The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

CHINESE eoYco1 & LEADER.


~ 3 + q. - g.
The leader Of the boycott moveemnt.
one Tseng shaoching, otherwise
known as Tseng Chu, is i PROMINENT
man from the Fuhkien province,
though his adopted home Is now
Shanghai. He is merchant Of some
staining, dealing in goods from Sing
apore and other places adjacent to tho
Straits Settlements. says the Journal
OF the American. Asiatic association.
He does not deal lin. American goods;
he has q European in nominal part
nersnip with him-a Dane. He has.
purchased the rank of HaOtai. He
Is very energetic person and likes
to take the lead generally in good OBJ
jects; for instance, ne was leader
In securing q contribution of $4,000
taels from Chinese Tor the Interna-
tional institute, giving as his own con-
tribution $500 taels. though not equal
to many other subscribers in wealth.
He has always been regarded as
generous man with his money when
1t is sought for phflanthropic objects.
He IS one of the trustees of the Inter.
national institute. He has also been
. leader in the Red Cross work, talk
ing q prominent part In that move
ment inaugurated in china during the
war between China and Japan, and the
recent conflict between Russia and
Japan; and he has peen one of, the
leaders in the anti-footbinding move-
ment. He is regarded by his country.
men as being a little vain, and likes
to have his good deeds sounded abroad.
In this respect he is not unlike many
Americans. He is a member of the
Chinese chamber of commerce It
Shanghai, and, being a leader, he
naturally took lead in not only pro-
posing, but carrying out the recent
boycott Of American goods.
Formerly great friend of Amer
leans. he has now worked up feeling
of hatred toward Americans. He has
more than once, since the inaugura-
ton of the boycott movement, In spite
of his statements to the contrary.
showed very anti-American feeling,
and lie even does not feel toward the
International insthute-which is pres
sided over by Rev. DIR. Gilbert Reid,
an American-as before. He has from
the beginning of the boycott move
ment agitated for not buying Amer.
lean goods, though the Chinese cham
Der OF commerce merely voted for not
making any new contracts. At the
first meeting held of the Shanghai
chamber of commerce, when the boy
colt was first proposed, many of the
members-though approving of the
movement as retaliatory measure
against the harsh treatment to which
the exempt classes Of Chinese have
been subjected in America - were
afraid to take the lead in the move
ment; but Mr.. Tseng announced that
he would take the lead in the move
ment; that he would telegraph to all
the treaty ports, to the various native
commercial guilds, asking their as
sistance, and, Furthermore, that he was
willing to pay all Of the expense Of
telegraphing himself The members
of the chamber of commerce agreed
to this proposition; hence Mr.. Tseng
was named as the leader and q sort
of general manager of the boycott
movement in China,
He has had various conferences with
the American merchants, as well as
the American consular, officers, on the
subject Of this boycott; but he has
been lmmovable. He has declared his
intention of carrying the boycott to
the hitter end, and this he would have
succeeded in accomplishing were
1t not that peace had been declared
between Japan and Russia, which
thus opened the northern. and par,
ticularly the Manchurian, market Cor
American cotton goods, and which
resulted in the boycott practically
ceaslng about September IA last.