The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-24
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ern waters, upon the completion of the
Trans-Siberian railway.
PRESENT UPRISING.
1t is the sudden activity of Russia and
America in Ghuazttlat more than any
other cause has contributed to the pres
ent uprising. 1t has been most forcibly
Brought home to the Celestials of the
Northern provinces that China is in
state of transition: Strangely enough.
America is called upon to play leading
part in the suppression of the present
uprising against enlightenment, as she
was inVOluntarily drawn into the TAPPING
rebellion, forty years ago, when an Amer
lean, Ward, led the forces against the
government for time, going so far as
to aspire to the throne after turning rem
egade and attempting to persuade Chi
! Eese Gordon to establish a new mon
| archy.
The Boxers" represent the lingering
enbers of the great TAPPING rebellion,
now again famed into flames With
their .annihilatiou by the great powers,
Young China" will rise supreme and at
! once proceed with its programme for the
/ regeneration of, China. The richest coal
and iron mines in the world will be open
ed up, a complete system of jail and
river transportation established, and
mills foundries and factories will spring
up all over the empire Excellent coal
is even now sold at thousands of inland
mines at 13 cents a ton, and iron ore at a
! proportionately low figure. With the
compile ion of the prospected railroads,
| the distinction of being the great steel
! producing nation seems destined to pass
| from America to China. After we have
! supplied the machinery and equipment for
| developing the limitless mineral re-
! sources of China, she will doubtless be
able to supply many commodities so
! cheaply that no other nation can com
| pete with her; so that the opening up Of
| China, While it viii pour vast oceans of
wealth INTO our pockets, is not devoid Of
serious dangers, which threaten future
! generations. So it behooves us to be ac-
tive and enrich ourselves now, against
| the rainy day Which seems destined to
come upon us after a season of CONNER
| cial sunshine.
1t Is not generally known that some
| years ago an American syndicate, with
! the ad of an accomplished Russian, al
/ most swept the board in China, coming
! within al ace of acquiring all the rich
! railway and mining concessions recently
divided up AMONG the nations. 1t took
| American nerve to make the stupendous
offers Which revealed to the waiting
world the fact thet. China was ready to
adopt foreign ideaS-for consideration
Ii Hung Chang,s aid was secured in a
| promise OF $2Q,G09ss00, and the contracts
/ We're signsd, Spat-fhe foreign consuls at
! Pekin becamesS Jealous and in a body cali
ed upon ehe e97shfgli Gamen to protest,
| and later they divided the concessions
among themselves thus checking, for the
time being, the Rnsso-American advance
| into China -
To Englsnd's share has fallen a
CONCESSION IN SHANsE
and Honan to mine coal in Z, 600 square
miles of territory. A capital of $50, 900 900
| has been raised, and an Anglo-lfaIian n
company yin develop these mines. which
are are the Ilthest IN the world. At present
TINS coal sells at q few cents a ton at
! the mines but, owing to the enormous
| cost OIL transporting by Wheelbarrow to
the nearest navigable streams, it is i'm
| possible TO bring it to tide water
! Each nation, for political and strategic
| purposes, is eXpendlng millions of dollars
| upon the rapld construction of many pro-
! Jected raj ways; every month adds MANY
| miles to he completed sections vet the
! commercial value of these highways of
traffic far outweigh their political i'm
| pOrtance. They viii go far towards maxi
ing America the mistress of the Pacific.
! That the! viii be remunerative is dem
| onstTated by the fact that the 500 miles
Of the completed Imperial system pays a
! dividend Of IA per cent, which it is ex-
! pected VII soon be increased to 30 per
| cent; and this, too, despite the enormoJls
| peculatiols Of the officials who collect the
! profits.
Through Chinese Turkestan from Kash-
gar, and. across the plains OF Mongolia
! from the shores of Lake Baikal Russia
has promoted direct lines. of railway to
| the Chinese capital They will follow the
caravan routeSs over which nearly 100 900
dromedaFes sfflf carry tea and other
merchanlise fpr the European market.
! over the first of these routes poured
Genghis Khan an1i his millions, who in
vaded and conquered Russia, so that the
empire Of the horde extended from the
shores 9f thes Pacific to the Baltic, and
from the Indian ocean to the Arctic-ter-
rltory Which Russia has gradually been
reconqtering for Centuries
That it viii be impossible to maintain
is readily conceded by the powers, b.f In
China proper, from Pekin to Tonlzing,
where nine-tenths of the population OF