New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-17
CHINA FOR THE CHINESE.
OBJECT OF THE SECRET SOCIETIES
WHOSE POWER THE DOWAGER
EMPRESS USES.
WESTERN NATIONS suspicious OF EACH OTHER
PREVENT UNITED ACTION.

PREVENT UNITED ACTION.
China is hOneycombed other country il
the world with secret societies. embracing all
classes, having an existence dating from the
second century of the Christian era-an exist
ence not of tradition, but vouched for by rec
ord They are diverse i'll the elements of which
they are composed, in their rules and practices
although most of them. especially the Triad
which is the most important Of them ALL have
such extraordinary analogy with Western Free
Masonry as to imply q community of origin. The
only foreigner who ever obtained admission to
the Triad namely Englishman of the name
Of Mason, achieved this feat on the strength of
his belonging to the higher grades of the Scot
fish Rite of Free Masonry. Originally a form
of Oriental mysticism, these societies became po-
Htical factors toward the seventeenth century,
and until a year or so ago had in view their
principal object the overthrow of the Manchu
or Tartar dynasty, and watchword China
for the Chinese" The Tai-Ping rebellion Of
forty and fifty years ago was fostered and pro-
NOTED by the Triad, and came near overthrow
ing the Picking Government, which it could
doubtless have accomplished had it enjoyed the
cooperation of the other secret societies
To-day the meaning of the watchword Of the
various secret societies. China for the Chinese,
is changed For the aim is no longer anti
ten or twelve million Manchus who for the last
two hundred years have imposed themselves as
the ruling class over four hundred million
Chinese compelling them to adopt the Manchu
style of hair dress, namely pigtail, in token
of subsection. To-day the secret societies have
for their object the expulsion of the foreigner
from the land. 1t is mistake to believe that
the Chnaman is a stranger to patriotism. His
fibre of patriotism has been utilized by that eX-
traordinarily clever woman, the Dowager EN-
press to rally the entire nation into the presen-
tation of a virtually united front to the for
eigner, to convert the secret societies from anti
dynastic into anti-foreign movements. and to
achieve that which the Triad sought in vain to
bring about at the time of the Tai-Png rebellion,
namely, cooperation of all secret societies one
with another against the common foe, which
this time is not the Manchu. but the white
foreigner.
HALF a CENTURY OF BULLYING.
It cannot be denied that for more than half
century China has been subjected to a degree
Of indgnty, insult, extOrtion and bullying on
the part of foreign Powers which no Christian
Power would have tolerated. Treaties have
been imposed upon her by force, her finest har-
bors seized and vast stretches OF her littoral
successfully placed under foreign rule She has
been compelled to consent TO agreements pro-
Vldlng Tor the transfer OF heF IMMENSE river
trade to foreign flags and for the gridironng
of the entire land by foreign built and foreign
controlled railroads, while for every concession
made by her dozen ones have been pre-
scented by the foreign Powers. AT length exas-
perated beyond endurance and driven to the
wall the Empress issued in December last
address to the Viceroys of the various prov
inccs THE foreign Powers cast upon looks
of tigerlike vOracity. hustling each other in
their endeavors 20 be the first to seize upon
innermost territories she declared. They fail
to understand that there certain things
which this Empire can never consent to do and