Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-15
Two Issued by the State Depart
ment Make no Mention
OF Violence.
IS STRICTLY A TRADE AFFAIR.
The Student Class Has Done its
Best to Keep the Issue
Alive.
10 Some Extent Has succecded--If
called ON Tomorrow Would Take
Years to Recover from Injury.

Washington, Feb, 15-From the many
reports received By the state depsrt b.
ment from its representatives in tho
east relative to the anti-American boy
cot, It's extensive prospects OF it's con-
tinuance and the amount OF injury Il,
has inflicted on American trade, two
selected at random from the north and
the south, have been made public. In
neither is there any hint Of violence
and the movement, IT Is stated. is con-
fined strictly to trade limits.
The report from North china brings
the history Of events up to the close Of
1905. At that date the boycott move
ment had been nearly all talk" in the
principal cities, says the correspondent,
who adds
The student class as the willing
workers OF the boycott organization,
mas done its best to keep the issue alive
and To some extent has succeeded mucn
AGAINST the wishes of the merchants
who have had enough and never wan
10 see another boycott. But this talk
anu under current OF agitation has noI
Deen SHOWN TO amy great extent in the
business affairh related TO American
products. There has been timidity In
buying and In some Instances cancella-
tlon OF orders under the spur OF threats
but despite denials OF some Americansit
Is vel known to the majority that such
conduct upon the part Of Chinese buy
ers has not been the rule. This state
ment, however. does not apply to the
product OF the Standard Oil. which has
been opposed In many places OUTSIDE
the principal cities in northern China.
AS TO that condition II can only be said
that thorough investigation will prove
that trade competition has as much to
do with IL as Chinese antagon-
ism. That underhand methods have
been employed against the Standard
oil company and the British-Ameri IAN
Tobacco company IL becoming palmer
every day. At present the attack on
these two companies is apparently
conferred in and around Hankow where
obscene circulars have appeared and
also many evidences of unfrlendly in
tent. But at 500 Chow. Chnkiang.
Chang Chow. Wa HUI Kiukiang and
many other places tributary 10 and
on the Nangtse there has also been
more or less antagOnsm OF late. The
merchants are against the boycott, but
under the lash of the guilds they must
give half hearted acquiescence at
least. n the officials SO desire they
can squelch the recrudescenoe Of the
movement In this section and by so do
ing will gain the support OF the mer-
chants. But again there Is the new
powerful student class which, under
the teachings of foreign educated Chi
reese and perhaps others not friendly
to American interests where they con-
flict with their own has developed an
Influence recognized by officials, guilds.
merchants and labOrers."
From south China and In fact, clear
down 10 the straits settlements comes
the report that there is no improve
ment IN tho boycott situation that
trade Is badly affected In most lines
and there Is little or no business out
side the small union trade. American
sewing machine companies report that
the Chinese are afralnd 20 go into
its places. Although some are likely
TO buy. they are not willing TO have a
machine In their possession. The au-
thorities claim there IS no recognition
here"
The report concludes:
II the boycott Is called or tomor-
row 1t will lake many years ~ re-
move the IN effect from the injury
done. At Penang American firms
could not move any goods in their
godowins and Chinese refused TO take
the goods which they had already or
dered."