The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-14
POVERTY CAUSE
OF REVOL ION.
Oppression 81 the Masses
faken Advantage Of by
] Rebel Agitators.

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CANTON. China. Dec. s-Tn.
restitution long Expected and long
~ Preparation has come. Foreign
residents had becomc SO accustomed
TO reports Of conspiracIes and anti
Imperiaiist movements that even
they were amazed when the rising
took place in great force and under
trained leadership.
The driving motives of the insur-
rection are economic quite as much
as political. The Impeachment
Of the Chinese is probablySar greater
than It was generation ago. The
people have been more harrledS by
the tax collectors even during the
last ten years than they were previ-
Gus to the Boxer uprising. The
pressure of the imperial govern
ment and the provincial pro-consuls
for money has crushed the mass of
the people until their misery has
Afforded the revolutionary agltators
q convincing argument that the
time has come to turn out tine
Manehus and to create IL possible a
liberal and more compassionate
government.
The extreme weakness of the cen-
trail government, a weakness that
!. has been mSse marked since 1900
than befSfe II this generation. gave
the insdfgent leaders confidence
that they would be able. 70 make
headway against any force that the
imperiaiists might send against
them. The chinaman lokesktbe Sc
cret society. Communist Hesaing,
the necessity OF the indlysauN bAlns
supported BY hts fellows. hs been
utilized by. the revolutionf5 2 the
utmost. The Fevolutionar Yeeret
societies extending tAhusGout
southern China probably include II
membership of several millions, the
control of them centraliz.ng In a.
small group OF able men.
The political poster and leaflet
have been largely the means of pre-
pairing the mass of the people for a
change. The work of the secret sos
cieties has been directed to circa- !
Iating single sheet pamphlets !. or
pasting up little. ;. .inaammatosy
posters discrediting . the army. .nars !
rating specific instances of. the
ruthlessness of the Mancgu tax
satherer. the neglect of the people
by those who assumed ito be
paternal benefactors. the weakness
Of the Peking government and
hundred other allegations under
mining the fear and the respect of
the people for their deBpotic rulers.
A singular feature has been the
attitude Of the student class. Those
educated abroad have been largely
instructed in japan. They seek to
follow in the footsteps OF new ia.
pan, which succeeded in Kidding the
country of foreign Intervention and
becoming great power within the.
term of an otdinary life;
Thousands of these bright men
and energetic youths are scattered
throughout the country preaching
the doctrine that China is cursed
by the weakness of its own govern
ment yielding to the foreigners and
that help, progress and security can
only come by. upsetting the existing
order and organizing upon the prin-
ciple Of China for the Chinese.
Strangely also these agitators. in
Guiding all those educated in Japan.
are, furiously anti-Japanese.S
The correspondent will not en-
deavos to predict the Ssuit of the
present far-reaching inslrreeion. TT
seems likely to SUCCEED but Eae for
efgn observers havesa brofod6d d.sl
trust of the present cajsecitspf the
Chinese. for repuSI pam inst buttons
III the western sease. sshoaid the
revolution succeed, the government
will probably be military dictator
ship in which perhaps some able and
Just individuality will be in conf
nand.. The revolutionary cause APP
pears to have many leaders truly
patriotic aud with aims beyond the
passion for pilng up private for
.unes out of the squeeze" common
Under the present Manchu govern