Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-12-06

regarded tile local authorities in the lat.
ter quarters as representing the Chinese
people with whom we sought to remain
IN peace and friendship. Our declared
aims involved no wal against the Chi
nese nation. We aunereu to the lagiti-
mate oHice of rescuing. the imperial Isra-
lion, obtaining redress Tor wrongs al
READY suTrareu, securing wherever p1ssihie
the safety OF American lie and property
IN emma ana preventing a spread OF the
uisoiaefs or thelr recurrence.
Es WIS then sale, the policy Of the
government or the United states Is TO
seek a solution wniCn may BRING about
permanent SAFETY and peace to China,
preserve Chinese territorial and admins
tratiVe ellty, IiSOtcct ali rights guaran-
iced to friendly powers by treaty
ana International law, and safeguard Tor
Inc ,wofid the principe Oh eQuaI ana i'm
empire
Faithful to these protestations, which. as
~ proved, reflected views and purposes of
tne otheL cooperating governments, All
our e1LoFts naVe been ulrecLeu toward
endll8 the anomalous situation in China
ny hesol4atlolS Tor d settlement at the
edrIlesI possible moment. AS soon as the
sacred uuty OF renewing our legation and
It's dependents was accomplished We with
drew from active hosuiitles, leaving our
legation under an adequate guard in
Pehln as a channel of negotiation and set
uenlent-a course adopted by others of
the interested parties. Overtures of the
empowered representatives OF the Chinese
~AAApSLOA AAdNS bCCiL COlSlUGfalGIS GnLeT-
tanned.
The Russian Proposition
looking 10 the restoration OF the imperial
I'VE in PeKln mas been accepted as in
luil coflSonance with our own desires, for
we have hela ana hold that effective rep
aratlon Tor wrongs suffered and an endur-
ing settlement mat viii make their re-
cufrence Impossible can best be brought
apout under an authority which the Chi
nese nation reverences and obeys. While
SO aolhs we Iorego no Jot OF our I'M
doubted right TO exact exemplary and
deterrent punishment OF the responsible
authors and abetters of the criminal acts
Wh.ch hereby we and other nations have
suffered grlevous injury.
For the real CulprIts, the evil COUNSEL
orS who have misIed the imperial judg-
ment and diverted the sovereign authority
70 their own guilty ends, fun expiration
becomes imperative within the rational
limits OF retrbutiVe justice. Regarding
TINS as the initial condition Of acceptable
sC~ttlelnent between CHINA and the bowers,
1 said IN my message of Oct. Is tn the
Chinese emperor:
II trust that negotiations may begin so
soon as We and the other offended gov
ernments shall be effectively satisfied of
your majesty's ability and power to treat
with just sternneSs The principal Offend
erS, who are doubly culpable not alone
toward the foreigners, but toward your
majesty, under whose rule the purpose
OF China TO dwell in concord with the
world had hitherto found expression in
the welcome and protection assured to
strangers" "
Taking as a point of departure the i'm
perial edict appointing Ii Hung Chang
and Prince Ching plenipotentiaries to ar
range a settlement, and the edict Of Sept.
%, whereby certain high officials were
designated for punishment, this govern
ment has moved in connection with the
powers toward the opening of negotia-
tons which Mr.. Conger, assisted by Mr..
Rockhill, has been authorized to conduct
on behalf of the United States.
The French Proposal.
The general basis of negotiations formu-
lated by the government of the French
republic have been accepted with GER
tain reservations as to details, made
necessary by our own circumstances but,
like similar reservations by other powers,
open to discussion in the progress of the
negotiations. The disposition of the en-
peror's government to admit liability for
wrongs done TO foreign governments and
their subjects, and 10 act upon such ad-
dttional designation OF the guilty persons
as the foreign ministers at Pekin may
be in a position 10 make, gives hope OF
a complete settlement OF all questions In
volved. assuring recognized rights of resi-
dents and intercourse on terms OF equal.
ity for all the worlc, | regard as one OF
the essential factors of a durable adjust
ment the Securement of adequate guar
antees for liberal faith, for inse-
curity of those natives who may embrace
alien creeds is a scarcely less efrectual
assault upon the rights Of foreign worship
and teaching than would be the direct
invasion thereof.
II AAAoANS ~
wronged citizens Is a question of grave
concern. Measured in money alone, a
sufficient reparation may prove to be be,
yond the ability of China to meet, All
the powers concur in emphatic olsclainr
ers of any purpose of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
| through the dismembership OF the empire.
/ am disposed to take due compensation
h may be made in part by increased
guarantees of security for foreign rights
and immunities, and, most important or
all, by the opening of China to the equal
| of all the world. These views
nave been and will DE earnestly advo-
Gated by our representatives.
The government of Russia has put for
ward q suggestion that in the event III
protracted divergence of views III reta-
ton to ~indemnities the matter be rgle-
gated to the court of arbitration at The
Hague. favorably incline TO this, believ-
ing that high tribunal of arbitration
could not fail to- reach a solution no less
conducive to the stability AMI enlarged
prosperity of China itself than immediate
ly beneficial TO the powers.
rxs w gISxxTHER II