Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-10-18

,nro,ist- n Of the leading flu
E."srs in the state, on August Sth'
IN povar movement in China
tv] " - he nothing less than a
El,.,on Of the Chinese people as
l,otest against the influx OF Ior-
hin ivy and interference by foreign
a.ments in Chinese affairs.
,ona hatred of the Chinese against
ag n Items is not at all puzzling.
Chi ~m;scionaries are pretending 10
. FOR the heather souls ana
h .hov are praying the Chris
IA statesmen are stealing Cnl-
,srritory. The Boxer move
BIN Z, e q really patriotic reyolu-
s. 20 mt an end to the hypocrisy
robbery of these foreign dew
&c all Europeans are called
"good Queen Victoria's'
lead iun war.
van ".,or pettigrew is right in line
/ ,Sis one of his chief organs. Re
u ! during a trip to New York he
|, M an interview printed in the New
's1t An
y Times as follows:
j ave should let China entirely
H. ope. The missionaries have no
q EsInpss there. They should be
IL Ethdrawn. They are not convert
= any Cinnamon. The Chinese
Eys their own philosophy, relig-
m 4 and moral code, as we have.
M work for the missionaries is
iu this country.
it Tsls for the legations, | do not
! .Heye they are in danger. | have
,pd in Pekin myself, and know
Wy u conditions. II the German
linlster has been killed, there are
: ESpr causes for it than the anti
Ereign' sentiment. All Il news
the situation passes through
knslish channels, and the oppor-
~ tnlty is Just what England has
ben waiting for, to work up a
p Cpular feeling and drag the Unit
States into the situation in
Ehina. | believe these stories are
holutely false. | believe the
fnited States should send no
-Oops whatever. withdraw the
kissionaries and that is all that
El be necessary"
bis was before the relief OF Minis
|Conger and the other Americans II
Kin. II has been shown conClusively
the legations were in imminen'
beer, but like a dog returning to hi!
Bit, P~ettigrew made the following
france to a Chicago reporter on the
Of August, just passed:
"The United States has no bust
less sending troops to China. We
khould keep out of China and stay
our own country. When the
Missionaries found they were in
fsnger they should have sought
Places Of safety, and Minister Con-
PER should have done likewise.
he Chinese have given us no JUS
fication for sending an army
here. When forty Chinese we're
nassacred in the west they did not
Pend an army to invade the United
Plates, and neither did Italy when
Ptalian citizens were murdered in
New Orleans, but as soon as the re-
port reached here that a few Amer
cans were In danger in China the
government rushed an army there.
! believe England is at the bot
ton OF the whole scheme. and ] be-
heve that most of the alleged Chi
pese news we have received was
ranufactured in England. 1t is
NE habit Of England, when she
F'nts to attack a country, to call
pc attention of the rest Of the civ
fHfd world to the depravity Of its
PnNabitants, and she has done so in
ms case. | do not believe the
nlnsy brick wall which sur
POUNDS the British legation in Pc
kn could have resisted the attacks
y The Chinese two months. as e
ported from London. A half dozen
men with a cedar log could DESTROY
'oat wall, | believe most OF the
s'orles OF attacks on the legation
sere manufactured by tho British
70 cover their designs in China"