Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-02-23

Associated Press Dispatches BY Special vines
London, Eng, Feb. 23.-Tho Pekin
correspondent of tho Tribune shys. "rhe
court is nervous over the possibility of
trouble tomorrow. The president of tho
Chinese Foreign Board appreciates tho
possibility of an anti-dynastic rising. Tho
German Legation has doubled rs sentries
on account Of the posting of anti-lolcign
placards at lientsin'
CHINA APPROACHING A CRISIS.
peldn. China, Feb. 23.-Wu Ting Fang,
former Chinese Minister to tho United
States, when interviewed today on tho
existing situation IN China. spoke in sup
port OF the boycott Wa ling Fang IL
living quietly in pollin, dcvoting his timo
to codiiying the laws of China, one of tho
numerous reforms under way. He suf-
iorod for o long time from the effects of
the explosion of a bomb near him at tho
railway station last September but has
recovered speaking OF the present con-
ditions, Wa Ting Fang said:
"China is approaching a crisis and is
passing through q transitional stage Her
statesmen and people feel that China
needs reform, but there are great differ
cnces OF opinion regarding the means.
There are those who speak foreign lan-
guages and who have been abroad and
who have had experience on both sides OF
the question. They favor sensible and
useful reforms, but not too radical, so AZ
TO make China hrst able 20 stand upon
her own feet. The number OF these
sensible relomers Is few. l am one of
them. The ruling class also knows that
something should be done, but Il is nt its
wits on-. to know what 10 do. The thi7d
clatss is composed OF young students, who
are too rash. They need training and
experience.
Financial reforms should be carried
out in the FIRST place, but without foreign
advice and capital il would be impossible
to do so under the present conditions.
was working out a scheme which had to
be abandoned, because II was necessary
TO call for foreign advice. The new coin
age is a stop gap.
zone thing upon which the majority
OF Chinese are agreed is that China has
been deprived OF many rights by con-
cessions and territorial grants and by the
way her people have been treated by
/ foreigners in China and foreign countries.
Many Chinese who went TO America,
Australia and the Philippines have COM
returned home, complaining OF arbitrary
determinations made against the Chinese
which dare not be attempted against
other foreigners. Therefore, everyone
is angry, and hence the boycott Of Ameri-
can goods, illustrating the feeling against
the unjust Exclusion laws. This feeling
has spread over all China and is solely
in retaliation against unjust discrimina-
tion and is not anti-foreign. Tho
Chinese people and officials arc on good
terms with all foreigners and have no
hostile feelings towards them. The
| Chinese merchants have the best feeling
towards foreign merchants. The ma
jority of the people in the interior are
indifferent to an foreigners travelling in
the interior, who write that they are we'll
treated, with no signs OF hostility against
them These rumors of anti-iorclgn
feeling are not well founded. Sensible
men advise boycotters and agitators to
be reasonable and only TO boycott goods
and not % treat persons unkindly, but
to continue their friendship AS before.
| Unfortunately, disturbances in several
places are arising from the boycott, but
this is no sign Of an outbreak against
foreigners"