Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-10-13

TIE Rurallst, one OF tho leading fu
SION papers In the state, on August 9Th
says;
The Boxer movement In China.
seems 90 be nothing less than a
revolution OF the Chinese people 20
q protest against the influx or fer
eigners and interference by foreign
governments in Clinaze aft rs.
The hatred OF the Chinese against
Christians is not at all puZzling.
The missionaries are pretending 10
pray for the heather souls aud
while they are praying the Ch.is-
tian statesmen an stealing Chi
nese territory. Tao Boxer moy
ment Is a really patriot C rCv-ll-
ton TO put an end To the hypocrisy
and robbery of these foreign deJ-
lis" as all Europeans are callsd
since good Queen V ctoria's'
opium war.
Senator Pettigrew Is right In lice
Gently during a trip TO New York h.
gave an interview printed in the New
York Times as follows:
I'VE should let China entirely
alone. The missionaries have 70
business there. They shoIld bs
withdrawn. They are not cOny r.
ing any Cinnamon The Ch'ree
have their own philosophy, Ielig-
ion and moral code, rs we have.
Tho work for the missionaries is
in this country.
"As for the lcgat ons, ! do not
believe they are in danger. | have
lived in Pekin myssl', and know
the condit ons. If the German
minister has been killed, there aro
other causes for Il than the anti
foreign sentiment. All our rows
OF the situation passes throGgl
English channe's, and the oppor-
tunity Is Just what England has
been waiting for, TO work up a
popular feeling and drag the Unit
cd States into the situation in
China. I believe thee Sto~ias are
absolutely false. | believe the
United States should send no
troops whatever. withdraw the
missionaries and that IS al that
will be necessary"
This was before the relief Of Minis,
ter ConCer and the other Americans n
1t has been shown con 7lusirel7
that the legations were in imminent
danger, but like n dog returning 10 his
vomit, Pettigrew made the following
utterance TO n Chicago reporter on the
23d of August, just pissed:
"The United States has no bus
ness sending troops 70 China. We
should keep out of China and stly
In our own country. When the
missionaries found they were in
lonnnr thnu Chnt,l1 hpUp unTunf
places Of safety. and Minister Con-
ger should have done lik w'se.
The Chinese have given us 70 ju--
tifcation for son ling on army
there. When forty Chinese weTe
massacred in the west they did not
send an army 10 invade the I'm
States, and neither did Italy when
italian citizens were murdered In
New Orleans. but az oCn as the re.
port reached hero that a few Amer
leans were in danger In China the
government rushed an army there.
Il believe England Is at tho h~t.
tom OF the whole scheme and re-
lieve that most OF the alleged CHI
nese news we have covcd VS.
manufactured in ENGLAND. Tt is
the habit Of England, when shN
wants TO attack n country 10 call
the attention of toe 70 [ Of The civ
ilized world to the ~depravity Of 'ts
inhabitants, and she has done 30 IN
this case. I do not believe the
flimsy brick wall which fur-
rounds the British legat on in Re.
kin could have resisted tho attacks
Of the Chinese two month";. rs re-
nortd1 from London, A half dozen
men with a cedar log could dest~oy
that wall. ] believe most CT tho
stories OF attacks On the legation
were manufactured by thu Britt h
to cover their designs in China