Norwich bulletin., 1911-12-02

-le Chinese situation has been receiy-
 rom Rev Charles E. Ewing, who is
 r-1the- of Rev. George H. Ewing
 r- Norwich Town, and who has been
 Ill China since 1894:
 TientSin- China, Oct 29 1911
 Lear Friends Again China is in the
 ss Of stirring times The revolu-
 - iF7sts have been quietly busy for --s-ie years Their first noticeable ap-
 te-rarce- so as to attract much at
 -elItiOl. was something like four years -=e- Al that time there was quite a
 sir In the part Of the empire; it was
 relorlsd IAat the reFoutionists were
 c1ganizIng everywhere,and at the time when the educational commission was about To start for America bomb
 throwing at the Pekng railway sta
 Ion was attributed to them On that account care has since been taken to guard against any similar outbreak in this section Of China, and very little
 has been heard of the organization. There can be no doubt, however. that it has been secretly organizing and disseminating it's anti -Manchu doc Ir1n6, waiting only for a faVora bIe time to put is campaign into effect. Aside from that continual propaganda
 there Is little evidence of any special prap@Tanon for an outbreak at the present time This has been brought about rather by the t.oncurreuce of several causes that have served to ir- rttzte the people, especially in central China. where as a matter of fact you
 know that the disturbance has begun.
 Start of Trouble.
 It may be that you are already quite ~eu aware Of the genesis of the pres enr movement as l find that the home papers were devOung much attention 10 Lhs matter even before we here thought that Il might amount to as
 much as now seems likely One of these causes was evident especially in Tlle Province of Szachwan the largest 1n area and also in population of all .r the provinces Of China; but as this ma much Io do with the railway pol Icy Of the central government it af- 7sc-ed also the people in the province ef Hurehs from which the proposed .'--issaE t9 Szechwan was to run. To teS-n with the people did not like the Idea of the immense foreign loan tha W Was negotiated a few months ago as 1lere was a great and widespread un- willingness to become more deeply in 1soteo to other nations Then. in the middle Of the summer, the government Issued statement as to it's policy for nstionzIizIr the railways of the whole country. 90 that all trunk lines would ne excluded. as plans were already ~ ell under way for the construction of i some such trunk lines with private capital, this announcement raised a storm of criticism The brunt of this criticism bell from the first. on one man A1r- Sheng; he is a man who was l korr1erty the customs tactsi at Tfentsir | and he was well liked Ilr the foroe5.rr7 | E- but he certainly has succeeded in | m1EnE himself thoroughly unpopular i win the mass of the Chinese. What | the facts Of the case are I do not k1foVFs but ] suspect that he was ton good a servant of the Manchu rulers | So win approval from the Chinese | During the early summer also. and in | Gseo much earlier than that the un- | usual excess of floods in the Yansrfza ! valley threw muItirudes out of work our of their homes, and left them with 1Ils lslrIlcient food and no prospect of sr.y improvement in conditions. They -tAts as the people in the south ot France felt q year or two ago that the government ought to come to their ald- and when the viceroy, who in most s.sye kI1e 4nceS Is somewhat Of an autocrat, failed to do this, the people began to 1ake theatening attitude.
 Hatred Toward Manchus-
 All the time. seething underneath i tAArOGzl all southern and much of cen | sls-t snina. is the hatred toward the Ads nc6Us- W hen affairs in the prot irlce of Hupen came to such a pass that the imperial soldiers showed signs of def I1te ins1oordinariOn. the viceroy acted l htrO4s4yr 1T not wisely. He ordered the z execution of several Of the soldiers for l-iS act he was highly commended bv imperial edlct- but within a few days me government was obliged as d di- rect result or this commented act fo hlm from office with severe Blame for not controlling affairs in his province This attitude of the govern
 
 men at different times had to OCCUPY the position of scapegoat for the folly 9- the imperial government itself; and lAst now within the last few days. the co cor11Irlissioner SheEg, of whom I have already written. has been dismissed as being the cause or all the present tur- mol when probably he was only too s1clenc a servant of the government ] lA was the action of the Hupen vice i roy in executing the rebellion. soldiers ----zt ma Y led to the immediate out ofea1 at Nuchang, the capital of the proFllce- and In this outbreak the eaoers were of the revolutionary par 2, while much of their strength came 1 rom the readiness of the army to foI-I ( lS their lead Accordingly, while there las not neen such special preparation l pr rnls outBreaW as there would have ( ,een had il not been precipitated by ( 2 ircl11ns1s Tlce=s as they arose, and while l laeTe IS n3 evidence Of any particuI arIy I ' tronz leadership the revoIutionists i ] Ind everything going -theiY way.
 Altitude Of People. The feature which makes such a con . Ition possible Is the attitude of the ,EOpie toward rha- Mauchu rulers It 1ust be understood that the Chinese ' re subjects of an alien race. not citi- : erS under government of their own; 1 i or the Manchus. while sprung from the . ATne or1elnsI stock. were as much a ! = lrerent race as would fe two differ = rt peoples of Europe from each other. | foreovsr. the Chinese people, as is y ow better known than before recent II tive uttera nces of men who q ave known them well are essentially :. a democratic spirit and temper. II 1e- are not averse to having other ' eopie do the actual work Of running W -e government: but they are quite in- tent that affairs that concern them c hall be done in way that comments II self to them So long as the lIanchus = arnucred the government ID the pleas i< of rhe intelligent among the peo- .l e. there was less objection. But as | le le people have come to be better and Q ore widely informed on governmental D Iairs- and as ther have begun 10 have h