The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-14
AMERICAN BOYCOTT
 BECOMES 4 MENACE
NOW CONSIDERED THE FORE RUNNER OF FANTI-FOREIGH
 AGITATION.

Those Who Had to Do With Its Start
 Are Now the Worst SuRerers-COn-
 ceived by PeI1in Officials, Famed to
 Flame by the Younger Citizens, It
 Has Now Spread Until Merchants
 Everywhere in China Are DeplOrIng
 Results.
 Shanghai, Aug. l5.-The American boycott in China is already more than 8 commercial menace. It is now con- sidered by many to be the forerunner of an anti-foreign agitation. Business men in Shanghai, who at the beginning were inclined to laugh. have been as- tonished at the manner in which the propaganda has been promulgated in the interior.
 By its conception the boycott was believed to have been fathered by a group of officials in Pekin. According Ito report certain Chinese firms with a large quantity of American goods in stock, took advantage of the movement, They themselves had bought forward as fag as June, 1906, and were anxious to keep their smaller competitors out of the market. The latter would be pre- vented from buying and the instigators of the scheme would be able to sell at their own figure.
 Certain of the younger men in Shang- Ihai, most of whom had been educated in Japan, started a vigorous newspaper campaign insisting that strong meas ures must be taken to force the United States to revise her immigration laws, The native press printed sensational stories, cliaming for example that 750 Chinamen had been murdered In New York and that similar affairs were of daily occurrence. Placards were posted in the river ports and the interior cities, cursing and reviling those who were weak enough to use American goods. Americans were hooted in the streets.
 The movement has not passed entire ly out of the hands of the merchants. The larger piece goods, kerosene and cigarette wholesalers all suggested that it was time to call halt. But the agi- tators are in power. Where ten years ago there were not more than a dozen there are to-day fifty Chinamen who read tke papers. The reports of nur- ders and outrages in America have in- censed the. people. They now refuse even to buy certain kinds of Japanese and Shanghai milled goods, because they resemble the American article being afraid that the merchants will try to dispose of some of their boycott ted stock under another guise.
 The men who encouraged the scheme in the beginning are now sufferers where they had expected to reap big harvest. American manufacturers must be paid for all the goods that have been ordered ahead, and it is doubtful whether a number of the wealthiest men in Shanghai will be able to weather the storm unless they are able to sell CT cancel their orders.
 Washington, Sept. 13,-The depart ment Of commerce and labor has re- .ceived from United States consult in China a copy of the placards that have been distributed in various provinces to stimulate the boycott against American goods
 The placards are one by four and one half feet and are covered by crude drawing showing American political clubs hanging Chinese by the que. un- derneath the picture is the statement: This is the way the Chinese are treat ed in the United States" The consul, whose name is withheld, wrote the de- pertinent that the viceroy of his prov ince is doing all he can to prevent the Bulgaria. Those engaged in the plat and has offered large rewards for the name of the person responsible. He adds that in spite of the campaign con- ducted by anti-foreign extremists the boycott is waning.