Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-01-03

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world, but during the last decade
many European powers have elbow
ed China and finally placed their foot
on her domain. The white man la
bored and invited the Chinese TO enter
and make his home with him in the
Kingdom come, but forbid and drove
him from the white mans earth.
Germany, with armed ships and
armed troops, took possession of
China's Kiao Chou, and soon extended
their lines and pillaged and took pos
session of rural homes, and shot
down many peaceful citizens, and
Their swords were dripping with hui
man blood from point to hilt.
Members of the German reichstag,
in session on the 10Th of November,
| 1900, admitted that the German in
vasion infiamed the Chinese nation
and brought on the uprising. And
| China's peace commissioner. Lii Hung
| Chang, made like statement to the
| world. The buccaneer invasion is
declared by Sir Robert Hart to be the
straw that broke the camers back.
Sir Robert has had personal expert
| ence in and with the Chinese during
45 years. and he lately published this
and his China experience, in the wide
! ly known American Monthly Review
of Reviews.
For over - years has Old Sailor l
known the Chinese, have dwelt with
them, and with great establishment
have L heard and learned to rehearse
the traditions of centuries unknown
to the white man.
| This, /,
| lightning speed throughout the vast
empire and aroused the patriotic
populace to frenzy, and the cry went
forth, Vengeance to the INVADERS
Then apathy seized the sympathiz-
ing judiciary and the easy-go-slow
hereditary rulers gaZed aghast on the
vast pools of CONCEALED missionary
blood. And now strutting Germans
are clamoring for the heads of Chi
nese and for their warm. flowing,
smoking blood on the scaffold, and
the powers, so called, propose to for
bid peaceful nation to possess arms
and to protect their homes from in
vaders.
Eight nations combined, may for
a century, hold the Chinese down.
but mark, mark, in time their cry win
be IRE tribution is kind" They will
also punish some of these eight ma
tions, who desecrated the land of
the great Confucius in 1900 by con
verting them into Cinnamon, as they
did their ancient enemies, the Tartars.
When Germany made landing on the
| Chinese shore at Kiao Chou. behind
her guns of war, had the queen regent
! L., L
vaders into an angry sea, just heav-
en- would have appIauded the act and
no missionaries would have been
! cruelty slaughtered. Should Germany
make like landing from off the At
lantic or the Pacific oceans, onto
Yankee land, we would drive them in
to the ocean or give them shallow
graves on shore.
l 1t is the duty of some one to pass
the occurrences of departed centur-
les on down through the corridors of
time to a coming world.
Respectfully yours,
\. C. FULTON,
/ Davenport, Iowa. January I, 1901.
On January 2, 1901, the editor of the
Republican wrote and published as
follows:
January ., 1900, the editor of the
this morning is an article from the
! able pen of Hon. y. c. Fulton. cover
ing, in retrospection, the past two
centuries. There is probably no 9TH
er man living today at the age of Mr..
Fulton who can write so able and eX-
haustive an article. Though it treats
of events of the past two centuries. il
| Is iGfn ,f. .
is written from actual observation.
of the nineteenth century. through
nine-tenths of which the writer has
lived. The article is a challenge to
nonagenarians.
| To build Il Staunch and SeaworthV
ship when the timber, cordage, and
iron of the world are placed before
you is a task of skill and greatness.
But when the task is to build a like
ship from the wreckage of wood.
iron and cordage, cast upon the sea-
shore, then comes the tug of war.
To the intelligent, active, and OBJ
serving mind the history of a peo-
pie, even the obscure and barbarous,
cannot cannot be unfolded in vain;
their origin, social relations, and gov
eminent teach a lesson in human ma
ture. A life destitute of thought and
useful action is as the furrowed path
of the ships at sea; the water closes
over it, leaving no trace of its once
existence.
| L have ever looked upon the modern
prophets with doubt, and little did
think that l would ever enter the
mystic sea. Very true, long before
the revolution of 1776 its coming was
predicted, and long before the late
rebellion many far-seeing and
thoughtful persons predicted that the
institution of slavery would result in
disaster to, if not n the destruction
of, this union.
Office-farming and politics in the