Morris tribune., 1906-02-24
The Chinese BOYCOTT
Most Remarkably Organized
Says Rev. S. N. USHER.
TT rs NOT ANTI AMERICAN ONLY

IT Is NOT ANTI AMERICAN ONLY
United States Picked Cut as an ''Ensy
Mark" Declares PhiIadeIphfan Back
From Tour I'm China-Mov enent Is
Meant to Scare All oreigners-How
Guilds Compel Obedience.
IF the Chinese boycott Of American
products were called off today it's eff
fects on our commerce would not die
for years"
This is the judgment of the Rev. sgd
| ney n. USHER, formerly rector of All
Saints Episcopal church in Philadel
phia, who recently returned from &
! three years tour around the world
says the New York Times. He left his
parish in 1903, armed himself with
! credentials and started out to see for
himself what sort OF work the mission
aries were doing.
| During the five months he spent III
| China he had d chance to observe the
workings of the boycott. He says it is
the most remarkably organized move
ment he has ever known Of America
was picked out for the boycott, he said
in substance, not so much because OF
the i'll trea tment travelling Chinese re-
ceived in the United States as because
! the Chinese take the United States for
an "easy mark''-a country which will
not resort to Warlike retaliation.
''This sending Of troops to the Philip
pines is one OF the wisest moves ever
determined on by President Roosevelt
and the secretary of war;" said Dr.,
USHER the other day "A show Of
force is what impresses the Chinese
above everything else.
'The well founded accusations that
the reception accorded to Chinese visit
ors in America Is not courteous fur
nish a diplomatic preteXt not the real
reason Of the boycott. The Chinese dis
like the foreigners for coming in and
splitting up the country. and the boy
colt is the chief weapon Of revenge.
They picked out the United States this
time because they knew we would not
France Or Russia might But the ami
mus of the boycott is against foreign
traders in general and is intended to
be sort of scare to the European ma
tions.
"The way the boycott is organized is
wonderful. The guilds that exist in
such numbers are the means through
which it is kept up. These guilds are
all powerful. If they once decide on
any measure the man who disobeys is
disgraced-not he alone, but his family
also.
"In Shanghai street if try to get a
Chinaman to carry me in his rickshaw |
the conversation runs like this:
How much do you charge to carry |
me to the edge of the American con-
cession?'
"'You Mclean?
ayes
No cally Mclean
"No matter if | offer him double the |
price and threaten to thrash him, it's |
the same answer, No cally Mclean
Then | go to another Chinaman, and if |
he asks me if | am an American I say:
Don't you hear me speak English? |
Don't you know that the man who
speaks English is an Englishman?
Then the Chinaman smiles and carries
me wherever | want to go. lie is NOR
tally afraid to break the boycott de-
clared by his guild on American patron
age. No pecuniary consideration, no
fear Of bodily harm, can outweigh his
fear of disgracng himself and his fam
lily through disobedience.
$50 these guilds have spread the boy
colt throughout the entire empire in all |
sorts of out Of the way Places
A representative Of an American
watch company showed DR.. USHER let
ters canceling 100000 worth of orders
unless the words Made in America"
were left off the watches.
"The man was in bad predica-
ment,' said Dr. USHER. because the |
stamp Made in America is required |
by the unions in America. If they |
knew what it meant they would not |
stick to that requirement. for the loss
of thousands of dollars worth Of bust
ness means overprOductlon and that |
means the shutting down of plants and
the discharge of American workmen."
FireIess Cookers For the Army.
It is evident that there will be no diff
ficulty in determining that the large
fireless cooker of capacity for prepar-
ing food for an entire company and
made in New York city will be adopted
in the United States military service.
says the New York Tribune's Washing
ton correspondent. The experiments
which have been in progress at Fort
Riley Kan, indicate that there IS
great use in military way for this
fuel saving device. 1t is found that
meat and vegetables may be placed on
the range for thirty minutes and then
transferred to the freless cooker.
where they are kept for six or seven