Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-03
CHINA FOR CHINESE
ATTITUDE ADOPTED IN RELA-
TIoNs WITH FOREIGNERS.
Special cablegram to The Star.

Special cablegram to The Star.
PEkING, March 3.-The policy OF
China for the Chinese is producing the re-
suits naturally to be expected in the ex-
listing condition of the native administra-
ton. The official class, while protesting to
deplore the violence OF the views of the stu
dents and reactionaries avails itself of their
agitation as excuse for adopting an un-
compromising attitude in all relations with
foreigners, and at the same time adrottly
uses the movement means of increas-
ing official revenues. For instance. in
kwang-tung and Ngan-hwei provinces the
native railway bureaus have been author
lzed TO raise money for the construction OF
the proposed lines by local taxation, since
funds are otherwise understandable without
recourse to foreign capital The immediate
result is to afford lucrative opportunities
for the officials concerned while increasing
the anti-foreign feeling
In foreign circles here trouble this sum-
inef Is freely predicted y revival of the
boxer agitation is regarded as almost Ger
TAIN The alarm has reached such a stage
that officials and Missionaries are sending
thelr families to the coast cities whenever
possible without attracting special attcn-
tioh feeling that they will be safer under
the protection of foreign warships The
state of feeling can best be understood when
1t is remembered that the officials and the
MISSIONARIES personally are not leaving their
posts They appear TO be satisfied with
knowing that their families are safe-they
are willing to take chances on getting away
so iar as they are personally concerned
10 Immediate Danger.
For this very reason it can be seen that
the situation is not so bad as it might APP
pear at first thought If there were inrne.
diate danger the foreigners would learn it
from the friendly natives and would hurry
TO Peking or the coast cities themselves
without loss of time. The secretive nature
OF the precautionary measures taken makes
~ uiIHcult TO correctly estimate the Situa-
ton, since when a foreigner sends his wife
away he does not tell the natives the real
reason-he merely says something about
gong back to Europe or America on a visit
or about going TO Picking Shanghai or
dongkong for health. If the missionaries
ana the foreign residents in the interior.
critics should come away themselves instead
OF being content with sending their families
their failure to keep up their work would
speedily indicate that trouble was brewing
But on the surface things do not appear
pad, Tor the reason that the men are re-
naming at their posts.
The central Chinese government &c nm
doubtedly doing everything in its power
to prevent a repetition OF the Boxer ont
RACES. Admitting for the sake o. the arg1-
ment that the ruling classes are in reality
no more friendly to the foreigners than
the meanest coolies, the Chinese are great
students of history. The dowager en-
press, like most rulers, certainly does not
want local troubles, either religious or
commercial. She remembers the British
seizure of Hongkong, the entry of the
allied forces into Picking, the resultant alb
sorption by Russia of the province of Man
churia proper. She realizes that every
outbreak, no matter whether religious or
commercial, is made the excuse for new
ana Iresh land grabbing, such as Russia
enforcing lease of Liaotung Peninsula
to Great Britain, securing a corresponding
foothold at Wei-hai-wei and Germany de-
maHding the cession of Kiaochou.