Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-20

HARTFORD, CONN, July 1S, 19OO.
To outline the causes is far easier than
to predict the ultimate result of the celes-
tiai broil, which today jostles all diplomat
ic calculations and hurls defiance in the
face of every civilized nation In the world.
Accordingly the mere fact that an expla-
nation and decision, which If put into Ell
feet would satisfactorily correct the exist
ing state of affairs, has not been proposed Is
quite sufficient to show that the differences
of opinion held and entertained and sug-
gested previous to the kindling Of the revo-
luton are too varied and too far from
being the correct solution of the problem
as to fail TO prevent or offer timely pan
acea TO the inevitable outcome of long
cherished hatred Of foreign invasion and
civilized reformations.
When some missionaries of the northern
provinces reported early in the fall the
menacing attitude of the coolies they were
told by those in positions to send them
protection that all such expressions on the
part of the Chinese masses were not un-
usual and in fact took little notice of their
warnings, and with reason seemingly, for
in certain neghboring districts other mis-
sionaries would reply to requests relative
to the prevailing condition aud disposition
"
all was peaceabe and no signs of any hos
tile demonstrations had come to their
notice. Officials in the foreign conces-
sions of the cities of the province of Pechili,
where Pekln is situated, naturally saw
no unusual unfriendliness to foreigners
that was portentious or foreboded any
evil, for intercourse by them with the
lower classes Is not TO be expected.
Tourists, on the other hand, took the
Chinese and their oriental customs and
characteristics as they found them and as
their opinion of the Chinese was much in
clined TO be superficial and entirely found
ed upon an ephemeral acquaintance, much
opposition that they encountered in the
way of travelling due to the inhospitality
Of the Chinese with whom they came in
contact was accepted as natural, and, in
fact, they thought it should be expected as
Chinese characteristic. Here is where
they misjudged the mannerism.
And for that very reason the casual Wis
itor might be considered TO be incompetent
to Judge as to the noticeable actual change
which had found root in the Chinaman
during few months.
But in spite of the fact that the nature
of the Chinaman is TO take a clicking
as he meets death, namely, with smile,
and in spite of the fact that there is a diff
ference in the disposition of the Chinese
in different sections and provinces of the
Empire, il required but very superficial
observation, and that from a tourist, to
notice that, contrary TO the old recognized
fact which held the southern Cantonese
Chinese to be the incubators of crime, and
the fire brands of sedition, the people OF
Pechili were more expressive Of their SEN
o. 1F a,.1.
ure in deriding one whenever an opportun-
| ity presented itself than their relatives in
the south did.
This to me is more evidence that the
northern Cinnamon have not only been
more excruciatingly imposed upon by the
| few foreigners who have succeeded, through
deception and one-sded diplomacy clothed
in hypocrisy, is in establishing themselves in
their sacred territory chiefly by a corrupt
Misrepresentation and force, but that these
northern Cinnamon are less accustomed to
| the progress of civilization than the China
men in the south, who have found civiliza-
| ton to their advantage and better presented
to them through English administration.
BY this, | mean to say, that the present
fanatical eruption in China is local and is
famed to monstrous proportions by a
series of recent successes in repelling for
| eign troops which has encouraged the low
er classes to join the victorious Boxers.
| Foreigners who attempt to instil mod
ern ideas of progress and civilization are
as venomous and distasteful and unde-
sired by the Celestial as the preferred stag
nation and ignorance of the Chinese is un.
bearable to enlightened civilization.
China, as a whole, has been at peace
with the world and DESTROYS of isolation
for 1000 years and because she refused to
enter the school of nations and declined
| TO be tutored in modern methods of diplo,
matte intrigue she found them actually
thrust upon her by her would-be selfish ed
ucators who incidentally played upon Chi
nese ignorance TO gain their arbitrary re-
ward.
Therefore, China has been virtually al
bay and were il not for the fact that this
prescribed had been so fagrantly verita
BILE series of impositions, which the China
men slowly became conscious of, I'M
doubtedly peace would reign in Cathay to
day. The result is all too we'll known anC
unparalleled in the annals of history, but
it would be unjust to the Cinnamon to say
that all China was in arms, or that they
have been lashed into merciless fury with
out cause.
Cinnamon are men and have the in
stincts of men when driven into the
ground and broken off and it is becaus,
the northern Cinnamon have been more
directly within the sphere of national in
trigue that the present rebellion Their,
sowed its seed.
Not that l would be quoted as sayinl
that the foreigners are responsible for theiI
endured and realized impositions, for
would accuse the Chinese officials, and es
pecially the mandarlns, with welding ar
almost autocratical power too corrupt ant
underhanded to be even classed with thu
governmental dictates which pave the wa!
for the mandarins to operate in.
1t is the Chinese official who shifts tn
blame and responsibility, when he is open
ly accused, to the well-intentioned foreign
er, and more specifically the Chinese Off
cials also find the missionaries objects up
on which to attach all sorts of charges,
and any declaration of a mandarin which
accused a foreign missionary as being tn,
root of an evil would be readily accepted
and credited by Cinnamon at large.
1t seems to me that too many of us ar
altogether too willing to lay the blame TO
rebellion and dissension at the doors o
missionaries when the true solution of {
dilemma appears complicated.
But to avoid entering into any detaile,
argument relative to the further causes o