Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-05-27
NO BOXER. UPRISING
BUT RIOTS. PROBABLE
Alarm in America Over Conditions
ID China Is Creator Than
Situation Demands.
PROGRESSIVE PARTY DOMINATE
Missionaries on Duty in Celestial En-.
pire Though Nevertheless Appre-
ciale the Sending of eunboat to
the scene of Pending and Threat
enns Disorders.
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, May 2G--Accord-
ing to a letter written on April II by
Gilbert Reid, presid mt of the Ameri-
can Association of China, To John
Foord secretary Of the American
Asiatic association, the fear of an
other uprising in China is not well
founded.
The opinion is expressed that the
circumstances are not such as to
make necessary the flight of foreign
ers IN the interior to the
ports. 1t is admitted, however,
that there is Il fermcnt in
the political ideas of China. that riots
may be expected to appear at times
and that there is less hesitation to
take foreigners lie. The letter is
as follows:
Alarming Reports Considered
al tile meeting of our executive
committee yesterday we had under
consideration the alarming reports
which prevail through the United
States MS To another wide uprising in
China agains, foreigners. ami | was
requested to prepare for your hcne-
fit the views which we hold in com
mon Uhough this is difficult of exact
statcmcnu as To the present charact-
er of Chinas feeling toward all for
cignerS.
AS far rs we can judge the alarm
in America is greater than facts iusi-
~. Some think that all foreigners in
tile interior Ghouli retire to the ports.
while others have even gone so far us
10 regard ii unsafe In all parts of
China, Shanghai us well as elsewhere
I'VE who live OH the ground may
No Good Cause for Fear.
be blinded, brt we can really see no
good cause for such fear and solicit
tude There appears TO he no move
mcnt like the i'oNer uprising, in which
the government was itself implicated.
Certainly some time before such an
uprising here would appear signs of
what Is coming.
Nevertheless, there is n Torment
in the political ideas of China AS
heretofore, riots may be expected 10
appear here and there. especially un-
der provocation. There Is less hcsi-
1ation to take n foreigners life. Be
You'd the usual antinathy to foreign
ers, there has grown up n Tarty of
progressiyes who seek 10 restrict or
annul tho power and privileges OF
foreigners acquired under the treaties
and whose patriotic demands and ap-
poals may easily arouse and H. flame
tile more ignorant classes, thrs lead.
ing to riots.
Rebels Want a War.
There is, however. Il revolution ir''
2"rty consisting Of diverse clemens,
which would be only too glad tC, en-
broil China with foreign powers. As
Il consequences foreigners in intcrior
~
did before the Boxer outbreak For
missionary societies to warn their
agents and counsel caution is emf
nently wise, hut to fear for American
merchants, who live at the ports, and
particularly Mt Shanghai, Is to carry
the logic of events to conclusion
that cannot be substantlatcd Their
trade may be hampercd or restricted,
but their lives are not endangered,
THE existing we'll organized police
force under foreign control, together
with our trained volunteer forces, and
he presence of men-Ofwar in our
harhor are 4 guarantee of security and
81 fair measure of uuictness.
Gunboat Allays Alarm.
eve are none the less glad that our
government is on the alert. To have
gunhoat stationed all the lime at
Shanghai, at Canton. and on the Yang
Use, and to have troops in the Philip
pines available 10 meet any emerg-
ency in China. gives Il sense of safety
10 Americans.
IF there is any trouble forchoding
the central government is not con
niving, as in 1900, hui is anxious Ia
forestall it, The only fear, ana that
is n reasonable ono, is that tho gov.
eminent with its Manchu Freedoms
nance, will find itself too weak ia
hold in check or 10 safely direct tho
growing power Of Il popular and non
official independence
1T is for this reason that, though
ideas of popular sovereignty may nj
first glance stir orr enthusiasm, we
regard it as far safer for all the ecr
ernments to give support To the exist
ing Chinese government than to give
conntenancc TO any party or move
ment distinct from, or antagnnistic TO
The government that is.
'.ln expressing these views. il !.
more for your own information, but
You are at liberty TO make use of then
in any way you see fit"
Beautiful, though simple mcmoria
exercises will be observed by Hamp
ton aerie of Eagles in their ''nest'
in Red Mems hall, this afternoon n