Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-06-06
JOYCE ON BOXERS.
Bishop Joyce Tells Of the Cause Of
the Boxer Disturbances in
..sI5 a. China. G

Thinks. Boxer Movement Will Develop
a Condition Leading to Division
@ss. Ii. =. / " Of China. 5. 81 r
Does Not Believe that Boxers Will
Get Into Pekin, as Powers Will {.
Prevent.
st. Paul, June 6:--Bishop I. w. Joyce
of the Methodist church, who spent a
year in China is much Interested in
| the movements of the Boxers. In an
interview today the bishop said: Tt
might be we'll to consider the causes
Oh this rebellion Of the Boxers The
emperor who was recently deposed,
was in the hands of people who advo-
| Gated progressive ideas. These inn
mediate advisers of the emperor pro-
posed, for instance, that there should
| be established in, the sacred capital
city Of Peking daily newspaper. They
also favored the esta blishment of tele-
graphs and telephones. They would
encourage the construction of rail-
roads. The young monarch once said:
| The time will come wnen can speak
in Peking and it will be heard in Tien
lTsin. The time will come when I will
| write a message and it will be sent to
a distant city in my empire -
| ''The conservative and non-progres-
sive people who heard this surprising
declaration by the emperor said, He
is getting crazy. He is getting mad. ;
They then decided that they must get
/ him out of the way. 5,'@'<. ~ 49, Z =
"The emperor dowager is thorough
Confucian. The emperor was pushed
aside and the empress dowager was
put into power. The first thing for
4 the empress dowager to do was to take
off the heads of the men who had been
4 advising the emperor to take these
steps of advancement. Then she as
sumes the throne, and like all true
Confucians she faces backward instead
]:of forward She then gives currency
to the report that the foreigners are
responsible for all these troubles =
that the foreigners introduced the new
things, and from the new things
comes all the troubles of the Chinese.
Now in Shantung province is the
greatest hatred Of foreigners of any
province excepting one--Hunan. Here
in Shantung province is where the: lat
est rebellion is organized for the pur-
pose Of driving out foreigners. The
Boxers have murdered many native
Christians because the native Chrsss
tians have the religion of the foreign
ers, and the foreigners being the cause
fof all their troubles, the native Chris
tians might, in their opinion, join with
the foreigners after awhile and give
! the Chinese further trouble.
In support of this opinion we see
by the latest dispatches that the i'm
perial government is doing absolutely
nothing at all to suppress these Box
ers, but is indirectly encouraging them
4 in their. work. 81 This shows that there
is an understanding between the lead
ers of the Boxers and the empress
dowager, for the latter despises for
/ eigners. q, q, .~s .1....., &
III do not believe, however, that the
Boxers will succeed in getting into
1 Peking, because. the five nations rep
Presented in the Chinese capital have
made demands upon their respective
governments for military guards, with
full equipments, and when the Boxers
approach the city the troops of the
different nations will combine for the
| protection of the city. The result will
be the Boxers will be turned away
from the city and will then give their
attention to the villages and towns
within the provinces that have no mill
itary protection, and they will likely
burn the villages anu devastate the
country They will continue this
work Of devastation until the troops
from the various men of war in port
at Talu will be able to reach north
China and destroy the army of the
Boxers. M 5
The present movement among the
Boxers in itself will not lead to any
thing, but it may develop a condition
in China that will lead the nations to
an agreement as to what ought to be
done for the best civilization OF the
country and it is Just possible that
that agreement will result in com
clusion that the best thing for China
Is to divide her up among the nations
specially interested. Z
BURGLARS RAGGED.