Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-30
Students There Now Demand Admission Of
All Glasses Of 0elestials,
ATTITUDE OF IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT
Instructions Issued to VicsrOys Evidently
hot Intended to Be 0bsySd.
OTHER NITIoSS FEAR SIMILAR TROUBLE
Possibility of Future Use of This
Method of Coercion Causes Un-
easiness Among European
Merchants.

PEKING Aug. 29.-The American boycott
almost overshadows the peace negotiations
topic of interest in China Accounts
reaching Peking from trading centers indi-
cate that the movement attained its great
est strength early in August and since then
has been decreasing. Nowhere, except in
Shanghai, has American business received
a serious blow. The boycott would have
been equally successful at Tien Tsin. which
is a distributing market for American
goods second only to Shanghai, except for
the determined repression OF Yuan Shikai,
who is almost the only Chinese viceroy
really ruling his own province.
Tho Peking government, in response TO
Minister Rockhill's representations, issued
instructions to provincial officials which
read well but which the officials construe
TO mean that the government sympathizes
with the sentiment against the exclusion
Of American goods. although obliged form
ally to oppose the method of its expression.
Several minor officials are implicated in
the movement at Shanghai and its leader
holds the rank Of taotai. The government
might punish them by depriving them Of
honors according to the Chinese custom,
II it were in earnest
Merchants Regret Action.
Many important merchants who embarked
in the boycott now repent Of the scheme,
but It has passed beyond their control
into the hands of agitators. the majority
of whom are students, many recently re-
turned from Japan and some from AmeHca,
who relate at meetings and In newspapers
lurid stories of outrages received at the
hands Of American Immigration officials.
They have abandoned the original demand
that Chinese students and merchants be
admitted to America as freely as those
Of other nationaiities and now are demand
ing the unrestricted entry of all Chinese.
They argue that II this movement succeeds
the same coercion may be employed against
Canada, Australia, Java and all countries
In which Chinese live.
The native newspapers, which have be-
come influential only since the Boxer up
rising, and the number whereof is multiply
ing, are powerful factor in tanning the
agitation.
The best Informed foreigners believe that
the boycott has passed its climax and will
gradually subsde; that the cessation OF
orders for American goods is merely tenn
porary, and that a decrease of ordeers now
will result in a corresponding increase
later In the year
The piece goods merchants of Shanghai
telegraphed to Viceroy Yuan Shakhai, pro-
posing to have Tien Tsin consignments
shipped directly TO lien ISln instead or
through Shanghai as heretofore, and re-
questing him to take measures to stop the
boycott thereof, and Yuans civil admins
traitor Issued a proclamation accordingly.
the end OF the Russo-Japanese war. by
scanning Manchuria would give a great
impetus to American trade. That country
was practically closed TO imports through
out the war, largely because the armies
monopolizeed all means Of transportation.
Loss Falls on Commission Men.
Most American products sold in China
are handled by the British and German
firms on commission and the bulk Of the
losses falls upon them. What is considered
the greatest significance of the boycott is
the possibility ofsfuture use of this method
OF coercion II the first attempts succeed.
The guilds which launched the movement
are forming a permanent organization and
have plenty of funds to send orators about
the country and SOW circulars broadcast.
They boast of receiving many cabegrams
and messages from American sympathizers.
Proportionately as the first boycott sue
ceeds. the weapon may be expected to be
employed against any government that Of
fends the Chinese.