Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-04-11
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rupt opium eater already in the pay of
Russia, as Chinese president OF the
Manchurian railway, and was sug-
sested by high palace eunuch, him
self in. the pay of Russia.
Tung's influence in Picking now be-
came all POWERFUL: his soldiers swag-
gered about the streets In their fancy
red and black uniforms, growing daily
more menacing to the foreigners they
passed, until finally several incipient
riots occurred which resulted in one
foreigner having several ribs broken
and several others being assaulted, so
that several of the foreign ministers
united and requested that his army
corps be removed some distance from
the capital. The empress agreed reluc-
family to this, but only sent. them a lit
tie over a hundred II away.
Tung early after his arrival made the
acquaintance of Prince Tuan, stupid,
ignorant Manchu, who soon became his
complete tool. The question Of sue
cessor to the sickly Emperor Kuan Hsu
had been discussed for several years,
as he had as yet no issue and seemed
likely at any time to die childless. The
sons of Tuan, of Duke Lam and OF
Prince Lien were all considered eligible,
and from amongst them must be chosen
the future emperor of China. Tung
saw that Tuan would become his tool
much more completely than either of
the others, and proposed an alliance be
tween 1uans son and a daughter of his
own, agreeing to support the younger
Tuan's candidacy for the throne, with
his whole army If necessary to accom-
plish the purpose. Tunn agreed to this,
but stated the succession must be made
without it's being known that he was
under obligations to favor lungs
daughter, but that when an apparently
open competition for selection of an
empress was made, and the various eli
gible damsels appeared at court, that
lungs daughter should arrive from
Kansu in time and be the favored re-
cipient. On this understanding every
thing became smooth sailing, and the
contamination of their plans, as far
as Taun's interest was concerned, oc-
Cured when in solemn conclaye of all
the princes of the blood and great min
listers of state, on January 4, 1900, Pu
Chun, son of Prince Tuan, was solemn-
| ly named as successor to the previous
| vious emperor, Tung Chin, and. poor,
sickly little Ikuang Hsu was succeeded
| without a successor to himself but a
successor to his uncle being appointed,
which, by imperial edict, makes him an
linterloper. This was nice piece Of
vengeance the empress dowager worked
out. partly to ayenge herself on her
nephew for his unsuccessful attempt to
shelve her and run his government
himself. Tung's intensely anti-foreign
sentiments soon made him many
friends at court, among the oldest and
most conservative Manchus, as we'll as
some of the Chinese. But 1t was among
1.-THE former that his influence was great
est.
Many of these men, stupid in the ex
IRENE and too cowardly themselves
ever to have originated any of the de-
signs that have since been worked out,
joyfully fell in with his plans inspired
by his ambition for his own success,
but always put forward as for the SAL
walton of his country. Hsu Ting Kang
vi, Chi Shin. Chung Chi, Chung Ii,
M Tung and LII Ping Heng became his
warmest friends and admirers, and
formed cabal, which soon controlled
the entire administration Of govern
ment. BY Tungs direction all impor-
tant offices as they became vacant or
could be readily made SO were to be
filled by the Manchu friends Of the
cabal or IL Chinese, as rarely occurred,
then Chinese who was of their own
set and their own creature. This gave
them powerful patronage under their
disposal in the lucrative taotaiships
and other posts formerly more or less
/ evenly divided between Manchu and
/ Chinese, but now almost entirely linn
tied to Manchus. Kang vi was sent on
a mission southwark through all the
| provinces to extort money to raise
more armies. as well as to feel the pulse
of the people in regard to, and encour-
age them in, their anti-foreign tenden-
cies. Ii Ping Heng was sent to ex-
anime and report on all the defenses OF
the Yang Use valley, as well as to de-
nounce any official Of progressive ten
denotes. Yu Hsien was to succeed the
latter as governor Of Shangtung and
to SOW in that province the seeds OF
disorder and riot that have yielded
such bitter crop when ripe, as only a
poorly organized semi-patriotic but full
called the Ho Ch'uan or Boxer organ
ization. This program has been fully
carried out and what the result has
been will be more fully described il
part only, as we in the north only know
part. in the following chapters.
CHAPTER IL.
With the appointment of the Manchr
Yu Hsien as governor of Shantung
province, to be the successor to the
anti-foreign Ii Ping Heng, whose re.
moval the Germans had succeeded II
effecting, commenced the government
recognition of the Boxers society a:
an agent to expel missionaries, mer-
chants and displomats alike. This
man, whose hatred of foreigners ex
ceeded that of his predecessor, was M
sooner in office than he caused the lit
craft all over the province to revive
, among the masses the Great Sword
and Boxer" organizations. which hat
, been a bit shaken by the removal o
, their encourager, Ii Ping Heng. Thu
!, foreign residents of Shantung, who hat
t hoped the new government would b,
an improvement over the last, sool
found they were worse off than before
The native Christians were prosecuted
most bitterly by their heather neigh
! bors and their complaints at the va
mems treated with disdain.
: Yu Hsien did his work thorough.
and rapidly, knowing the foreign pow
er which had compelled the removal o
Ii Ping Heng would also cause his re
Shantung for the deliberate purpose o
e making trouble, his removal woul,
\ mean for him better post as the re
r ward of his success. This came wfe
8 the Boxers" of Chinanfu prefectur
attacked and murdered young mis-
sionary of the Church of Englan
\ named Brookes, who was travelin
e from Chianfu city to his station Q
!, Pingyin. The British government de
. naanded his removal from office an
: the Chinese government acquiescec
t but their treatment of him upon his al