Arizona republican., 1905-10-14
CHINESE MAIL
Describes Extent of Boy colt of American Goods
SMUGGLING OF MORPHINE
Had Something to do with the Be- ginning Growing Power of the Native Press Famed it Into a Widespread Movement.

New York, Oct. 13.-Reports of the Chinese boycott, now temporarily sus- pended, on American goods are now coming in by mail from China, and most of the letters indicate a more widespread movement than is usually understood here. American missiona- ries in China have been giving close attention to the movement, and from widely separated centers In China let ters have come within few days to the office in this city of the Presby- terian board of foreign missions. From the Island of Hainan, the Rev. H. M McCandless sends a, story which connects the boycott with the snug gling of morphine. He says:
 Away up in Annoy some months ago morphine was smuggled in by con- cealing it in sacks of flour. Unfortu- nately the morphine got mixed with the flour and some people were poi soned. The people who wanted to boycott American goods circulated the tale that all the flour Gan American product) had been poisoned by the Russians in order to destroy the Jap anese, and by the Japanese with like designs on the Russians. Anyone who used the flour would die inside of four months. The story had been made use of to such an extent that no four is to be seen on the streets of Hoi- how, six hundred miles from where the tale started. If there is a distinct boycott against American kerosene oil it has not come to my notice. Great quantities of a cheap Sunatra oil are being imported and used to adulterate the much dearer and much better American oil and frequent severe nf red hot irons in opening up the cans with a view to adulteration.
 The Rev. Dr. William D. Moves. a Presbyterian missionary in Canton, says that the rapid spread of the boy colt movement shows the new power of the native press. "A few years ago such a thing would have been impos- sible; now there are dailies in all the great cities of China, and it is a com mon sight to see Chinamen reading them on the street. The papers have been foremost in the movement, and by them the agitation is carried to the towns in the interior. It is not only Shanghai. Canton, Chefoo, Tien- tsin, Hangohou and Peking, but all the groups of cities around those cen ters that are affected. We see also in the movement the power of the Chi
 
 China. but in Japan, Korea, the Straits Settlements, Siam. and in all these places they control considerable trade.
 "In Canton threats were reported against all who worked in American mercantile firms. In Hong Kong a Chinese dentist told me they had threatened to boycott him because he had received his education in America. The viceroy of Canton claims that the boycott is beyond government con- l trol saying: You can not compel men to buy certain goods if they do not wish to- One method of spread | ing the agitation seems novel, and ! that is in the sending out of actors ] to portray on the stage the facts and ! fancies that exist in the agftators minds. Of one thing we feel certain whether the threatened boycott is carried out or not is immaterial, fol it is but first step. China will take others and she may step fast, too. 1 believe the day is gone when the occi- dent can trihe with the orient-no only Japan, but China resents west. ern insults. I believe the day is dawn ing when China will become an i'm portant factor in the worlds pro gress.''
 From Petchaburi, Siam, the Rev. R c. Jones, also a Presbyterian mission ary, sends word that the Chinese boy colt had reached Bangkok, where al the Chinese traders had bound them selves not to deal in American goods They had also warned Chinese labor CTS not to assist in unloading a carg of American oil. The situation wa not serious in Bangkok as Siames and Malay laborers are available, an ] de 1ad ir, Ia
 CT quantities by other firms, becaus the Chinese merchants refused to dea
 in them.