The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1906-02-22
THE BOXER RIOTS
Are Said to Be Imminent in China
Against Foreigners.
FEELING rs BITTER.
American Soldiers Are Held Ready.
American Missionaries Are Notified
To Keep 10 Touch with Certain
Cities of Refuge Known as
Treaty Ports.
FEELING rs BITTER.

Treaty Ports.
E. P. Schwerin, vice president and
general manager OF the Pacific
Mail Steamship company, whose busi-
ness relations with the people Of China
have been intimate for more than a
dozen years, regards the situation in
China with grave apprehension.
He considers the manifestion OF dis
order, as primarily anti American,
but what sentiment Of "Ohina for the
Chinese" underlying the eruptions,'
the trouble Is certain, in his opinion,
to spread and bscome an antt.foreign
uprising that will make all other ma
tionalities excepting the Japanese to
be- subjects of attack. Speaking OF
the prospect Of trouble, Mr.. Schwerin
last night said:
1.-THE Boxer uprising of 1900 was
the one evidence of the ferment OF
anti-foreign feeling, but when order
has been restored no reople stood
closer to the Chinese than did the
Americans. And as a reeult, our
trade with China has increased by
leaps and bounds since the end Of the
Boxer outbreak. But the anti. Amer.
ican boycott has not only checked the
development of trade relations, but
what has already heen built up is
now threatened. This is only the re-.
fe1 OF the active and aggressive meth
DDS Of certain labor. organizations OF
the Pacific. The clear intent OF the
treaty of 1894 has been perverted. It
defined the excluded class but in re-
sponse to the constantly asserted lab
or Influence the provisions have been
buried out of sight.
Then again, the laboring organic
ations on the coast have applied the
boycott, not only against Chinese
goods imported into the country. but
against Chinese goods imported into
the country, but against the merchant
who would buy the. garden products
the Chinese farmer In the coast states
and the result has been that the
Cinnamon have turned the weapon
upon the Americans, who taught
them the example and power 1t pos
sesssd."
The Presbyterian board of foreign
missions, In New York in consequence
of the embarkation Of American SOL
diers for the far east, in anticipation
of service In Onina, has decided to
keep in touch with the nearest theaty
ports In case Of trouble.
The chief cause of anxiety, accor-
ding to the secretary of the board, Is
the constant spreading Of wrong ideas
of the treatment of the Chinese In
this country. Stories are bsing cir
culated throug China OF the massacre
of Chinese in Amsrics and they have
yellow ] urnals just as we have them
mere. But they have not the intelli-
gence we have and the stories have
a greater percentage of believers. We
knew of the the presidents inten-
tion to send troops to the Philippines
weeks ago.
THE treaty ports the missionaries
may use as refuge places are Canton,
Shanghai, Rankow, Hangchsw, 500,
Chow, Ningh Po, TsienGang, -Cnee
Foo, Tien Tsin and Pekln. The ma
jority of these would gives a means OF
escape or refuge and by water routes.
Ia all of them missionaries and their
families would gnd high Chinese off,
cials and foreign representatives who
would be of help to them. But In
many cases the missionaries aud
Americans are at such remote places
that they could be easily cut off and
their only chance of safety would rest
with the government Of China and It's
representatives"
One OF the visitors to the Presby.
terian board of missions was Rev G.
Charles Fairclough, a missionary,
who had just arrived from China.
while iG takes tine for the news
of the boycott on American goods TO
traves from the coast to the interior,
said Mr.. Fairclough, the anti AmcJ-
ican and anti-foreign feeling In North
China is very bitter, and l believe it
is more bitter than 1t was at any time
during the boxer war.
The feeling was very strong when l
left the Anhui province in Decemo Der.
Ii was caused by the stories OF III
treatment Of Cinnamon in America
and the exclusion law. In the eXGer-
ior towns the merchants are selling
no American goods rather than have
their countrymen know they have
bad them in their possession.
1T is not the same anti foreign
feeling OF the boxer trouble, 1T comes
out Of what they believe in patriot
ism. The Chinese are anxious to get
their properties into their own hands.
There are railroads, mining and other
kinds Of sYndicatss developing proper
ty Ia China and the men back OF them
are foIeigners. Only recently 1 saw
one of these syndlcates 90 through all
the stages Of development In the
building Of railroad line and at the
last moment the Chinese rescinded all
the rights given to them.
II vas amazed to find a remarks'
ble libsrality of views among the
Chinese students in Japan. They cut
of their queques. wear Eropean clothes