Daily inter mountain., 1900-12-04
Complete Tex Of President McKin|eys Ad'
dress to the Houses Of the
National Congress.
Chinese PROBLEM TAKEN UP
PHILIPPINE SITUATION is INTERESTINGLY TREATED AND THE
a.. FINANCIAL MATTERS ARE CAREFULLY DWELT UPON
f7> ~-,.-~ EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY.

check this movement. Protest was foI-
lowed by demand and demand by res
newed protest, to be met with perfumes
rtory edicts from the palace and evasive
and futile assurances from the tsung Ii
yaren The circle of the Boxers nfiu-
ence narrowed about Pekn, and while
nominally stigmatized as seditious it
was felt that its spirit pervaded the
capital itself, that the imperial forces
We're imbued with it's doctrine. and that
the immediate councillors of the empress
doWagef We're in full sympathy With the
anti-foreign movement.
The increasing gravity of the condi.
tions in China and the imminence Of
peril to our own diversified interests in
the empire, as we'll as to those of all
the other treaty governments We're soon
appreciated by this government, caus-
ing profound soicitude. The United
States from the earliest days of foreign
intercourse with China had followed a
policy of peace, emitting no occasions
70 testify good WILL to further the ex-
tention Of lawful trade, to respect the
sovereignty Of it's government and to in
sure by all legitimate and kindly but
earnest means the fullest measure of
protection for the lives and property
Of our law-abiding citizens and for the
eerclse of their benefcient callings
among the Chinese people
Mindful of this it was felt to be ap-
propriate that our purposes should be
pronounced In favor of such course as
would hasten united action of the pow
ers at Pekin to promote the administra-
tive reforms so greatly needed for
strengthening the imperial government
and maintaining the integrity of China,
IN which we believed the whole western
world to be alike concerned. To these
ehds caused to be addressed to the
seVefai powers occupying territory and
maintaining sphereso of influence in China
the circular proposals of 1899, inviting
from them declarations of their inten-
tions and views as to desra billy Of the
adoption of measures insuring the bene-
hts of equality of treatment of all for
eign trade throughout China.
With gratifying unanimlty the re-
sponses @oincided in this comman grolicy.
enabling me to see in the successful ter
nllhatlon or these negotiations proof OF
the friendly spirit which auimates the
various powers interested in the urrram-
melled development Of commerce an! ir-
dustry in the Chinese empire as a source
OF vast benefit to the whole commercial
world.
In This conclusion, while haya tho
qualification to announce as a con,niet.
ed engagement to the interested powers
on March 20. 1900, | hopefully discern a
potential FACTOR for the abatement of
the distrust of foreign purposes which
Tor year past had appeared to inspir,s
the pollcy OF the imperial government
ana for the effective eXertion by K OF
power and authority to quell the critical
ana foreign movement in the northern
provinces most Immediately Influenced
by the Manchu sentiment.
Seeking to testify confidence in the
Willingness and ability OF the Imperial
administration to redress the wrongs and
prevent the evils we suffered and feared.
the marine guard, which had bean sent
to Peking in the autumn of 1899 for the
protection of the legation, was WITH
drawn at the earliest practica bic mo-
ment and all pending questions were
RENTED, as far as we We're concerned
to the ordinary resorts of diplomatic in,
tercourse.
BOXER STRENGTH INCREASES.
The Chinese government proved. how
ever, unable to check the rising strength
or the Boxers and appeared to be prey
to internal dissensions. In the uneaual
contest the anti-foreign influences soon
SpthSu tiit dSStIutIity uuutt tle calefs
ship of Prince Tuan. Organized armies
of Boxers with which the imperial army
affiliated held the country between Pc
king and the coast, penetrating To Man.
churia up the Russian border and
through their emissaries threatened a
like rise throughout northern China
Attacks upon foreigners, destruction
of property and slaughter OF rative con-
verts were reported from all sides. The
Tsung Ii Yamen. already permeated
with hostile sympathies, could make TO
effective response TO the appeals of the
legations. AT this critical iuncture, in
the early spring Of this year. proposal
was made by the other powers thai a
combined fleet be assembled in he Chi-
nese waters as moral damons,ra .ioA
under cover of which TO exa.. ). the CHI
nese government respect for foreign
treaty rights and the suppression os the
Boxers.
The United States. while not partici-
pating in the joint danons.ration.
promptly sent from the Philippines ak
ships that could be spared For service
on the Chinese coast. A small. force Of
marines was landed at Taxa and sent to
Peking for the protection IF the Ameri-
can legation. Other powers TO ok similar
action, until some four kuadrei men
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