The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-06-07
SHIFTING POWER
in CHINA
Government Breaks up Monopoly
Connected With Meat
Inspection.

Washington, d. c., June News re
ceived at the State Department makes
it appear that the present outbreak
in China is one of the most serious
that the government there has ever
had to deal with, and the American
warships on the China station are be-
ing held in readiness protect not on
i ly American, but all foreign interests
If they are seriously threatened. Con-
sui Paddock at Annoy reports that the
outbreak is not anti-foreign rs was tn
Boxer uprising of 1900, but that il is
anti-dynastic. The prize in question
| is the control of the boy Emperor"
who haA been boy Emperor flor so
! long that he ought to be pretty well
grown by this time. Foreigners know
They do not know for certainty
whether he is alive or dead. They do
know that the real power in Chinese
affairs is Tsi-An, The Dowager Empress
who like the Dowager Empress of
Russia, takes the responsibility of run,
ming things, only Tsi-An is a good
deal more openly powerful than Marie
Fedora. When the ladies of the dip
lomatic Corps were entertained by
the Dowager Empress of China after
the return of the Imperial family TO
the Summer Palace in Pekin, the boy
Emperor was present at the audience,
but he did not speak, and there was
no telling whether it We're really the
Emperor or someone else. There have
been a number of reports in the past
five years that the young emperor had
been poisoned or otherwise done away
with, and that the crafty old Dowa-
ger was keeping a dummy in his place
OF course the one outside the inner
most Court Circle can tell whether
this is true or not.
But the report is gaining ground
among the Chinese that Tsi-An is in
her last illness, and the so-called re-
form party, which stands for a Chi
nese constitution and other more lib
eral measures, has organized to cap
ture the Emperor, knowing that with
him in their possession it will be pos
sible to run the Empire pretty much
as they see fit. The rebels known
as the Triads have captured a number
of the minor towns, and are marching
on Annoy, one of the most important
of the Chinese seaports. The advices
from Consul Paddock were the rebels
were just outside of Swallow, a city
just across the bay from Annoy. The
Helena, one of the gunboats that was
built especially for service on the
Chinese rivers was sent from Annoy
to the scene of the trouble, and the
whole American squadron now in Chi
nese waters is being concentrated near
Amony. So long as the rebels confine
themselves to killing Chinese, this gov
eminent can enter no reasonable OBJ
lection. But if any foreign property,
either American or other, is touched,
blue jackets will be landed and will
have to cooperate with the other for
eign powers in saving China from her.
self as was done in the membership
march of the Allies on Pekin in 1900.
A small but most exacting monopoly
has been broken up in the department of
Agriculture. At least the government
thinks it has been broken and that
about 100000 year will be saved TO
the government and incidentally to the
public. The department has for a mum.
Der of years been buying a special
patented label TO mark the meat in
tended for export. This label was the
design of a Washington man and con-
sisted on a little square of mosquito
net filled with gelatine on which was
printed words ~. S. Inspected and
Passed" 1t was rather a clever device
for it could be struck on the meat
that had been passed by the inspectors
and though the gelatine would be
"OIu Oll III IL lllle While, the lnQell-
bic ink that was in the label sunk into
the meat and stayed Indefinitely. The
government paid only Go cents per l.
900 for the tags, but there was a hand
some profit in it for the company that
made them, and so long as DR.. Salmon
who was the chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry and a large stock
holder in the company, remained in
the department there could be moth
ing found to take the place of the
gelatine label. There came near being
a bad graft scandal over this little
monopoly, but the discussion died
down and DR.. Salmon resigned and
went to South America to take charge
of the Bureau of Animal Industry that
was being established by the govern
ment of Argentina. Since his depart
ure, one of the men in the bureau has
devised little ruber stamp that does
the work just as we'll and that even