
pared with proof TO show that members OF
that organization practice diem practically
daily In following thirteen places:
"San-Ho City. the county seat: two. Ling
shan. village thirty-fiv- Ii northwest OF
S.n-Ho City. where the Presbyterian mis-
sion owcs twenty improved native buildings
and where two American missionaries
spent the most Of their time Here the
Boxers come 10 our very doors to practice
and have personally seen them at II twice.
Three. Chang-Ko-Chuang; I. Chen-Kuan-
Wing: five. Shi-kuan-Ying; six, T'ao-Chung
Isl; seven, C'hu-Tou: eight. Tsung-Chia-
Tier: nire. Siao-Sung- ko-C huang: ten, Slap
Tsui-ko-C huang: eleven. CHA Wing:
twelve. S!ao-Koo- Hsien-C huang where the
Apoa uh.-,.r
ing school for girls. ana where there IS also
located other foreign lady missionary evan
gelists- These places all I'm the reigh-
borhOnd of Ling ShaEg, our headquarters.
Thirteen. Pao-Ti-Hsien. the county seat
loo II to the southeast Of This place where
Ne have had native evangelist at work for
over a year. AT this place great numbers
Of men tsaid To be many aD or 500
practice openly every day.
Open Threats.
TT il only recently that open threats Of
violence have been made against the for
eien missionaries here ard against the ma
tive Christians. hut they are now OF almost
daily occurrence. For example at the sixth
village mentioned above. TAo-Chung-Tsi.
eight II from this place. where Boxers from
several villages meet to practice the I Ho
CHuan maneuvsrs. the eth inst. Mr..
Wang Ting Hsiang, one OF the owners OF
the ground where the practicing is done
forbade one Of the eyangelists. who Is a
native Of that place. &c come where they
were practictng, saying 10 him. among
other threatening things. that they were
preparing 10 destroy the foreigners AT Ling
Shang. and their followers the native Chris
ti2ns.
Furthermore. yesterday. May IL when
two OF our native preachers went to III.
San-Ho-Yamen with a letter from me To
that official, they were recognized as Chris \
t:an evangeiists and followed bv the peo-
pl.. the Namen and rfr teddy fhr.ar.p,.i
wiki death. There were many calls for
knives Ia kill them with The official was
absent from the city. they did not see
him. They actually suffered no phys vio-
l-nc.s. but that WAS doubtless only because
OF their own patience and forb.arauc..
"An about US men We're actively stirring
up feeling against u. saying that are
poisoning the wells. and many villages have
already purchased native medicines to put
into the wells. to counteract the effect of
the supposed poison.
The recent rains which you have had IN
Pekin have not reached this part OF thu
country. and hence, as no farming can be
done. the people are Idle and distressed at
having no crops. and consequently easily
lively pfopaSating this society.
Spreading Like WildHre.
The lHo CHuan is spreading like Wild
fire over all this district Where TWO months
ago IL was practically unknown, to-day
there are scores OF active societies n,bicb
are rapidly becoming aggressive ones and
unless your ENceilency can secure the i'm
Government In suppressing IL and in pun
ishinc few ringleaders. II s. certain thu
maheiy speaking That IL Is only a qut stiOu
OF a very short time until there will bs /,
violent uprising In all this district / be-
lieve that il - not yet too late TO suppr.ss
y II taken hold OF in earnest by Chimes.
In my Judgment land I have passed through
several such experiences In my ten or mc-r
{ears IN tninat there IL not q day 10 SPAR.