New-York tribune., 1905-11-12

As one who has lived in China, and VINO mas
been brought face to face with the suHerlnss
which not only natives, but also white men, nave
undergone for the sake of Christianity readers of
The Tribune will perhaps permit me 10 olier loI
their consideration few remarks in connecuoh
with the recent murder of five American mis-
sfonaries by a Chinese mob at LienchoW, town
situated about two hundred and fifty miles UP
country from Canton. While 1t is entirely pos
sible that the native outbreak which lea TO the
massacre may have been aggravated by some
tactlessness on the part of the Ill Tateo mis-
sionaries proceeding from want or kno"ieuge
of or from lack Of consideration for natlVe SEN
sibilities there is doubt whatsoever that the
urinary cause was the intense anmosity which
has been aroused of late in China against every
thing pertaining to America, and that the death
of the victims is attribute bic In the main 10 the
boycott There are many reasons for this view;
and inasmuch as there is every reason to rear
that this outrage will be followed by others OF
a similar nature in the interior OF emma they
merit more than passing attention especially as
the American government or, rather' the Alleri-
can people have the power to arrest the boy
cott with all the loss to American trade, indus
try and life which it is certain to entail
In the first place 1t will be observed that the
massacre of the American missionaries took
Mace IN the Province Of Kwantung. which is
he
;f not all. of that coolie emigration against
which the American laws of exclusion are more
particularly aimed Nowhere is the boycott
against everything American SO severe and SO
hitter as at Canton. Differing from the move
r,ent at Shanghai and at other points IN CehtTai
and Northern China, where 1t was more or less
o,enad m the great guilds, and was. therefore
c.nab1a of being controlled. it has in the south
am dist riots spread to those lower classes Of
.ba ronulatiou from which the coole immigrants
~ America are recruited. The boycott has got
,,eyond fhe imperial authorities and beyond the
rtg Guilds at Canton. It has established Its hold
on the masses and is rapidly spreading into the
interior where owing to the fact that the ma
,,x,es are less anienable to the direction OF the
Picking government and less tnbued with re-
anact for the guns and warships of the foreign
movers than those at the treaty ports. 1t is likely
to result In much more alarming manifestations
of anti-American sentiment than any OF those
which have taken place until now. It will be
observed that although there are not merely
,r,6reds hut even thousands of foreign mis-
,orer4es IN China each of them laboring to
snread ,be tenets of their own particular de-
,,o,,tnatton Of Christianity. there has been no
oasa Of anv attack by the natives on the min
,s+ars of the Gospel for considerable tin1e past
-. ,r5aes since the Boxer rebellion. The mas
..ore ar Jtenchow has been the only recent out
"a ,e NJ the kind, and not only has this nanifes
+ation of Chinese animosity and fanaticfsm been
RESTRICTED exclusively 10 Americans, but 1t has
l;levvfse occurred in that particular portion OF
.he .upire where the hatred OF everything Amer
lean has of late been aroused to the boiling point
The United States government. II is said, pro-
nose. TO modify the existing treaty with China