The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-05-16

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PICKING. May 15-Your correspondent ne
..aru5oued viceroy Tesn Chun-Shu-
en- and he can find no reason lSr -
ated fears with which the world
has been regarding China for sone TIM
past.
IN this vast empire with crude wethods
.a,,oo SIC denlorable admins ration
Of Justice, its national ignorance an
tho cred,,litv of it's people, local disturb
ances may occur at any time, put hei7
: 10 reason for the apprehension that
the position of the foreigners IN NINA y
nors insecure than at any other uhle
during the past 60 years. In each OF t@e
four disturbances occurring in the past
wear at Lein-Chau. Chand-pu, Shansh
and Nan-chang the causes were purely
local. In the first case enmity had eN
Ysted for wears and the district is not
er.ouslv unfriendly and is infested with
smugglers and bandits. In Chang-pu the
cause was an indescrete action on tn7
mart of two Spanish priests. No. lives
were lost. and the officials both mill airy
and civil acted well, and have sine
-, - +LA Drf1tch afIthnrif1rG ~
while full reparation has been made. IN
the Nan-chang case, the governor of tie
province was dismissed from office and
the provincian Judge was suspended I'M
mediately on the receipt by the Thu n
of the report of the LAND Tun-yen. the
Customs Taotai at Tein-sin. who was
sent to investigate the corcumstanc s Of
the outbrake.
The general condition of the count y
is not unsatisfactory Kwang-si PROVING
which formerly was the seat OF Pc
ennial rebellion is more peaceful and
prosperous than it has been for many
years, trade is satisfactory, the Gu
toms revenue last year was by far tie
largest on record. whether it be es-
timated in silver and gold. and the pc :
throughout the entire Empire. Eurpean
pepers condemn the cry of .China fer
the Chinese but surely betokening as
it does the awakening of a conscientious
nationality, the movement is one re
quiring guidance and encouragement a q
not measured condemnation. One need
only recall the severity with which tn
foreign powers devastated this PROVING
in 1900. to bring ones judgment to a more
correct balance. and enc need only rem
ember the gross injustice of 50 many OF
the indemnity claims which China is now
paying. especially the outrageous Claims
LOT railway udiHdsts, 10 coHSluer II NJ
unreasonable that China should desire
to purchase her own railways
There is no point in comparison be-
tween the present situation in China and
that preceding the Boxer outbreak. for
the Chinese government cannot cen ~
ably have sympathy with the an ( r
eign movement China has everything to
gain by keeping peace with the foreign
ers, and this she knows. The siehtest
disturbance causes her embarr IS e g I
and alarm. A whole army of m~issionar-
les and travellers is no watch for the
smallest symptom promitory of danger.
Before the B!oxer trouble the tendency
was to disregard evidence and to min
inize insecurity; now the tendency quite
natural, is to exaggerate suspicion. Tray
ellers are moving all over the Empire
with sense of security that disrroves
the stories about unrest in the interior.
h agents of tn American and Brit
ish Societies and missionaries OF the
China Inland Mission all send favorable
reports. Colonel Wingate. the able dir
ector of our excellent department, has
Just concluded an extensive journey o.
some months duration in Ho-nan and
Hu-poi. and has everywhere been treat
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