The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-05-06
Lucrative Mining and Industrial Concessions
TO Be Granted Foreigners.
ONE MILLION CHINESE BELIEVED TO
HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES BY WAR
Administration VIII
Country Some Native Party Restore order
the Better

NEw YORK. May 4.-The latett mail
from China, Gays a Washington special
10 the Tribune, says brought 10 the
State Department new proofs Of the
terrible and perhaps irretrieyable con-
ditions which exist under the foreign
military rule in North China, Involving a
situation not here -to-iore fully realized
even iD Washington and utterly unap-
preciated in ths United states generally.
/ The character Of the Information
which has nov come into the Ad.
ministratiOn's possession is
summarized in the following extracts
from a communication written by one Of
the most trusted officials in the seryice
abroad and mailed from Pekiu month
ago: "The question of raising the
Indemnity, though one OF the most
serious OF the Chinese Government,
is not paramount. All the people
who are likely 10 know, declare that the
Chinese peasant can stand no greater
burden Of taxation than ia the past, so
the question resolves itself largely TO re-
ducing the expense Of collection
which in China involves radical re-
forms. Another proposition for
meeting the indemnity 10 TO grant
lucrative mining the industrial conces-
sions to foreigners but that means bar.
tering their Independence and laying up
endless trouble for the Chinese who are
quick 10 recognize the fact.
'If the whole horror Of the murder
aud pillage done between Tien Tsin and
Pekin comes 10 be understood in the
United States aud in Europe the sum
Of II " 30 great az compared 10 the
number Of Christians who have suffered
at the hands Oi the Chinese that
rightly or wrongly the Chinese are
likely 10 be held the injured party.
Lancers, who wantonly impaling little
children by the wayside in the streets oi
Pekin, are some Of the last Of the vel !
authenticated horrors, and 10 some
foreign soldiers dead Chin ese
Christian ~ just as satisfactory an oyid-
eace OF no quarter as dead Boxer-they
neither know nor care for such tritln
distinctions, THE allies, even II they
could agree, could not set up an
administrative machinery Of their own
for the empire. They must restore the
power 10 some native party and the
quicker they do II the better for China
The Chinese estimate that one m illion
Of their people have lost their lives by
violent deaths or starvation about Pekin
aud Tien Tsin since the allies came
Well informed foreigners long resident
here do not regard the estimate as ex-
aggerated."
The North China News Of March 2S
endeayoring 10 tell why such situation
AZ the one alleged can exiat, SAYS
"simply because Chinese civil author
ity has been suppressed, harrIed,
driven away and nothing substi-
tuted for IL. The country between
the sea and Pekin has been devastated
aud the people have been killed indis
criminated or dTiyen out OF their homes
10 hecome bandits. We should have
thought that one Of the first acts OF the
foreign administration after Pekin
was relieved would have been 10
strengthen the Chinese civil authority
and make Il responsible for the pre-
seryation OF order. but what magistrate
can be expected To remain AZ his poet
aud exert himself TO put down opposition
10 foreigners when at any moment for.
eign lieutenant with handful OF troops
may come 60 him and demand a sum OF
money ON the pain OF having his town
or village burned down In case Of re.
iusal."