The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-11


against the Chinese. When death. loss
Of property. and even personal torture
have no coercive effect, It is necessary to
look in some other direction for q manner
of influencing the Chinese government and
people. This has been pointed out. The
one distinctive racial trait Of the Chinese
is their profound reverence for their an
cestors. The utmost extremity OF per-
sonal loss or torture has less effect upon
Chinaman than an insult to his ances-
tors or a dissertation Of their tombs
When a man is raised to power and posi-
ton among the Chinese. his elevation
ennobles his ancestors. not his descend
ants. The batterest curse which one China
man can direct at another is a wish that
the tomb of his ancestors may be defiled
The government Of China is strict pa
ternaiism. The emperor is looked upon
as the literal father Of his people The
tornbs OF their empe-ors are regarded by
the humblest Chinese with reverence of
piccisety the same charactets oue ihoio
deeply intensified. as that with which they
regard the tombs Of their actual FORE
fathers
II advantage be taken of the knowledge
Of Chinese ancestor worship. the most
effective weapon Of coercion possible Is
put in the hands OF the allies; and It can
be used without shocking the moral sense
Of the civilized world. as some Of the
incidents OF the recent campaign have
done. II 1t Is given out, In the strongest
and most emphatic terms. that unless the
emperor and empress return to Picking
and enter directly into negotiations with
the allies, the tombs OF the Chinese en-
perors will be desecrated and their bones
scattered to the four winds Of heaven. 1t
is safe to say that every proposition OF
the allies win be accepted at once. Neither
the emperor nor the empress dowager
would hesitate for q moment to sacrifice
their own lives, II need be, to avert any
such appalling Dissertation and insult to
their real gods. No other course than to
consent to the terms Of the allies would
be open to them. Why cannot this very
effective instrument Of coercion DO used!
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observation-disclosures Election Returns.
The very full and accurate returns on
the vote Of washington and King county
published BY the Post-Inteligsncsr in sew
ersi editions of Wednesday and Thursday
mornings have ELECTED much appreciative
compliment from those interested IN get
ting the detailed figures on the result Of
the election.
thing Of the work necessary to secure this
information for our readers Everything
thus far published was gathered under the
direction Of the observation-disclosures and for
its exclusive use. A large force of spe-
cial employees was engaged and organ
ICED. preparations were made weeks in
advance. and the effectiveness OF the work
done and the accuracy OF the figures pre-
scented Is now being demonstrated by the
official canYass Of the vote.
The Post-Intelligencer spared neither ef-
fort nor expense in securing for presenta-
ton to its readers on the morning after
the election information for which they
might otherwise have had to wait sew
eral days. It's reports were more COM
prehensive and its subsequent tabulation
of the vote more ample. detailed and ac-
curate than those published by any other
newspaper OF the Northwest