St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-08-30
CHINESE SECRET SOCIETIES.
slider Tartar and Caucasian Their
Natural Enemies.

The following excerpt is from an
article by Frederick Poole in the Era
Magazine, entitled "China's New Re-
bellion."
To give full history of these secret
societies as they exist in China now
would exhaust the labors of a score
of annalists, and of hundreds OF in
vestigators. All are sworn to feud
against the Tartars, and the ma jority
of their members are declared in Oppo-
sition to the white races. Tartar and
Caucasian are classed as common enc
mics, dangerously allied. Race pride
and patriotism in these men of the
pure blood and of the ancient soil have
combined with persistent apprehen-
sion that the foreigners only aim is
the more complete subjugation of
their spirit and the perpetuation of
dimly defined atrocities upon their
bodies.
Among the societies, some stand
above their fellows in strength of
numbers and the power of closely
knit organization. There is the Ia
Tao Hui, or the Society of the Great
Sword, whose sole purpose is the ex-
pulsion of the white man from China !,
with the alternative of determination.
Another is the I-Ho-Chuan, or the
league of the United Patriots, which
was formed two years ago. 1t is the
company OF. the men who use their
TSfc orI %hn 1ror11 hn~0rl hoc
them the effective name of Boxers.
Among them all the strongest society
is the Triad. Its sign is the hair
grownlong as the shaver head and the
queue are the evidence of submission
to Tartar rule and fealty to the i'm
perial family. All of the societies
perpetuate the memory of the conclu-
sion of the rebellion in 1870, which
they attribute to the Staying of the
white foreigners-devils whose blood,
righteously shed, appeased the wrath
full gods and gave to China some meas
ure of that kingdom of peace which
was aforetime hers.
The "Boxer" rebellion of two years
ago took it's popular name from that
of the most picturesque among the
societies that were engaged in it; but
the Ta-Tao Hui was allied with the
1-Ho-Chuan. The history of that out
break, with all its scenes Of horror.
and all it's untold bloody narratives,
is still too recent to require recount
ing. All that need be done is to point
out it's intimate and cogent relation
with the rebellion of the Tai Ping,
and its identity in origin with the rev.
olution which now confronts the inn
perial family upon its return to the i'm
perial home. -t-E.
The Chinese peasant to-day is hav-
ing the obvious thrust upon his vision.
A tyranny, such as in effect the Chi
nese government is, exists so long only
as it appears to the tyrannized to be
Inall their relations with
the. civilized world, whatever were
there failures and however humiliat-
ing were their defeats, the first solici-
tude of China's rulers has been "to
save their face" before the gaze of the
subject peoples. The foreign demands
for indemnity, necessarily complied
with in the light of China's absolute
helplessness. has made clear to even
the humblest of the Chinese that the
imperial family, reverenced as deities,
are human as themselves and as liza BILE
to humiliation by superior force. The
additional taxes which have been ex-
acted in order to discharge in cash the