Evening star., 1900-10-06
Methods Used to Stir Up Feeling
Against the Foreigners.
LEADING MEN TOOK ACTIVE PART
Appealing to the Prejudices of
the Lower Classes.
CARTOONS AND WAR SONGS

copyrighted, 1900, by Frank G. Carpenter).
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
SHANGHAI, August D. 1900.
American ladies stripped naked and club
bed to death by Chinese mobs!
Our missionaries massacred in cold blood
in the very courts of the Chinese govern
ors who are supposed to protect them.
White men. women and children thrown
into the flames of their burning homes
The hearts and heads of American girls
torn from their bodies by Chinese ruffians
and sent as trophies of patriotism to their
rulersi
The highest officials of the celestial en-
pire, including its cruel and tyrannical
head the old dowager, secretly melting the
people to riot. arson and murder!
These are some of the incidents which
have been happening and which are still
happening in China.
There is no doubt that the officials have
been behind the Boxers from the beginning
of their organization. There is evidence
that the society is backed by a grand coun-
Gil composed of government ofhelais ana
Buddhist priests. who hold their meetings
in the ynonasteries throughout the empire
and in the very back rooms of the govern
ment offices themselves These men nave
their printing establishments and are sending
out placards, cartoons and insurrecionary
songs throughout the provinces. They have.
[ am told organized the country just as
our politicians organize for a presidential
campaign, and have their runners WORKING
up clubs in the various districts They
have the support of men OF ln1uence IN
every province, and a number OF the gov
ernors are said to have taken the oaih OF
the order.
The positions Of Prince Tuan, Governor
Yu of Shantung and General Tung Fu-
Shiang are well known: they are with the
Boxers Just where Ii Hung Chang, Chang
Chi Tung, Sheng and others stand is uncer-
tain. but they, like the most of the ofhciais
are merely the tools of the old empress
dowager and dance as she pulls the string
A story of the Empress DowaEer.
The empress dowager will probably now
deny all connection with the Boxers, but
there is no doubt that she is at the bottom
of the great growth of the society. 1 heard
last night of an interview which she had
with censor named Wang shortly before
the outbreak of the war. Censors are ap-
pointed by the Chinese government to move
around secretly through the different prov
inceS and report on all that Is going on
They are imperial spies, whose business II
is to keep track of the wrongdoings of Off
cials and to gather information to the
feelings of the people concerning them and
the government.
This man Wang had been spying about
through Chhli and the empress dOwager
sent for him. When he appeared she said
What do you think of the Boxers in Chih-
Ii? Are they well organized, and can they
be depended upon to join the troops in fight
ing the foreign devils when the time
comes?"
To this Wang replied: II am certain OF
1t. your majesty. The members of the So
ciety are taught to protect to the death
your heavenly dynasty and to wipe the
devils from the face Of the earth AS for
myself and all of my family. we have joined
the society, and had l the power / would
gladly lead the van of the avenging army
As the empress dowager heard this she
nodded her head in approval. Then, after
thinking a moment, she remarked:
'Ah. it is grand society, but 1 am afraid
that with no experienced men at it's head
the Boxers may act rashy and get us into
trouble with the 'Yang-knei-tze'' foreign
devils) before everything is ready. You
must have some responsible leaders in Chihli
and Shantung to control them. With this
the adienCe terminated. but the next day
by imperial orders. Wang was given a high
position In Pekin. He was elevated from a
sixth-grade official TO fourth-grade metro
politan post, and that one of great import
ance.
Although since the Tien Tsin massacre
Chinese officials have been forbidden to re-
fer to foreigners as devils, in the above in
terview the empress herself is said to have
done so. speaking contemptuously of them
as "Yangkuei-tze."
Why the Chinese Favor the Russians.
The bulk of the missionaries come from
Great Britain and the United States, and
the massacres are another evidence that the
HlSAeT OlIlC4dlS TdtDer QcSplSe US Anglo
Saxons and are looking for the Russians to
help them out Of their troubles. They evil
IDENTIFY did not think Russia would be in
volyed in the war. for before it's outbreak
the relations between Russia and China
were very close. Indeed IT is now whis-
pered that Russia will receive Manchuria
in the settlement Of peace. and that there is
an understanding to this effect with the
Chinese leaders.
&. 1 heard a story here which illustrates the
feeling nf "a e..ylorr .lny har
party as to England and America. 1t was
descriptive of a meeting of the grand coun-
Gil in Pekin when France was demanding a
share OF southern China. Gen. Yung Lu
advised that the government ask Great Brit
ain to interfere saying that the United
States and Japan would join with Great
Britain if Russia and France threatened
reprisals To this Kang Vi replied
I'VE don't want anything to do with Great
Britain. Japan and the United States. We
have score to settle with the English for
the sack Of the Iuen-ming- -yuen (summer)
palace We want to get even with japan
for the seizure of FOrmosa. and we want
10 punish the United States for treating the
Chinese who go there and to the Philippines
no better than dogs AS to Russia we have
nothing against her. She is our friend
and If France joins with her, although we
have grudge against France we will be
just that much the stronger. / am for keep
ing in the closest friendship with Russia
III she Is with us we can cefy the world If
We have only Russia TO help us Great Brit
ain viii cover into the background.
This speech was applauded by Prince
Ching. Prince Tuan, Chao Shu-ch-ao and
the rest of the council, including the en-
press dowager. who nodded her old head
vigorously in approval.
The Benedict Arnold of China.
The sympathy of Ii Hung Chang with
Russia is well known throughout the en-
pire- 1t is~whispered by some of the Chi
nese that he is in the pay of the Russian
government, and he has even been accused
of being false to China. An evidence of this
was displayed some months ago in a Chi
nese school near Cheefoo. The school was
taught by American girl and IL had
among its students many sons of manda-
rims and influential Chinese representing
some OF the best families of the empire
The teacher has her own methods of in
struction. and I'm her English classes she
often tells stories TO fix the meaning of
new words in the minds of her pupils a
few weeks before the war broke out the
word traitor came up. She described what
TRAITOR meant. illustrating 1t by Bene-
dict Arnold. day or so after this
she asked her scholars il they could define
the word traitor and give exaun1a NJ