Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-20
Former Minister Opposed to the Idea
Of Partitioning Empire.
WOULD RESULT IN LONG WARS
But if Legations Are Destroyed
Punishment Should Follow.
ORIGIN OF THE TROUBLE

CHICAGO July 2o-A special to the
Times-Herald from Ann Arbor. Mich, says:
Il. for one. hope the integrity of the Chi
nese nation will be upheld said James B.
Angel. president of the University of
Michigan and former minister to the Chi
nese empire. in an interview.
II should be sorry, indeed President An
CELL continued ITO see China broken up
into fragments. 1t is best for her and best
for the interests of the world that she be
not dsmembered. l cannot see how the
powers can keep from warfare among
themselves if they partition China.
But the powers must do something, and
there is little doubt as to the ultimate out
come. Every foreigner must be guaranteed
a safe residence at Pekin, even if the pow
ers have to destroy the entire Chinese en-
pire to accomplish it. There is not a nation
which has had representative there which
will be content with less than that.
Question of Indemnity.
Again. the question of indemnity will
arise and | believe China will be forced to
pay for all losses incurred. And l am sure.
if the empress and her advisers are found
to be in any way responsible for this, one
of the most atrocious crimes against in
tertational law that has ever been com
mitted since international law has been
known. il means the cleaning out of the
whole establishment The person of an am
bassador is sacred. He Is free to go where
he pleases, and his right to communicate
with his own home government is guaran-
teed. To violate this as grossly as those
who are in power. who usurped power
in China, have done is to arouse the wrath
of the civilized world, and nothing short of
the wipng out of those responsible will
satisfy the nations against which the crime
was committed.
wv Eat the exact and cODul-
tons that led to the present trouble?" Pres
ident Angel was asked.
Cause of the Trouble.
THE primary cause is the extreme hatred
which the Chinese bear toward all foreign
ers. There are great differences in the ideas
and the ideals between the Europeans and
Asiatic peoples No intelligent foreigner
can travel through Asia without MOTTO
ing them
Are the Chinese adverse to the introduce
ton of the Christian religion?
NO, not in that broad sense. They do not
seem to fear for the permanency of their
own religion. 1t is not that they object
to missionaries and the Christian religion
as much as it is that the missionaries are
foreigners.
1T is probably true. as the natives as
sert, that some bad Cinnamon go into the
Christian church to secure the immun.ties
assured converts by the treaty of 1850
when all native Christians We're given the
same protection as the missionaries them
selves.
Fear of Dism mbe rment.
"A more serious cause Of the uprising is
the widespread suspicion among the ma
tives since the japanese war that the for
eigners are going to partition China. 1t is
not strange that all these conditions caused
friction and excitement.
Then two years ago the young emperor
tried to introduce western civilization and
reforms. The old conservative mandarins
held up their hands In horror and the re-
form party was quickly subdued.
These same conservatives do not hest
tate to spread the report that II is due to
foreign influences that the flame of liberal
ism is being famed. The Chinese want to he
left to themselves. and the word foreign
ers' sums up the great cause of the pres
emf trOuble.''